Thursday, December 26, 2013

Cat Thursday (20)

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Enjoy! Hosted by Michelle of The True Book Addict.



I've been pretty behind this month on everything including my Cat Thursday posts. But I have one last Christmas cat....

It only takes about 3 minutes of your time. Enjoy!




Friday, December 20, 2013

Gabe and I Are Sick

It's been a tough week and a half with croup and flu. Gabe missed this whole week of preschool and now I am coming down with something. So thus no posts for awhile. Hopefully I'll feel up to posting after Christmas.

Everyone, have a Merry Christmas and Winter Solstice and whatever else this week!

Winter Solstice pic

Gabe sick and Shadow keeping him warm. Poor guy :(

sick is ookie.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Pic-a-day in December (8 & 9) Ornaments and What I'm Reading Now

Pic-a-day 8 (late). Ornaments: we got this one for Gabe his first Christmas with us:)
Gabe's first ornament for his first Christmas


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Reading Alice in Wonderland for the first time ever!

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Pic-a-day in December 6 & 7--Shopping and Something Bright!

Pic-a-day in December 6: shopping :) @cozkester ;)
Went window shopping and thought a Cthulu game sounded pretty fun!


Pic-a-day 7: something bright, Shadow :)
Shadow is a bright spot in our home when she's being cuddly!

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Cat Thursday (19) Christmas Edition!

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Enjoy! Hosted by Michelle of The True Book Addict.



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Pic-a-day (5) The Temperature

Pic-a-day 5 the temperature. It was -2 around 8:45....too cold.


It was actually -2 when I took Gabe to preschool this morning. I wanted to take a picture but my fingers were too frozen! But anything below 70 is really just too cold...

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Pic-a-day (4) Something Joyous

Pic-a-day 4 something Joyous! Gabe having fun in his bath!
Gabe in his bath! He loves it!

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Pic-a-day (3) Something Red

Pic-a-day 3. Something red :)
Something red! Starbucks Christmas Coffees!

Monday, December 2, 2013

Pic-a-day (2) My Favorite Holiday Movie of All-time

My favorite holiday movie of all-time :)  Day two of a pic a day in Dec.
Love this movie!!!!

A Reading Life (6) and Pic a Day in December (1st)

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A Reading Life...hosted by Michelle at The True Book Addict, and also inspired by Lisa at Lit and Life--Life: It Goes On...is a meme where we get to talk about other stuff we're doing in our lives along with reading!


Listening to:

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. A very interesting bit of fan fiction. All about how a genius, aka Harry, makes sense of the magical world of witches and wizards, using the methods of rationality. It's informative, funny, and a bit disturbing all rolled into one. So far there are 98 podcast posts so far and I'm only on 18 or so....

Books Finished:

The Physics of Christmas by Roger Highfield (for my skeptic book club) and You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney. I'll get these reviews up soon! 

Reading:
  • Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
  • Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live by Marlene Zuk

Coming Up:

I have a cookie exchange party this weekend! But....I decided I can't actually cook so I bought a bunch of peppermint bark from Costco instead! lol. Hopefully, no one will be too mad with my laziness. Their peppermint bark is heavenly, so I don't think anyone will complain too much!

I want to make this with devoted hubby and Gabe this week as well:


Watching:

The Blacklist with James Spader. He is amazing! He really carries that show. No offense to the other actors but they just don't have quite his panache.

Homeland. I'm halfway through the first season and I am loving it! All fabulous actors in that one.

Making:

I made some amazing chicken crockpot and potatoes dish for my after Thanksgiving Friendsgiving stravaganza! 

I'll be making homemade ornaments and trying out some Christmas science experiments!

Grateful For:

A wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! We had a chill afternoon with my family up at my sister's place. Then we went to see a few friends and played Cards Against Humanity! (Best game ever, especially while tipsy ;))

The day after Thanksgiving we invited two sets of friends over and their kids and ate yummy pizza, ham and potatoes, chicken and potatoes, and whipped cheesecake, and sipped on yummy mulled wine and hard ciders while playing fantastic board games!

Looking Forward To:

Spending time with family and friends this month and trying out new recipes for drinks, breads, and soups! Watching holiday movies and singing cheesy holiday songs! It's a stressful but very rewarding month and look forward to it every year :)

Pictures:

This tree pic was my view from our couch. I'm trying to do a themed pic of the day all through December and December 1st is Your View Today:


The tree has been trimmed!
Our trimmed tree


Last hike before the cold and snow!
It's been relatively warm for the last couple of weeks so we took our last hike before it snows Tuesday!