memoirs for my daughters

and here is the finished product:

A lot of people have asked me for my granola recipe, I made a video here of how I make it. The video was too big to upload to the site so here is the youtube link to watch it, I can't figure out how to put the next video in this same post so, I'll put the second part in my next post. (I'll get better at this:).

       For the past month and a half we have woken up every single morning with all four in the bed, I actually love sleeping with my kids, well more the idea of it, I had a romantic idea of sleeping cuddling both my kids and waking up and playing in the bed, any mom knows that's not usually how it works.  My eldest slept with me till she was 11 months, and the only reason why I sleep trained her was because I was pregnant and she would wake up every 40 min at night (yes, I timed it) crying and crawling all over me and she wasn't sleeping well. I couldn't bring myself to just leave her crying in her room so someone told me about the method where you go in every few minutes and don't take them out of the crib or pick them up but you pat them and talk to them so they know you are there, you only stay for one minute and start off going in every 2 minutes, then 5 then 7 etc., it worked so well, she cried for like 45 minutes the first night ( I made sure she was extr...

      I'm dedicating this blog to my two daughters, who are now 2 1/2 and 14 months. I've often thought that I would like to read my Moms thoughts and diaries from the time she was raising my sister me and my brother, thankfully now technology makes that much easier.      For a variety of reasons I have found myself very literally a Stay at Home Mom, and when I say stay at home, I mean just that at home, without many possibilities  of going anywhere except for the weekends when my husband is home. I was extremely frustrated and dare I say desperate at first, for me the ideal day would have me up early in the morning with  an hour by hour plan and a long list of things to do and places to be so to be confined to my house is especially difficult, but I have decided to embrace the opportunity to enjoy this time with my daughters and make the most of it. I do enjoy my children, I wanted children for a long time and I do consider them a very special ...