Jake saying "camera"

Jake was looking for Ellie and found a little turtle

Jake saying "camera"

Jake was looking for Ellie and found a little turtle

Jake saying Ellie's name

Jake saying Ellie's name

Keeping myself busy

So while Ellie is at Kindergarten summer school, I've had to keep myself busy or I go crazy watching the clock. I've missed her terribly while she's at school and while I've enjoyed the time with just Jakey, it just isn't the same. Anyway, so I've had to come up with a project, or two, to use up some of this 1 child time.

What is this project? The JustBetweenFriends consignment sale. The spring sale I threw everything together at the last minute and it was horrific and awful and I swore I would never do it again, until I got my check for $115. When I got that, I realized how lucrative this could be. So I'm doing the fall/winter sale because I have a TON of winter clothing from both children. I've already started going through tubs and I have two mountanous piles of clothing ready to be washed and oxycleaned and hung up. I still have 1 tub down stairs to go through and 2 upstairs. I'm not sure how much to hope for this this sale, but I know that whatever I make will go towards Christmas and birthdays and hopefully then Christmas won't put such a huge dent in my budget like it did last year.

My next post will be pictures. Obviously I'll tell you what the pictures are, but I need to upload them to the computer first. It's hard to do this blogging thing with a 15 month old running around. I'm trying to do at least one blog a month and I promise to try and do more as time goes on.

How is my baby girl graduating preschool?

What happened? Where did the rosey cheeked baby go? How is she 5 and graduating preschool in order to start Kindergarten on June 1st? My heart is broken by it, but at the same time I'm so extremely excited because it is a new chapter. I am going to miss her terribly during the day though. She won't get to go to playgroup, she's going to miss out on all the fun stuff that I'm going to take Jake to do. At least she got to do one year of it with me. That's honestly one of the main reasons I stayed home was to enjoy one last year of her being home before she went to Kindergarten. I knew that if I wanted to stay home, I better do it then so that I had that time with her and I wouldn't trade it for the world. She and I have had so much fun. We've gone to museums, the zoo, different parks. We've discovered and learned and played together. I'm a better person because of the time we've had together and I sure hope she appreciates it as much as I do.



Sorry the pictures aren't great, they were taken on my phone because I completely forgot to take my camera.

Other updates - Jake's 15 month appointment is tomorrow, Ellie's 1st eye appointment is Thursday and on Friday Ellie gets her final ear tube taken out. It's a very busy week for us and a very busy weekend. Thursday is my birthday and for my birthday we're going to the They Might Be Giants adult show on Friday night and then the kid's show "Jiggle Jam" is on Saturday. I'm super excited to have a TMBG weekend again.

Ellie's birthday party

So my camera was about to die and so I didn't get many pics taken.