It’s the first full week of a February, and I’m still firmly planted in January, if not 2012.
Feb. 3
Hey, let me open this week with a lovely picture of myself after running at the track. That’ll be….lovely. (Can we say “only took one picture?!”) Oh look, there’s my gigantic forehead again!
Feb. 4
We make a lot of muffins here, for a very popular, freezable, quick gluten free breakfast. And the littlest princess really likes to help.
Feb. 5
I realized that now that it’s February, the baby (okay, the “baby”) is turning two next month. He is such a sweet, funny boy.
Feb. 6
The afternoon before, our furnace broke. The repairman came out in the morning to see what was wrong with it, then had to go get a part from Topeka (45 minutes away), and didn’t come back until the afternoon. So even though it wasn’t freezing (thank goodness), the space heaters were our friends (and also, warm cats).
Don’t these girls look so sweet and innocent? Yeah, it was a “let’s fight and bicker and fight some more until mom forces us out of the bathtub to separate us” kind of day. But at least the were clean and in pajamas before supper time.
Feb. 7
This is one of my new favorite pictures. The boys were in the tub after supper and I just wanted a picture of Erv peeking behind the curtain. He wouldn’t look at me, and squirted his brother with the dolphin instead. I love it.
Feb. 8
After the kids got home from school, I looked at their newsletters and saw that Ivy had to have her class valentines in on Monday. We hadn’t started yet. Henry has a couple of extra days, but he also has to decorate a box to put his valentines in. So, we started with a few today (and no, we don’t make our own, generally) before they got tired of doing them. Writing names is boring, yo. Ivy will draw and cut out hearts all day long if she wants to. It’s just when she has to do something that it’s no longer fun.
Feb. 9
We did a lot today. A lot of sloppy smooching at breakfast, a lot of squeaky voice Barbie playing all day long, finishing A LOT of (store bought) valentines, and a lot of evening snuggling. Oh, I also napped and went to the store for some fun Valentine’s Day surprises. It was a pretty good day.
How was your week?
It was a rough week but I'm smiling right now. Or was until you reminded me to go BUY MY CRAPPY SLACKERMOM BOXED VALENTINES!!!! I'd better get crackin' or they won't have any "good" ones left!
I hope you got some good ones! We worked so hard to get my kindergartner's done, and she stayed home sick today. SIGH.
Great photos as usual! We store buy our Valentine's Day cards too. Sylvia picked SpongeBob this year. We haven't started them so I guess that's something for me to do tomorrow!
I know that someone here would've picked out SpongeBob if they had chosen the cards! My mom sends several cards to the grandkids as a "secret valentine", so she gave us several boxes of extras. They loved them, though!
I can't get over the fact that we're more than a third of the way through February. How's that possible?
Gosh, your baby's 2 next month?? Stop it.
I KNOW, RIGHT?! Two. I was *just* giving birth to him.
The pictures are very neat. (I just wonder what was the camera you used) You have a nice family and your kids are awesomely cute. Anyway, happy valentines day!!
Thank you! I just used my phone camera for these (I have a Galaxy S3).
I'm not in February yet either. And can I tell you I'm so much more impressed by your Project 365 skills now that I'm trying and kind of failing at it??
I'm going to call Brinky my baby forever I think, so I totally get you calling Erv a baby
And I'm glad I'm not the only mom on the internet who doesn't make Valentines. It's the first year of no valentines for Jenny though now that she's too grown up for them in middle school, so we only had Reagan's to do and she's old enough now that it's not a big deal.
Oh my gosh, Katie. Starting the second year with Project 365 is WAY easier than this time last year. Just keep it up and you'll make it more of a habit! Also, you'll notice that A LOT of my pictures are of the little two because I spend ALL day with them.
I can't believe we are almost halfway through february already!
I would call pajamas before dinner a win any day!
Yes! Parenting win! (It doesn't happen often so I have to rejoice when it does)
if I could think that far ahead and plan and fix meals to freeze for later….I think it would be the equivalent for me to feel like I climbed a mountain. Seriously I stink at all things meal prep. Go you! And isn't it amazing how sweet they can look when like minutes before they were clawing each other's eyes out
I don't really consider the muffins "meals" but I guess they are. I usually have to do breakfast ahead of time, just because most of the gluten free stuff has to be made from scratch (or close to it). It just makes my mornings easier. Now, when I'm pregnant and getting ready to have a baby? I'm ALL about the freezer meals. I FILLED the chest freezer before Erv was born. It was awesome.
BEAUTIFUL pictures! I love the moments you share!
Thank you, Leighann!!
Last week started off rough but it ended up going very well with Ash doing awesome at her dance recital and being chosen as one of the soloists for her Honors Chorus performance. Also, both of the girls brought home their report cards and rocked the straight As again. I'm so proud of the both of them!
Yay! Your girls are amazing, Kristen!!
I wish I had stuck to the store brought Valentines… no, I had to decide to bake cookies and decorate them and then bag them in cute baggies and make a card with one of the pictures of middle. Yeah, I'm crazy. Love the pic of you and Erv smooching!!!
Pajamas before dinner is my kind of world. And I'm so grateful that teenagers are too cool to hand out Valentine's. I confess that I do not miss class valentines at all.