Wordless Wednesday

Lego's

Over the weekend, I purchased Arabella her first Lego set. She picked out a very small set from what appears to be a new line just for girls call "Friends". I love how they are now marketing to both boys and girls...good for them, bad for us parents. Arabella has enough toys to last her a lifetime, but she had a really good week and I figured it was something we could do together. She was so excited and it reminded me of the bins of Lego's my brother used to have. He would play for hours with them and when I told him that Arabella now has a little, tiny set, he was all excited that he gets to play with them again! She had a little trouble putting them together, but then again I did too. Those pieces sure are small! But once it was finished it was adorable and she has been playing with it since we put it together. It is a little swimming pool, lounge chair and a blender/drink (kind of looks like a margarita glass to me!) and a figurine.

Winter Reading

Since I have a break before my Immersion classes start with Institute for Integrative Nutrition, I am going to try and catch up on my pile of reading, in addition to my other projects I have been putting on hold.

I wonder how many of these books I will get through before March 19th when Immersion begins...

Painting Play Date

Last week, we had one of Arabella's friends from school come over for a play date. Ronald and his dad, Bram, joined us for a fun morning of crafts, painting and movies. Arabella loved having Ronald come and spend time at our house. They had so much fun and loved painting the best. We can't wait to do it again!

My Newest Time Waster....

Just in case I needed something else to suck me in, not really, but since I am done with the first part of school and am on a little bit of a break before Immersion starts, I decided to find something else to waste my time. Pintrest...in case you haven't heard of it, check out www.pintrest.com, it is a virtual bulletin board when you can "pin" things you like and then they are put in your created "boards"...a good place to keep them without clogging up your hard drive. I am sure Jay thanks me already. Anyway, I have been sucked into it lately. In addition to all the projects already on my to-do list, I now have more, thanks to Pintrest! You can follow my boards here

I decided to put a few of the recipes I found to the test last weekend when I had a few friends over last weekend. They were all a hit!

I made fresh raspberries stuffed with dark chocolate chips.


Coconut Nutella Cookies


Arabella helped decorate them!

The finished cookies! Delicious!

And I also made mini pretzels with a chocolate drop that I melted and then topped with an M&M. So easy and a great party snack!

Arabella's Artwork

Today, Arabella brought home her art bag from school. We decided to take down the "old" and put up some of her "new" artwork on the bulletin board. I loved how excited she got when she took each piece out of the bag and told me about it. This round of artwork encompassed the themes of winter, safety, hibernation and Valentine's Day!

Winter Beauty

We had snow on Tuesday and then overnight it turned to a light rain. It sounded like cracking glass when you walked on it and when I was shoveling. The light snow underneath made shoveling easy. It was beautiful.

And everything else was covered in a glaze of rain. I love the way it coats nature and makes everything sparkle and shine.

Pure beauty!