Crafty Christmas - Day 2

The Wreath- I think a house is complete for the holidays with a wreath. There are so many CUTE wreaths out there. One of my personal favorites is this one

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Is that not just the CUTEST?  It would be so easy to make. I see those wreaths at the thrift store and yards sales all the time, usually with some UGLY flowers on them. I am sure you have an extra scarf around the house and even some spray paint to spray the fellow white!

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This one I do like but am not sure if it is because I REALLY like the door color or the actual wreath!


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As always please send me a picture of the wreath on your door at email. I will post the pics on this post.

Crafty Christmas - Day 1

December is upon us and Christmas is just around the corner. I can hardly believe this year is almost over! I struggle with buying Christmas gifts in advance. I am really not sure why it makes much more sense than stressing at the last minute. I love crafty things. I LOVE blogs! I wanted to share some inexpensive but heartfelt holiday gifts, decorations and clothing ideas. The first is the advent calendar. One of my very favorite blogs, My Insanity,  featured some advent calendars on her blog recently.  Please show her some love and go look at the advent calendar HERE.  I love the one that you read a scripture each day that tells the true meaning of Christmas! I have not got myself THAT organized yet to make the tree but I may just read the scripture each to the girls! She has many other ideas on her blog of gifts and ideas for each holiday. Let me know what you think and if you make an advent calendar. I would love to see them!

Announcement:

This is going to be a some what frugal crafty Christmas at Steiger Place this year. I am sure there are others who are in a similar situation. I have come across many adorable and cheaply priced ideas for gifts this year and would love to share them with my friends! I love to create things, sew, knit, paint ect. I finally have the "time" to do it now! I hope some of these ideas can help you out! Posts will begin December 1, 2011.

Thanksgiving Vacation Recap

As you may know every year my family travels to the outer bank of North Carolina. this year was no different. Even though I am still unemployed we had paid for the house before hand so just had to bring some food which I would have to have if we stayed home. This was Molly's first visit to the beach. I think she really liked the sand. She would roll over to the edge of the blanket and let it run through her fingers. A rather funny story I want to share with you. The older girls had scooters to play with at the beach house. Well this momma decided she was just as cool as her 3 year old. I take her scooter for a spin one morning. Oh my goodness, that was not as easy as I thought it would be. I was all wobbles and shakes on that thing. I am sure the handle bar being about knee height had nothing to do with it. Later that day I went out with the girls and gave it another try. I was getting pretty good. Well, I wanted to show off my new found talent to my sister. My sister had made a comment that she should be video taping my "talent". About that time the wheel of the scooter hit the crack in the driveway and stopped completely. I on the other hand did not. I went flying over the handle bars that were only up to my knees landing flat on my face. Well I did miss my face. I was sprawled out, hands, arms and legs straight out. All I could do was laugh at myself. I was slightly scared to see what the damage would be since I skid on my hands and knees a few feet, though I am sure it was only an inch or two. Surprisingly, only a small scratch on my stomach, nothing on my hands or arms. The next day though, I was SORE! I learned my lesson about trying to be a cool, scooter riding mama! We had a lovely Thanksgiving with all the fixin's and I am sure I ate entirely too much! I do have so much to be thankful for!

A very sad day

Today was a day I have been hoping to avoid for more than a week. Today we had to make the difficult decision to put our family dog down. Chase Allen Weston Steiger was his name. Yes our dog had a FULL name! Poor guy started to have seizures and we just new it was time. This was one of the most difficult decisions we have ever made. We know he is no longer in pain and in a much better place but still hurts. So to our sweet puppy dog you will be missed very much!

Preparing to get prepared to start getting ready for vacation.

I am sure the title is going to drive some insane. Well frankly it really does not make much sense but is how I feel when I need to get things ready to go out of town. I feel like I have to make a list of the list of things I need then make each list. I have a list for meals and food for the meals and snacks, a list of clothes, a list of baby/toddler items and a list of just other stuff. Of course most of these lists are in my head then get widdled down to what I really need and that goes on a master list. A master packing list if you will. We are going to spend Thanksgiving on the Outer Banks with my family. We have done this every year since Clyde and I have been married except for one. We were all miserable that year so we all promised not to do that again. My sister and I typically work together to prepare a menu for the week and are getting very good at perfecting not having too much food. We then split of the shopping list between us, our mother and grandmother. With FIVE little ones this year we do not want to be cooking all the day. We have thrift stores to visit you now! I am making as much food as possible before we leave for the beach. I recommend doing as much cooking as possible before you leave for vacation. I typically carry dry foods in a box and cold foods in the cooler. I will pick up items on sale that we always need when we are on vacation, like stuffing, chips, dip, crackers, ect. So I have my "box" in the laundry room collecting items until we leave. Frozen food go into a bag in the freezer so they all stay together and nothing gets left behind. The rest of this week I will collect the food items that I still need to collect and probably make one more dish before we leave!

Catch up!

Man, I sure have been busy lately. Though I am not sure doing what? Certainly NOT cleaning my house. Monday, the girls went trick or treat and to the Fall Festival at our church. Lillian had a BLAST! Molly enjoyed the ride! Over the weekend we scored a nice double stroller for $25 so that made walking to church with both girls much easier. Without further ado...Fancy Nancy and a Kitty Cat!

What I am loving right now.

There are so many things that I am loving right now in my life. The main thing is my beautiful, adorable girls.

Lovely and wonderful pictures were taking by a good buddy of mine, Leslie.

I am up to my eyeballs on Halloween costumes. We will have a Fancy Nancy and a kitty cat! Very cute if I do say so myself!

I will be putting the finishing touches on their costumes this weekend!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Now what?

It has been two weeks now since I received "the news". Now what? I am not sure how to define myself now. Am I unemployed? a stay at home mom? housewife? home manager? It is hard to define oneself when their role has changed in some ways drastically. I have a long list of things that need to get done around my house, like laundry, dishes, rearranging the girls room. Then there is the list of things I want to do that have been pushed so far back that I am having trouble seeing them. You know the things that make you happy, I love to bake, sew, make crafty things and of course read blogs! Then there are the things that I want to do with my girls...play outside, go for walks, do fun hand print projects. With so many things I want/need to do and then the unknown factor of how long I will be in this position, I find myself not doing too much. I feed the kids, change diapers, change clothes from spit up, cook dinner, do a few dishes, give baths, read stories, tuck into bed. That about sums up my days so far. Am I loving it? Heck ya! So many times while sitting at work I would desperately wish to be home with my girls and even doing the dishes and laundry. So right now in life I am enjoying my family! Something that desperately needed more of my attention for awhile now.

A New Chapter

Well, it has happened the Steiger household has been rocked! Not necessarily in a good way. I was laid off from my job like many Americans these days. I was very shocked and upset when I was told the news. It seemed very surreal while my boss was talking and at some point I am not even sure what he was saying. I cried.....alot that day. I felt like there was big neon sign above my head that said "LAID OFF". I packed up my desk that day and left with a box of stuff. Of course, someone can to the elevator while I was waiting. I wanted to blurb out "I was laid off not fired." But I figured that guy would probably think I was certifiable! At that moment I did think I was certifiable. This was a huge blow to my already fragile self esteem. I always felt inadequet everytime I walked into my office so this was just one more things to pick on the board. After the tears...er fog cleared I started to feel like this happened for a reason. I have been unhappy most of the summer and conteplating looking for something different or feeling like I was being called into a different direction. So I know this was for a reason and I am eager to hear what God wants me to do.

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