February 2011 Roundup

(Did anyone else notice last month I put January 2010? No. Neither did I til today LOL)

(The idea & questions for my round up come from Katie the Scrapbook Lady.)

What books and/or magazines did I read this month? Nothing for myself. Lots of books for Miss K.

What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month?
TV – Law & Order, Bones, NCIS, Holmes Inspection, Glee, Time Team, Spartacus Gods of the arena , Mythbusters, Moonlight
Movies – Dragonlance

What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends? Birthday dinner for Miss K with my parents & the inlaws. Birthday party for Miss K

What gifts did I give and/or receive?
Gave – clothes and some toys to Miss K.
Received – a box of choccies.

What special or unusual purchases did I make? Spent lots on Miss K.

What illnesses or health concerns did I have? None.

What were my accomplishments this month? Organising two parties.

What were my disappointments this month? Struggling to keep up with AJC & LYM logbook challenges

How did I do on my goals for the month? (Or any current short or long term goals) Journaled everyday; took heaps of photos; got a couple of days scrapping with mum.

Anything else noteworthy to include? Mum still not 100% but the doctors are looking into it.

Tasks to do

Back up all digital pictures. Format memory cards. Sort all February photos into 2011 folder. Make a backup copy of the photos onto my desktop computer and EHD. Burn off 2010 DVD. DONE
Backup any other documents or files as needed. DONE
Backup my blogs. DONE
Clean off my work area, empty my inbox, and clean up my computer files. DONE

Goals for March
Journal every day. Note to self – Print out LYM 2011 logbook pages for March
Take more photos
Finish off Journal Your Christmas album
Try to get at least one day with mum scrapping
Work more on my art journal
Work out a plan for what type of classes I want to take this year .

As of 1 March I am aiming to

Start Flylady again. Will do each Babystep for 7 days before moving on to the next.
Move Miss K into her own room. I want our room back lol
Drink more water. Exercise more. Use Spark People.

Kids and TV

This blog post over at Three Little Princesses made me chuckle.

But it is true. The first time Miss K saw Dorothy she bawled until I changed the channel, same with In the Night Garden. We also said we’d never have anything Wiggles or Hi-5 in our house. Well we’re doing pretty good with Hi-5 but the Wiggles, not so much. Fortunately not on TV yet. And then there is Dora the Explorer, don’t get me started on that one. Miss K really hasn’t shown any interest.

She does, however enjoy Star Wars, Star Trek, AFL and will sit and watch The History Channel with her dad.

What do your kids enjoy? What do they hate?

Some of my favourite …

Since joining Aussie Mummy Bloggers I’ve found some great new blogs. I thought I’d use my post today to share with you a few of my favourites (in no particular order).

Lori @ Random Ramblings of a SAHM I found Lori’s blog when Miss K was about 6 months & I love her style of writing. She’s going thru a really tough a really tough time atm but I for one am glad she is blogging about it all cause it is a topic that isn’t discussed enough. If u read this Lori *huge hugs* from a semi anonymous reader. U have more strength than u know & u r an inspiration.
Kelley @ Magneto Bold Too. Kelley is just AWESOME. I’ve been a reader of her blog for AGES. She rocks the Parties of Awesome, and some gorgeous shoes.
Toni @ Chick Chat. Toni & I ‘knew’ each other a few years ago on a scrapbooking forum so it’s nice to ‘catch up’ again.
Liz @ lizosaurus. Just found her but she loves cats. Enough said. Cats rule!
Jodie @ Muddled Up Mumma. Another recent find but a great read.
Kate @ Picklebums. I ‘know’ Kate from the digi-scrapping world. Love reading her blog

hmm I could go on. But I will stop there Winking smile (honestly I got side-tracked reading blogs again LOL)

Do you have a favourite Mummy blogger? Link me up so I can add to my ever growing blog list

Miss K. Turns one

(or the story of two parties and a car accident)
Wednesday was Miss K’s first birthday. We decided to have 2 parties for her – one with us and the grandparents and another for family and a couple of friends.

The first party was on the Wednesday, which turned out to be a rather eventful day. We went to town to pick up the last of the presents, decorations for Saturday and a few other bits and pieces. Pretty uneventful. Coming home and we get sideswiped by a truck, pushing us into the gutter. Fortunately it was not on the side Miss K was on, we were all fine and it was minor damage to the car (we’ll b getting a door replaced).
Onto more happier things – the first party.
The menu included prawn cocktails and garlic bread, then roast lamb and roast veggies, then creme caramel and caramel oranges for dessert. We had drinks & cake after that.

Butter cake with pink butter cream frosting (yummo) Want the recipe? You can grab it at Taste.com.au
Miss K was spoiled with lots of new clothes and some new toys.

Fast forward to Saturday… and it was pouring with rain… all day! But we had a great day. We got to Mum & Dad’s bout 10ish and set up all the decorations & finished cooking food.

How good does that spread of food look? I can tell you it was yummo and there was hardly any left.
Miss K got even more spoiled with heaps of clothes and some new toys.

Chocolate cake with chocolate or vanilla cupcakes (both with butter cream frosting)

We got home bout 7ish and Miss K flaked it about 8. Poor little mite was stuffed but had a great day. Now to start planning for her 2nd birthday (not really LOL)

Building a better blog – Day 1

So I mentioned yesterday I had signed up for the Aussie Mummy Bloggers 31 days to build a better blog group & today is Day 1. And I’m struggling already.

Our first task was to write an elevator pitch – selling ourselves & our blog. What our blog is about? Who’s the audience?

The idea is to have a short and sharp piece that you can say about yourself when the opportunity arises…The goal is both to communicate what you do and entice the person receiving your pitch to want to know more….Knowing what your blog is about helps you in developing every aspect of it. (Thanks Louisa)

Writing the tagline for the blog was easy – Love, Life, Parenting and Scrapping. Sums up what this blog is all about really. Expanding that I found a bit harder but here is what I came up with

Why Nightwolf’s Den, and what’s it all about? Well my online alias has always been Nightwolf & I see this little corner of the web as my Den and it’s all about Love, Life, Parenting and Scrapbooking.
My blog originally started as a way to share one of the loves of my life – crafting (specifically scrapbooking), then it grew to include snippets of my mundane life. Around June 2009, the Den expanded and as we prepared to welcome Miss K, the wolflet, it became a bit of a mummy-to-be blog. Now it’s a bit of everything.

So that’s what you’ll find here Love, Life, Parenting & Scrapbooking.

Not sure if I’m happy with this so I’m throwing it open to suggestions. I do have an About Me page but it really needs freshening up so I’ think I’ll combine the two somehow. Something to think bout I guess.

Some random shares

I’ve signed up over at Aussie Mummy Bloggers. I’m joining a group there who are taking the 31 days to a build a better blog challenge.

I’ve managed to get some paper scrapping done. Creating pages for Miss K’s albums.

Been busy checking out the wonderful posts over at Scrapping Shoebox. The team are very creative & I can’t wait to se what they come up with next.

Happy mail, creating & something to read

Today I got some gorgeous happy mail.

This

how I love SJ & her gorgeous Little Musings.

and this

(plus a couple of other colours) Look for some projects with it coming soon. How I love me glittery goodness.

I’ve been busy creating. Managed to get some paper scrapping done last weekend (no pictures yet – I didn’t take any photos). Some more digi pages.

and invites and a banner for Miss K’s first birthday (which is next Wednesday!!!!)

(Will share more about Miss K’s birthday later)

and finally something everyone, but especially men, should read.

January 2010 roundup

Hmm February is here already! 15 more days & my little baby is one!!

(The idea & questions for my round up come from Katie the Scrapbook Lady.)

What books and/or magazines did I read this month? That’s What I’m talking about by Shane Crawford; Baby-led Weaning by Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett

What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month?
TV – Law & Order, Bones, NCIS, Holmes Inspection, Glee, Time Team, Spartacus Gods of the arena
Movies – Despicable Me

What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends? lots of BBQs. Out to the Star Bar with friends from Melbourne.

What gifts did I give and/or receive?
Gave – Band of Brothers DVD to Dad.
Received – a new Pandora charm from Miss K, clothes, orchids, stuff for kitchen, framed print of Miss K, an Xbox 360.

What special or unusual purchases did I make? Didn’t buy anything special this month.

What illnesses or health concerns did I have? I’ve been having lots of blood noses because of the weather changes.

What were my accomplishments this month? completing all the LYM logbook challenges for January.

What were my disappointments this month? Struggling to keep up with AJC

How did I do on my goals for the month? (Or any current short or long term goals) Managed to journal everyday. Have completed a full month for P365. Took HEAPS of photos. Haven’t had a day scrapping with Mum.

Anything else noteworthy to include? Mum still not 100% but the doctors are looking into it.

Tasks to do

Back up all digital pictures. Format memory cards. Sort all January photos into 2011 folder. Make a backup copy of the photos onto my desktop computer and EHD. Burn off 2010 DVD. DONE
Backup any other documents or files as needed. DONE
Backup my blogs. DONE
Clean off my work area, empty my inbox, and clean up my computer files. DONE

Goals for February
Journal every day. Note to self – Print out LYM 2011 logbook pages for February
Take more photos
Finish off Journal Your Christmas album
Try to get at least one day with mum scrapping
Work more on my art journal
Work out a plan for what type of classes I want to take this year

Birthday goodness

So Friday I turned 33 21 18 ROFL.

Had an awesome day. Got up at 6am cause little Miss K decided I should be up & awake. Went to town and did a little shopping. Went out for lunch at Steve’s Grill with hubby, bub, my parents & the in laws.

If you live in Launceston, you should go to Steve’s Grill. I had a smoked salmon Caesar salad – OMG it was YUM! Hubby had the king steak and couldn’t finish it but it was perfectly cooked. All the meals we had were super yum & super reasonably priced.

From there we went to Myer to pick up the Pixi Fotos we had done of bub. Gorgeous!

Hehe how photogenic is she? This is one of my favourites. A model in the making, don’t u think?

After that I went to the docs – won’t bore u with the details but I’m fine Open-mouthed smile

Then home for tea – Honey chicken YUM

Bub gave me this

hubby gave me this

and I’m getting one of these (just waiting on it to come in) – the 250gb one not the 4gb one

with this (& a few other games)

so I can get all fit or something LOL

We had a BBQ on Saturday which was nice. I got a little sunburnt on the shoulders. Miss K had a ball in a paddling pool

Today was lovely. Spent the day at home and just watched TV & surfed the net.

Oh yeah, the Scrapping Shoebox Contributors have been announced.

I needed to read this

Don’t let anybody should on you

A must read for any new (or semi new) mummas

Off to get some food ready for tea then I plan on heading out to soak up some restoring full moon rays tonight.