Resolutions Check-In

At the beginning of the year I made a few loose resolutions for 2011. I thought I'd take a few minutes to check in on where I am with them.

Working out: Um. Yeah. I'm sooooo not doing well with this. The problem? I'm lazy and I HATE working out. But I'm going to do it.
Cutting back on my ice cream portion: This weekend I bought myself a special ice cream only bowl, just for me. I bought it in purple and it's great! It's actually a dip bowl from Pier One, and it fits perfectly in my hand. I got the purple one because purple reminds me of my Nana and she had little bowls shaped a lot like this that she used to serve me ice cream in when I was little (emotional eater, much??). Last night I tried it for the first time and it held less than half of what my old bowls held. I used a smaller spoon and was able to savor my ice cream for quite a while! LOVE it! Here it is:

Less looking, more doing: Ok, I'm still doing a lot of looking. But I'm also doing a lot of DOING. I'm definitely spending a lot more time down in my craft room.
Project 365: I'm doing well with this and really enjoying it! I've missed 2 days since I started, and some days I take a photo just to have at least 1 photo but most days I'm playing with my camera for a little while, trying to capture bits and pieces of our every day life.
More blogging: I think I'm doing ok with this so far!
Drink more water and milk: Another to work on!
Business of my own: My brother gave me a book about this that I've started reading. Haven't come up with any brilliant ideas yet but I'm off to a good start.
Baby: Still working on this one. We had a bit of a set-back which I'll share more about at another point in time but without giving too many details, we're definitely still working on this and the doctor said everything looks "good to go!"

And because I can't have a blog post without a photo of LP, here are a couple of cute ones:

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Thought it was time for a little update on the projects we're working on at Casa LeBaron. In living room news, our fireplace is almost finished! The new tile has been grouted (no pictures yet) and all we have left to do is seal the grout and install the new fireplace doors. Then I have to figure out how I want to style the mantel- I usually just throw a bunch of frames and things up there but am not sure if that's the way I want to go right now... Here's how it's looking (or, here's how it was looking before we grouted the tile): Below is a close up of how we fixed our cabinet doors. Originally they were oak with horrible brass hardware. The panels on each door front was cracked and they were U-G-L-Y. So we popped out the panels, painted the frames, and used my handy dandy glue gun to inset new panels. The new panels were made from one sheet of radiator screening that we cut to size and sprayed with oil-rubbed bronze spray paint. We added new handles and…

Things to Remember: Eliza Rose, Age 3

Today our sweet little Eliza Rose turns three. Like all moms, I'm sure, it's hard for me to believe that she's already out of toddler-hood and becoming a preschooler. It seems as though we were just preparing for her to join our family yesterday and now, of course, it's impossible to imagine what life would be like without Eliza around.

Eliza might be the smallest person in our house but she has the largest personality by far. Shy in public, she's boisterous and energetic at home- running all over, squealing with excitement, bossing everyone around and trying to take charge at all times.

She's stubborn and sensitive, sweet and sassy, and over the top spicy.

At three Eliza's favorite things are her brother, her doggies, mermaids, stories, and princesses. She loves to play tea party, help in the kitchen and go swimming. Sometimes she says she's "Eliza BaBaron"- other times she's a "puppy doggy" or a "mermaid with a pi…

Paul Thomas: Things to Remember, Five

Oh what a difference a year makes. Paul turned FIVE on Sunday. Last year, when he turned four, I lamented the fact that he had gone from a toddler to a little kid in the blink of an eye. Another blink later and he’s not a little kid anymore- he’s a big kid, a five year old, heading off to pre-K with his backpack and his lunchbox and not even a wave good-bye over his shoulder.

LP has grown several inches since he turned four- just look at the difference in the photos below, taken just about a year apart. He looks like a baby to me in the first photo, and so grown up in the second.

At five, Paul is intelligent, engaging, witty, and I have to admit, rather adept at sarcasm (it runs in the family on both sides and was bound to happen). He loves to talk to anyone and everyone but is particularly happy talking to grown-ups, especially the elderly people who frequent the YMCA we attend. I’ve been told several times by them that he’ll grow up to be a politician or a salesman. When I…

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