Nothing to do on a Saturday Night

So I guess I'll blog about my day. Not that there was much to it.

If you're FB friends with me or follow me on Instagram, you know what I've been doing lately. Sewing.

I'd procrastinated making this tutu, but we needed Monday for pictures (Yay! Can't wait!), so I figured I'd better get busy! 

My view last night and most of today.

Last night. Half-way through...

Ran out of tulle last night, and it was only 1/2 done. Silly me thought 75 yards would be enough, Ha! Truth is I know tutus take a LOT of tulle, but I'd never made one this long, so it took twice as much as I thought! So Em and I made a trip to Hobby Lobby today to get more!

She thought she needed to be sewing since I was! This is a lacing kit.

 And no, that isn't my finger in the corner of that picture. It's my pile of tulle strips!

All finished! 150 yards of tulle!

While I had the sewing machine out (and threaded!!), I thought I'd try to sew another type of tutu. I had some LSU fabric and some ribbon, so I used what I had!

Em calls it her cheerleader skirt!

BTW- Sorry, I don't know why my phone is taking such crappy pictures!

I think I'm ok with sewing projects as long as they don't require any accuracy! Ha!

So now, I have no projects to work on, hubby is at work, Emma is camped on the couch with Disney Jr., and I'm bored.

Speaking of Emma, she fell and skinned her knee outside. You'd think it was broken. Yes, I know it hurts. I'm just not good with the whiny-ness. I'm good for one good cuddle, kiss, bandage it up, little ice cream to make it better... then I'm ready for it to be over. I'm hiding out in the Man Cave, but I can hear her in there. Laughing at the tv, then a little cry and whine. Ha. Milking it a little. I'm just not that type of mom, to keep babying her. After doing all the above, I'll just say "Aww, you're ok."

I know this isn't much to blog about, but again, I'm bored. I'm spending time with my DVR and my crime shows. Is anyone else super excited about Hannibal?  

Weekly Wrap-up Post!

Sounds better than yet another catch up post. And let's just ignore the fact that it's been more than one week that I'm catching up on!

I'm going to skip forward and write about the past few days first. Feel the need to whine a little. Don't tell Emma, to her that is a NO NO! I've been feeling bad all week. Clinton came home sick Tuesday, and gave. it. to. me. I, finally, went to minor emergency Friday, and I have STREP! It is turrible, turrible I tell you! On top of that... my insomnia has reemerged big time! I know it probably started out due to me feeling so bad, but I started waking up at 3 am and not being able to go back to sleep. Last night, I never went to sleep. Well, I'm lying. I went to sleep sometime between 9-10 am and slept for a couple hours. Feeling exhausted, I was confident I'd be able to sleep tonight. In fact, I took a sleeping pill to make sure. Laid down, closed my eyes... then started having what I'm describing as anxiety attack symptoms (mild ones. I've had an anxiety attack before, I remember :(...) I jumped out of bed and ran into here (Man Cave, where the desktop is), calmed myself down. I think I was just so stressed about getting sleep, I caused anxiety about it. So... here I sit. Blogging. Not sleeping.

Ok, pity party over. I'll sleep when I'm dead, right?

The past couple of weeks have been pretty boring and routine around here. But here is a couple of pictures of my cute kid to make reading about my terrible ordeal through my whine fest worth it!

Em and I cleaned out the craft closet, and she found some of the printable activities that I had stored in there. Of course, we had to do them!

I think my storage for these little games is SO CLEVER, don't you?

And now some random phone pics!

We spent as much time outside as we could last week when it was nice out. 

She dressed herself. Don't judge me.

It's ELECTRIFYING! Name that movie! Ha!

My ballerina at dance class!

Pretend cooking with real ingredients made a resurrection.

Yesterday, loaded up on antibiotics, I snagged a last minute (like within an hour) Mini Easter Photo Shoot at the local baby store!  Hope I didn't infect anyone! :/ I tried to stay away from everyone and was in and out as quick as I could!

My pretty girl!

Em has been busy coloring pictures for me to make me feel better! Sweetie!

 

All caught up, so now I'm going to go give my bed a second chance! Night!

Here's what's been going on in my neck of the woods...

Sorry, channeled Al Roker for a minute.

Emma has started a new dance class that she loves!

She is such a diva!!

She loves her "sister" Livi!

The Valentine's Party at her school was a big hit!

I am super excited about my newest follower on Twitter!! Clinton better watch out!

Speaking of Clinton, we've made the decision to be more diligent about our date nights! In fact, we've already picked out one weekend a month to go (of course, we know that things come up!). I took a cue from Pinterest and made a date night jar!

The single hearts are dates that require little to no planning and are pretty cheap! The double hearts take more planning and more moola! Then there are triple hearts! We've planned TWO triple hearts for the year, our anniversary weekend and one other weekend away! 

Emma's friend Kinley turned 5, and had a princess party a local salon! Em LOVED it!

Nails!

Hair!

Make-up! Her Daddy was SO happy about this part. Sarcasm font! Ha!

The finished product!

We went to get a movie after this and the guy said "How are you, Princess?" She never skipped a beat and said "Good!" Ha!

I'm not dead, I'm packing...

So I haven't posted since last year...hahaha. Sorry, terrible joke. But I haven't posted since Christmas and that's not good blogging!

Nothing too exciting has happened, so here's a little weekly (2 weeks + some) wrap-up!

We played in the snow while we had it!

At this point, she was DONE playing in the snow!

Daddy thought he'd cheer her up by throwing a snowball at her, hit her in the face...

Of course, he laughed. I did, too.

We. Are. Turrible.

We spent New Year's in Dallas in an impromptu trip. We had some fantastic pizza as our NYE dinner!

Em playing with the dough!

The next day, Clinton played golf with his cousins and Em and I shopped with the girls! Got the rest of our trip things we needed!

Sassy pants!

She conned me into a Build-a-Bear, but didn't like the noise!

Giving "Crystal" a bath!

I've been packing, and procrastinating about packing. I DO have Emma packed. This is one of her suitcases. It honestly has NOTHING in it but princess dresses, princess shoes, and tiaras.

So in 4 days we leave for Galveston! I really need to be packing, and working, and packing, AND working more. (Year end reports, eww!) So there will not be any more posts from me until after vacay! Disney here we come!

31 Days--Oops!

So, I've been MIA the last few days. I do actually have an excuse for Friday and Saturday! I was CRAZY busy those days and just didn't have time before I crashed out for the night! Sunday, I have no excuse. My mom took Em to my Grandma's, so I was home alone. Besides a little work and laundry, the rest of the day was spent on the couch on my iPhone.

I'm about to admit something I am ashamed of. I am addicted to games. Like Bakery Story, Restaurant Story, Cityville, etc. Don't know why I'm so ashamed, but I am. No, I DO know why! I am constantly wondering where the day went, where does the time go? And complaining about being off schedule on here! Hello, Kayla! It goes to the TIME SUCK of the virtual world you're in. Aargh!

Totally disgusted with myself, I deleted everything last night. (This isn't the first time I've done this, hopefully, I won't download them again!!) All day today, I've picked up my phone to check my games, and honestly, I'm strangely sad! I do know that there is so much more important things I need to be doing with my time, so I am proud of myself for that aspect. One more thing OVERCOME. Ha!

I wrote that part earlier today, and then as I was getting online to post, only to see a reminder why I need to stay in the moment as much as possible with Emma (and off my phone!). This article was on the Yahoo! front page, and the video is a very moving reminder that time goes by so fast when it comes to our kids. 

This a video tribute by a man to his son and the 21 years of his life. I'm a little teary over here!

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31 Days of Overcoming Myself- Day 6

I don't know that I've made any strides today in "overcoming myself". But hey, the challenge is to blog everyday, right? So here's today's post!

It's finally COLD in Texas! I hope it warms up a little, because right now it feels like we skipped fall and went straight to winter!

I put my fall decorations up last month, but didn't remember to get a picture of it until now! I just used stuff I had, so it feels a little skimpy, but at least I didn't have to buy any more!

Clinton and I fixed the most amazing meal tonight! He smoked some chicken leg quarters and made baked beans, and I made baked potato salad. Recipe from here! I love it when I find keeper recipes on Pinterest!

I should say that our day was pretty good, until this evening. Emma behaved so bad that I went ahead and gave her a black mark on her behavior chart instead of waiting until bedtime (like I usually do!)

AND she was just hours away from getting her 10 purple stickers and her special treat! Ugh! Aggravates me to no end!

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Paula, behavior charts, Baby Bella, and a change of plans!

So I left y'all hanging all week about seeing Paula Deen! Sorry about that!

Clinton took me to the Dallas Metro Cooking Expo for my birthday, and it was really great. We sampled so much food and were so ful by the time to see Paula!

Me with Martie Duncan from Next Food Network Star... I'm cheesing like an idiot!

At this point, I am mentally killing myself because I left my camera in the car! The lighting killed my phone camera!

Clinton snuck to the front and got a picture for me! 

I cried with Paula came out, y'all. I know. I know. Silly. I don't know what came over me!! Paula cooked chicken and dumplins and was so funny! Michael, too! Seriously, I cried AGAIN from laughing! You could tell she was just up there talking and being herself, nothing scripted. It was great! I definitely want to go again!

But let me tell you, my great day was RUINED when I picked up Emma from my mom's that night. She threw the craziest, awful, brattiest fit I've ever seen. Clinton and I thought she might be possessed. It is way past time to get her behavior under control. Lately, we've been threatening her birthday party. And I knew it was going to lose its punch if I had to say it 500 times a day. I decided on using a behavior chart. I looked at printable ones, but those didn't really work for what I wanted. So I made one myself using Excel (the accountant in me LOVES Excel!), and a lot of Pinterest inspiration! I had Em pick out the colors and pictures, and she got really excited about using it!

The color codes (I put it on blue to demonstrate!)

The chart

I have got to come up with a better display! Ignore my hodgepodge magnets! Ha!

How it works- Emma's clothespin starts on pink in the morning. Depending on Em's behavior, the clothespin moves colors. Purple is really good and black is really bad (fit throwing!)! If she gets 10 purple days, she will get to pick a treat. If she gets 10 black days, her birthday party will be cancelled!  Note- her behavior will still be punished (and praised!) throughout the day, this is merely a method of reinforcing that actions have consequences (and rewards)!

And its working so far! No picture, but we have three purples in a row, people! Big deal around here!

 My friend, Regan, had her baby last night! I am so excited and happy for them! She was not happy about me blinding her with my flash! Cute little thing!

Isabella Margaret Anders

Emma is mad that she can't go see her yet, but said "Oh, I love Baby Bella!" when I showed her this picture! 

Our plans were to leave tonight and head to Baton Rouge to take Emma to her first LSU game on Saturday! I, even, had the cutest shoes made for her to wear!

 But the weather had other plans... (don't worry, I'm sure Clinton will figure out a different game to take her to, ha!)

So we are going to go to the Texas State Fair tomorrow instead! We are super excited! AND my camera is charging as we speak! Can't wait!