Would love to cut off my left arm right about now...

I could just kick myself for what I did yesterday, which included me running my left shoulder into our built-in that has the sharpest corner EVER on it and instead of stretching it out I let it stay still for awhile. BAD IDEA! After I put C to bed last night I all of a sudden realize my shoulder was throbbing and I couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong with it. I'm pretty sure I have internal bruising because it hurts so bad. Last night I think I got a total of 3 hours of sleep because it just would stop hurting.

I wanted to chop it off!

Well I've been stretching it and moving it more today and it has been helping, well what do I do but run my right shoulder into the damn thing again. I could have spit nails I was so mad at myself for not learning the first time to walk as far away from those darn things.

So now I'm trying to watch my 2 year old with 2 throbbing shoulders and no Tylenol what so ever in our house!

Okay rant over.

What a wonderful Christmas...

I know I left you all hanging but I was just so excited about my major Christmas gift and I will get to that later but, this was taken on Christmas Eve and it's one of my favorite pictures.

Oh this just makes me melt.

I'm also really loving my trim painting white it's looks so crisp and clean.

Doesn't she look adorable, I figured I would get some wear out of this shirt dress before it wouldn't fit anymore and I think it looks great.

This was C's "Santa" gift and even though it took several hours to put together it looks great and she loved it. In fact she has been playing with it everyday since Christmas and we have yet to move it into her room yet.

She also was a little surprised when she realized that Santa had come and ate the cookies she left out for him.

She just kept saying "Santa ate my cookies, did he like them?"

No for my fantastic Christmas gift from my loving hubby.

Oh yeah one of the best cameras ever! He kept it a secret and everything until the day before Christmas Eve when he just wanted me to open it. I'm glad I did since I got some great pictures during Christmas Eve. I'm so thankful for him, I never would have bought this for myself and never dreamed in a million years that he would get such an elaborate gift.

I love that man.

Hope you all had a terrific Christmas, I think 2011 is going to be a great with lots of new things happening.

How good was your day?

Mine was fantastic!

And for right now that is all I have to say.

Wont be posting until after Christmas so hoping all you have wonderful holiday with friends and family.

L-

Tory

What we are up to today...

To say we have a busy week ahead is a complete understatement.

However, C and I have stayed in our pajamas the entire day so far and it's looking like we will be rocking this look for the rest of the day.

No worries though we will be showering and putting on our big girl clothes bright and early tomorrow since we have some last minute shopping and groceries to pick up before the snow storm hits our little part of the world.

So on the to do list:

1. Last minute food items for several Christmas parties

2. Groceries for our home in general

3. Pick up Mr. Stanley something for his stocking

4. 1 more gift card for a gift exchange

5. Black tights for C's Christmas Eve outfit

This is just what I could think of at this point but I'm sure our list will grow by the time we leave tomorrow.

Also laundry needs to be finished, sheets need to be changed, presents needs to be wrapped and meals need to be cooked.

However for today there will be play-doh playing, coloring, cookie eating, nap taking and snuggle fests ensuing.

So let the craziness begin...tomorrow!

Some things that are on my mind today

1. This cycle seems to be taking a million years and unfortunately we did not have excellent timing so I feel like I'm waiting to start this whole darn thing over again arggg.

2. Christmas has totally snuck up on me and I'm completely unprepared and don't really care either

3. I'm hosting a little get together with some other Mamas from our little town and to say my house is prepared is a complete understatement

4. If one more person asks me when we will be having more kids I mostly likely will scream at the top of my lungs and than smile politely and pretend like it never happened

5. I still have 2 more things to do for school before the semester is over by the end of the night and I have no motivation to even do them

6. I keep making lists of things that need to be getting done and yet nothing is getting crossed off

7. Can you tell this is kind of a down day?

8. I found the cutest room idea for C today on another blog and can't seem to relocate it

9. No matter how much I vacuum my home as soon as a put the vacuum away I feel like I need to pull it right back out, I need area rugs

10. I wish these stupid cramps would leave my body and soon.

Okay so those are just a few things that are on my mind and some I don't feel like you would want me to share with you.



So Pleased...

So this year for Christmas my sister and I decided instead of exchanging gifts with each other we would get gifts for our girls. She is due with a baby girl in March. Of course that is a whole other topic in itself. Anyway, knowing my sister she has very high standards for everything and this is no exception for her daughter.

Since she already has the big ticket items already planned out and gets tons of clothes from our Mom I wanted to get her something special and different but with same high quality standards that she loves.

So after scavenging etsy and other blogs I found this great etsy shop with the cutest knit booties I have ever seen.

However, anytime you order something online you can never be fully sure what you will be receiving.

I'm so pleased with the product that I received from Pleasantly Plump.

I picked out the booties from her shop and she hand knit the specific size I wanted to get our first niece.

She did such a great job and with such personalization I felt so happy with the packaging and how it was shipped.

Including the awesome hand written note thanking me for my business. Meghan from Pleasantly Plump will definitely be getting more business from me in the future.

The packaging was to die for.

How cute are these going to be on a sweet baby doll!

The quality was beyond my expectations and I know my sister will be so happy with them too.

Aren't the adorable bows on the toes so cute?

Okay enough of the gaga over the baby booties, but I just had to share how cute they are with all you.

And the only reason why I put them up on here is because no one I know reads this blog( which is done on purpose,that's a whole other post) so I felt confident posting my nieces Christmas gift on here.

So if you are needing a cute, inexpensive, personal and different baby gift visit Pleasantly Plump on etsy.



(little) Fashion Friday (a little late)

Goodness things have been so crazy around our house I've been slacking on some of my posts lately.

So Friday we had a beautiful day here in the Midwest, the temperatures were in the low 50s!

However, the next day we had blizzard warnings and are now experiencing Arctic weather.

Typical Midwest weather.

So Friday we had some errands to run per usual, and since C didn't need her super heavy coat her little pea coat was perfect.

(I really need to stop taking pictures in our kitchen)

Once the storm hit on Saturday we spent most of the weekend in our small town and helped our good friends bake cookies and C got to play with her best friend Henry.

As usually they had a pretty good time.

Last night after C went to bed I figured it was about time that I got to wrapping some gifts. However, since we have a very curious toddler presents are not safe under the tree so I found a much better replacement site for them until she is a little bit better behaved.

I think they look so cute up there.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend.