It's been a While

So it's a sign you haven't blogged in a while when I go to post, and it's all changed and different! I hate that (facebook!) So hopefully after I write this post I can save an publish it with out it getting deleted (another pet peeve).
So I don't really have anything in particular I was going to blog about, just realizing I love reading others blogs, and get so excited when there is something new to read (I really dont' read that many blogs) that maybe others feel the same and look forward to my mindless Mommie mumblings (ha ha I guess I got some rhyming skills for Christmas)
Sooooo....  what to tell you... ok only because they are at it right now.. Keera and Jett have a hate/hate relationship, man can they push each others buttons!! Jett's just getting to that younger brother bugging age, and Keera takes any little 'bug' to heart and it's a major break down. Uhg some days I think siblings are over rated. I do remember my brother and I going at it pretty good. Heck I bet ALL sibling recall at one time or another really having a hard time loving their siblings. But really SOMEDAYS... ahhhggggg. There are the occasions when they can play nice together, I hope those surface more often!

 ok so I just deleted that whole paragraph up there, don't know how, but thank goodness I could it the back button and it came back, whew, that was a close call!! Hold on while I go "save" this .. ok we're good.

So I finally got that quilt done for my Mom this Christmas, turned out pretty good I think, she was quite happy with it. And of course I forgot to take a picture, but i'm sure she'll take one once she gets back to AZ and gets in on her bed. It feels good to have that project off my table (litterliy). I have a couple other ideas I want to get started on. I think I am done my baking phase and heading in to another sewing phase, which is a good thing! I just need my sewing space back. Right now we are in the process of developing the basement so I have the kitchen table, but that is a pain. Hopefully with in say... 2 weeks??? We'll see :)

So ya, we're doing our basement. I was just feeling the main floor of the house was getting too cramped, it was where we were doing all our living. We have a bonus room, but it's outside the kids rooms so we never really used it. But in prepping for drywall (meaning making room for drywall) we brought all the kids toys upstairs and re-arranged the couch and now.. I LOVE IT, we spend the day up here, it's so nice to have a change of space. We have a small (like 12-14") tv with dvd player we got free from our neighbours and some of the toys (others are in their rooms ) It's actually nice having a small tv as I find it doesn't become the focus of the room, it can be on but the kids often will play with their toys more than watch it. Where as if it's our huge what ever inch TV then it's like a magnet they get drawn in to. So i'm thinking the downstairs will be a bit more a grown up TV area with minimal to no toys (ya!) I have plans to make it a "modern western" theme.

Oh and something we are trying (2 days now) is from 6pm to 7pm no electronics (no tv, ipods, phones, computers ect) it's our family hour. 1st we do our chores (tidy toys, put away laundry if needed, cleaning aprox 20min) then we do a game of some sort. Mon night we did FHE so I taught a mini version of my lesson from Sunday and we made CTR shields. Last night we folded laundry then played a princess matching card game then read 3 stories. I am really enjoying it so far, and the hour actually goes really fast. We are defiantly a family who love their electronics so it's nice to shut them off for a bit and it's also feels good to have some quality time. We have never been great at FHE.. hopefully this will encourage a more consistent effort for it as well.

Well this has gotten pretty long, and well I feel like it's more just a blabbering of me than any specificity post. Oh well.