Saturday, February 11, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Miss A's got a new hat
Such a labor of love to do these every year but I know doing it helps keep Miss A's childhood memories packed to the brim with nothin' but joy, happiness, and whimsy. No matter what my priorities in life giving her memories that she will happily recall is the topmost thing I will always devote myself to.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
The most precious gift I have ever received
Twelve days down of vacation and only four days remaining. My days this round of being a fake SAHM are fast becoming numbered. *sigh*
I maintain the believe that I am definitely not a woman made to be a SAHM and rather a working mom but I'll tell you what, the Lord is certainly doing a job on my heart these days in the way of making me feel as if the only thing I want to do is just spend nothing other than copious amounts of time with Miss A.
I don't know if it's the wonderful age and stage that she is at right now but I just love it so much. She's such a fun little person to be around but even aside from that she really lets me indulge the party of me that will always be a fun-loving and curious little girl.
When I was pregnant and anticipating the arrival of parenthood, a friend of mine told me that there were two types of people - baby people and kid people. They acknowledged the fact that they were kid people more than baby people. When Miss A came along it was a learning curve for me but it didn't keep me from loving her in her infant stage. She moved into her toddlerhood and I thoroughly enjoyed that as well. Now she is a full-fledged little bitty gal of preschool exuberance and I cannot seem to get enough of it.
So am I a baby person or a kid person? Hmmm... I just don't know. I think the most accurate answer would be that I am a Miss A-person. I LOVE Miss A. I LOVE her more than anything and everything ever in the whole wide world. All of her wonder and excitement for the tiniest things in the world that nobody pays any mind to, the silliness that can't help but erupt when she is super delighted and overjoyed over something of the moment, her obsession over all things pink...
I just cannot seem to get enough of any of it. But if there was more anyway there is! There is always ALWAYS (what I like to call) her sweet round little "moon face" with her gorgeous velvety brown eyes.
I could just sit and stare at her for hours and days on end and never notice the time that is passing or I could follow her around for miles just to see the things that make her stop to look and take in.
When people told me that having a little girl, a sweet darling daughter, would change my whole entire world and turn it on its head, I never believed them but only because it was so unfathomable that a love like that could exist. But I'm here now and so is she, my sweet little Miss A, and for all of the Christmas and gift giving occasions that ever could happen to me, she is and will always be the most wonderful gift and blessing I know I will ever receive.
I maintain the believe that I am definitely not a woman made to be a SAHM and rather a working mom but I'll tell you what, the Lord is certainly doing a job on my heart these days in the way of making me feel as if the only thing I want to do is just spend nothing other than copious amounts of time with Miss A.
I don't know if it's the wonderful age and stage that she is at right now but I just love it so much. She's such a fun little person to be around but even aside from that she really lets me indulge the party of me that will always be a fun-loving and curious little girl.
When I was pregnant and anticipating the arrival of parenthood, a friend of mine told me that there were two types of people - baby people and kid people. They acknowledged the fact that they were kid people more than baby people. When Miss A came along it was a learning curve for me but it didn't keep me from loving her in her infant stage. She moved into her toddlerhood and I thoroughly enjoyed that as well. Now she is a full-fledged little bitty gal of preschool exuberance and I cannot seem to get enough of it.
So am I a baby person or a kid person? Hmmm... I just don't know. I think the most accurate answer would be that I am a Miss A-person. I LOVE Miss A. I LOVE her more than anything and everything ever in the whole wide world. All of her wonder and excitement for the tiniest things in the world that nobody pays any mind to, the silliness that can't help but erupt when she is super delighted and overjoyed over something of the moment, her obsession over all things pink...
I just cannot seem to get enough of any of it. But if there was more anyway there is! There is always ALWAYS (what I like to call) her sweet round little "moon face" with her gorgeous velvety brown eyes.
I could just sit and stare at her for hours and days on end and never notice the time that is passing or I could follow her around for miles just to see the things that make her stop to look and take in.
When people told me that having a little girl, a sweet darling daughter, would change my whole entire world and turn it on its head, I never believed them but only because it was so unfathomable that a love like that could exist. But I'm here now and so is she, my sweet little Miss A, and for all of the Christmas and gift giving occasions that ever could happen to me, she is and will always be the most wonderful gift and blessing I know I will ever receive.
Friday, December 23, 2011
I love my fake SAHM days
I suppose in this time of vacation away from working my day job I could do the stuff that real SAHMs do like clean the house and get majorly caught up on the laundry and such things but I'd much rather do things like make mini pizzas, doodle, and be silly with Miss A.
For the record: cleaning and organizing did get done! I've just lost a little steam and motivation because I think I'm burnt out and getting whatever sickness she is trying to get over. :(
For the record: cleaning and organizing did get done! I've just lost a little steam and motivation because I think I'm burnt out and getting whatever sickness she is trying to get over. :(
O Christmas tree!
It would be nothing less than an understatement to say that all of us Ellwoods are anything less than really excited about Christmas this year. Last year was very fun and exciting but this year is the first one that Miss A just "gets" all of the excitement and festivities. Unlike many families, we don't do the Santa Claus thing but we still partake in plenty of other rituals of the Christmas season.
We got our tree up last weekend - a little later than we intended for Miss A's sake - but she was dazzled with the event just the same. Miss A has an ornament on the tree for each of her Christmases and here are the two we have from last year and the year before:
Both ornaments above were handmade - the first one was by me and the second one was made by Miss A with my assistance out of air-dry clay and then painted with tempera paints I had leftover in the studio.
We didn't do a handmade ornament this year (but I think we will return to it next year because I think it adds a little bit of something extra) but this year's ornament WAS handpicked by Miss A herself.
The ornament actually came from what was the first of what we hope will be many annual trips to Hershey Park earlier this year. The cool thing about the ornament is that it has a bit of a story that goes along with it as we snagged it at the end of a day where Miss A rode her first roller coaster (over and over again!) and when the huge rainstorm started and ended up flooding the area where Hershey Park is located. Miss A and I got separated from D when there was mass hysteria when the rain started coming down and Miss A and I sought refuge in the Christmas ornament store just inside of the gates at the park. Funny thing is that it's the only store I told D that I wanted to hit up before we left for the simple fact of getting an ornament to commemorate our trip to the park! Miss A and I were able to stay there long enough to pick out an ornament for her and one for the whole family...
... and then we headed right back into the storm to try and find D and get to our car and get out of there. The rain had come down so quickly that we literally had to both run and wade through standing water and if it sounds like it was chaotic and like mass hysteria then take it that way. I'm not coming even close to overdramatizing it.
It's awesome to look at the ornaments we have and remember the time we had at Hershey Park and I think that's why I like Christmas tree ornaments so very much. I've tried to make a point of getting one any place we travel to but I've done such a bad job at it and I'm going to make a point to do better from here on out.
Miss A has been completely enthralled with all things Christmas and I swear it's because of her that D and I are just that much more excited as well. We've tried our best to make the whole thing as "kid-friendly" as possible by not having it be a situation where she is not allowed to touch things like the Christmas tree or the nativity we put out.
We have a regular nativity set but the one that we are using this year is one I picked up for 50% off last year at Family Christian that is so much more kid friendly than the Willow Tree one that I have and love so very much. I highly recommend the What God wants for Christmas set since it has little boxes that you can open up on days leading up to Christmas until the set it complete which go along with scripture readings of the real story of Christmas. We're trying our best to keep Christ in Christmas the best way we know how and in a way/on a level where Miss A gets it as well.
Hard to believe but we're finally so close to Christmas that tomorrow is Christmas eve but I'm getting so excited that it still feels like it is just a touch too far away!! :) Last evening D took Miss A shopping and she almost spilled the beans to me about what she picked out for her gift to me because she is just so excited. Only one more day for both her (and me) to wait.
We got our tree up last weekend - a little later than we intended for Miss A's sake - but she was dazzled with the event just the same. Miss A has an ornament on the tree for each of her Christmases and here are the two we have from last year and the year before:
Both ornaments above were handmade - the first one was by me and the second one was made by Miss A with my assistance out of air-dry clay and then painted with tempera paints I had leftover in the studio.
We didn't do a handmade ornament this year (but I think we will return to it next year because I think it adds a little bit of something extra) but this year's ornament WAS handpicked by Miss A herself.
The ornament actually came from what was the first of what we hope will be many annual trips to Hershey Park earlier this year. The cool thing about the ornament is that it has a bit of a story that goes along with it as we snagged it at the end of a day where Miss A rode her first roller coaster (over and over again!) and when the huge rainstorm started and ended up flooding the area where Hershey Park is located. Miss A and I got separated from D when there was mass hysteria when the rain started coming down and Miss A and I sought refuge in the Christmas ornament store just inside of the gates at the park. Funny thing is that it's the only store I told D that I wanted to hit up before we left for the simple fact of getting an ornament to commemorate our trip to the park! Miss A and I were able to stay there long enough to pick out an ornament for her and one for the whole family...
... and then we headed right back into the storm to try and find D and get to our car and get out of there. The rain had come down so quickly that we literally had to both run and wade through standing water and if it sounds like it was chaotic and like mass hysteria then take it that way. I'm not coming even close to overdramatizing it.
It's awesome to look at the ornaments we have and remember the time we had at Hershey Park and I think that's why I like Christmas tree ornaments so very much. I've tried to make a point of getting one any place we travel to but I've done such a bad job at it and I'm going to make a point to do better from here on out.
Miss A has been completely enthralled with all things Christmas and I swear it's because of her that D and I are just that much more excited as well. We've tried our best to make the whole thing as "kid-friendly" as possible by not having it be a situation where she is not allowed to touch things like the Christmas tree or the nativity we put out.
We have a regular nativity set but the one that we are using this year is one I picked up for 50% off last year at Family Christian that is so much more kid friendly than the Willow Tree one that I have and love so very much. I highly recommend the What God wants for Christmas set since it has little boxes that you can open up on days leading up to Christmas until the set it complete which go along with scripture readings of the real story of Christmas. We're trying our best to keep Christ in Christmas the best way we know how and in a way/on a level where Miss A gets it as well.
Hard to believe but we're finally so close to Christmas that tomorrow is Christmas eve but I'm getting so excited that it still feels like it is just a touch too far away!! :) Last evening D took Miss A shopping and she almost spilled the beans to me about what she picked out for her gift to me because she is just so excited. Only one more day for both her (and me) to wait.
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