Everyday Chaos

Sep 25 2011

it’s been awhile

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Sorry there’s been no activity on here over the summer. I had great intentions to keep this alive and kicking throughout this deployment, but time just got away from me.

We had a busy summer, all 3 boys took swim lessons for 4 weeks. They all became much more comfortable in the pool and by the time Aunt Jackie, Grandma and cousin Jason’s visit came to and end they were swimming like fishes. Bella thoroughly enjoyed being in the water too. She didn’t enjoy her boat much, but she liked being in the action. She dunked her face in the water and if you sat her on the edge of the pool she would lunge in at you.

We went to Comic-Con. That was fun and an experience I’m glad we had. I would not go again, however, with all 4 kids. Preferably with NO kids. It was a madhouse and we could barely get around some areas and maneuvering around with a stroller was nearly impossible at most points. It was cool though. I wish we had known just how much of a wait there would be for all the panels. I knew there would be lines, but it was really ridiculous. We saw no panels, but Jason and Jackie were able to see their Ghost Adventurers in person and got to meet the guy who plays in the new Sinbad movie. I’d like to go again with Tom so he could see the craziness, even Tommy agreed that he enjoyed it, but wouldn’t want to go again.

School stared on August 25th. The following week we started with soccer practices. We’re three games into the season now. Tommy’s team is doing great and Anthony’s gets better each week. I don’t know that there’s much to say about Alex’s team except that they are 5 and 6 year olds. lol

Now we are nearing the end of our countdown for our family to be whole again. We can’t wait. The day can’t come quickly enough. I wish it wasn’t such a big deal or I’d be posting everywhere just how much time we have left.

Now I’m off to go deal with Verizon and this ginormous cell phone bill I just received.

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Jul 12 2011

an overly ambitious plan?

Posted in Everyday

Probably….that’s how we roll, or rather, how I roll…hahaha

I have followed Ali Edwards’ blog for a little over a year. I’ve marveled at her ability to scrap, both paper and digitally. Last year I read about her A Week in the Life Project and thought it was a cool idea and didn’t give it much thought. I seem to like to start projects and never finish, so this wasn’t one I hadn’t thought of even starting. Until I read her post about her preparations for 2011′s Week in the Life. I thought it might be cool to do it with the kids, but thought it may get too tedious being just me with 4 kiddos at home all summer. So I planned on dismissing it altogether when I got the bright idea to attempt it the week Tom comes home from deployment.

I don’t have all the details worked out yet, I just decided to do it. Seriously, like 10 minutes ago (right before I saved the last helium balloon (from Bella’s birthday…a month ago) from being attacked by the ceiling fan), I decided that I was going to do this the week he comes home. I don’t know when that is yet, so it will make it even more interesting, yet? I have already started a list of things I want to buy for the project (mostly from Ali’s store at Designer Digitals, things geared toward this project). I’ve also made the decision that it will probably be best to do this project 100% digitally, or pretty close to it. Paper scrapping just makes me anxious and I think anything beyond using a piece of ‘real’ scrapbook paper is just wishful thinking on my part. I know my weakness and where I should draw the line.

I hope I can do it, I think it would be a great way to look back and remember the whirlwind of emotions and chaos that comes with homecoming. The added plus is having a ‘normal’ week to do it in, a week full of school, homework, soccer practice and all the other mundane activities.

While writing up this post I also decided I might try to do it for the week that Grandma, Aunt Jackie and Jason will be in town visiting us. Especially since we have tickets to Comic-Con, a first for us all.

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Jun 29 2011

the making of: felt food

Posted in Craftiness

There’s a bunch of play food to be bought, but I had a bit of apprehension about having a bunch of plastic food floating around my house. First, there’s the question of where it was made and if it’s really safe for the kids to play with, well…more specifically, for the girl to put in her mouth. We previously bought her a small pack of play food from the dollar spot at Target and it didn’t take long for it to get under foot and smashed. Then there was also the thought of the food being turned into ammunition. There’s always some sort of gun fight or skirmish going on in this house, I can just see them pretending to have a food fight. The grapes break the pictures and the carrots fly into the computer monitor. Really, I can see it happening.

So, since the girl was little I’ve been wanting to make her some felt food. A few months ago I made her some cute little fried eggs that turned out really cute. I also started to make some strawberries, but they are still sitting in my pile of unfinished projects. The other day I came across a bunch of cute felt food tutorials that were pinned by some friends on Pinterest. I searched out my bin of felt and looked over what I had and began to search online for some tutorials that would work with the felt I had.

We landed on a cute tutorial for some donuts. The tutorial suggests using beads for sprinkles, but I didn’t have any on hand so I just used embroidery thread in different colors. I think it turned out pretty cute. Then, since I was on a roll I made her some pop-tarts. Again, no beads for sprinkles, but at her age,this is probably better. When she’s bigger and doesn’t put every.single.thing she touches in her mouth and she’s still into playing with her kitchen and the play food, maybe then I’ll make her some new stuff with beads for sprinkles.

She loved it all. She doesn’t understand it much, but she seemed genuinely interested when I was finished and gave it to her. I’ve had my eye on a few other pieces to make, but we have a few other unfinished projects that we should really get finished before we start on any new ones.

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