My brother Andy came back to Kansas for a visit. He spent the weekend with us, then headed out to my parent’s farm today. It was my other brother, Alan’s, birthday so we had fun just hanging out like we use to.
Joey and I bought a big tree and had the guys help us put it in the ground. We are used to little trees from Walmart, so this was pretty exciting to have such a large tree in our yard.
Then we had some fun playing baseball.
The girls loved playing with their uncles all weekend.
We got walloped with some snow the last couple days. Total of 14.5 inches or so.
Rory has only went to school one day this week. Monday and Tuesday were scheduled days off, Thursday and Friday were snowed. Joey hasn’t been able to go to work either. They forgot to plow our roads yesterday. While most are returning to work we are stuck at home again. It was nice yesterday, but we started to get a little stir crazy towards the end of the day. So today I don’t know how it’s going to go.
But we have been enjoying the sledding. We have a big hill next to our house with prime sledding. All these photos were taken the first half of the snowstorm, so it doesn’t show it all.
Joey’s doing something strange at the top of the hill.
With the neighbor kids making a snowman.
And a photo from last month’s snowstorm of Delilah and her cousin Ella. One of the hills in the background.
This photo was taken towards the end of the storm out my window. The car parked there was a family sledding. They were there for like 3 hours.
This snowstorm and being stuck all day in the house has been kind of nice. It has forced me to get ready for our big trip to Sri Lanka next weekend. We will be gone 12 days. The girls are going to stay here with the grandparents tag team watching them. So I have been getting all that in order.
And hopefully I’ll be able to blog some while we are over there, so you can see what we are up to,
With the new year, I didn’t make a resolution. I actually forgot that people did that until Joey asked me if I had one. I guess I just knew I would fail at keeping whatever it is that I came up with. But now with the holidays over I do have a sense of freedom of time to do stuff I’ve always wanted. Maybe that’s why people make resolutions, not just because of the new year- new you thing, but because we have nothing new going on. There’s time for improvement that we had little of in the two months prior. Well anyway, my point is, even though I didn’t make a resolution for the new year, I do have some things I want to focus on for the year 2013.
1. Do more crafting. I got away from this in the year 2012. Hardly crafting at all. I enjoy the small creative outlet of crafting. Not everything has to be large to get the feel-good accomplishment of making something.
2. Produce inventory of items to sell. I think I could sell some things if I actually had things to sell. I don’t know how (i.e. online, craft shows, out of my trunk), but I need to have an inventory first before I do anything.
3. Get Delilah more involved with activities. She does some, but she needs to start doing way more. I’m thinking regular story times at the library, gymnastics, ballet, soccer, and t-ball. Just like Rory was exposed to at her age.
4. Crafting with Rory. The kid loves to craft I need to let her more. Maybe I will share more crafting with kids posts. Like “Crafts that Don’t Suck” kids version.
5. More dates with the husband. Maybe this is the year to find a babysitter?
6. Yard makeover! It is time for this one.
That’s enough of that for now. I know seeing other people lists is either boring or makes you anxious you aren’t doing enough. Sometimes just doing the day to day things is plenty. As the kids are getting older, I feel myself having more free time. And life is getting easier. So either I need to start working out more, being more financially productive, or having another kid. So who knows what I’ll end up doing in the year 2013.
So now that I need to start crafting more. I turn to my boards on Pinterest.
First up: this awesome painted fabric feather necklace.
Source: Alisa Burke with how-to.
I did mine a little different. I just cut out feather shapes from canvas fabric.
Painted them white, then painted them feathery looking. I put a top coat of gold paint.
This was an easy and fast craft. Rory was very interested in it and wanted to make her own, so we might have a kid’s version on here soon.
What about you guys, do you have any resolutions? Or things you want to do this year?
