this week has been amazing :-) i wish all weeks were this wonderful. it's my last week before school starts - i can NOT believe that on tuesday i'll officially be a real nursing student - who would have ever seen that one coming???
so this week... it has been so busy, but full of good things. last weekend we had two birthday parties, the 5k and our first day of volunteering in our church's learning center - AKA the nursery! monday i had the pleasure of visiting with a sweet friend that i rarely get to see. her hubby is overseas serving our country and so nuggie and i took her and her sweet kiddos dinner. wednesday i party planned with the lovely miss kaila while our bambinos played together. nuggie is really getting "grabby" like wanting to pinch your lips or pull another baby's hair or, uhhh, rip the fur off an innocent little puppy. i worried she'd attack baby h - how do you teach a 10 month old the word GENTLE?? the rest of week has been full of errands, chores and lots of playing! nuggie is growing by leaps and bounds and while i know she didn't really get it, we had our first tea party yesterday :-) this week has been so much fun! we've taken walks and pulled every toy out of her toy boxes. nuggie learned how to open her bottom dresser drawer and had a ball pulling all the clothes out of it. she's such a little ham. we took a trip shopping to get a few school supplies and she had a blast riding around in the cart as usual. she'll be going to a babysitter regularly once classes start, so we also stocked up on a little stash of snacks, sippy cups, diapers and formula to go with her.
as excited as i am about this week, i mean, it's been so stress-free and full of joy spending all this time with my sweet baby girl, i'm starting to get sad about leaving her so much. she'll be in the very best of care when i'm gone. she'll be close to home and playing with other little girls. and her sitter couldn't be a sweeter woman, BUT there's still a little twinge of sadness about leaving her. i've had the great privilege of being with her almost full-time since the day she was born. classes so far have just been part-time, but now i'll be gone four days a week. i'm afraid i'm going to miss something. what if she takes her first step and i'm not there? what if she says her first word and i'm sitting in a lecture? how do working mama's do this?
today we're going to lunch with bub. we've got a going away party saturday night for our amazing friends who are starting a new adventure. they will be dearly missed, but we'll be celebrating them!! grandpa is visiting - we haven't seen him in month - he won't believe how big nuggie has gotten! and i'm making home made fish sticks - that's right, i'm just that cool :-P i've tried to tackle a few organization projects around the house that i've put off, but wanted to get done before life gets crazy. one of them was creating a recipe binder. i've got so many recipes scribbled on scratch paper or torn out of magazines. i totally and completely stole this idea from the amazing miss k (shout out to her, what, what!) but i took an old 3 ring binder i had and found a box of sheet protectors when i was cleaning out the desk and got all the recipes put away. some i need to type out - so i'm still working on that - but it allowed me to toss a huge pile of unused recipe cards and cooking magazines that were piling up around the kitchen. all that to say - i found a recipe for HEALTHY, home made fish sticks. i am a sucker for uh, comfort foods i guess you could say? mac n' cheese, hot dogs, fish sticks, tater tots - i love them all. but i do not love what they do to my rear end - so we'll give these healthy options a whirl :-)
ok, i've rambled enough. happy friday friends!
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