Saturday, June 8, 2013

Adding some passion & fun in my weekly routine

Currently listening/viewing:

I've decided that every Sunday, I'm going to devote Mia's [naptime] to some much needed [me time].  So that's at least 2 hours of either reading a book on the balcony or creating a new card design or set of cards in my room.  Absolutely no cleaning, washing dishes, or anything else.  Well, maybe I could incorporate some multi-tasking by loading laundry during that time, like once she goes down for her nap, and then later on in the evening, I'll go back to my usual cleaning rituals.

I think I really need something like this. 1) I don't need to spend any money doing so. 2) I've been super stressed out lately.  So much so that I've been having these terrible dreams about every single one of my problems, and it's night after night.  It prevents me from having good mornings, which leads to rough days. 3) I want to get more serious about cardmaking.. maybe go into making custom invitations & greeting cards? Here goes another one of my ideas that eventually flops but I have so much fun failing ;) haha

So with that said, I may get back into blogging on a regular basis.  Once a week, Monday mornings most likely, I'll post about my new creations or whatnot.  I mean, hey, this is therapeutic too right? =)

Saturday, April 13, 2013

:/ baby fever

I've been having major baby fever for the past 2-3 months. Don't worry, I'm not going to pay a dirty trick on DH but man I'm getting jealous seeing pics of new babies and pregnancy announcements. :(


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Edit/update 06/08/13: I'm truly starting to feel anxious/depressed about this subject.  He may not want any more kids?! So.. what happens to my dream of having 3 kids, but settling on just 2 because it was more "reasonable" in his eyes.  This is honestly the heaviest part of the giant cloud over my head lately. </3

Saturday, March 30, 2013

PB Chocolate bunny kisses

I still can't believe how incredibly easy these were to make!

1 cup each of white, brown, and powdered sugar
3 cups peanut butter
3 eggs

Bake for 10 minutes at 350° F, then force a little chocolate candy on the top while it's still hot :) and that's all she wrote!

Okay I know you only checked this out for the pictures, so enjoy ;D

Has it really been a year already?!

We've been living at our lovely apartment for a year now, and I still can't believe how quickly time has flown.. and how much has changed! Life has become quite.. routine now. Work Monday through Friday, with a set schedule that I LOVE!! And the weekends are allotted for specific chores around the house. Sure, it sounds boring, but I love routine. I love all things clean, neat, and orderly. Our apartment has definitely become "home" to us and I absolutely love our little space. Mia has just enough room to run around and put her toys in their own spot (although, let's be real... it mostly ends up all over the living room and my room anyway). I've renewed my addiction to all things paper-crafting, but focusing more on card-making. As much as I love scrapbooking, I've found that card-making has been so much more rewarding - seeing people light up when they open the (also handmade) envelopes makes my day brighter. Since I only just started up again, my creativity juices aren't flowing as well as they used to. Once I get better, I'll start posting all of my projects on here. Fingers crossed that I'll keep this blog up to date as well.. sometimes life gets in the way ;) So look forward to more pictures, and DIY eye candy in the near future ;) And since the weather is finally getting warmer here, I'm looking forward to larger DIY projects, like the coveted high-backed chair I've "inherited" from my MIL - she was going to throw it out because it's been collecting dust. Enter my 1st reupholstery job of 2013 =) Obviously I'll be showing my step-by-step, mistake-by-mistake photo log of the whole process. Few more things I'd like to use this blog for are to organize other goals. Thanks to the growing collection of dies & embossing folders for my cuttlebug, I've gotta update my desk a lot. I'll do before/after posts at one point. I have more photography I'd like to hang up and decorate around the apartment. Should I even attempt a weight-loss progress report? I think we all know where that's gonna go.. literally straight to the hips. :P So with all of that said, Happy Easter everyone =) I've got a lot of baking to do today. Should I include pictures for my next post? ;) Well, duh.

Friday, March 30, 2012

One week til moving weekend!

I'm so excited to move, and yet there's still so much I feel like I have to do/pack! I look around our current living spaces, and I see a lot of stuff still. It's mostly DH's stuff, which he says he's in no rush to pack. I wonder if I should just do it myself.. No, I might pack something of his that he needs or wants out. Don't wanna get in trouble lol

We have all our basic kitchenware already, I think. Tomorrow, I should take inventory of what we have and make sure everything is complete, or at least nearly so.

AH! And my SHOES! I'll do that tomorrow as well, since it would help me find all my pairs that seem to have gone AWOL over the years ;)

On Monday, I'll have JJ start packing up Mia's toys. As long as she has a handful of her regularly used toys, I'm sure she'll survive the next week.

This was seriously the most pointless, anti-climatic post in the world. But I'm just so excited, I need to put my tasks down SOMEWHERE. And since this is pretty much an invisible blog (considering I'm sure no one reads it), I might as well use the space hehe

Sunday, March 4, 2012

So let me introduce you to my daughter.. Mia

you know, in case you were wondering how amazingly beautiful of a baby I could create ;)


*I fully apologize for how annoying I sound.

New beginnings

It seems like every time my life takes on a new adventure or changes in some small, but significant way, I get the urge to blog. I guess I could have continued my old blog, but to be honest, I'm not in anyway tempted to do so. Why? Because my friends know that address.. and they would read what I would write. Sometimes I like to just stay mildly anonymous. Sure, someone I know may encounter this blog, but that's okay. There's probably only a handful of friends who would. :)

Why am I calling myself a "sometimes single mom"? Well, my dear husband works overnights, two nights during the week and every other weekend. So as grateful as I am to him and the hard work he has to go through to make that moolah, I often feel like a single mother trying to figure out how to make sure my daughter doesn't grow up to be a psycho child.

But enough explanation on WHY I'm starting a new page.. let's go back to that "new adventure" I mentioned in the beginning!

For the past 3 years, my husband and I have been living in the basement of my parents' house. When we had decided to get married, my parents both had extended ICU stays in the hospital, which turned my dad into a triple bypass, dialysis patient (double renal failure). See, as self-centered as I may seem at times, I couldn't just leave them like that. We knew it'd be easier to help them out around the house if we just lived with them. Once my mom was back to work (she's a cancer survivor who relies on a walker for any sort of mobility) and my dad's dialysis routine became more regular, we considered the possibility of moving out, but wanted to save enough money to become stable.

WELL! Now the time has come that we can financially support ourselves.. and fittingly so since we now have our own little family. Enter my lovely 1½ year old daughter. The pride and joy of the entire household. The princess, if you will. Actually, she'd probably much prefer being called the queen, because let's face it: she rules the place. ;)

This will be the first time in my life that I will be on my own. I mean, duh, I'll have my husband and my daughter with me, but you know what I mean. I'm both excited and a bit nervous about the move. There are so many things I won't miss about living in the dark, cold basement, where every movement upstairs can be heard.. but I know the comforts and luxuries of not having bills to pay, or food to cook, will be in my dreams constantly.

Writing has always been a healthy output for me. So, in this lovely introduction to my life and blog, I am properly apologizing for any and all "whining" that may be spit out here and there. I know I'll complain about being married.. being a mother.. living on my own.. EVERYTHING... but just know that in the midst of all that complaining, I'm truly grateful for it all. I'm grateful for being blessed with my little family, the love and support of my BIG family, and all the little moments I get to cherish because of both. But life just can't be perfect all the time ;)