Laundry

   Laundry at my house currently gets done once or twice a week,not because that's how I like it,but out of necessity.In this tiny apartment I am just so grateful to be one of 2  people on the entire property (150 families)to even be allowed a washer and dryer,Everyone else is forced to share a dirty,dingy,germy Laundromat.
   However last winter some one decided to pull a "joke" on the residents in our building and pour motor oil all the way down three flights of stairs,I fell down an entire flight of stairs with Lilly,she nearly split her head open on the hand rail and I did hit my head hard.
   Because of this incident  doctor wrote a doctors note stating that it is no longer safe for me to carry two toddlers and laundry down two flights of stairs due to my ongoing fight with epilepsy.Unless you have lived with two toddlers and no laundry facilities(for their entire lives),you have no clue the great excitement that filled our house 11 months ago when our little,used portable,stack able washer/dryer set arrived,it is to this day one of my biggest luxuries in life!
   This is the closest image I could come up with online,except the dials to  the dryer are on top rather than down low.I know it may not look like much,but it is so much easier to move it into the kitchen and hook up to the sink and get busy than all that hand washing I used to do when the girls were sick and I couldn't get out.

Painting and Packing

   I will be so happy to be settled into our new house,to be done with all the painting and packing and back to enjoying my girls and sewing :) I simply cannot wait to get a moving date scheduled and have it "set in stone" this time!

More Packing

   So,today I kept packing and worked on cleaning the house,even emptying one closet and cleaning out kitchen drawes and the livingroom storage closet too.Moving is alot of hard work and our house is beginning to look like this....

                                   And my kids have done alot of this....

And...Now I look like this....

Time for some Mommy time!

Packing

   I have been forcing myself to pack a minimum of 5 boxes a day, preferrably more in preparation to move around Jan 15-18. I have alot to do but I feel like I have accomplished alot the past 3 days.I haave painted the bathroom twice,I have painted the hallway twice and the livngroom wall twice.I have packed 8 boxes so far,and YES I started with TOYS :) I promised Daisy shw would see them again very soon and I packed everthing except the very favorites,such as the electronic,bottle fed baby pandas,and their lovey along with maybe 2 other toys each,now hopefully I can focus more on moving then on keeping afterthe girls to pick up toys :)
   I ran to Lowes this morning and bought a beautiful brown floral rug (for our new place,so no pics yet) and also bought another can of white paing to paint my bedroom and kitchen back to the original color.Part of the lease agreement was I could paint as long as everything was white again when we left.
   The other evening I sat down and made a really cute Valentines day project,it turned out really cute,hopefully I can take pics later .
   Im really excited about moving and am really hoping this brings me and Nick closer together this year.We put aside wedding plans and everyhting else for now and are focusing ourselves on making our relationship better and working with the girls together.
   Does anyone have a tutorial for making one (or similar) of these?I pulled this pic off the internet and am wanting to make one for an upcoming baby shower gift.

Quiet Sunday Afternoon

   It is bitter cold outside with  a skiff of snow,we got up and went to church for the 9 am service to find out it had been changed to 10:30 am instead so we decided to skip it for today,we were a little sad because Church was something we have been wanting to get back into now that the girls are a little older.Oh well,I suppose it is the effort that counts right?
   Lilly is asleep,Daisy is watching a movie in her room,so I'm here sitting at the computer,steaming apple cider in hand,with The Butterfly Effect playing on the TV.I am thoroughly enjoying the stillness and quiet watching the fire slowly burning,thinking how incredibly blessed I am :)
   So,I bought a scale right after Christmas,And have been working on counting calories and watching what I eat very carefully.I am on a limited diet of 1200 cal so that can be a little challenging at times.BUT....I have lost 5 pounds in the last 4 days!YAY!I joined Myfitnesspal to have friends and accountability through this journey :)

  
  

More Felt Food

   Daisy was having a bit of a hard time behaving today while her sister was napping so we sat down and I began to hand sew little things for her, and this is what we came up with today.

Lilly's new Rag Baby Doll

   Tonight I was just itching to get out my sewing machinne and putter away.After the girls went to bed I promptly sat down and began trying to put what was in my head onto fabric,it was a little tricky trying to figure out all the body proportions etc,but I finally got it!This is the beauty that jumped out of my head onto fabric!Isnt she cute? Lilly is gonna love her!

New Years

  
Ok,so this year I did actually make a few New Years resolutions,but nothing so elaborate I cannot keep up with them.I have been needing an extra boost to get going with a few things and used New Years as my excuse,so here they are
   1.Exercise and lose weight
   2.Eat healthier
   3.Be more patient with my girls
   4.Read my Bible and go to church
   5.Sew more
   6.Be even more frugal
   7.Learn to quilt
   8.Spend more individual time with the girls
   9.To blog more
   So anyway,here they are in a nutshell,nothing elaborate,just everyday changes to make our home a little happier a little brighter,oh and a little more organized :)

Happy New Years!

Lacking

   I have kind of been lacking in ideas as to what I should be blogging about.
   Christmas went well,spent Christmas eve with my entire family and hada wonderful Old English Family dinner,with Roast,potatoes,carrots,yorkshire pudding and trifle.My mum did an awesome job preparing it.Then we all exchanged gifts,and home to bed to get up early to spend Christmas day with Nicks family.
   The girls are quietly in bed,laundry is going,house is mostly clean,what to do?

Still so Much to do

   Still so much to do.Its so hard to believe Christmas is only 9 days away! YIKES!!!!I should be sewing rather than on here!
   Lilly was asleep and Daisy had just gotten out of the shower so we got to playing around with the camera,here are a few of our shots.Remember,Daisy was sick and had been throwing up and running a fever of 103 so she doesn't look happy. :(

   Ok,so I haven't only been playing around,my grandparents(the girls great grandparents) were visiting from out of state so we had to make the best of that!They are getting up there in years so don't make the trip thru the mountains too often anymore,but we were happy to see them :)
I made fudge and chocolate covered coffee spoons for them along with a handmade dish rag,a framed pic of the girls,trail mix,etc.I didn't get to take pics but it was a fun little bag indeed :)
   I'm starting to feel like I'm getting behind as I still have so much to do!I'm lost for ideas for a few members of my family  and overwhelmed with ideas for others :)
   So,I got Daisy's first pair of leg warmers made!They were so easy to make and look so cute!I started with the plain beige and plan to move on to a little prettier ones.These are so cool,how easy is that to throw in your purse to match with t-shirts instead of a jacket? or for cold legs? I love them!and,her little brown legs are so darn cute!

  

Overdue Dance Performance pics

 So,I just realized i never posted any of daisy's dance pictures from her big performance on November 19th.So,here a few shots from that night,hey,better late than never!We were not allowed to take any pics on stage,so we took a few shots before we left :)

  
   And,here are a few shots from her first dance class a year ago(Jan 2010)!I cannot believe how much she has grown up in the last year!And,I cannot believe what an amazing dancer my little girl is becoming!Dance lessons are the highlight of her week!I am so happy we have found something she enjoys so much.I love her lopsided ponies in this first pic :)