The Makings of a Dunkin Donut Munchkin Lover

We started him early....

and even though it may not look like it from his munching face, he loves them, especially the chocolate munchkins!  

The Quilt That Did Me In.....

Six months plus, of selecting fabric, cutting the fabric, sizing up pieces, piecing the quilt, putting it down because I wanted to add more fabric, taking it apart because I didn't like, trying it again because I thought hey this can work, right, I mean it looks cute right....

so I took a good long look at it from this angle.....

and then from this angle........

and even thought about standing on my head to see if from that angle it would look cute when I realized I needed to throw in the towel with this one.  I clearly wasn't in love with it and I couldn't present it as a gift and expect someone to care for it if I didn't.

So all of this partially pieced quilt will be retiring indefinitely to the dustbin.... 

Lesson learned....contemplating standing on your head will not make a quilt look better, it will just give you a headache. 

Time away was well spent!

Its hard being a working mom.  I want to do everything at once, spend time with my family, give my all to my employer and find some me time to read, relax and just recharge so I let somethings go such as my attempts to blog and lived a little offline....

I took in the Jillian Michaels Maximize Your Life Tour and not only received some wonderful information but I got to spend a night out with a good friend. 

Mi esposo and I are reading to V-Dub who is soaking every little thing in.  Now we are trying, emphasis on the trying, to teach V-dub his numbers and letters.  So far my selections have been good but I fear V-Dub doesn't share my love of Jane Austen which I realized when I presented him with the below book to learn to count...

Yup, the excitement just isn't there.....

Mi esposo and I are voracious readers and are hoping our little Einstein turns into a lover of books too so the next logical step was to bring him to the Library and let him choose. 

It helped that the library has a play area not to mention trains, his greatest love so far, and books on trains to boot, which makes the Library an awesome place to visit.  

We headed over to the park, mostly to exhaust, our kid so that he could have a nap, but at times it reminded me of his birthing story, check out the below and I dare you not to cringe.... HA!

V-Dub had a ball, took a nap and everyone was happy.

We are learning to color using WASHABLE crayons.  The key here future moms out there is washable....you'll see why below.... 

He's getting the hang of it though.  I mean it looks like he was going to color in the lines right.

I spent some quality time with my sister and cousin and revisited my teenage years by watching NKOTB in concert.  "The Remix" is my new favorite song to put on when I'm busting my butt on the treadmill, plus I've gotten a couple other ladies to sing it along with me.  Definitely fun times!

  

 Encouraged more reading time for V-Dub.....

and all around got to spend time with my favorite boys...

Yup, my time was definitely well spent.