When I posted about the buttons I put on my Fair Isle Cardigan for baby #2 here, I mentioned that I used buttons from a gigantic button jar that my Mom had given me. My Mom, being an awesome mother, reads my blog and she brought up the button jar when we next talked on the phone. {…Continue Reading}
At the end of August, we rented a cottage on the shore of Lake Huron (that’s the eastern side of the lower peninsula for those of you not up on your Great Lakes geography). Sort of a family of three babymoon in recognition that our family will soon be undergoing some drastic changes when baby #2 {…Continue Reading}
Arden had her first day of preschool today! Her daycare begins the preschool program at 30 months, and Arden reached this milestone exactly in time to begin with the new school year. I’m not sure what’s up with the funny walk and faces – she’s been into walking “like a ladybug” lately. I guess she’ll {…Continue Reading}
Today is the 1st Blogiversary of A Jennuine Life. Where has the time gone? I thought I’d take this week to re-share my first post and some of my early projects, but edit the photos better and update any changes that have occurred. Sort of a best of (or worst – since I was still {…Continue Reading}
Arden has begun singing quite a bit lately. She sings herself to sleep – we get to listen over the monitor and it’s so sweet… she serenades me with the same line of “Jingle Bells” over and over on the drive into daycare in the mornings… and now Dave has her singing the blues while they {…Continue Reading}
Arden’s pillowcase was dirty, so I went to the linen closet to grab another and spotted one of the cases my Grannie had embroidered. I thought this pink one would be perfect on her bed and it was! Charlie the tiny Teddy bear agrees! Does anybody actually hand embroider borders on pillowcases anymore? I think {…Continue Reading}
After bath, I always put lotion all over Arden. Recently she’s become enamored of the process and gets lotion in her little hands and rubs it on her legs. I got to be the lucky recipient of some of her attentions tonight as she rubbed lotion all over my 27 week belly… … and my {…Continue Reading}
We had Arden’s second visit to the dentist this week. I’m not sure what’s going on with the goofy look on my face, but she did awesome! She did super with the hygienist; she really didn’t want to let the Dr. look in her mouth, but she went ahead and did it. She’s got all {…Continue Reading}
Arden helped me bake Daddy’s favorite cookies for Father’s Day – gingersnaps! We didn’t get to spend very much time together on Sunday since Dave was heading to the airport for a business trip, but we had breakfast at Tim Horton’s on the way and I think he got a couple of cookies. The rest {…Continue Reading}
Sorry I’ve been MIA around here. I’ve been busy entertaining my inlaws for the last week and a bit and dealing with erratic weather here in Michigan – 90’s for three days in a row followed by three days of barely 60. That’s Michigan weather for ya’! I mostly entertained Arden and prepared meals while {…Continue Reading}
