Well it happened, my sweet, can do nothing wrong little baby is turning into a toddler. With opinions and demands. We haven’t had a total meltdown yet, but there’s definitely been a few fits when he can’t have something he wants. Such a sweetheart though, 2 minutes later he’s over it and waddling around doing something else…but it has begun ;-)

It fascinates me that you can work hard and sculpt your body. It’s something you can control in a world where a lot of things are out of your hands. I’m still a lumpy, squishy Heather…but I’m seeing progress. One of the instructors at the Y said something that was kind of a wake up call. “Own your workout.” It’s so natural to try and avoid pain, you can do a half hearted work out and get moderate results. Or you can embrace the pain, work through it and come out the other side better for it. And hopefully less lumpy :)

The weather has been crazy here! High 40s one day, in the teens the next. Rain, snow, sun alternating. We had a huge windstorm last night and I was waiting for a tree to come through the livingroom. Luckily that didn’t happen, only damage was one of our chimney caps blew off and fell down the roof.

I’m loving all the house progress we’ve made in the past few weeks. I told Andy there may be hope for this house yet :) I brought the antique dresser we got from my mom into my office. I organized my fabric by colors into the drawers and set up my quilting stuff. Not that I, you know, have time to quilt…but it’s nice knowing it’s there all set up for me. Sometimes I walk into the office just to look at things. It’s so weird seeing it as a part of the house, like it’s always been there. I don’t think I can get bored with our little ranch because something new is getting finished all the time.

Speaking of the house, I was looking at architecture websites the other day. I stumbled on the HGTV Dream Home and started drooling. If we ever built a home I’d love something like that. I’m not really into colonials (they’re pretty, just, so normal). Not that ranches are high on the creative list either, but I do love the beams and brick in ours. I love the American Foursquare, Arts & Crafts and Bungalow architecture. Prairie Style homes are also neat. Not that we’re in a position to any time soon, but if we did build a house those would be some styles I’d like to emulate. Ideally we’d have 10+ acres with woods for Andy to hunt on, be 10-20 minutes from civilization and be in the town we live in now. Haha, Andy doesn’t want to give up his dump pass ;-) We can dream, can’t we!