The 2 loves of my life <3

So this is just a quick post to mention how in love I am with my boys. They make me laugh like nobody else can, in my hardest saddest moments they make me smile. I love the moments like the ones I am sharing with you at the bottom of the page because no matter what is going on it in life it brings me back and grounds me to what is most important, the family we are creating and growing together. The memories we are making. The ties that bind us. There are so many of us who are without family or people to spend the holidays with and I just want everyone to think and realise how important the small things really are,  all the little moments how special they are.

Merry christmas & happy new year to you all.

Holding abel a little tighter today

So it has been a very long time since I have posted, I guess time and priorities and life has taken over.  I feel I need to post today as I cant seem to get all my thoughts straight on life today.

I woke up this morning to an announcement on a Facebook page starting a little boy with cancer that I have been following had suddenly passed away this morning. He was only 15, I feel as if life is unfair for no reason. His mother and father are suffering their second loss of a child, as they lost their daughter to this same disease a few years ago. I can't seem to make sense of why they have to go through this,  not once but twice.  I am looking at abel and thinking I would lose my mind if anything ever happened to him.  I cannot even bare the thought of it,  yet right now I feel as if I am one of the luckiest people in the world.  I feel awful for feeling that way,  greedy almost. 

I'm thinking it's christmas and it's not fair,  but who am I to decide what's not fair,  I am not this boys parent, I really can not state what or how they are feeling.

I have so many feelings today that I am at a loss.  I think parents period are the strongest people in the world.  I am so very proud to be a parent but parents of children  who are ill, suffering and may not make it, we'll simply put your heroes.  You are stronger then me. I wish I could do anything even if it was only spend five minutes of time to help in any way.

I met an amazing little boy name Ryan the other week, he is only 6 years old and has leukemia. I have been thinking about him everyday since I heard and can't seem to think of what I can do that would actually help.  I read his moms post on his Facebook page and just get utterly excited when I hear he has had a good day or night and then I get devastated to hear he has had an ounce of pain  or a rough moment or hour.  I think how wonderful and strong his parents are.  It was such a pleasure to meet them and especially Ryan, definetley the strongest little boy I have ever laid eyes on.

I wish there was a way to save the world,  but I know people will tell me without suffering without pain the world wouldn't be the world.  I am just one person, just a mom who cares, if anyone reads this I hope just for a moment you will be in my state of mind this morning wondering what you can do to help. Anything at all is better then nothing, whether it be a simple hug and hello or as an amazing person in my life has accomplished for Ryan an auction to help him and his family. We gave a simple present in hopes it will put a smile on his face if only for just a moment.

Only 1 and he has a busier schedule then me....

I will be getting my drivers license at the end of may starting classes on the 22nd of April yikesss all these years and it is Abel that makes me want to get it, so i can start a regiment of getting him out of the house on a regular basis not just to the park but swimming adventures beach, everything well even without my license he is still busier then me and his dad combined.

On May 4th Abel will be starting swimming lessons called Mates bronze! he can move up to mated silver and then gold awesome we both get to learn how to act how to teach and be in the pool! Great just because we have a pool in the back of our deck, better he know then not know. Did you teach your child to swim? and at what age was it appropriate?

We are also taking him to the park a lot more now that the weather is getting warmer and guess what he Loves the slide! that's right loves it and today April 18th 2013 he went down the slides all by himself several time no tears just exciting screams! Pictures to come. :)

Abel got his very first haircut yesterday and oh my goodness how he changed , i never thought a haircut could make him look older, well it did more then what I was ready for. He is amazingly handsome more so then before, but seems to have lost all of his baby features along with his haircut. :( He did great though only a little scared at first from the cape but no cape made for a very brave boy, smiles and sat there like a pro. It helped he had an awesome hairdresser named Mario at karas!

I am now at the gym blogging as i watch Josh play squash at the meet. He is great, I love him more and more everyday! Everything he does he does absolutely excellent! Next door to the squash courts seems to be group lessons for spin the music is so loud but exciting!!!!!! makes me think I want to attempt something new. lol.

In my new 10 Meal 10 Days of recipes so far I have made Beef Stroganoff which was actually really easy and tasty, I have also made Orange Rosemary Chicken, and Lasagna, all which have been great. The chicken was a first for me on stuffing one lol. Interesting is all i can say. I planned on jambalaya but that hasn't happened due to lack of remembering to unthaw a few items aha so just BBQ sausages and had fried peppers and onion and baked potato and where summer is coming it will be alot more summer recipes for bbq whichever good meat is on sale and keeps me under budget.

Well thats all for me tonight going to go enjoy watching my handsome play and relax and ready my book. Some m&m peanuts afterwards!

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Sunny Cuddly Days*

Ok so i am sitting here after cleaning Abels room and laundry and playtime watching him have his own time now, he is moving wipes from one box to another and sweeping the floor. It is amazing how smart he is.

After his ear infection and sickness we have finally gotten a family membership to the local gym,pool, skating rink with library included. We took him to his first parent tot swim last Saturday, it was great. Every child should know how to swim. I am enrolling him in a swim program at the end of this month that helps me learn with him on how to teach him. Also Josh and I have taken up date night swimming for adults its really fun our time and we get a chance to talk and relax together (no electronics aha).

I have also taken him to a parent child get together at the library and the library has the books and also a play place with toys and train table he enjoyed being there so much interacting with the other kids. He was non stop babbling that whole time. It makes me so happy to see him play and lean and interact. It has pushed me to go get my license I will be enrolling in a class as soon as one becomes available and going the next step, so this summer me and abel can go to as much family fun stuff as we can and parks.

I have never been more proud and more excited to learn something or do something, I look forward to every weekend now and weekdays we can go do something away from the house.

Now for the recipes I know I promised to have them up still typing them sadly, aha i will get them all up with appropriate links to grocery lists I promise. We were not happy with a few so I will either leave those out or add them with be careful make sure you add based on what you enjoy. I am also one of the couple picky eaters in my home so it makes it harder.

This time around we were only a few dollars under budget but alot more cooking meals not just premade and pop in the slow cooker as I am not working now sob I have the time to enjoy cooking again.

I hope all your weeks are off to a great start! I hope to be blogging every few days now as my wonderful fiance gave me a gorgeous tablet and a keyboard case has arrived so blogging is possible on the go now.

xoxo

An update a long time coming....

So it has been a while since I have posted, as I have had alot going on. So just to start off, I no longer work at this time, I am taking some time off to be a better mom to abel and also to find a part of myself again as I started to get depressed again and that scared all of us. I was just to tired everyday and feeling sad, and didnt really know why other then some changes at work that caused some stress, and abel he is growing and i felt i was losing good time with him, time to help him learn.

Anyhow moving on since I have been just a stay at home mom, I needed to figure out a way to budget groceries bills everything, I no longer had an income and I was really scared. So I am now doing 10 meals 10 days  to feed 4 adults and abel, not including weekends as we can all pretty much take care of ourselves on saturday and sunday. All this for the 2 week pay period for $150 so in total $300 per month max! So far both times I have been under budget. :)

So what I plan on doing is linking my grocery list and menus and any tweaks I made along with links to where I got the recipe from just in case you dont want to change anything.

I will do my first round of 10 meals 10 days in another post. If you have any questions just comment in the posts and I will answer as quick as I can. So far we have been saving money which is a relief house wide, we were each literally going to the grocery store every 2-3 days to get groceries for one meal and coming home with a lot of groceries we dont use or just sat there. I also save so much more time on supper now, I spend 5hrs making the meals beforehand or prepping as much as I can and then it is only to freeze and unthaw 24 hrs before hand in fridge and cook the sides.! I no longer stress of little things like supper and healthy, it is all healthy and you no longer want takeout, well we dont lol.!

I hope you find this helpful and I promise I will make time to update every few days and every 2 weeks with the new budget and recipes and how we did! GOOD LUCK!

NOW ABOUT ABEL...... I love my son, he is amazing saying words like dadada, nana, mama, kitty, tweet tweet...he used his potty for the first time and he uses it everyday since it is crazy we only ha/d it bought less then a week, and he knows exactly here to go when we ask do you want to go potty? It's been amazing to watch him grow and learn, and we of course are learning with him. So many new photos to post for you all!

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