You'll notice another blog makeover, in honor of the recent snow we've been getting.. I'm so glad, too! I really miss my white winters! Not that it's green or anything here in the winter.. mostly just yucky grey and ugly brown.
This past week has been so nice! Alec has been home all week, Ethan's been particularly "easy" and we've had pretty much no obligations.. So.. here's a quick recap of our "not much going on " week..
Tuesday - Dec. 29th... I don't know what it is about the new year.. maybe it's that Alec's home for a bit between semesters so there are more hands to help, but it seems like we're always reorganizing our lives during this time - particularly in the office/book region of our lives. We've been overflowing our bookshelves for quite a while now, so Alec went and bought a couple more. We now own 4 of the same style {LOVE that!} so we moved three of them into the bedroom to house the majority of our collection. {It's really the only safe place for the books since we keep it closed all day and don't let Ethan in there because it's also the safe-haven for the cats.} There is still one shelf in the office, and we have two built-ins in the apartment that house our church books and games, but now we actually have some room to grow - whereas usually we're just "barely" covered.. It's been so nice to have them in our big and boring white room.. it almost makes it feel like someone lives there!
Thursday - Dec. 31st... We just hung out and had a boring new years - trying to watch a movie, but a certain almost-two-year-old decided he wanted to stay up, too {second year in a row} so we all gave up and finally went to bed around 12:30. Is it bad when you go to bed "early" on New Years?
Friday - Jan. 1st... After Ethan was up all night, he actually slept in until 10:30 or 11:00 and so did we! Wow! Fun, right!?!? Then Alec and I went on a date to see A Christmas Story - The Musical {that was the show that ate his life for a while in Nov/Dec} and then dinner at Fogo de Chao - similar to Rodizios or Tucanos for you Utah peeps.
Friday - Jan. 1st... was also the first day of one of my new resolutions.. I've never really been much of a resolution maker - I always feel like I'm setting myself up for failure - but this year I've decided to give it a go, and while I haven't actually written any of them down, yet, they are there floating around in my head.. Anyway, one of them was to be better at my journal writing {aka to do it in the first place} so I spent some time working up to this putting together a little project - not unfamiliar to many of you, I'm sure..
I used one of my scrapbooking kits, a composition notebook and an old pickle jar to make a personalized journal complete with a journal prompt for every day of the year. Now I just have to draw one out each day and take a few minutes to write about it.. I still plan to write a bit about my "everyday" as well, but there are some of those included in the jar as well.. I think at the end of the year, it will be a great compilation of a look into my life, that hopefully will be something my kids will treasure.. maybe... Anyway - I'm three days in and still going strong! Woot! :D
And that's it in a nutshell.. Alec and I will be approaching the ever-popular job hunt with force these next few days, so wish us well with that.... Also - Ethan has been picking up on words SO fast these days! Just since Christmas he's mimicked - or said on his own - in the correct context, the following NEW words: kitty, cheese, Jesus, amen, yellow, green, delicious {that one was pretty funny}, ball, star, tree, cracker, and probably a lot more.. OH! And speaking of mimicking, this is pretty funny.. The other day while I was getting ready, Alec and Ethan were in the bedroom, and Ethan waltzed over to my nightstand, grabbed my deodorant, lifted up his shirt and started "applying" it to himself.. hopefully this sense of hygiene will last through his teenage years..
And one more resolution before I move on to other things.. I'm trying to have a more positive outlook on life - I'm pretty sure I'll be needing it as we move on to the next phase of our lives - SO.. I'm going to try to post at least one thing that makes me smile every day.. You'll notice them in my left sidebar.. I have a friend who does this and hers are just GREAT to read! {Granted, most of them are super funny things her kids say, but you've got to start somewhere, right?}
