Thankful Day 8

It’s Friday!  I missed posting yesterday because I fell asleep while putting Sidney to bed.

It’s freezing outside today.  There were snow flakes. 😮 Sam had preschool this afternoon so we dropped him off then went to a  12:30 cycle class.

We rushed home after class so Sidney could take a nap and I could shower and then we went to Sam’s preschool so I could read a book to the class since he’s friend of the week.  He chose Little Pea.  It’s a good one.

We haven’t done much since we got home from school.  Laundry, sort of cleaning, cartoons.  We’re going to look at another house when Aaron gets home from work.  I called Aaron this morning when I saw it and told him I found the perfect house! Ha.  I’ve told him that many, many times.  It just came on the market yesterday and they already have an offer.  hahaha.  It’s a short sale so it’s a very good price but I’m thinking it’ll sell over the listed price.  We will see.

I’ve started to add things to my Amazon cart for Christmas gifts this year.  I really don’t want to get the kids too many toys because most toys they play with for a few days then lose them or break them.  I want to get them a blocks and marbles set this year but the wooden sets are expensive!  Last year their big gifts were scooters for each of them and a big set of magnatiles.

Today I’m thankful that Sam and Tucker really like having Sidney around and Sam really likes to help take care of him 🙂

Thankful Day 7

Wednesdays are our busy days.  Tucker goes to mother’s day out in the morning and Sam has preschool in the afternoon.  We dropped off Tucker at mother’s day out this morning at 9 then headed to Sweat for a yoga class.  Sidney and Sam went into the child care for the hour class.  After class:

After yoga, we headed home for Sidney to have a little nap and then we went to pick up Tucker and drop off Sam until 2:45.  We played at the playground for a while after school then came home for Sidney nap #3.

I put some chicken breasts, chicken broth and taco seasonings in the crock pot this morning so we’ll have tacos for dinner tonight.  I always like to hear what other people are cooking so I thought I would mention our dinner here too.

The kid’s Christmas pajamas came today!  I get way more excited about these than they will.

Today I’m thankful that Sidney is a happy and relaxed little boy.  He goes with the flow pretty well and is generally easy to please. hallelujah

 

Thankful Day 4

It’s Sunday!  The boys are out taking a walk around the block.  One of our neighbors came by selling Sarris chocolate for a fundraiser so now we’re going to be getting 2 peanut butter pies.  And one of Aaron’s coworker’s kids was selling Yankee candles so we’re also going to be getting two candles…  fundraiser season.

I went out to Target this morning to get exciting things like paper towels, diapers and light bulbs.  I spent a solid 5 minutes looking at the ingredients in all the pasta sauces trying to find one without added sugar.

I walked past the new Hearth and Hand Magnolia line that came out today.  It was pretty destroyed already at 11AM.  This doll house is amazing though.

Then I stopped at Gymboree because they were having a giant sale.  I don’t think that specific Gymboree is closing but a bunch of the locations are closing.  The company filed for bankruptcy and is “restructuring”.  I picked out clothes for our Christmas photos for all the boys plus I got them some socks, underwear and two pairs of pants for Tucker.  Everything came to only $39!

The boys are going to wear these for the photos I think.

Today I am thankful for Sam’s preschool.  This is his second year there and Tucker does Mother’s Day Out there.  I didn’t really do any preschool research before picking it but it ended up being perfect.  Sam loves it! He is “friend of the week” this week so we had to make a little poster about him.  Of course he picked out that ridiculous selfie picture of me 😮

 

Thankful Day 3

Saturday!  I went to Barre class this morning at Sweat then we all got ready and went to a  Fall festival in Upper St. Clair.  We took a hayride through a parking lot.  Suburbs.

I did a drive by of a house that’s in foreclosure then texted Aaron a picture telling him it’s our future house.  Aaron thinks I should get my real estate license.  Maybe I will?  I told him people will probably get annoyed because I’ll send them too many houses.

We had lunch at The Yard in the Galleria after the festival.  It’s up on the third floor where about a million restaurants have come and gone in the last few years.  They put in an elevator which was great because we had a stroller with us.  The food was really good!  I had shrimp lettuce wraps.  Aaron had The Yard Burger and the boys had mac and cheese and a kid’s burger.  The service was good and Aaron and I both really liked the food and the coffee.  The server said they serve Allegheny Coffee.  BRGR is right below The Yard and I’m thinking it’s going to be bad for their business.

Sam and Aaron are working on painting the door and walls to the basement now.  Aaron also pulled the carpet off the steps to the basement.

I booked a photo mini session for Christmas photos which is coming up in a few weeks so I’m shopping around for coordinating outfits for the boys.  I’m thinking something like this:

Today I’m thankful that we can afford (and also have the time for) eating out and taking holiday photos and going to local festivals.  We’re pretty lucky 🙂