Playing with a New Lens and Lightroom

This is a photo I took with my new 50mm prime...I was just playing around and making Eliana sit for me. I loved her expression before the edits but I thought this turned out pretty neat.

A Mom Day...

Somes days are more fun than others as a mom - and some days make you really earn your stripes.

Sick days seem to be the stripe days.

Today I caught my sons throw up in my hands. I think I earned a gold star for that one. But gory details aside I thought I would share my strategy for managing a sick day.


Towels and Linens!! Lots of them - all of them...anything flat and washable fabric is fair game. I layer them all over whatever bed is being used by the sicky and voila! Sicky bug do your worst!

When the inevitable mess comes I just strip away the top layer and after cleaning up the little person put them back into their already made bed. It works like a charm.

The only downside is that very first moment before you set up the towel bed ...when you just realize that they are sick and going to throw up all over the your carpet.... then cuping your hands under there little face is surprisingly effective.
And yes gross but as with so many other mom things - just don't think about it!!

Your Capture - "Quiet"

So this is the first time participating in on of You Capture challenges but I just processed a pic that seemed to fit perfectly...So I thought I would stop watching from the sidelines and jump in.

Ever feel Stupid??

For something that you really shouldn't feel stupid for?

So here is my moment - two days ago at Jui-Jitsu I was training with a friend of mine getting ready for the next tourny...this of course means that we start rolling by standing up instead of on our knees. I was going for a take down so I quickly side stepped to grab her gui and bam! My ankle that was supposed to be supporting me decided to take a vacation. It felt like it had exploded - I lay there trying not to make a scene but all the while making a scene. Apparently me trying to not cry looks like I am laughing...so it ended up ok because the fact that my friend was still laughing at my not laughing - that looked like laughing - actually made me laugh. We got to the bench and my instructor took a look - I was shocked. It hurt so bad to touch or move it and yet even after sitting there for half an hour no swelling - no bruising. This was weird.
Once I got up the courage - I found I could hobble so I headed out to my van and headed home.
Silly ankle still hurt but I figured no swelling meant no real injury.
Ed was worried that something may still be wrong so he told me to go to the doc in the morning.
I got in early in the next day and the doc did not give me any good news. I guess no swelling or bruising can be a bad sign. Basically she was pretty convinced I had a fractured bone in my ankle and if that was not the case that my ligament had torn right off and that I would need to go get an ortho consult. Woah!! For an ankle that was just sore and stupid stiff this was a little crazy. But I mean she is a doctor - she should know what she is talking about right!?!

I went and got the xray and hung around town like they asked waiting for the other appointments - that they never ended up calling me about. Turns out doc went home and I had to call the office to find out what was going on.
"Oh there is no fracture so you just have a sprain"
Thanks Einstein.
What about this stupid ligament thing you have got me all stressed out about.
"We will get the doc to look over things and call you in the morning for a follow up appointment"
Ok Good Morning world.
No call from the doc - I thought I might as well call instead of holding my breath.
"Nope doc says everything looks fine its just a little sprained."
Well duh - thats what I was what I thought before I came into see you experts in the first place. Ugh.

Anyway they gave me a number for physio that the doc wants me to go to. Do I go?? Its a sprained ankle for heavens sake and the real crux of the matter is that I think my doc may be on crack and have very little confidence in her judgement right now. I don't think I want to put out the money on her recomendation.

So why do I feel stupid?? I think because I wasted a whole day yesterday running around and Ed took time off to watch the kids and was all worried and anxious for nothing. ugh.

i heart faces - "Jump for Joy"

So for i heart faces this week the theme is "jump for joy"
As soon as I saw the theme I imediately thought of this picture...I laughed at the time when I took it and it makes me happy still to look at it so I thought I would enter it even though there really is only a sliver of face in the photo.

I just thought it would make some of you smile as well.

Enjoy

Special Movie Night with New Special Friends...

So I am just going to preface this by saying that in general we are not big toy buyers and that most of our kids toys have been gifts. Don't get me wrong I am all about toys but with grandmas and aunts and all the relatives around so it is usually not necessary! BUT every once and a while Ed wants to do get something special for the kids as a surprise. I love it when he does it - it is such a wonderful daddy moment that blesses my heart to see. So tonight we went to wally world and picked out these for the kids and came home and watched toy story together before bed.

It was so cute to see them get so excited to see their toys on TV!

Then tonight we went to check on them and this is what we found...I just had to share it.

Quilts and Renos

So I have kind of been taking a break from the computer for the last little while but it is time to reconnect and get back to blogger land.

I have been systematically been working on reno projects throughout our house and the latest one has been Eliana's room. It is still not done but I thought I would showcase her wall colour and new butterfly quilt that I found that matches just perfectly!!