monday morning=relaxation

While "working" people despise Monday mornings...I quite enjoy mine. Especially when lil Cohen is still sleeping. Saturday night he woke up 4 times. Needless to say I was not a happy camper. (sigh) Tis the life of a baby I guess.

On Saturday my mom and I went to MCC (the local thrift shop). I was looking for some old fabric but I ended up being drawn to the book section. I love all books but especially old ones. The one book I found ended up being just the cover ...no pages inside. They gave it to me for free. Its like a mystery...I'll never know what was supposed to be inside. I also found a special book for a special boy for Christmas.

Another of one of my finds was a hot iron transfer for embrodiery that has never been opened. There is no year on it. The package was printed with a price of 15 cents...I paid 50:)

We tried to take a family portrait with the webcam last night...this is the best one:

happy monday xoxo

lovely sunday afternoons

I love Sunday afternoons. I have so much to do but Sundays are a great day for relaxing. I finally finished my Christmas gift for my mom. (I can't say what it is because its a surprise!)

Now I just have to finish all the kiddies gifts.

First I'm going to finish the felt garland that I started last week.

I love the garland here

On Friday it was so beautiful so I packed Cohen up in his penguin hat and we went for a walk. He is so adorable. I just love him so much:)

Off to the Pizza Hut in Steinbach for supper..supposedly its the best one

have a lovely sunday

xoxo

37 Days 'til Christmas

It's November 17 and its 3 degrees outside right now. This is Manitoba, right? Not that I'm complaining but its harder to get into the Christmas spirit when its so beautiful outside.

This Christmas I'm making a committment to try as hard as I can to handmade gifts. Or at least I will buy homemade gifts. It sounds so easy but it actually is so hard. Sometimes its easier to just buy the people we love something useless and expensive. I'm not doing this to save money necessarily but I wanted to embrace the true meaning of Christmas by showing my loved ones how much I care.

I'm learning to crochet as part of this endeavour. I rented some books from the library and it looked easy. I'm finding it pretty difficult. I keep trying buy I can't seem to hold my hook tight. Just practice, practice, practice.

Tomorrow I believe I'm going to start decorating my home for Christmas. Then perhaps start some yummy Christmas baking..yum, yum

Maybe I'll start with this scrumptious Cranberry Pear Crumble.

Cranberries are a great festive fruit:)

after midnight...(yawn) time for bed before Cohen awakens...

xoxoxo

three years:)

Last night Jason and I went to Winnipeg on the Red River Cruise for our anniversary. We left Cohen with my parents so we had the night to ourselves. The night was full of interesting people. Lots of drunk people. Some drugs were being smoked as well. So we were probably the only two people..including the crew...who were in their right minds. Oh well..it makes for an entertaining evening.

When he looks at me, he looks right into my eyes. He's changing so much everyday. A month goes by so fast. I love watching him learn and take in this outside world. When he looks at me, my heart melts and I forget that he kept me up for hours last night. Or that he won't nap for more than twenty minutes at a time today..making it impossible for me to nap or do much of anything else. Well I hear my little Cohen waking up from his ten minute nap...

Cohen Samuel

Well...I'm officially in love. Little Cohen was born on July 15 after 26 hours of labour..and then a c-section. Defintely not the way I thought it was going to happen. Its a little hard sometimes knowing I can't do everything I want for him because my body needs to heal. He is super adorable. Even though he has his days and nights mixed up and he doesn't like to sleep in his bassinett..he's so worth it!

I'm home. Its been a long day. Working two jobs makes me tired. I enjoy working at the gym but wow working from 7:30am - 8ish pm, makes me very thankful for sleep.

So right now I am in love with rain boots. I found some cheap ones at Giant Tiger that would do

I know the pic isn't very clear but you get the idea.

I've been trying to unlock my creative side. I know its in me somewhere but I've pushed it down for so many years that I'm having a hard time unlocking it. With my current job there is not much creativity I can unleash. I have ideas and plans in my head it is going to take a little bit of work to put them into action.

I want to say congratulations to Lauren and Clint and Aleksa on the arrival of Mikayla Elie Wiebe! She's a beautiful little angel!

all for now,

tamara