Odds + Ends

**Today marks day 4 of preschool for Finley.  She seems to be adapting to school quite well.  She loves school and looks forward to it everyday.  She loves her backpack and getting her water and snack ready.  She is eager to learn and get started and barely gives me a wave goodbye.  As soon as she see's me when I pick her up, I get a huge hug which is always nice.  However, since preschool started she has been having some accidents.  Like 2 or 3 a day.  It started on Sunday the day before preschool started and has continued.  I am not sure if this is all a big coincidence or not but it's frustrating.  I hope it ends soon or she will start losing privileges + toys.

I, on the otherhand, am hating preschool.  While I am glad she got into a program that is going to help her, I hate that it eats up so much of time.  I am in my car for just over 2 hours every day and that's just the commute - not running errands or going on play dates. I leave my house at 12:17 and get back around 125 or so.  I leave again at 3 and get home anywhere between 415+430.  I have no flow to my day, my routine has been shot, Penelope rarely naps in the time slot that we are home and I feel like I get nothing done.  The only good is that I pick Greg up on my way home from picking Finley up so he can watch the kids while I continue doing the 4 billion other things I have to do.  We take turns making supper.  I am really struggling with this.  I hope it gets better.

Mother Nature sure is a cruel woman.  After a beautiful December and start of January she hits us with this disgustingly cold weather.  It's insanely cold.  I hate cold weather and everytime it gets like this I think that it's a good idea to put in a transfer to their California office.  I could really get used to living in sunshine although which is worse freezing weather like we're having or wild fires + earthquakes?  The answer I think depends on the day.  Thankfully the end appears to be in site!!

I started making greeting cards as a hobby last year.  I was doing really well and now not so much.  I still have to make 3 cards from December and 2 for this month plus Valentine's.  I am not sure how I fell so far behind.  I am hoping to sit down this afternoon while Finley is at school and Penelope's napping (fingers crossed) and get the brunt of them done.  My deepest apologies to those that haven't gotten birthday cards yet but I am working on it.  Better late than never right???   Plus I have to use all the cool things that my MIL got me for Christmas!!!  Wish me luck friends!

Does anybody watch Revenge?  It is on ABC on Wednesday's.  I love this show.  When it first started in the fall, I couldn't wait for the next episode - the anticipation was so great.  It waned a little bit in Dec but it appears to be back this month.  The show infuriates me to no end sometimes and last night was so different.  Seriously I wanted to go through the TV and strangle Daniel with my barehands.  He is so stupid I have no idea how he would even get into business school.....anyways you should check it out because it is really good.  Greg laughs at me all the time because of how I get!

I decided that we have WAY too much stuff in our house.  Stuff I haven't used in  years but still can't throw out.  So I posted it on a bunch of South Calgary buy n sell groups on facebook and have sold a ton of stuff.  i sold all of my old dress clothes.  I see no point in keeping them as i don't ever wear them + when i go back to work once Penelope is in school these clothes will be so outdated so I might as well get rid of them while I can.  I have sold our crib, change table, tons of clothes + toys.  I am even going through boxes of decor that i want to get rid of.  One of my new years resolutions is to simplify and so far I am on to a good start.

Another one of my resolutions was to start running again.  I ran twice last week and I did really well considering I haven't ran in a year.  No joke.  I went to enter my data in the running log that Greg for me and it was exactly a year from the last time.  I haven't ran at all this week for no reason other than laziness.  Although I am still trying to adapt to my new routine and have been busy trying to get my house back in order and getting stuff ready to sell.  Hopefully I can get in a run tonight and tmw morning before I head off for the weekend.  Does anybody have any good running music that works for them?  I love music that I can sing to - any genre.  I will share my favourites in another post.

I gave up pop in November and so far it is going well.  I was ADDICTED to coca cola.  No lie.  I was.  I wanted it all the time.  It wasn't the caffeine but the sweet syrupy flavour that i wanted.  So I quit it.  It was tough the first few weeks but I persevered.  I no longer crave pop and can have a glass here and there.  i mostly drink 7-up and the odd coke but now i can drink it and not need to drink another right after.  I find I drink alot more tea now that I don't drink pop.  I have had a hard time finding one I really like though.  Does anybody have any recommendations?  I love green tea but all the ones I buy don't taste very good.  I need more variety that's for sure!

The flooring is finally done!!  Greg finished it on Sunday.  All we have left is Baseboards which is beyond exciting.  We started these renos the middle of October so it's been a long time coming!  I will blog about it soon!  We also refigured our living room and bought a new piece to go in it.  It makes it more intimate, more closer.  It will be even better once the kids toys are gone but the girls LOVE their diner set.  Lowes was here to put in the new carpet on our stairs but they screwed up on the top piece.  They came out to look at it last week and we haven't heard from them since.  I am not very happy with them at the moment.  but other than that the carpet does look great.  We plan on tiling the bathroom and laundry on the main floor but that won't be for a while yet.  I also plan on painting the bathroom on the main floor and the bottom part of Finley's room but that's not immediate.