This is who I am

I'm a wife, mother, daughter, sister & friend

I am creative & artistic

I love to cook & garden

I am all about colours, patterns & textures

I love chick flicks & Danielle Steel novels

I watch 1970-80's TV reruns & witty British comedies

Typography inspires me

I am a blogger & a blog reader

My current addiction is Pinterest

I'm in the midst of a torrid love affair with my IPhone

I love the outdoors

Sitting on the porch @ night listening with the Cicadias 

with my hubby makes me happy

I am ridding myself of toxic people full of drama

I love my curly red hair & freckles but hate my body

the weight I gained after 2 kids is still there....

I have only several close friends that I confide in

I am not a party girl....I like to hang around the house

Sunday drives in the country is when I am my happiest

I am a scrapbooker & crafter

I am stubborn & impatient

I strive to be a better mom everyday

I am not perfect & I do have flaws

My dream vacation is to pack up the truck & trailer 

and just go without a destination

I love to learn

I love butterfly & eskimo kisses with Noah

I love that Liam is my snuggle bug

I still get butterflies when Clay comes up behind me

in the kitchen and gives me kisses

I love my family more than anything else in this world

Happy 2nd Birthday Liam

2 years ago today, I was on my way to the hospital to give birth to my sweet little Liam Grayson who weighed in at exactly 7lbs! My tiny little peanut....you stole my heart the moment I first laid eyes on you.  I will never forget the look in your daddy's eyes when they held you up.  

 you have a wonderful fashion sense!!! lol! you love to put on 

your big brothers things

 You love to wear hats!

 You are an ice cream monster!

 You give the best random kisses..xoxo

You always fall asleep holding something!

 You fall asleep in the strangest places

 Your first time eating a cookie..lol!

(you pretty much only eat oatmeal so this was big!)

Your curiosity and sense of adventure!

I love you Mr. Liam

(aka: Miam Biam, Stinkerpotomous, Lee Lee, Bug)

Love Mommy

xoxo

Watching Daddy

What an exciting day this was for all of us! Hahahha!  I had the crappiest screen door known to man! You know the one I mean, the one where the dogs and kids have pushed out the screen because its on the bottom...(seriously, a man must have invented that idea) You had to take the bottom glass out so you could clean both sides (or I could have just went around the other side and lifted the screen to use my Windex) The glass was scratched, the frame was bent so if you sat on the couch a certain way, you could actually see daylight through the frame....


Anyway,( insert happy dance here.....) the day finally came, that I literally had a break down over my front door!  It was a chilly November morning and I had decided to wipe the finger prints, dog snot and boy spit off the door....it was this day that I lost it....I sat on the floor crying and muttering under my breath about this darn door....Clay was looking very perplexed, (probably thinking my wife is off her rocker, its a bloody door!)  Well, he must have had enough, because the next thing I know, he took off with the truck and came back with my new door!!!!.... 


So your probably all wondering, what's the big deal, why didn't you buy one sooner...well, because I am a mom, and I clean the door at least 2 times a day, I needed the perfect door....you know the one, its that one calling your name at the hardware store, but its completely out of your budget....the one a mom must have designed......the one where the screen is on the top, and....are you ready....the screen is a phantom screen that when you pull the window down, it rolls out of the top of the frame, and when you push the window up to close it, it rolls back into the frame......no more taking out glass so you can wash both sides, no more kids and dogs pushing the screen out! 

There was a day when I cool and fashionable and if I had $400 to blow it would have been on these Frye Harness boots and not a screen door....its a sad day when a new screen door brings you so much joy and happiness......

so to remember this day that brought me from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other I (like any scrappy mom...) took photos to remember this day and scrapbook them.  I will always remember this day when my Frye Boots new screen door brought me so much joy.....

So tell me....can you relate or am I just crazy SAHM ?

also don't forget about my give away below....if you enter your chances are really good!!!! lol!

Give Away Time!!!!!

So I have been cleaning & purging my scrapbook room...Eek! I know!  So far I have packed up 3 totes of stuff to sell.....I am being ruthless!  Can anyone tell me why I have so many 12x12 patterned paper pads??? And magazines, ugh! don't even get me started.....I have scrapbook magazines all the way back to 2007! I pulled them all out, packed them up and I am only keeping 2011 on!  Anyhoo, as I was going through my magazines, I came across this magazine which was a double!  Its the fall 2011 edition...with lots of great ideas in it!  So lets do a give away!  

How to win: all I ask is that you do me the favour of checking out my dear friend & boss Marie's blog and or FB page because this magazine was from her store ( you get them free when you spend $20)

Papercraft Cafe FB -  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Papercraft-Cafe/266412540207 

Chit Chat Cafe Blog -  http://mariespapercraftcafe.blogspot.ca/ 

How about we leave this open until Sunday April 22 and I will post the winner Monday April 23

Just leave your name and how to contact you if you win in the comments!