52 weeks ago

52 weeks ago our life was like this

what felt like a never-ending Saturday at the time, 

would have completely been erased from my memory if I didn't have this wee little blog. 

I've decided to keep more of my personal moments and kids milestones off this space

and use it to persue other topics and personal interests. 

Lately I've been feeling more inspired to write here again 

but I certainly love to look back once and a while!

Amazing how quickly a year goes by...

from cow baby to playing (eating) playdoh with her big brother.
I can't believe in about 2 months this little lady is going to be a big sister!

esty love

I bought these ultra adorable felt masks for party favours 

for Oliver and Georgie's joint woodland themed party last May.

and they were a huge hit with the kids (and parents too!)

I thought I would share as they make a great gift for the littles if you are starting to think about xmas gifting... and even if you weren't.

woodland masks from Mahalo, cost about $10 each

 I also bought this adorable set from magicalattic for about $30

a ghill halloween

goblins, ghosts,witches....

 a cow, a chicken/big bird hybrid and a random black cat.

Halloween was interesting.

On the 30th this random black cat started "hanging" around our house.

It stayed for about 3 days (probably because of all the ham and fish Guy was feeding it)

but it was very crafty and almost got in our house a few times so we had to find it a new home.

Not before it made friends with Chaza though. ha this cat be crazy!

The rest of our Halloween went something like this...

Oliver's lack of enthusiasm over the costume made the easy decision to pass on trick or treating this year. So I snapped a few quick photos in front of the toasty wood stove instead of braving the wind, rain and grossness that was outside. Maybe next year will be a little more successful. Maybe.



the never-ending saturday

That did in fact end...eventually.

Most people can't wait for the weekend.

 A chance to sleep in, lounge around after a busy week.

Weekends mean neither of those things for me.

I love weekends too but it's certainly not a time to catch up on rest.

Not in this house of not one but two children that enjoy getting up at 4AM!

That's right last Saturday both of my darlings were up at 4am, I mean wide freaking awake.

Not even let's lie in this bed and flail around for a bit "awake".

Full on "Mama I need juice, I need something to eat" awake.

Cue Georgie, smiling, cooing (for once) and toe tapping. Me too!

Are you kidding me?

So by 6:30 am Georgie was ready for a little siesta (yeah you know its bad when your first nap of the day is before you should even be awake on a Saturday!) And by 7 am Oliver had officially played with every toy we own. The weather wasn't great and I was far too exhausted to go for a walk

 so this is what our day entailed

1/. hitting up the jobsite a little early

2/. lounging lizard 1st round

3/. mr. & mrs dressup (hallowe'en spoiler!)

4/. whisk ball- mini sticks improv ghill style

5/. toddler moment- sidebar: oh how I love baby teeth, they are just the cutest even on the toddler monster!

6/. more dress up wrapped in sibling love

7/. truck'n

And yes this was over the course of several hours and yes we wore our jammies all the day long.

Then by some miracle 1pm rolled around and Oliver had a glorious nap and then Georgie went down too and this Mama got to rest her weary bones for a minute or two before everyone got up

and we did it all over again!