It's Time To Say Goodbye...

So I looked at this blog today and realized that I am no longer posting here. You know why? I'm too busy keeping up my other blogs and I just don't have time time to post here too.

I've known for a while that I was going to stop posting here. And it's okay because I have Livin' With Me where I post our daily fun happenings. I have Our Happy Happenings where I post my daily memes. And I have Our Crafts ~N~ Things where I post about the activities I do with Hailey everyday. And maintaining those three blogs is a lot of work and I just can't keep up with this one anymore.

At the same time, even though I have my other blogs, it feels a little sad to make it official that I won't be posting here anymore. That's why I've been putting off this post for so long. This is where I started out with my blogging so it's hard to say goodbye. I will be leaving this blog here though. I'm going to work on printing out the stuff I want to keep for Hailey to read some day. So, nothing will disappear, I just won't be posting anything new here anymore.

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Friday's Feast

Appetizer
Invent a new flower; give it a name and describe it.
Ummmmmm.......

Soup
Name someone whom you think has a wonderful voice.
My dad has an amazing voice.

Salad
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how clean do you keep your car?
Before I had a baby my I would have said a 10. Now it's probably more like a 6. I just can't keep up.

Main Course
How do you feel about poetry?
I like some poetry. It can bring out a lot of different feelings.

Dessert
What was the last person/place/thing you took a picture of?
Hailey... shocking, I know.

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Thursday Thirteen #9

Hailey will be turning 18 months old next week. So, for this weeks Thursday Thirteen I am doing a little reminiscing over the last year and a half. I can't believe how fast time is going. Please someone, slow this time machine down!

Hailey at 1 month old

2 months old

3 months old

4 months old
5 months old
6 months old 7 months old

8 months old

9 months old
10 months old
11 months old
12 months old
15 months old

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Wordless Wednesday #56

I find this to be especially funny since last weekend my servers did go down on my other blog. At the time it was not funny, it was quite annoying. But it did get me off of the computer for a little while.

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Tackle It Tuesday

It's been a really long time since I have done any scrapbooking. I really miss doing it, but it seems like it takes so much time to get everything out and set it all up, work on a page and then put everything away. Part of the problem is that my scrapbooking stuff is very unorganized. The picture on the top left shows where I was storing my scrapbooking supplies- on a shelf in my storage room. I took all of the stuff out and put it on our foosball table in order to get a better look at what I had to get organized.

This year for Christmas I got this great scrapbook storage organizer from Matt and Ellie (my brother and my sister-in-law). I haven't had a chance to get all of my stuff organized into the organizer yet. So, I decided to do it for my Tackle It Tuesday this week.

So, I went through all of my stuff and got it all organized and into my nifty scrapbooking organizer. While I was doing my organizing I was getting excited thinking of all sorts of pages I can start working on.

These last pictures are my end result with my stuff all organized. Now some week I'll have to tackle actually getting some scrapbooking done.

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Fun Monday

Robin from Pensieve is our host for Fun Monday this week and here is the assignment she gave us:

"...please share words that inspire and motivate you--brief or bloviatory, silly or serious, from great world leaders to last night's Comedy Central...from a Hallmark greeting card to your favorite book. Choose one, choose many; let the quotes stand on their own or tell where you first read or heard them and how they affected you."

I just have two that I would like to share- and they are both about kids and how fast time goes. If you have ever been to my blog then you have certainly seen these before.

The first one I say to myself all of the time- when I'm getting busy and Hailey is trying to get my attention I think of this poem. Then I put down what I am doing and spend time with my baby toddler.

Cleaning and cooking can wait 'til tomorrow
For babies grow up as we've learned to our sorrow.
So, quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep,
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

The next one is something that my cousin Lisa shared with me last spring. It was during a time when I was having a really hard time with Hailey and her sleeping. I wasn't getting much sleep at all and was feeling overwhelmed with a lot of things. So I had shared some of my concerns and questions with her. She offered me some great advice and shared this quote with me:

The days are long but the years are short.

I love this quote so much that it's posted in the header of my Livin' With Me blog. It's something I think about daily- some days really do seem to drag on and on. And then I stop and think that it just can't be possible that Hailey will be 18 months old in a week. And then I think that before I know it I'll be saying that I can't believe Hailey will be 18, in years instead of months.

And so, those are the words that are inspiring me these days. Stop by Robin's blog to see who the other participants are.

Menu Plan Monday

I am so glad that I have joined the Menu Plan Monday group. While I have always made a list of all of the meals I plan to have each week, there is something about posting it on my blog that makes me actually follow through with my plans. So, here, once again- is my plan for this week.

Monday- Soup and sandwiches
Tuesday- Leftovers from Sunday (pot roast, mashed potatoes, gravy & rolls)
Wednesday- Breakfast
Thursday- Peppy Macaroni (never had it last week)
Friday- Chili Cheese Hamburger
Saturday- Crockpot brown sugar chicken

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Friday's Feast

Appetizer
What does the color dark green make you think of?
The only thing I can think of this dark green shirt that I have.

Soup
How many cousins do you have?
4 on my dad's side and 9 on my mom's side

Salad
On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how honest are you?
If you ask me a question I will tell you the truth so definitely a 10.... but I won't volunteer information that might cause a confrontation.

Main Course
Name something that is truly free.
A child.

Dessert
Using the letters in the word SPRING, write a sentence.
Spring, Please Remember I Need Green (when I look out my window).

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Thursday Thirteen #8

Some days it seems that I am very easily annoyed~ of course Rich would probably tell you that is every day. But, anyhoo- today is one of those days when I am feeling annoyed with pretty much everything. And since I'm in such a rotten mood, I decided to make my list about 13 things that annoy me.

1. Having to put away the clean laundry.
2. When Dottie (the dog) crawls out from under my bed in the middle of the night (she started sleeping there shortly after Hailey learned how to walk- I wonder why)... Anyhoo- when Dottie comes out from under the bed in the middle of the night and has to shake and make the tags on her collar jingle so that she wakes me up.
3. People who do not wash their hands after using the bathroom. Yuck!
4. SPAM
5. Clutter
6. When the food on my plate touches each other. It must be kept separate.
7. Being late annoys me. I prefer to be on time, if not early.
8. Telemarketers who won't take no for an answer. I know people are just trying to make a living, that's why telemarketers in general don't annoy me. It's when I try to be nice and say "no thank you" and they just won't give up that I get annoyed.
9. I have this one friend who sends me at least ten forwarded emails every single day. I don't mind the occasional forwarded message, but at least ten everyday? That's too much. (And the person who does this does not read my blog- so if you send me forwarded messages I am not talking about you.)
10. People who want to argue about everything.
11. Going grocery shopping with Rich. I hate to go grocery shopping anyways and when he comes along it takes forever. He must compare the prices down to the penny of every product. And then he wanders off and I can never find him.
12. People who touch me when they talk to me.
13. The price of gas.

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Tackle It Tuesday

My Tackle it Tuesday this week was technically tackled last Thursday and Friday. But, I'm posting it today anyways because it's my blog and I can if I want to.

I don't know if I'm the only one- but I have my regular weekly cleaning that I do. And then I have my company is coming cleaning that I do. And since my parents were coming to our house for the weekend for Easter, it was time for the company is coming cleaning.

So, last Thursday and Friday were spent cleaning my house and going to a few different stores to get groceries and other things I needed for Easter. But, for my post this week I'm going to tell you about some of my favorite cleaning products that I used while tackling my house.

I love the Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. If you have ever found something that can't be cleaned by one of these I would be interested in knowing what it was. They are wonderful.

I know this might be considered odd by some, but I actually kind of like dusting. And give me a Swiffer Duster and I actually kind of love dusting. I think the Swiffer Duster is fun and I find myself looking for extra things I can dust.

Last, and most definitely my favorite, is a product I had never used before last week. I used the Mr. Clean Multi-Surfaces Liquid Cleaners in Lavender Vanilla & Comfort. It did a great job cleaning- which of course is important to me. But- it smelled sooooo good. I wanted to keep using it to clean because I love the smell of it.

Anyhoo- it was nice to tackle my house and get it all nice and clean. So, that was my tackle.

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Fun Monday

Here are this weeks instructions from our host Swampy:

"FUN MONDAY: ABC's

Back in my school teaching days, I used the A-B-C technique of making connections and remembering things. For instance, if we had studied Ireland, one assignment would be to list all 26 letters of the alphabet down the page and add words and/or phrases remembered about that unit of study:
IRELAND:
A - Antrim (County of)...
B- Blarney Stone, Belfast...
C - Cork, connacht, crystal...
D - Dublin... "

So, I decided to do my Fun Monday ABC list with foods that I like to eat. So- here we go:

A- Apples
B- Broccoli
C- Cauliflower
D- Donuts
E- Eggs
F- French Fries
G- Grapes
H- Ham
I- Ice cream
J- Jelly
K- Kiwi
L- Lasagna
M- Mashed Potatoes
N- Noodles
O- Oranges
P- Pizza
Q- Quesedias
R- Rhubarb pie
S- Strawberries
T- Tacos
U- ????
V- Veal
W- Waffles
X- ????
Y- Yogurt
Z- Zucchini

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Menu Plan Monday

Monday- leftovers from Easter
Tuesday- Peppy Macaroni
Wednesday- Lasagna
Thursday- Chicken fingers and fries
Friday- Pizza
Saturday- Meatballs and gravy
Sunday- Pot roast

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Photo Hunt- Metal

Well, you know that whatever the theme is for Photo Hunters I must make it somehow relate to a picture of either Brooke or Hailey. So, when I saw the theme for this week was metal I wondered how in the world I was going to come up with a picture. But- I did it! So, here are three pictures all from 2001 of Brooke.

Brooke on the Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls, leaning up against a metal rail.

Brooke at Lake George, NY in August 2001, leaning on a metal fence.

Brooke having dinner on the lake in Lake George, sitting in a metal chair.

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