March 26, 2012

Random On a Monday




It's a beautiful spring Monday here at Chez Crumb and that means laundry and cleaning! It feels wonderful to have all the windows open with the heavy scent of on grass and Wisteria drifting in.

We started the morning off with rushing around to get ready for an early doctor's appointment, getting everyone buckled and then mama getting in the driver's seat only to find that the car was dead as a door nail. We all went back inside, the appointment was canceled, and I have happily spent the morning cleaning and baking muffins. (I didn't want to go.)

We had a wonderful storm over the weekend which poured on us all day yesterday. It was just perfect.



Here is one of the crafts I've been working on. I tried recovering a three ring binder with scrapbook paper to use as a recipe binder. I wanted something more lively than my plain ol' black vinyl officey-looking binder. I think it turned out pretty good. I'm not in love with the paper, but I didn't want to use something really nice if I screwed it up. It was the test run, and now I know how to do them a bit better (and prettier).

I'm also trying to hash out an apron design based on one that I saw, but I'm kind of stuck. Sewing construction is not my forte. Hopefully I can get over the hump soon and I'll have a new apron! Add to that the skirt patterns I've found and want to make and I'll probably be spending a good amount of time with my sewing machine soon.

I found a new menu/recipe helper called Pepperplate.com. One can input recipes and then put them into the planner/menu and generate a shopping list from it. I like that it's free, unlike some other similar sites I've seen. They have an app so I can take the shopping list with me on my iPod. I think I'll try it for our shopping trip this weekend. If I have time to input recipes...


 I've been slowly putting a few rows here and there on my shawl design. I've gotten to the part where I want beads, and it's been fun to see the contrast of the beads and yarn and watching it come together. I ran into a few layout snags, but I think I've got it now.


 I have blossoms on my cherry tree! I'm so, so excited. It's just this one little bunch right now, but it means spring is really here, and I will hopefully be able to stuff myself silly on cherries this year. While going out to take the picture, I noticed the berry blossoms are opening too. Let the onslaught begin.

Now that it's warm I've started Duder on his way to being a "big boy" with potty training. (I wait til it's warm so he can run around in just a shirt and underwear.) My favorite part is every time he flushes the toilet he lets out a loud Roar of Manly Triumph and jumps around. It's hilarious.


We went to Lowe's yesterday to get lamps and as we were going through check out this book just up and jumped right into our cart and found it's way home with us.

Just about every single recipe looks wonderful and delicious and I want to make them all. The kids have already put in their orders. Looks like I'll be busy for awhile.



I have found that the littlest one sleeps really well if he gets a bath before bed. Thank goodness I found the trick. I found it out on accident when he slept for two hours after I gave him a bath. So I tried again the next night and he did the same thing. The night we skipped a bath? Up all night. Last night, with a bath? Mama got sleep. As Daddy said, looks like he's going to be a really clean baby.

The little guy was almost 8 pounds at his checkup last week. He has a triple chin. It's adorable and I keep kissing it up and he doesn't like it. He gives me dirty looks but there's nothing he can do about it because he's too small to run away! Muahaha!!

Happy Monday! Go bake some cookies!
Meg


7 comments:

Unknown said...

"Roar of Manly Triumph"... awesome =D Looks like C. is growing strong! So cute!

Farm Girl said...

Well, I am glad you got to stay home at Chez Crumb. You crack me up. Your binder turned out really nice. It sounds like it is all good except of course the dead car.
I can't wait to see your cookies either.

Kessie said...

Aren't you glad you got to miss the darn doctor's appointment? I conveniently forgot to make any more appointments for myself after my third munchkin was born, and only took her to the bare minimum of well baby visits. Sounds like you had a nice day. Also, so glad you found out how to make the munchkin sleep! Baths ... the secret weapon. :-)

Staci@LifeAtCobbleHillFarm said...

You are so darn funny. Skip, er, cancel the appointment and make some muffins. I'd love to hang around with you - you are my people. :) Ha! Cleanest baby ever, that is so cute. Too bad it won't work when he's 16...... Thanks for the tip on the recipe/menu planner. I'll be giving it a try. Have a great week!

Kim said...

Your Potty Training sounds adorable. I can picture the excitment when someone hears the flush! Sorry about the car, but it sounds like you made the most of your day. Baby is growing and getting cuter every day.

no spring chicken said...

Alright girly. Now I've had it. Covered a notebook, designing a beaded shawl, figuring out how to duplicate an apron, skirts and baking and potty training and a new baby... Whoa. I'm seriously NEVER letting my husband read your blog. I still have him convinced that women just can't do much besides stroll in the sunshine with baby in a buggy and serve mac and cheese until said baby is say... 4? :)

Blessings, Debbie

no spring chicken said...

We borrowed the babies again today... 2 hours and I'm beat. Made me think of my little mama and thought I'd pop in and say hey. Hey!

Blessings, Debbie

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