We've had a little bit going on in the past few weeks, but not a whole lot. One reason for that is the boys and I were sick a lot. The hubs was able to squeak by with barely a scathe. But for the rest of us, we got it in 2 doses and all at different times. For a good 2 or 3 weeks, one of us was always sick. By the end of it I had had enough. I went through the house and disinfected everything, washed clothes, bought new toothbrushes, anything that would get rid of whatever may be lingering. For the most part we are all better, though there is a little bit of cough left with me and Nicholas.
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| This is one of the days we were sick and hanging out in PJ's. It had been really windy the night before. Leaves and other debris had covered our deck and the boys were checking it out. |
Valentine's also happened. Rick and I kept it pretty low key this year, just getting each other cards. I mean after all he did just buy me a $400 camera for our anniversary. What more can a girl ask for?
Didn't mention that on here, did I? He had been wanting to buy me a new camera for awhile. So one day we went out on day to "browse" cameras. I didn't exactly want a DSLR (they just seem a little too much to me), but I wanted something close to one. Something that took really good pictures, had some great features, but easy enough for me to figure out and work with. I was looking at cameras that were closer to $200-$300, where as my husband was looking at ones $400 and up. I told him he was crazy, we didn't need anything that expensive. Then he discovered the Sony Cybershot DSC-HX100V.
He insisted I come look at it. That was pretty much the end of the story, we both fell in love with it. We decided to hold off buying it just then to see if we could find a better price somewhere else. We ended up finding it for about $30 cheaper at Walmart. So far it's been a pretty awesome camera.
Nicholas also had his first Valentine's Day party at school. He took in a shoebox from home and got to decorate it. The last few days before the party, he talked non stop about it. He was pretty excited. I had found this and knew I wanted to do it for his party. But I was uncomfortable with the idea of my son's picture going into people's homes who I didn't know. So with a friend's suggestion, I came up with this.
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| That's a pencil box holding it up. |
Then I knew I wanted to make something for his teacher's and I didn't just want to get them candy. I wanted to do something different. So after I quick web search, I came across this. Too cute, right? My very close version.
His teachers loved them. One of them told me that everyone else had brought candy and she loved how different it was. Score one for Mom.
Well, that's enough catch up for now. More to come later, that I can promise that.
