Hey, it ok...
...to love birthdays. For my last year in my 20s, my aunt organized a great outing to a local spa and lunch out at a little French bistro. Pedicures and vicariously living like Julia Child = perfect birthday gift! So post pedicure and facial, we all enjoyed oo-la-la French crepes and sipped fancy drinks. It was a good time, complete with fireworks.
...to love recipes that just work out well. The Musick clan hosted the last playgroup, which I totally used as an excuse to experiment with a bagel recipe. I made a double batch and doctored them up, making plain, sesame seed, chocolate chip, and cinnamon sugar bagels. They were a hit. I will definitely be making those sesame seed ones again. They were really yummy.
...to celebrate Fat Tuesday by taking my kiddos out for ice cream. I've been giving up ice cream for Lent for a LONG time. Since it's practically a food group for me, it's a serious sacrifice. I use that "let's go out for ice cream" excuse a lot too. So we enjoyed some Culver's and will enjoy it again for post-Easter festivities.
...to get to know my sewing machine again. I made this little reversible dress for my friend Sarah's little girl's first birthday. I was so happy with how it turned out. I followed the pattern exactly and even made little matching bloomers. Sadly, the pattern was cut a little large, so my hope that they would use this outfit this summer probably won't work out. Maybe next summer. I also finished up a shirt that I made for Sophia. Got to love remnant fabric bins! I made a matching one for Claire, but again, I ran in to pattern issues. Both tops are much smaller than their pattern pieces, so we gave Claire's shirt away, and Sophia's shirt may be donated to Claire's shirt drawer by this summer. I was also able to whip up this cute backpack for Claire. She's not too keen on keeping it on though. We'll see how it works out. I have also rediscovered embroidery after embroidering the names for my friend's two sons on their baptismal gown. I'm embroidering a little bag right now with some birds on it. Pictures will come.
...to really love having a date day with Brett that included lunch out and CAR SHOPPING. It's sad, but we're those people that love to car shop. It's so fun. We're on the hunt for a 7-passenger SUV and have to get one before little lady #3 makes her appearance. We drove a GMC Acadia and Chevy Traverse and then...the Buick Enclave. Oh my. It was amazing. You know that feeling you get when you find your first car or you find your first house, and you just have to have it?!?!?! Yeah...So we're saving up big time over the next two months in order to get a big downpayment for a new SUV. Donations are welcome.
...to love storytime at the library. Seriously. It's like the most fun thing ever. And I love watching the girls dance around. They are amazing at "If You're Happy and You Know It." I think they should start their own sisters act.
...to decide to restock the maternity clothes with some new shirts and experience a royal failure at the stores. My clothes have been through two pregnancies and one pregnancy each for my two sisters. The short-sleeved shirts are looking sad. So who out there decided that maternity clothes should be skin tight? I ventured over to the plus-size shirts and ended up wearing tents. There's no in-between. Makes a pregnant woman feel REALLY great about her body image. I only have 16 more weeks to go. I don't think I'm even going to bother getting more clothes. It's too depressing.
...to not be happy with the Hilton Rewards program. Explanation is needed here. Since Brett stays at Hilton hotels a lot when he travels, he has earned two "free stay" certificates. He used one when he went to training in Dulles, and it was good for a stay for up to 14 consecutive days. WOW! So we decided to cash in the second certificate and go on a family trip down to South Carolina. Brett put in for vacation time in late March and got it. Score! We were planning to meet up with his brother and stay at this beachfront resort in South Carolina that we normally could not afford. With the free flight down there, we were pretty much getting away with a free vacation. So Brett called to reserve our room today, and the customer service said that the certificate was only good for one night. ONE NIGHT. Had I known that, I wouldn't have bought new bathing suits and sandcastle-building toys. So no warm, beachfront vacation for us. Instead, we may be cashing in our ONE FREE NIGHT up in Chicago and hitting the Shedd Aquarium. I'm bummed. I really had my heart set on a week of warmth, no work, and family time.
...to rebound from a rough day by watching this video over and over again.
1 comment:
I totally hear you on the maternity clothes thing. Totally.
Girl, you are amazing with a sewing machine. Seriously.
Is that bagel recipe from your Julia Child cookbook? Those look delicious.
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