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January 28th, 2010
02:03 pm
guess I've got to go friends only...
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December 10th, 2009
09:44 am
What's you favorite banana bread recipe?
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December 9th, 2009
10:54 am - Finally uploading pictures
Thought I'd share this one of Tim's frosting face from his birthday:
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December 5th, 2009
08:57 pm
I would like to add a hair straightener/iron thingy to my wishlist...anyone who uses that sort of thing have a recommendation?
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December 1st, 2009
08:23 am
My baby is ONE!
Happy Birthday Timothy :)
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November 26th, 2009
07:56 pm - Stuffed
It's been a couple hours since we finished dinner but I'm still feeling stuffed. We had the bird, stuffing, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, acorn squash, pattipan squash (the only real disappointment of the evening), cranberry sauce, rolls, potatoes, purple cauliflower (which turned white as it cooked), string beans, and gravy. My sweet potato was baked and plain and Dave's was mashed with maple syrup and covered in streusel ;).
We're putting off pie till tomorrow :-p.
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November 25th, 2009
04:06 pm
Tim didn't sleep well at all last night and I am definitely feeling it today. About to try and make them both lay down at the same time so that I can too. When Dave gets home we'll get started on stuff for tomorrow.
Meal plan:
Roast Chicken
stuffing
potatoes
sweet potatoes
cauliflower
wax beans
carrots
rolls
-cranberry sauce
squash x3
juice for Ben and Mike's cranberry lemonade for us
Pillsbury cinnamon rolls when we wake up and a cheese and cracker and pickle assortment for snacking on till the meal is ready. Just having these in the house have made Dave so happy. It's cute.
Pies for afterward
Tonight we need to clean and make the cranberry sauce, the pumpkin cheesecake if we decide to do that instead of pumpkin pie, and cut up beans, cauliflower, etc. so they can be cooked easier tomorrow. I wish we also had rutabaga and Brussels sprouts here, but I forgot them when we did our shopping on Saturday and I highly doubt we'll get them tonight. So we'll have a veggie heavy dinner like I grew up with and a pickle and cheese tray like Dave grew up with and a free range local bird that will taste great and not be $5/lb like the the local turkeys available at the farmer's market.
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November 24th, 2009
11:47 pm - Advent Calendar Craft
I'm making an advent calendar/activity planning calendar for us...It's a lot of work but I am very happy with it so far.
As a background: 5+ years ago I was engaged and planning our wedding and I really wanted to do an envelope guest book (from Martha Stewart)...we got the book and the envelopes and cards and had the cards at the wedding for people to fill out...but I never assembled it.
So this year I was wanting to plan things for each day this December so that the kids and I had things to look forward to while counting down to Christmas...and I decided to just put it all in Google Calendar (which is where it currently is) but then while I was looking around for Christmas inspiration and still on my current Red-and-White Christmas kick I got linked to this Advent Calendar Countdown and my creativity kicked it. You know I would just as soon buy the things I want if someone made them just like I imagine them, but they rarely do :-p. I decided to make a little book with pages full of envelopes counting from 1-24 with notes inside saying what was planned for each day as we counted down. It isn't finished yet, but Dave and I worked on it some over the weekend and Ben and I worked on it yesterday morning. Lori said I should post about it here and not just on FaceBook :-p.
( pictures under the cut )
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November 19th, 2009
02:17 pm
Added a picture of Dave's eye to this post: http://daveandmonika.livejournal.com/269039.html
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November 18th, 2009
November 17th, 2009
12:38 pm - eyes
There was a question about eye color in P101 so I felt the need to take some pictures of my eyes and Ben's
( big eyes! )
I tend to describe my eye color as a small gray ring surrounded by a small yellow sunburst and mostly blue
Dave has a similar set up with a larger gray ring (I'll try to make him take a picture tonight) and some yellow as well EDIT: picture added. The larger gray ring in Ben's eyes definitely comes from Dave, but he and I have very similar colorations, no?
Both Ben and Tim have the gray ring but neither have any yellow in their eyes at this point. I describe Ben's as a gray ring surrounded by a small light gray sunburst and mostly blue. Ben will sit for pictures (even if he can't hold his eye open when there is a flash ;p) and Tim won't so no close up for him...I describe his as a small gray ring surrounded by a large very light gray sunburst and some blue.
And you can see that neither of my boys got my strawberry blond eyelashes :-p
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November 13th, 2009
04:48 pm
OK, I'm making these for Christmas...too cute and just right for what I was hoping for.
While looking through catalogs, Ben pointed this out to me and asked what it was, and I told him a 'hideaway' and he said he wanted a hideaway...but in black. I said how about black with stars? and he said sure.
I know I've seen instructions to make one using a hulahoop in a magazine I have...just need to find it. I hope he loves it!
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04:16 pm
I realized I've posted examples of stuff that Ben likes or that I like for him, but nothing for Tim, who has both a birthday and Christmas coming up. Poor kid is likely to get the short end of the stick, eh?
SO...
He loved the tunnel at my mom's house and in kids IKEA:
He loves drumming and banging on things and we don't own any of this kind of toy:
He's a lot bigger than his brother was at this age (he wears mostly 18m for the torso and 12m in pants) so we'll likely be getting him some larger diapers :-p
He and Ben play with a lot of toys together and he's got all of Ben's baby toys but I'd like to get some stuff just for him so I'm open to suggestions!
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November 12th, 2009
05:53 pm
I'm loving these puzzle building blocks...anyone know of more options out there?
( pictures! )
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November 10th, 2009
01:23 pm
Looking for my birth certificate I just found "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Kuhn in the guest room....I was just thinking about it this morning while looking at this flowchart that doesn't seem to understand how science works...I think it will go on my reading list this week as it's been a couple years since I read it.
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November 8th, 2009
05:31 pm - Wishlist
For me: a fitted coat that fits ME...
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November 7th, 2009
03:39 pm - Wishlist
for me--silpats :)
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November 2nd, 2009
04:05 pm - Wish list
Wishing that these stocking holders were available
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October 31st, 2009
10:45 pm
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