Compliment Away

Little rant here. So I heard someone complaining that they got complimented on their smile...Their smile, not their butt, their smile. There was no physical contact, just a man telling a woman she had a nice smile in passing.

I personally find no problem here, I also will take as many compliments as I can get. It feels good when someone says something nice to you. It will make my day if someone tells me I'm beautiful. (This happened a few months ago and I was on cloud nine)

I guess I just don't understand what woman want. Being one, this is confusing to me. I want to be respected, world peace, everyone to get along and just be nice. It's not much to ask.
When will people stop complaining about everything? Will they stop when men and women stop handing out compliments? Then they will complain that no one is kind. It's a vicious cycle that will never end because there will always be someone complaining about something. Someone that doesn't like this and someone who doesn't like that.

I compliment people all the time, does it make it different because I'm a woman?!?! It sure doesn't. It makes me feel good to tell someone "I love your hair" or "where did you get those boots?" or "you have a nice smile". I compliment because it makes me feel good, and I want to share that positive energy around as much as possible.

So I say smile and spread the love people. If someone says you have a nice smile, take it, because you know what you probably have a nice smile. Someone just wanted to be nice and point it out.

That person will probably never ever throw a compliment in anyone's direction ever again because of that one individual. And that my friend is sad. Sad for them, sad for the people who aren't offended by everything, and sad for the nice people of the world.

Lift people up with kindness, even if they don't deserve it.

Disney on Ice

For Christmas myself and my husband got our daughter Disney on Ice tickets. Today was the day! We planned it out to be a mommy daughter date, and it was an amazing day.
When I was younger I remember going to a few Disney on Ice shows, and I remember loving it. Well I have to say they did not disappoint. It was a wonderful show! This particular show was Passport to Adventure, which had Mickey and his crew traveling all over the world stopping at certain places along the way. First stop was The Lion King, then Peter Pan, then The Little Mermaid and finished up with Frozen. Each one was remarkable in its own way. I noticed that Peter Pan and Frozen were a lot longer than the other two.
We sat in the second section from the ice, 8 rows back, and the view was perfect. I also made sure that we got the aisle just incase there was someone tall in front of us, Ruby would still be able to see. Price wise I couldn't have asked for a better price. Mid 20s, not bad for our view. It was 2 hours long and had a 15 minute intermission.
The skaters were fantastic, I swear they should be in the Olympics. So many special effects, and the scene changes...I don't know how they all keep up, and not screw up. Just AMAZING!
We will be making this an annual event for sure. I have already seen an advertisement for another one I, I mean Ruby, would like to see.

Gratitude Journaling

One of my friends told me about gratitude journaling the other day, and I thought it might be just the thing I need right now. It is a journal that is all about things that you are grateful for. Positive thoughts, dreams and aspirations. Take some time at the end of each day, or whenever is convenient and write about something good that has happened to you or someone you know, even something that makes you smile. It can be anything you want, it's your journal. I think that everyone could use a little more positive energy in their lives right now.

I think I am going to give it a shot. I write in a journal everyday, but its not always positive and its not always a coherent thought. So lets see what we can do!

Today I am beyond grateful that my parents live so close to me. I get to spend more time with them and they get to spend more time with my beautiful children, and me of course. 😍 

Post Election Drama

So I don’t talk politics because I hate all the drama it brings. It divides friends and families. And why, just because you have a difference in opinions?!?

Well here is what I have to say, suck it up. One side wins, one side loses. Let’s all be gracious winners, and losers and band together and fix the country. Isn't that what's important here? Or have people lost sight of that while spewing all the hate. It doesn’t matter who’s running the country, all that matters is that sh*t gets done and sh*t gets fixed. He would not have been elected if at least half the USA didn't believe in him and his policy's. So you don’t like the new president, who cares! He won, stop bitching about him. How is that helping anyone? Its making you look like my toddler when she throws a fit because she didn’t get her own way. The election is over, it’s done, and he’s in so please shhhh your face. Bottom line there is nothing that you can do, so accept it, or move out of the country. No one wants to hear the whining anymore.  

I don't know about you, but I am getting pretty sick of listening to it all.

A little fun for Wednesday

It's harder than you think.... No using Google!!! Every answer must start with the first letter of your first name. It's fun... Who doesn't love the game of Scattergoriez?! Come on! Try it!!! 

Name - Heather

Animal - Horse

Boy's Name - Henry

Girl's Name - Harriet

Color - Hazel

Movie- Hocus Pocus

Something you wear - Hat

Drink - Heinkein 

Food - Hummus

Item in the bathroom - Hand towel

Place - Houston, Texas

Reason to be late - Headache

Give it a try! 

Being a mom of two young kiddos

I remember when I was pregnant with my son, someone told me that it would be pretty much the same once he got here. They said what's adding one more? Well adding one more completely changed everything, changed our whole family dynamic. There is no mom time anymore. When one is sleeping the other one is up. Once Ruby goes to bed Max decides it's go time. Everything takes an hour longer. There's no grabbing a juice and walking out the door with my toddler. Having an infant and toddler is tough.

At the moment it is midnight, and Max just decided to get up. He will be up till at least 2 AM. This is just what he does. But it's ok, my body is slowly getting used to 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night, and then going flat out until the following night. 

Today I had time to clean the kitchen. I was so happy with myself that I squeezed some cleaning in to our busy day. That was short-lived, when I walked into the bathroom and saw how messy it was. Totally crushed me. 

Two kids so much harder than one. I love them so much, so it's so worth it. Plus I heard it gets easier. Just take it one day at a time.

Potty Time

So it's potty training time. My daughter is very smart, so I thought she would potty train easily. Not so much. She is just not into it. I have heard people say when she's ready she will and I think that's so true. She has no interest whatsoever right now, but I know that won't be the case forever. 

It doesn't help that she has hit the terrible twos and she's hit it hatd. I never knew someone so little could be so cranky. Oh the tantrums that have been thrown and I'm sure there will be lots more. It just comes with the territory, and I'm ok with that. 

The tantrums would be easier to deal with if my son would let me sleep for more than 4 hours at night. He thinks 2am is bedtime, and then I'm up with my husband at 6. Sleep deprivation is in full force but I seem to be adjusting to it really well. 

As I wrote this Max and I are watching HGTV and it's 1am. He's wide eyed and smiling away. Life is good, hectic but good. 

Sunday Funday

Hope everyone had an a good weekend. Today was a beautiful day in NH. Myself, my husband and our two kiddos took a ride to a State Park on the beach. We walked the trails, walked the beach and then finished up at the playground. It was a great end to a perfect low key weekend. It is very rare we get those so we took full advantage of if. The next month is going to be chaotic so it's nice to squeeze in some relaxing family time. 

Happy Friday

This made me giggle. Hope everyone had an awesome week! Enjoy the weekend! 

Feeling Like Myself Today

Well our baby boy was born the beginning of February. He is a very happy and healthy baby. We named him Max. He is not a huge fan of sleeping at night so I am beyond exhausted. 

Having two kiddos under three is quite a challenge. When I had Ruby I could nap when she napped so it wasn't a big deal that she didn't sleep at night. Well now that's not the case. If I want to nap I need to hope that they both are asleep at the same time. My mother has been wonderful, I would have been such a mess if she didn't come over and give me a hand so I can nap, clean, or do laundry. 

Today was the first day in almost 6 weeks that I have felt like myself. I got a chance to start to organize my extremely messy kitchen and living room. And I also got to start a sewing project, which I haven't done since before Christmas. It's nice to feel like you are accomplishing things. And taking a few minutes out to do something that I enjoy was great.

I'm hoping to have more days like today! :)

Gift of Lights

Last night Josh, myself, Ruby and Ryan drove to the Gift of Lights at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. I must say everyone had an awesome time. Ruby pointed out the different characters in the lights as we drove around the more than two miles of lights. "Mom more lights, Dad Snowman". She loved it. Ryan did as well! I think it will become a family tradition for sure. Even Josh was raving about how great it was :)  

Christmas Shopping

Only 7 days until Christmas! I can't even believe it. This month has flown by in a whirl wind.

I have gotten all of the gifts made for my family and friends and I only have a couple little things left to buy. I think I'm in pretty good shape this year. 

Slowly but surely I'm getting all the wrapping done. I don't mind wrapping but it gets tiring after a while. I really am not a fan of wrapping things that are odd shaped. I will wrap things in square or rectangle boxes all day long, just don't throw anything odd into the mix, unless you want it to look like my toddler wrapped it. 

I am like a big kid when it comes to Christmas. I really enjoy watching my daughter open all her presents. She has gotten the unwrapping part down, so this year is going to be a lot of fun. I have a funny feeling that it's going to take hours to get through everything, but that's the fun of it all. 

Happy Holidays! 

Advent Calendar

Happy December! 

I still can't believe it's here, 23 days until Christmas, and still so much to do. 

One thing that we do in our house is we have a countdown to Christmas, we have two advent calendars, bags with 24 chocolate kisses in them, and I've wrapped 24 Christmas books so everynight before bed Ruby unwraps one and we read it. I really like the Holidays. 

I remember being so excited when I was younger coming down every morning and doing the advent calendar. When myself and my sisters got older would would race to get down first because we knew the others wanted to do it ;) Sisterly love! 

It builds up the excitement til the big guy in the red suit comes. And you can never be too old to believe in Santa. 

MIA

I apologize for being missing in action for a month. Life got busy and hectic. Some days I was not sure which way was up. But this weekend life has slowed down a bit, at least long enough for me to take a second for myself to write.

We had an amazing rest of October which included a family birthday party for Ryan, the Storybook Hayride, Rubys first time ice skating, a Halloween party, and a great night trick or treating. 

I made Rubys Elsa costume, Ryans Sven costume and my Olaf costume so that did take up a lot of my time. Plus countless Drs appointments for myself and Ruby, gymnastics, play dates, etc. 

November so far has been crazy as well. We have started to get ready for the baby, starting by cleaning out the spare room and ripping up all the carpet. Now waiting on the installers to put the new carpet in so we can set up that room and move stuff out of the basement and mud room. Ruby and I went to the aquarium in Boston, we had a friend birthday party for Ryan, more Drs and blood tests, and now preparing for Thanksgiving. We are hosting and it will be the first time for us, so a new experience. 

But besides all the craziness that is life things are good! I am exhausted all the time and starting to get uncomfortable but it comes with the territory. So I am planning on writing more in December, I'm hoping to have a lot of my shopping done and I have started my sewing projects for Christmas. So my plan is to have some time to do things I enjoy...that's the plan. So we will see.

I really love the holidays and everything that comes along with them, so I am looking forward to sharing my favorites and traditions with you all. 

Touch a Truck Fall Addition

Yesterday we got to go to another touch a truck event. It was pretty chilly but we got all bundled up and headed out. There were lots of trucks to sit in and some big enough to walk through. Everything from a police vehicle to massive moving trucks. There was something for everyone. Lots of snacks and small gifts. They were even selling pizza. 

It really is a blast to go too, especially if you have kids that absolutely love trucks like Ruby and Ryan. 

Corn Maze

I had no idea Fall could be so busy, but it is! So much to do and no time to do it. 

Last weekend we did fit in a corn maze at a farm near us. It had 3 separate mazes that you have to get through. They were in the shape of a bee, a hive and honey comb. 

We had a crew of us, so it was a blast getting through it :) First Fall activity, so fun!

Self Portait 30 days later

Sleepy self portait. It has been a long busy month, and I don't see a break anytime in the future. But I wouldn't change it for the world. 

Something in your fridge

1% milk, Whole milk and apple juice. All gets drank on a daily basis. 

Your Favorite Color

My favorite color has always been yellow!

Photo of your handwriting