It's Friday!

It's Friday!

• 1.25.2013

Highlights from this week included but were not limited to...

:: A full night's sleep--multiple times!  All happiness depends on a good night's sleep.  True story.

 :: Driving my new Acadia to town, giving it a car wash, and going shopping all afternoon.  My friend Amy and I spent waaay too much money at Target, but it was so much fun!

:: A family dance party in the den before bedtime

:: Making baby food for Levi.  I cooked a bunch of different vegetables, pureed them, and then froze them in heart-shaped silicone ice cube trays I found in the dollar corner at Target.  Nothing screams "made with lots of love!" like heart-shaped peas.

:: Teaching three violin lessons.

:: A little bird taking up residence in my dryer vent each night.  It must be cozy and warm in there.

:: Napping with Levi's little head on my chest.  I could hold him and listen to him breathe like that for eternity.  It is so relaxing!

:: Hearing Jed's bedroom door slam followed by quick footsteps around 7:15 each morning.  It's too bad that the seven o'clock hour is a completely acceptable time to wake up because I am missing sleeping in till after 8:00AM already!  (Waah, waah, waah!  I know.)  Oh well.  At least Jed is happy and cute and we get to have breakfast together, just the two of us.

We made a few extra lettered breadsticks for our neighbor friends because sometimes when you're feeling sick, a good meal without the cleanup is all you need!  Recipe found HERE.

:: Making alphabet letters in breadstick dough.  (I got the idea from a friend's blog.) Jed is finally taking an interest in learning things like colors and letters.  We made a "J" for Jed and two others.  I felt like a stellar mom!  Then after taking more than an hour to put dinner together, I remembered why I don't like to cook.  Short thirty minute meals are a young mom's best friend for a reason.

:: Holding Levi in the shower for more than twenty minutes and just letting the steam roll.  Poor kid has a very stuffy nose.  I held him close under the spray and Levi fell asleep on my shoulder.  I couldn't help kissing those sweet cheeks, admiring his fat tiny wrists, and stroking his bare little back.  It's moments like those that I just want to bottle up and save forever!  I sure wish he'd stop growing up so fast.     

I'd say we had a great week!  Here's to an even better weekend which should include a trip to east Idaho to see Kaleb wrestle in the Sugar-Salem Tourney, dinner with "the guys", and some good 'ol quality family time with the Nelsons.