Nora Is One!

Happy Birthday Nora

I can not believe it has already been a year since we were blessed with are beautiful, little Girl, Nora. I keep thinking back to how before I was pregnant with her we thought our family was complete with our other 3 beautiful, perfect children and then low and behold God had a different plan and blessed us with Nora! I can't image our family without her and I am so thankful for how blessed we are. Now, I am not going to say our family is complete because that is not my decision to make although if you ask Steve he still thinks we have some control over this?? I am also not saying that we are going to have more because me just saying that would put my husband into a huge defensive panic. All I can say is I can see why my sister has 7 kids . I think with each child it gets easier and by #4 I feel as though we have things figured out for now. New things come up constantly and we deal with it and learn new ways to be better parents, but I love the excitement. Steve always reminds me that regardless of how many kids we have they do all eventually grow up. I is just so hard to think this the last baby and she will eventually be in school and I will be all by myself. Then what do I do?

So for now I will just love on my Baby Nora and enjoy every snuggle she gives my while we are both lathered up in baby lotion so I will always remember that smell

Finished Product

Thought I would share how the girls hair bows turn out. Hopefully the actual taking of the pictures goes as well as me making these little things.

I also included a picture of some other hair things I made recently. What will I do when my babies grow up?

My Day

Recently a good friend asked me to write out what I do in a day to helped stay organized in effort to help her get some ideas to go about her day and accomplish all that needs to be done. So I though I would share My Day:

To start my day I go and make all the beds. Sometimes I get in there while the kids are eating or getting ready for school. While in each room I put dirty cloths in the hamper. The girls should do both of these but that doesn’t always happen. I also straighten things up since 2 of the 3 rooms should stay kid free for most of the day.

Also in the morning after the kids and I are all done in the bathroom. I wipe down the sink and toilet with Clorox wipes (these are my best friends). I have them under every sink.

I try to do dishes after every meal just to keep the counter cleaned off since I don’t have very much of it to start with. I also try to sweep after at least 2 meals because I can’t stand having things stick to my feet when I walk through the room. Sometimes it is not as needed.

I vacuum and sweep floors every few days depending on the dog hair. I usually do this mid morning.

I try to get toys picked up before naptime so I can enjoy the peace in a cleaned up house. I also do this or have the kids do it before bed. I also find that is I keep up on it throughout the day its not such a huge task later and we all know that once they play with it for more then 20 minutes they are board and onto the next thing.

As for laundry, I will wash it throughout an evening and into the next day and then fold it all at once and immediately put it all away otherwise I don’t have the motivation to deal with it, then it is so frustrating when I finally get it put away and realize I have to start all over again because the hampers are full.

I guess my biggest thing is I don’t like clutter so if I keep up on things it’s less likely to build up. I am also a little O.C. and a messy, cluttered house completely stresses me out and I have a hard time functioning and knowing where to start.

Le' French Toast

This morning for breakfast I did my best at creating the best french toast from one of my favorite restaurants, Plum Hill Cafe. Here is the recipe for my version of:

Le' French Toast

4 eggs

1 cup of milk

1 tsp sugar

a couple dashes of vanilla ( sorry I don't always measure)

cinnamon ( to sprinkle on after on the griddle)

Store bought croissants ( got mine from Sam's Club)

Mix the eggs, milk,sugar and dashes of vanilla in a bowl. Warm of the griddle and melt some butter around. Dip the croissants in the egg mixture and place on the griddle. I then sprinkled each croissant with cinnamon and cooked on both sides till golden.

I then topped mine with raspberries from our garden this past summer and U.P. blueberries that my Dad picked. YUM!

It is also good with pure maple syrup, but if you are like me and didn't get a chance to get out and tap any maple trees this past spring then Mrs. Butter's Worth works just fine too!

Enjoy

"Surprise" I'm still here!

I'm back! I've decided I miss writing even if no one reads this, it still feels good to look back at my day or week and let my mind wander beyond the next daily task. Or maybe I feel like this is my only way of communicating with someone who is older than 9. Now since Steve is working out of town and only comes home on the weekends my communication with adults is even more limited. I will now be that annoying woman in the checkout line at the grocery store who tells her entire life story to the cashier because she is so lonely and is happy to have someone to listen to her. Okay, that is really sad, but true.

I am sitting here thinking about how to start my day and what to do first. I would love to just sit and work on my many craft idea's that are floating around in my head. Last weeks project was knitting each of the kids a hat and embellishing them with crochet flowers which thanks to the internet I taught myself how to do. I will post a picture as soon as I can get my 4 kids to sit still and cooperated long enough for me to take that picture. This weeks project is creating hair bows for my girls because I have a picture appointment for the kids next week so I thought I would tie their outfits all together with matching hair bows.

Okay that is all for now. I am going to work on getting that picture.

Everyone's Invited To.....

A Night of Sweets

I am a hosting a Pampered Chef Cooking Show at my house , and I want you to join in the fun!

At the show I will prepare a wonderful recipe using many great Pampered Chef tools. We will all get to enjoy the recipe along with other sweet delicious recipes. Plus we get to know one another while we shop… and eat!

Bring a friend too. The more the merrier! You will receive a prize.

I will be doing a few drawings throughout the show to give away some great Pampered Chef products. And best of all I will be drawing the name of one lucky person who will receive all of the host benefits for the show, which includes: free and discounted products, half price products, 10 % off for a year, monthly host specials up to 60% off and free shipping!

Please come you might be the lucky person who goes home with lots of new Pampered Chef things.

Date: August 6^th 2009

Time: 6:30pm

Place: My House (call and I will give you directions)

If you are able to make it please call me at (920) 831-0977 or email me at palmer.laura @att.net If you aren’t able to come and would like a catalog or to hear about some upcoming specials , just let me know.

Preview the catalog at www. Pamperedchef.com

4th of July Weekend

Just wanted to quickly post some pictures from last weekend. We had a great time with 4th of July festivities and a visit from Uncle John and Aunt Lindsey (or as Gray would say "Uncle Don and Aunt Lizzy").

We had a great fun filled weekend. This week we are enjoying Lifest down in Oshkosh this weekend so hopefully this week I will get lots pictures of that up.