I can't believe that it has almost been a year...

I can't believe that it is already going on a year... I don't even think that I have healed yet from losing her... I know they say that life goes on, and it does, but it's moments like I am feeling right now that are sometimes hard to swallow. I went from calling her everyday, to spending as much time that I could with her, to having it all taken away... On March 20, 2010, I was ok with it. I knew that she was better off, and I still do. But it's the earthly things, I guess that I am missing the most right now.

I felt inspired to start another blog a couple of days ago. It is called...

www.inthekitchenwithgranny.blogspot.com

It has a lot of recipes that have come straight out of her recipe box. There are others that I decided to add that have been raved about by family and friends that I have included in that blog aswell. I find that I am having to make a lot of the recipes just so I am able to add a picture to go with each recipe. I think I still have about 7 more pictures to get, and 8 pictures already posted. I am hoping to add more either during the week or weekend, if I have to wait that long.

Today is the day that Clint had to go back to work. The girls and I really enjoyed having so much time with him being home, but then reality sets in. Since I sleep the best when I know that he is here, I am once again back to the mornings of waking up between 4:30-5am in the morning. I look back on our dating days when he was working graveyards 5 days a week, and how I could never go back to that. We tried that the Christmas of 2009, when he worked a second job, and was doing the whole over night shift. I think that I woke up every hour on the hour while he was doing that.

I have a really big day ahead of me, and I am not even leaving the house. My goal for the day is to get as many rooms in the house clean as I can. I am going to try that everyday that I know that I am not going anywhere, is to clean as many rooms in my house as I can. On top of that I need to get laundry done! The doing the laundry part is fine, but when we have so much build up, the putting it away is what I struggle with at times. Pretty pathetic, huh?? I don't even like that I sometimes let myself get into slacking mode. It is like church to me, either you're in it, or you're not, so I either get it clean and keep it that way, or I don't know and wish that I had.

Not sure if it was before, after, or both that I inherited little hair clip things that belonged to Granny, but over the weekend I decided that instead of letting them just sit on a shelf I decided to do something new with them. I learned how to make hair bows! As exciting as that may have been, they aren't the kind of bows that I like that my sister makes, but they were fairly easy to make and so I made up a bunch of them and attached them to the hair clips that I had. Cadence and Chazlyn are begging me everyday now to put at least one in their hair regardless if it matches or not. But I guess that it doesn't hurt to let them wear them around the house and not match!:)

We are trying something different around here, and that is to do grocery shopping 2 times in a months time. So my goal is to make out a grocery list that we are able to utilize for 2 weeks. I already have this week planned out, but need to start preparing for the next 2 upcoming weeks. As we are just starting this, depending on how it pans out for us, we may go to doing grocery shopping once a month. It is just a hassle sometimes with both kids wanting candy and cookies and the list goes on from there, and telling them no, and them having a meltdown! Yikes! So the more time that we spend outside of the grocery store the better!:)