tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203751179870255302024-02-19T04:01:11.645-06:00Three Sniders...where it's always 2 minutes past naptime!Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-44837447562185305712013-03-12T10:40:00.002-05:002013-03-12T10:40:57.181-05:00Time Flies When You're Really BusyObviously, from my lack of posting you have figured out that we are just really, really busy these days! <br />
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Yesterday Doug informed me that he would be graduating in exactly 2 months...<span style="color: red;"><b>2 MONTHS!!!!</b></span> And although at times these past four years have felt endless, looking back now it's been a total blur. And this semester (that's how we measure our lives now) has been the craziest of them all! It's the first semester that Doug has totally been on the other side of the desk, so while he's not had midterms to take or exams to study for, he's still really busy studying his content for the classes he is teaching this semester. In the midst of that he's been taking his certification exams (passed them all!) and beginning his job search for this fall. Soon he'll have ordered his cap & gown and in just 8 1/2 short weeks, he'll be crossing that stage to get his degree! (I've really got to start planning that graduation party!)<br />
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In the meantime, Katie and I have been doing our best to keep with him. <br />
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Katie is now attending half-day preschool and she loves it! She's learning so much and being so grown up! She can just about write her name, she makes her own bed (sort of!) and can pretty much dress herself. Definitely not a baby, these days. Makes this Momma just a little bit sad. :(<br />
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As for me, well, I'm here. Doing my best to keep up with all our crazy schedules. I'm glad the days are getting longer. At least now I'm not totally worn out when I put Katie to bed at 8:30. :)Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-59089643463521373372012-10-03T15:00:00.000-05:002012-10-03T15:00:08.917-05:00Our Pin-tastic Afternoon!As I've said many times, I get my best ideas from the internet. Lately, a lot of theses great ideas I find on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>. It's truly my favorite way to waste time after putting Katie to bed. :)<br />
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Today I decided to it was time to dust off some these awesome ideas just hanging out on my boards and try them out for ourselves. Without further ado...Our Pin-Tastic Afternoon!<br />
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First we made Snake Bubbles that were pinnned from this <a href="http://acoupleofcraftaddicts.blogspot.com/2012/04/snake-bubbles.html" target="_blank">this site</a>.
They were awesome! A few things to remember for next time: it
mentions in the original post to cut circles out of your terry cloth to
fit over your bottles. I did not do this and I wish I had because
Katie's bottle got really gross really fast with the excess wash cloth
hanging down. The second thing was that Katie maybe wasn't quite old
enough for this yet at just over 3. She was very impressed by my
bubbles, but got frustrated that she wasn't getting the same results. I
guess I need to come up with a better explanation for how to only blow
out. Still, we had so much fun doing this and I can see us trying it
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When we came back in we decided to break out the play-doh, wiggle eyes and pipe cleaners to make some squishy fun monsters. Here's where I got the idea for <a href="http://www.puttisworld.com/2012/10/play-dough-monsters.html" target="_blank">them</a>. As you can see, this was great fun. I had no idea what Katie would do with all those supplies, but she immediately started sticking eyeballs all over everything! We ended up opening four different cans of play-doh. Fun! In the end, I saved her favorite and the rest were put back into their cans. I left the eyes in for a fun surprise next time! <br />
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From time to time I like to break out the supplies and work on a craft with Katie. We don't do it often enough, so it's a big treat! Today was no exception. :) And I brought out all new tools that she'd never really used before. Want to try this too? Here's what you'll need!<br />
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STEP 1: Punch out LOTS of butterflies!<br />
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Our baby started preschool yesterday! *sniff*</div>
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Also, the Binky Fairy came to our house today, but I think I'll save that post for tomorrow. We've got to make it through the night before I can declare it a success!Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-48754887603318706292012-08-01T21:11:00.001-05:002012-08-01T21:11:38.894-05:00Happy Birthday to Me!I'm dusting off the old blog here for something really exciting! My 32nd birthday! I remember when my mom was 32 and (no offense, Mom!) to me that is a really grown-up age! For some reason buying a house, getting married and having a baby didn't make me feel officially grown-up, but turning 32 does! So here I am an official grown-up and I want to start my year off right. I've made lots of promises to myself about things I'm going to do this year (eat better, read more, exercise, blahblahblah...) and maybe I'll share some of those at some point. Today I'm going to share a photo. I've decided once again to participate in a <a href="http://fatmumslim.com.au/here-it-is-photo-a-day-august-challenge-list/" target="_blank">photo-a-day challenge</a>, but this time only for the the month of August (we'll see how it goes from there.) Today's challenge was "outside." These are the chairs from our work in progress side yard. I got them about 5 years ago for my birthday and I love them! They are getting a little wobbly, but still comfy and I enjoy nothing better than sitting in one on a nice evening watching Katie play. Oh and they are perfect spot for eating popsicles too!
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parties for my little sweetpea! So, it's not surprise that even though I
swore I'd back off and not have a big party this year that I just
couldn't hold myself to that. So yes, even though her birthday is a
full 5 months away, I'm already in full blown planning mode! In saying
that, I realized that I never posted the pictures from her 2nd birthday.
I'm not sure how that happened, other than it coincided with our
<a href="http://dmsnider.blogspot.com/2011/08/bathroom-makeover.html">bathroom remodel</a> last summer and I was too excited about that and forgot
about the party. My parents were able to reserve a shelter at the lake club where they belong for Katie's party, not far from the shelter was playground equipment, so I decided not to plan any games or activities and that worked out well. We won't be holding the party there again this year, sadly. It's just too darn hot in August around here and we really need to have the option of air conditioning. This year, we'll have her party at home for that reason. We can move it outside if it's not too hot. Anyhow, here's a look back at Katie's 2nd Birthday.
Enjoy!
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Favor bags, I loved those adorable pinwheels, I got them on clearance at Hobby Lobby!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When we sang Happy Birthday, she got very shy and covered her eyes..."no peeking!" she said.</td></tr>
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Everyday Katie amazes us. The things that come out of her mouth make me shake my head in disbelief. She's only 2, really? Like on Wednesday when we were watching a DVD and the Count from Sesame Street was on and we talked about how he wore a cape and Katie said "like a vampire?" Uh, yeah...like a vampire. How does she know what a vampire is? Or when we were listening to a nursery rhymes CD and she told me, "That's a twumpet, Momma" and sure enough, it was! Okay, I'll give credit to <a href="http://disney.go.com/littleeinsteins/swf/main.html">Little Einsteins</a> for that one. Anyhow, these days she talks a mile a minute and you never know what she might say or do next.<br />
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Here's a few more things I want to jot down before she starts saying something else awesome and I forget.<br />
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<li>She loves to play "muffins." No, there is no baking involved, she means puppets when she says that! </li>
<li>Her favorite color is purple. </li>
<li>Her best friend is Henry her stuffed leopard.</li>
<li>When she hugs us and says "we a famiwy," I totally melt into a puddle of goo.</li>
<li>For a while she told me she had a "sister-mommy" in her dollhouse.</li>
<li>She loves playing with that dollhouse and the farm.</li>
<li>Lately, she's been carrying this goofy little tiny plastic cat all over the place with her. She has to have it at all times and it can make us crazy looking for it, because it can fit in the palm of her hand. She calls it "the white kitty."</li>
<li>I won't jinx it by saying it officially, but she is using the potty more often than not and I haven't bought diapers in at least 3 weeks!</li>
<li>In the meantime, she's in the bathroom constantly and always wants to see our poopy and if it's stinky in there she tells us "puwee!" </li>
<li>She is completely obsessed with Peter Pan, Hello Kitty and The Lion King.</li>
<li>She's been eating like crazy lately and constantly wants a peanut butter sandwich, I'm guessing it's a growth spurt, but wow is she getting heavy!</li>
<li>She loves crocodiles.</li>
<li> She doesn't say "yesh" anymore. :(</li>
<li>She calls her tutu a "tatu" about half the time.</li>
<li>She is desperate to really play in the snow.</li>
<li>She loves her playhouse! (see picture above) </li>
<li>Making "crafs" is still a favorite activity.</li>
<li>She knows how to feed the cat!</li>
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</tbody></table>Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-68825649815782403542011-10-15T14:50:00.000-05:002011-10-15T14:50:25.182-05:00Long Time, No Post!Fall is here, the weather is gorgeous. This is my favorite time of year. Warm sunny days and cool nights-last night was kind of chilly though! That's okay, I'm happy to get out my sweaters and jackets. I put Katie in the cutest Halloween sweater this morning. She got tons of compliments on it at the grocery store.<br />
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We've been pretty busy lately. Doug's almost halfway through this semester. It's just about crunch time for him, he's got papers due and midterms next week. Fun. Katie & I have been hanging out and doing our thing during this time. We're having a great time making our "crafs" as Katie likes to call them. Last night she and I headed over to LaLa's and made cheesecloth ghosts. Well, she played with her play-doh and watched Clifford's Halloween while we made them. Katie really loves Halloween this year! It all started with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Who-Will-Haunt-House-Halloween/dp/0545311926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318705101&sr=8-1">this book</a> she picked as her prize for the Summer Reading Program at the library. It's kind of a scary book, so we mostly just talk about the pictures as we read it, but she loves it! Everything Halloween she sees is "spooky Halloween." Then we checked out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Its-Great-Pumpkin-Charlie-Brown/dp/B00004W5UK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1318705168&sr=8-3">It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown</a> from the library. I finally got to return it last week. I was afraid I was going to have to sneak it out of the house, she loved it so much! She loves all the decorations and she's having so much fun. She's going to be a witch for Halloween and she's having the best time playing with that costume already. So far, I only let her play with the hat, but she thinks that is pretty cool. <br />
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We've been working on getting us ready for when Doug's unemployment benefits run out next month. We're still planning on him attending school full time until he's finished with his degree, but come January, he'll be getting a part-time job. Anyone hiring? We've pretty much cut out as many extras as we can. Our last two little luxuries are internet (which Doug uses for school) and Netflix. My focus has been whittling down our grocery bill. I'm no extreme couponer, but I have started using coupons more often and I've been ad matching. Two things that seemed like a pain the first few times I did them, but now if I don't do it, it feels weird! Honestly, there's no reason, even if we had plenty of money to not try and save what you can here and there, right? Today was not a good coupon day and a fair day for ad matching, but I saved about $14.50 overall and I think just looking everything over, we may only need milk and few fillers for next week. :) It's these little things that hopefully keep adding up to getting us through these next 18 months or so with our sanity still in tact.Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-20172754064859543372011-09-02T01:01:00.000-05:002011-09-02T01:01:18.631-05:00Insomnia<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGReGPKalT7R8AY7SnNKvUmBfJmAHuKFOjJFD2dUrmn8aCG8Yek-IjV0RM6uEkX9krIIPi5a-6dbLY4SEcKMRExg_9FAZxyjKkEQP5RqS1hg50Jh0l9_fqGmev9V1aBGQBlnjoqYnIqE/s1600/104_3871-1.JPG"><img border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGReGPKalT7R8AY7SnNKvUmBfJmAHuKFOjJFD2dUrmn8aCG8Yek-IjV0RM6uEkX9krIIPi5a-6dbLY4SEcKMRExg_9FAZxyjKkEQP5RqS1hg50Jh0l9_fqGmev9V1aBGQBlnjoqYnIqE/s320/104_3871-1.JPG" /></a>
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<br />Inspired by a post I saw earlier and the fact that I was just not tired enough to go to bed (although I am now!), I started "editing" some pictures. I'm by no means a professional, just having a good time. I thought this turned out particularly cute though and wanted to share. Enjoy!</div><div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-6130618047426890082011-08-16T08:16:00.000-05:002011-08-16T08:16:34.377-05:00TogetherThe other day as I was blog hopping, I came upon this quote: "We may not have it all together, but together we have it all." Pretty cliche, right? Yeah, that was my first thought too, but it stuck in my head. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized how true it was. We have a beautiful daughter who is the light of our lives, a warm home that is getting lovelier by the day and a supportive extended family & friends network. That's quite alot in my book! We definitely have it "all." Remind me of this over the next couple of years, will you? <br />
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As most of our readers know, we've had some tough stuff to deal with since the early days of our marriage and it definitely took it's toll. These last few months Doug and I have really worked on some things and we are in a much better place these days. That doesn't mean that things are going to get any easier anytime soon. Quite the contrary. In a couple of months, Doug's unemployment will run out. We've been so blessed to have it all this time, but we knew it wouldn't last forever. We still want to Doug to complete his degree though. So our belts will get a little tighter, we'll eat more dinners at home, and a thousand other little changes to keep us afloat during these next couple years. Doug will also have to get a part-time job during this time. It's going to be hard, we know this, but we have a plan in place and hopefully it will be a successful one. That's kind of why we've been scrambling to get projects done lately. Like Doug said, if we have to sit at home the next couple of years, we need to have some nice things to look at.<br />
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Speaking of Doug, he just got up and started talking to me and now I can't remember what I was going to say anymore...Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-80110266329032269722011-08-11T08:46:00.000-05:002011-08-11T08:46:44.296-05:00Bathroom: AfterOur bathroom is DONE! And 2 days ahead of schedule. :) Doug did an awesome job, this was a huge undertaking. I'm sorry I wasn't able to help more. My jobs consisted of painting, clean up, food, & Katie wrangling. Doug did everything else! So without further ado: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wallpaper was removed and the walls were painted a rather bright off-white. Mirror previously hung in our living room, then in our bedroom and finally has found a home in the bathroom.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New flooring! I'm so excited to walk in there and not look down and see yucky green.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little cabinet was formerly orange with silver hardware. Doug painted the cabinet with our wall color and spray painted the hardware. Looks so much better!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This light fixture came out of my parents' house. It had been sitting in the basement for a year or more, and I didn't even really know what it looked like. What a happy surprise to find that it matched all our new stuff. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A look into the bathroom-no I did not match the potty seat to the rug or vice versa! Also, Doug (with a little help from my dad) pulled out the ugly door frame and put in this new lovely drywall. SO MUCH BETTER!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our new pedestal sink with our newly placed hand towel holder (it used to be on the opposite wall by the bathtub) and our freshly painted medicine cabinet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doug ended up reframing this window and painting it. He also took out the screen on the other side, so now it doesn't open, but it is so tiny that that really isn't a concern. It does make it alot brighter in there now.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remember that ugly light fixture from my last post? Doug cleaned it up, repainted it and put on new globes. I love it! It's one of my favorite things about our bathroom now.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We decided we just did not have the wall space for a towel bar, so instead we hung up a hook to hang our towels on while in the shower. It works great for us!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New shower curtain & rug (a better woman than me would have ironed this before hanging it up, but the wrinkles will steam out after a couple of showers, right?) Also, it is not really this yellow in here. Just bad light. I'll try to post a better one another time.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>So there you go! Please excuse my terrible photography, it was late and we were all tired. I want to say thank you again to my wonderful husband for all his hard work and effort. Katie & I are so proud of you and we appreciate everything you do for us!<br />
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The bathroom has by far been the biggest undertaking of projects we've done in the house. It's getting a head to toe makeover. Last summer we replaced the tub and then that made the rest of the bathroom look pretty rundown. So Doug decided to do the rest of it this summer while he's on break. And well, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's the lovely hallway that is part of the bathroom. In an order to make it functional, previous owners put in a medicine cabinet & vanity light. That didn't do much for us, so Doug took those out and patched the wall. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another shot of the wall. The wallpaper has been removed and replaced with off-white paint. It's so much brighter! Although, the walls are in pretty terrible shape and we now understand why the wallpaper was up in the first place. Oh well, we can live with it for awhile.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our original toilet before Doug found out there was a leak under it and a view of the ugly green floor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original hunter green sink that matched the hunter green floor (we are slowly getting the green out of this house!) before Doug pulled it out and left us sink-less for going on 2 weeks. Don't worry, I knew it was coming! Thank goodness the kitchen is close!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After the sink was pulled out...see, even the old wallpaper was green!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not so pretty light fixture, that has been repurposed. You won't believe how awesome it looks now!</td></tr>
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</tbody></table> Obviously these are mostly the before pictures. I've been taking pictures as we go along and it's going to be awesome when we're done. A few things we can't change, but we'll live with it. Like I told Doug, anything is better than what it was before. It already looks so much cleaner and brighter! <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-70058725488568710572011-07-15T20:17:00.000-05:002011-07-15T20:17:54.997-05:00New LookLike our new look? We have a new title too! Three Sniders was okay, but it really didn't mean anything. I've been thinking for awhile we needed a new look, but nothing was coming to me. Then the other day after a midday meltdown, I made the comment to Doug that it was about 2 minutes past naptime and it was like a lightbulb went on! Right then I knew that was the new title for our blog, because lets face it, there are lots of 2 minutes past naptime moments around here these days. And they aren't all Katie's...<br />
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Hope you enjoy our new look!Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-86071186494675170962011-06-21T10:38:00.000-05:002011-06-21T10:38:56.990-05:00Addicted!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How can we resist ice cream when eating it makes her this cute??</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Our family has a dirty little secret. When the temperature starts to rise (okay, really all year long...) we become ice cream addicts! And not just any ice cream. We want it from Dairy Queen or Culver's or wherever. It's an outing for us many evenings. Let's run out and get some ice cream and go for a ride. Confession time: last week we went out for ice cream a total of 3 times according to our online banking. I'm thinking we might have stopped another night when we had cash so maybe 4. Sad, that we eat so much ice cream that I can't remember all the times we have it. I'm more than a little embarrassed to admit this. Not only is all this ice cream not good for our waistlines, it's also not good for our wallet. We spent more than $20 last week on it. So I'm posting this today in hopes to make us accountable. On Sunday, we didn't have ice cream. Last night, we didn't have ice cream. Our goal is to make it all the way to Saturday without going out for ice cream. In the meantime, popsicles are a good (enough) substitute.Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-4494749927127712232011-06-07T14:24:00.000-05:002011-06-07T14:24:34.295-05:00Hush Little Baby: A Message from the Cry It Out Front<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm pretty sure Katie hasn't slept a whole night in about 3 1/2 weeks now. Consequently, neither have Doug & I. We're exhausted. So much that we even took Katie to the pediatrician this morning just to make sure there was nothing going on like an ear infection or whatever. There isn't. According to Dr. E, it's the "terrible twos." Here's what we think has happened. We finally noticed over the weekend that her 2 year molars are coming in and maybe they started coming in a couple weeks ago when her sleep started really getting messed up. Every night her sleep got a little more off. It took her just a few minutes longer to get settled. Many many verses of "Hush Little Baby" were sang and lots of cuddles and rocking. Before we knew it, she wasn't going to bed period and we were horrified! What happened to our sweet little girl who went to bed "drowsy but awake" and where did this monster child come from? For the last 2 nights, I've been trying a modified version of "cry it out." Basically, I lay her down for bed (after our normal snuggles & stories routine) and leave the room. She cries, I come back in in 5 minutes. Settle her again and leave. She cries, I come back in in 10 minutes. Lather, rinse, repeat. Each night it has taken over an hour for her to fall asleep and then to make matters worse, she's waking up multiple times during the night. Well, last night it was just once around 1:30, but again it took over an hour to get her back to sleep. By the time she did finally fall asleep, I had some major insomnia. Thank goodness today is my day off. So tonight, we're going to try Dr. E's approach. We're going to let her stay up later and then after our routine lay her down. If she's still not tired enough to just fall asleep and cries, we're going to wait at least 15 minutes before going in, then we will only spend 10 seconds or so in her room. I'm just as leary of this as I have been of all of our other attempts, but I'm willing to try anything at this point. Dr. E said it's not going to work immediately, but hopefully it'll get her from crying over an hour to crying maybe half an hour. We'll keep you posted.</div>Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-3345483426215194802011-04-20T21:26:00.005-05:002011-04-20T21:29:59.283-05:00Recipe for Cooking with a ToddlerIngredients:<br />
1 box of brownie mix<br />
eggs<br />
oil <br />
water<br />
love<br />
patience<br />
lots of towels<br />
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Preheat oven according to box instructions. Add all ingredients in a bowl. Let your toddler stir. Be patient when toddler knocks half the mix out of the bowl. Share lots of brownie batter flavored kisses. Pour into greased 9x13 pan & bake.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stir, stir, stir!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-25236338943963674262011-03-03T22:12:00.000-06:002011-03-03T22:12:16.817-06:00Lessons LearnedEveryday is a new lesson in our house. Katie's learning about the world around her and Doug & I are learning how to parent a toddler (19 months today!) This morning Katie learned all about what happens if you don't stay out of the kitty's face. <br />
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</tbody></table>After 11 months, cheese puffs are still at the top of Katie's list of favorite snacks or "nacks" as she likes to call them today! Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-15662754406271114362011-02-13T15:13:00.001-06:002011-02-13T15:18:40.625-06:00Butterfly Valentine CraftTomorrow being Valentine's Day inspired me to put together a quick little treat for Katie to share at her babysitter's tomorrow. These were really simple to make-Katie may even be able to help by next year. Here's how I made them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Supplies: 1 "fun size" or similar package of candy (or anything about this size/shape) and 1 pipe cleaner (chenille stem, if you're feeling fancy!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First take your package and pinch it in the middle to resemble a bow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twist/wrap pipe cleaner around the middle several times. 3 times around ended up producing the best results for me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twist the two pieces of pipe cleaner together at the top to secure around the middle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Curl the ends of pipe cleaner around your fingertip to make the antennae.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bowl full of butterflies!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And who wouldn't want a Valentine from this cutie? </td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-76471819867131431302011-01-26T22:30:00.002-06:002011-01-26T22:34:10.229-06:00Day 18<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://365project.org/mrs80/365/2011-01-26"><img alt="Day 18 on 365 Project" border="0" height="170" src="http://media.365project.org/1/896483_eipqrtxz16_s.jpg" title="Day 18 on 365 Project" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Project 365 is still moving right along. This was today's photo. I'm not claiming to take super-spectacular photos, I just am trying to capture one moment of each day. So my quality is definitely not there, but the story of our year will be there when it is all said and done and I'm excited for that. The best part for me is leaving the description of the photo. I can share the story behind the photo or the location or whatever. I'm definitely making this into a book when I'm done. I hope you are following along and watching our year unfold. </div>Misty Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06255092094911988214noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-620375117987025530.post-6474957426371155662011-01-17T11:04:00.000-06:002011-01-17T11:04:06.919-06:00Snow FunToday is a holiday for me (MLK Jr. Day) and Doug's last day of winter break. So this morning since the temperatures got above freezing we decided to take Katie out to play in the week old snow. I guess it's a good thing it's been so cold this past week so that there was still snow on the ground. She wasn't sure what to think of it at first. Plus, her snow boots are a little big, so she was having a hard time walking, but I think she had a good time after all. Here was my picture of the day.<br />
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