Happy Homemaker Monday

Happy Monday to you lovely Peeps!

I hope your week is starting with sunshine, smiles, good caffeine, and anything else you need to be off on the right foot. 😉

I'm a little late to work on this today as I was at the oral surgeon's office with Annie and she had her wisdom teeth out this morning. Yep, there goes all her wisdom. 😂 (I wonder where that expression ever came from?) Anyway, thank you Lord 🙏🏻 everything went very smoothly and now the patient is resting and nurse Mom is on the job!

I hope you had a lovely weekend. We had a lot of fun with the kiddos before Kristopher had to head back to FL - including playing lots of games (we covered them all: board, lawn and video ones) and we had a fire on the deck, roasted s'mores, and played some mini golf. We had such a good time!

Then Matt and I also got in some church time, ran errands, did more yard work and I planted my garden (finally) and the rest of my flowers.Yay!! Now onto the week ahead...

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

ON THE BREAKFAST PLATE THIS MORNING:

iced coffee was all I had before we headed out

ON MY TO DO LIST THIS WEEK:

nurse my Annie patient, projects that will be future gifts, final Spring cleaning jobs, potential errands, Father's Day bbq planning, hospice work

THINKING ABOUT:  

the craft projects I want to complete

 

THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY:

knowing my kiddos want Mom above all when they don't feel well fills my heart💗

CURRENTLY READING

Summer magazines, now sure what book I'll do next yet.

ON THE TV TODAY:

 Americas Got Talent, Jeopardy, TWD catch up, Vacation House Rules & Castle Impossible (HGTV), The Last of Us, Destination X (have it taped but haven't watched yet to see if we like it), And Just Like That, we started watching Stick on Apple TV

ON THE MENU THIS WEEK:

    MONDAY - my Gram's chickie chip casserole & veggies +dip

TUESDAY - creamy dill salad kit with grilled chicken

WEDNESDAY - sweet & sour meatballs over cauliflower rice

THURSDAY -  leftovers

FRIDAY - out for dinner?

*the patient at the start of this week will be having jello, yogurts, puddings, mashed potatoes and soft pasta 

TO RELAX THIS WEEK I WILL:

work on projects, read

TIPS OR SOMETHING TO SHARE:

FROM THE CAMERA:

I wanted to share these pics from when I was up at hospice last week because I thought it was so sweet and poignant. A couple that was getting married decided to do an impromptu wedding up at the facility last week because the groom's Mom was on hospice and didn't have a lot of time. So staff and family were working on the event when I was up there and pulling it together to happen later that day (there is a little chapel up there). So sad, but incredibly meaningful. 

Veggies and herbs are planted. As well as the rest of the flowers. And so of course...the fairies have returned as well. 😍🌸

Fresh flowers mixed with herbs and an iced coffee to start the day - does it get better than that? :) 

Loved time with these 2 kiddos so much!! 

The sweetest tiniest baby bunny came out to say hi the other day. The dandelions were taller than it was. So cute!!

I love the glow at night time and think it's so pretty ✨

PRAYER LIST:

 For an end to the conflicts all over the world and anyone living in war & fear. For peace and unity in this country, especially from hate and shootings or violence.  For anyone sick, suffering, in pain, fear, loneliness etc ... that God bring them comfort and peace. For all the division and chaos going on in this country. 

For Christ's Light and Love to cast out the darkness everywhere and help the world find its way. 🙏🏻

PRAYER, INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE OR DEVOTIONAL:

May all of your tomorrows be blessed dear Friends. I treasure your visits always. 

I'm sharing this with Sandra of Diary of a SAHM for Happy Homemaker Monday.

Vintage Charm Party: Grandma Scrapbook Made With Love

 Happy Wednesday Friends! And welcome to this month of sunshine, flowers and all the promise of summer to come. I hope you're already sipping some lemonade or sweet tea and easing into the lazy days mindset. 

In getting ready for summer's goodness Ruby got her haircut and looked so cute with her little bumblebees. But going to the salon takes a lot out of a girl...so a nap immediately followed. Pretty adorable isn't she?

And speaking of adorable and summer...I need to get the rest of my flower pots planted so I can use this new sleepy fairy and gate I found when out treasure hunting. Any excuse to dig in the dirt some more works for me. It's definitely a favorite past time!

But on to the main reason I'm posting today and that is to share this sweet album I just finished for my Bestie Mrs. C. She became a grandma for the first time recently with her granddaughter, Thea. So I wanted to make a little something special for her with such a big milestone. 

She loves paper ephemera kinds of things too and so I thought how about going old school and making her a scrapbooked brag book. I know everything is on our phone nowadays. But I thought how lovely it might be to have a small decorated album that can be a keepsake too. It's something where she can easily slide new photos in and out of the page's protective sleeves as Thea grows and changes. And then once she has favorites she can stick those baby photos in to keep and it will be a keepsake. 

This is the cover and the spine with sweet little gold flowers on them:

I found a pack of sweet floral papers and used them, along with some precious baby related stickers. Here are pages if you'd like to see them... along with some sweet details highlighted bigger for you. The first page will have a little white box like the one I edited on the pic to give you an idea. It will include Thea's name, birthdate and weight & size. That's the last detail I need to do. I had a few pics on my phone Mrs. C sent me, so I printed them up with my Canon mini printer and stuck them on for her.

Then for the final page I put this cute Mary Engelbreit print on it with a few more stickers. 

All of our schedules have been so busy, but Mrs C. and I are getting together for lunch soon and I'll surprise her with it. There is talk that I may get to see and snuggle up sweet Thea myself soon! Ooohh I can't wait 😍 The next best thing to having my own grandbaby one day💗

Even though scrapbooks can be considered vintage in today's world - I still love holding tangible memories and creating something out of my imagination in that way. So today I thought I'd share this vintage charm with the Vintage Charm Party held by the lovely blogs My Thrift Store Addiction  and Our Hopeful Home.

Happy Homemaker Monday

Happy Monday Friends ☀️✨

It's going to be a sunny and hot one here today. And our dandelions are going crazy and hopefully the grass will get cut today. 😁 

How was your weekend? We had such a fun one here!! Annie's bf Kristopher has been here visiting and we took them both up to the lake this weekend. We had such a great time playing games all together with Matt's folks. Annie has even said how they feel like step grandparents to her now. Boy does that make Matt's & my hearts want to burst! 

We played games, took the kids into the adorable nearby town to shop and look around and went out to brunch there. We enjoyed sunshine out on the pontoon. And we took the kids out fishing on Matt's fishing boat. It was a Kris request. They caught a bunch of little pan fish and Kris even caught the biggest one which was a bass. Matt and his Dad showed Kris how to clean them too and let him do some (he had requested that too). And when we asked the kiddos about their favorite part of the weekend Kris said it was fishing for him. Matt felt like a proud step Dad about that - it was all pretty darn cute. 

We got back home last night and we have some fun things planned this week before Kris heads back home. My Dad and step Mom just got back into town from AZ (they live there over half the year), so one night will include fun with them too. 

Yay for almost true summertime and all the fun things ahead! 💛

THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:

ON THE BREAKFAST PLATE THIS MORNING:

ice coffee, protein banana yogurt with some granola

ON MY TO DO LIST THIS WEEK:

errands, groceries, get flowers & veggies to plant & get digging in the dirt, other home projects, fun days with Annie & Kristopher, bring my Mom some things, hospice work

THINKING ABOUT:  

making the plans for this week and the fun things we still want to fit in

 

THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY:

sitting around a table with loved ones, playing games and teasing each other to the point of belly laughing over something

CURRENTLY READING

Kind of reading a couple of the same things right now, as well as some summer magazines.

ON THE TV TODAY:

 Americas Got Talent, Jeopardy(& Masters), TWD catch up,  Call the Midwife, Vacation House Rules & Castle Impossible (HGTV), The Last of Us, Destination X, And Just Like That 

ON THE MENU THIS WEEK:

    MONDAY - cheese tortellini per Annie request, veggie & garlic bread

TUESDAY - 

WEDNESDAY -

THURSDAY -  

FRIDAY - 

*not sure about meals yet due to need to schedule family get together, and fun nights out the kids want to do. We may grill out again one night. Also maybe do breakfast for dinner one night (Annie's request) As well as go out to some more places too. Get in some yard games here. Mini golf. Have a fire in the firepit on the deck and do s'mores etc

TO RELAX THIS WEEK I WILL:

have fun with the kids, read, work on the yard

TIPS OR SOMETHING TO SHARE:

FROM THE CAMERA:

We have some attached garages and we have a shed out back. There was so many old things in the shed from previous life and Matt and I had been meaning to get rid of quite a few things around here - especially since he moved in here officially a few years ago. We finally had a garbage company come with a big trailer and we donated some things and got rid of so many things. Now the shed is almost bare compared to how it was and Matt is excited to make it his own and has organized it so much already. :) 

I have a crazy story about this momma deer. Remember when she was here with her fawn last week? Well this morning I let Ruby out as I do every morning and I didn't know momma was out on the hill and Ruby chased her into the woods. Then Ruby came back to do her business and I see the momma come back out of the woods and just stare at Ruby. I'm assuming at this point the baby is somewhere in the woods and momma is protecting the territory. So I go out on the deck to get Ruby to come into the house and the momma kind of runs and charges at Ruby! I finally get Ruby to come up to the door and when I open it Bubbba runs out! Which he doesn't normally do - I'm like what the heck is going on around here? And he runs down the deck onto the cement area in back. I get Ruby secure in the house and go back to get Bubba and momma deer had run all the way back and was now staring Bubba down. I think that freaked Bubba out, as when I called him to come to me he came running right back up on the deck. So I got both pets in the house and go look out the window and momma was staring in at me and stayed that way for 10 minutes!! She wanted to be sure no one was going to come back out to get near her baby. Lol Geesh. So I'll have to keep an extra eye on Ruby when I let her out for a while. What a wild ride to begin the day. 

see what I mean by all the dandelions?

It was such a fun weekend with the kiddos

baked up my homemade chocolate chippers for the weekend

💗💗

PRAYER LIST:

 For an end to the conflicts all over the world and anyone living in war & fear. For peace and unity in this country, especially from hate and shootings or violence.  For anyone sick, suffering, in pain, fear, loneliness etc ... that God bring them comfort and peace. 

For Christ's Light and Love to cast out the darkness everywhere and help the world find its way. 🙏🏻

PRAYER, INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE OR DEVOTIONAL:

I hope you have an amazing week ahead! 

I'm sharing this with Sandra of Diary of a SAHM for Happy Homemaker Monday.