Week in the Life: Monday

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After reading Amber & Stephany’s Week in the Life posts last week, I just knew I wanted to jump on the bandwagon as well! I enjoy doing day in the life posts, but sometimes find they can take more time to put together since I have to remember all the junk I did and what time I did them. I’ll warn you now – I’m sure some days are going to be a little repetitive. Life as a stay-at-home-mom isn’t always exciting and our mornings are generally pretty routine! But – we’ll see how this pans out!

So, without further ado, here’s Monday in a nutshell:

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Morning // Isla wakes me up around 6:45 and I feel like garbage. I had a sore throat yesterday and it has now turned into a full on cold. No idea where I got it. I realize it’s snowing outside but luckily it stops around 8 a.m. After Isla eats her breakfast I put on cartoons for her (Paw Patrol, Curious George & Daniel Tiger), and I read through my Bloglovin feed and start tomorrow’s column for the Armchair Mayor News. After figuring out the direction I want to go with my topic, I hop in the shower and get ready to head to Costco. Before Isla and I head out, I shovel the driveway & sidewalk. (And the sidewalk in front of my neighbour’s house because we have an unspoken agreement to help each other out.) I’ve starving when we get to Costco and only impulse buy one thing – and it wasn’t even the cream puff brownie tower thing I started drooling over in the bakery ;) Once we’re done, Isla and I head home and I lug all the groceries into the house and cook up some perogies for lunch!

Afternoon // Isla finishes her lunch and declares she needs to watch, “Just one episode of Paw Patrol.” (Her exact words!) I decline, she spazzes out but forgets about it 5 minutes later. I eventually get her down for a nap and I finish up my column and email it away. Then it’s time for adult decisions: Package away all the meat I bought at Costco, finish off the Christmas lights outside, or watch Gilmore Girls. I opt to quickly do the lights and then watch Gilmore Girls with a hot cup of tea and a couple of Girl Guide cookies. :) When Isla wakes up from her nap we head down to the basement and she plays in her kitchen while I numb my mind on the XBox. Eventually we head back upstairs and I get started on dinner!

Evening // I make meatloaf and mashed potatoes for dinner and it’s ready to eat when Kyle gets home from dinner. I’m still feeling pretty run down from this damn cold, so I end up just having a toasted tomato sandwich. After dinner, Kyle plays with Isla, so I catch up on this blog post a little bit! I get Isla ready for bed around 8 p.m., and after I read her a story (Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s – her favourite at the moment), it’s lights out and Kyle and I catch up on Canada’s Worst Driver before heading to bed around 10 p.m.

That’s Monday! What did you get up to?

Project 365: November 16-22

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November 16: Red Cup selfie. (Salted caramel mocha, FYI.) ♦ November 17: Gilmore Girls on Netflix while Isla naps. Added bonus: Watching it in bed. ♦ November 18: Prepping the envelopes for this year’s Christmas cards! ♦ November 19: “I need music,” she proclaimed. And then dancing commenced. ♦ November 20: Typical snow dog behaviour. ♦ November 21: Spotted in the real estate section of the newspaper. Sold, sold, sold! ♦ November 22: We had a relaxing Saturday and did some crafting!

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TGIF v.8

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Eating a cookie, being adorable as usual.

 

The high of my week was getting all my Christmas shopping DONE! (With the exception of a few little stocking stuffers for Isla, of course.) I believe this is the earliest I’ve ever finished shopping for Christmas, and I must say, it’s a strange feeling. I also finished writing out all of my Christmas cards and plan to pop them in the mail the first week of December.

The low of my week was no lows this week, really. I’ve been feeling a little under the weather, but I think it’s just the change in weather.

A blog post I loved was this cake recipe shared by Colleen at Lemon Thistle! Seriously – does it not sound delicious?! I’d probably definitely cut back on the garnish, because OMG THE SUGAR, but it sounds like such a fun and yummy cake! (Now, someone needs to have a birthday so I have an excuse to make it. While cake for no reason is always great, cake for a party is much more justified!)

The best money I spent was $7 on a Paw Patrol toy for Isla’s stocking. I’m not even kidding. She looooooves this show and absolutely lost her mind when she saw the big poster for it hanging in Target. We hunted the toys down to “have a look” and while she was playing with one, I snuck another into the cart. She was NOT impressed when I took the one away, but she’ll be pretty happy to see that Santa brought her one!

My favourite Isla moment was not really a favourite, but a pretty big milestone – she can now turn light switches on AND open doors. Now in the mornings she’s been beating me out of bed (at 6:30 a.m., no less) and coming into my room to wish me “Good Morning!” So far I’ve been able to convince her the past three mornings to lay in bed with me until it’s a reasonable time to emerge from the covers, which is nice.

The song that has been stuck in my head is “Cool Kids” by Echosmith. It’s been stuck in my head since Taylor Phelan performed it a couple weeks ago on The Voice and I can’t get it out!

My favourite meal of the week was actually last Friday, but Kyle and I went out for dinner at The Keg to celebrate selling our townhouse, our dating anniversary (a dozen years on November 18th!), and life being awesome in general. We had a gift card, so that made the meal even better! I ordered 1lb of king crab legs and that maaaaay have been a little overkill. My stomach hurt for days afterwards. Oops.

My plans for the weekend are relaxing on Saturday – maybe a Disney movie marathon with Isla? And then Sunday consists of our usual swimming lessons in the morning, followed by putting up our Christmas lights while we still have this “warmer” weather. (It’s currently 0°C and I call that a win!)

What are your plans for the weekend?
Have you been watching The Voice? Who’s your favourite so far this year? (I really like Taylor John Williams on Team Gwen and Luke Wade on Team Pharrell!)