January is going out with a blast!!

I can't believe it but monday is already the 1st of February!! I honestly don't know where the time goes but as one of my favorite songs goes..."Life goes on as it never ends...." and so another month draws to a close.

I managed to complete a few scrapbook layouts last weekend and I was pretty proud of myself...it really had been too long since I had done anything! I am looking forward to a weekend crop next weekend but I will not be staying overnight since it is close to home for me so I plan to return to my bed at night to rest and get a fresh shower before returning in the morning.


As I sit here at my laptop and write I hear the wind howling like crazy outside my window and I know there is a horrible cold front blowing through here and I am not looking forward to putting my almost 50 year old body out in that frigid weather in the morning. Having said that I know that I am so very blessed that my home is safe and that I am warm when I put my head on my pillow each night while so many suffer in the cold when the weather is like this. I hope that this artic blast doesn't last too long.

Tomorrow begins the weekend and I am excited that Jim and I will be going out to dinner with 2 of my friends from work and their husbands, a real 'couples' date night!! I hope it will be the beginning of something that we try to do every so often.

Scrappin' Saturday

The message board that I am on is holding an online crop today so I decided it has been way too long since I have been creative and I'm trying to get some layouts done!

First one of the day!

Home with Alex today

After a fun filled long weekend with Nancy, Paul and baby Cole I am home today because Alex started getting sick last night at about 10pm. I hope he feels better soon and I sure hope I don't get this nasty virus since I spent so much time with him in the past couple of days especially on the bus ride home we were sitting close to each other and he was leaning on me to rest for a while.



I guess I should use this unexpected day off in a productive way but what to do? Decisions, decisions....I'm sure that Alex will keep me busy, though. He is asking for ginger ale so I need to get out to the store.

Sunday with Cole

Alex and I had a great day with Cole today. He didn't sleep well at all last night because he was stuffed up and I heard him wake up several times during the night so I was worried that he would be fussy today but he was his usual sweet and happy boy.


Alex did a little bit of school work and then spent some time on his laptop playing Leggos. Nancy and Paul went to a fishing expo this afternoon and then came home to change and went out to Paul's holiday dinner. I got to feed Cole his lunch and dinner today and 3 bottles...yippeeee!!!


Tomorrow morning Alex and I are heading home on the bus and hopefully we will have a good travel day and not much traffic heading into the city.

A day in my life....

...I love doing these random scrapbook pages where I chronicle a day in my life to remember for the future so this will be one of them....

Saturday January 16th, 2010

8:30am

I rolled out of bed and put on the coffee pot while I let both dogs out and then came back up to wake Alex to get in the shower and start getting ready for our trip to visit Nancy, Paul and Cole this weekend. My coffee is good and warm and feels nice.


10:30am

I stopped in at the library to pick up a couple of movies to watch on the bus ride, Alex asked me this morning if we had Iron Man on the shelf because he wanted to watch it and as luck would have it we actually had a copy on the shelf, amazing! A quick stop at the ATM because I realized I only had $2 in my wallet (hahaha, I don't usually carry too much cash with me) and back home I went to load up the car and get going.

11:40am

We are on the train, Jim dropped us off at 11:30 and Alex chose 2 donuts from the Dunkin Donuts at the train station and I was proud of myself for passing up....but I might weaken when I pass by Krispy Kreme in Penn Station if they have my favorite maple frosted ones.



Alex and I had lunch in Penn Station once we arrived at 1:00pm...and yes, I am proud to say that I did not cave into the sweet delicious maple donuts...I just kept on walking.




2:00pm

We got some salads to take on the bus with us and walked upstairs to get in line and we were the 5th in line so when our bus arrived we pretty much had our choice of seats and I wanted to stay on the lower level of the double decker bus since we could sit where we had a table between us which would come in handy with our laptops and our salads.

Alex wasn't too happy because he wanted to sit up top but I promised him that I would let him choose our seats on monday when we head home.

Once we were on our way the bus driver put in a movie and I was pleasantly surprised because this was my 3rd trip on Megabus and we didn't ever get a movie before so this was a bonus! We saw the movie "Up!" and it was really cute and then just as soon as that movie ended the drive popped in "The Spiderwick Chronicles" which was another good movie that we had never seen so it made the trip go by really quickly to watch 2 movies along the way.

6:45pm

The bus pulled into the parking lot in DC ahead of schedule and Alex and I made our way to the spot where Paul picked us up and we went back to their house to get to see Cole for about 1/2 an hour before he had to go to bed but I know that tomorrow we will get to spend more time with him so I am looking forward to that.


10:00pm

Not much else going on...the typical lounging...Alex and Uncle Paul.....goodnight!

Monday begins another week!

I had a good weekend and somehow managed to endure the bone chilling cold that we have been blasted with here in the Northeast part of the country where I live. Brrrr!! I do not like cold, I really laugh about it at times when you think about the fact that I'm a born Canadian! In my defense I have been living in New York for almost 40 years now. Having said that, I am glad that spring is less than 9 weeks away!!

With the older boys pretty much settling into their own apartments we are doing some reorganization and I have decided that I have been cramped in this small room long enough and will reclaim the larger bedroom for my scrap space so stay tuned for some pictures when that project is all said and done. We have split up Alex into 2 rooms and this makes for a much less crowded bedroom with only his bed, dresser and nighstand with TV on it. Pookie has to always park herself on the bed after I made it, I think she misses Alex once he has left for school in the morning and she smells his scent on the bed. The other room we are calling his 'media room' where he has his desk with computer and his XBox360 hooked up to the big TV that Nancy and Paul gave us when we visited them for Christmas, they hadn't used it for 2 years and Alex was happy to take it off their hands as long as we were able to make it fit in the car and take it home. Will post photos of Alex's rooms when everything is completed.




I went into the city to meet up with Sandi for our monthly get together yesterday and riding the train for 90 minutes gives me a lot of time alone where I can just think and relax, I listen to music and enjoy the solitude. It is in these times that I think about mom a lot and I can't believe that it has been almost 8 months since she left this earth but I am still grateful for every moment we had with her up until the end. I truly hope that in 3 weeks when I begin my bereavement group I will get a lot out of it and start coming to terms with my loss because there are many days that I don't feel I have fully accepted it.


As I look to the week ahead I am free as a bird every night this week and only working 15 hours so that should give me some much needed time to plan out my scrapbooking room and get the house cleaned up a bit. Have a good week and check back next week because Alex and I are going to visit baby Cole for the Martin Luther King weekend so there will be new pictures to share, I'm sure!!

Finishing out the week

So here is it friday night and tomorrow will mark just 10 weeks until spring...10 weeks...I can do this....that goes by in a heartbeat!! In the blink of an eye you turn around and 2 months have passed, if you're not careful. I like to keep busy so that truly does make time fly and I wouldn't have it any other way, I need to have my plate full at all times and I think that makes for a very good and fullfilling life.

What do you do in the winter time when there really isn't much going on? I try to take classes at the library where I work and of course there is always scrapbooking and reading a good book with a blanket on my lap. :) Last night I went to a "Winter Wonderland" cake decorating class and I really had a nice time and enjoyed bringing home the finished product that didn't last too long once it was in the front door.



Tonight was my friend Laurie's monthly open house for her Close To My Heart business and we made a great layout titled, "Blizzard Conditions" and I have pictures to add to it and will post a photo of the layout soon.