Morning Routine Ideas?

My kids wake up at 5am most mornings (if we are lucky its 6). I'm a bit embarrassed to say what our morning routine is but here is the full confession. At about 5am we hear the little pitter patter of tiny feet running to our room and A says "I want special milk and cheerios." One of us will stumble out of bed give A breakfast and turn on a video for her (usually barney on Netflix) and then stumble back to bed without fully opening their eyes and go back to sleep. Every so often one of us must resurface to refill the cheerios or turn on another video or bring E out to join her. We only really wake up for the day at about 9am (when there is school its more like 7:45 or 8)! I know that's kinda crazy, leaving our children babysat by the computer but for some reason we just haven't been able to pull it together to wake up earlier. We try going to sleep earlier at night but that will last one night and then be forgotten.


Yesterday I decided that regardless of what time we go to sleep our day must start at 7am. It's not crazy early and we can't continue to leave our children in front of the computer for so many hours in the morning (I know 2 hrs is still too much but hey at least I am making progress in the right direction). I got out of bed at 7 and woke Husband up also but he just couldn't pull it together and he went back to sleep fully dressed (still sleeping now at 9:35) he'll probably sleep til I force him out of bed again and then still say he is so tired because he had to get up early with the kids. I know it's all in the mind, if you don't perceive it as a normal waking time then you will be exhausted from waking up too early. We just have to figure out how to deal with such an early wake up time.
I'm not really sure if this will work do you have any ideas if so please let me know in a comment below.
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I never really saw the point of someone like me having a twitter account. I know what twitter is, how can you not, twitter being what it is. I just never saw a point to me tweeting (I still don't). Last night my husband convinced me to get twitter. So I joined. If you want to check me out my twitter is @ShevyLdr (I think that's how you are supposed to write it, I'm just learning how to use this thing now.

Summer Time & A Giveaway!

Summer is here and school is out. When you're a kid that means fun and relaxation, as a mom these past few days have been the opposite. Some of it has been fun but for some reason even the fun seems like work. I realized today when talking to my mom that what I'm missing is a break in the middle of the day. I miss the fact that nap time means quiet time. My daughter doesn't nap anymore so even though E is napping I still gotta be on my toes looking after her and keeping her entertained. I need to come up with a way to get just 15 minutes of quiet time midday.

On a completely different note, Jessica from What I Wore is having a giveaway for her new book What I Wore: Four Seasons, One Closet, Endless Recipes for Personal Style which will be in stores in two weeks. I love her blog, she has an amazing personal style and what makes her so different from many of the other fashion blogs out there is that she seems to have a closet only slightly bigger then a normal woman. Meaning she wears many items more then once (I feel like so many fashion bloggers never wear the same item twice, so unrealistic for us normal folks). So go check out her blog for a chance to win a copy of her book!

Completed Passover Outfit For A

Here are some pictures of the outfit that I made for A for Passover. I took an adult skinny belt and cut it down to fit her. Making this outfit was hard, I made a lot of mistakes that I had to correct and the fabric was difficult to work with. I decided that from now on I'm gonna work with simpler fabrics until I get a lot better at this.

XL Pants Refashion

I bought this pair of pants a while ago, when I saw that they were only $1 I couldn't pass it up. It was a size 3x and I wear a 6 or 8, but I knew the material would cost me more then that let alone the zipper, buttons and studs (if I could even put such stuff on and make it look professional). Here is the skirt after it was completed. I added some textured fabric, so that the skirt would be fuller. I finally finished it last night (it took me a long time).



scarf: www.savvysheitels.com // t-shirt: old navy // skirt: made by me

Update

I know I haven't posted in a looooong time.
it is fun to blog but I kinda realized that I would rather spend my free time sewing and crating then blogging about it (same goes for the outfit posts). I'm not great at taking pictures, I still haven't learned how to properly use my camera. I don't really want to spend the time it takes to edit the photos and even without doing that, it just takes time. I admire all the women who's blog I read, so much more now because I realize how much time they must put into each blog post and I'm just not ready to devote that much time to a blog. I do intend to occasionally post but it probably won't be very often.

A Skirt Preview

beret: parkhurst via savvysheitels.com // t-shirt: o.c. designs (local shop) // skirt: h&m // flip flops: old navy // necklace: gift

I just started on a new outfit for A for Passover. This is midway through the skirt. I will be adding another tier of ruffles in the middle and a waistband. Then I need to figure out my pattern for the top. I like to make my own patterns based off clothing that I own and like the fit of them. Pictures of that to come soon.

Sunday is Purim so I will post pictures of how the Purim costumes for A and E turned out. A lost her crown yesterday at her school Purim party, hopefully that will turn up today so she can wear it on Purim.
What are you dressing up as for Purim? (don't know what Purim is, check out my previous post to find out more)

What I Wore Wednesday

I don't remember which days I wore the first outfit but the second was yesterday, I have been so busy lately that I forget to take a picture every day. I will be linking up to The Pleated Poppy's What I Wore Wednesday link party.


I know the t-shirt seems kind funky looking, it's striped.
T-shirt: Old Navy // Skirt: Made by me // Socks: unknown // Shoes: Adidas



The necklace is a gift from my mom and it's so beautiful and dainty I have been wearing it every day since I got it. This is my take on color blocking.
T-shirt: Gap // Zip up Cardigan: Forever 21 // Black Skirt: Gift from mom


I bought this the other day at my local GW the second I saw the lamp shade I snatched it up even though it doesn't really go with my room that's where it now lives. Someday when my son has a room of his own it will go in there.

Update

I know its been a really long time since I posted. Life has been really crazy! My Mother-in-law was in town for a bit along with 4 of my sister-in-laws (my husband is one of 14, yes that's right 14 and there are nine girls) We went to a wedding when they were here. I took this picture right after we got back (I know I look kinda angry it was late at night...)

We also went to San Diego for the weekend with my mother-in-law and my brother-in-law's family. We went to visit my husband's grandfather who lives there. This picture was taken around that time but I can't remember the exact day.

Then I flew to Montreal to help my sister who just had a baby! A gorgeous girl who weighed 9lbs 6oz at birth. I just got back home last night and after a week of child wrangling (she has a 5yr old and a 2 yr old and I brought E with me) constant dish washing, laundry washing and folding (I'm able to get away with doing both those chores less often at home) and changing tons of diapers (I forgot how often newborn babies poop) I just need to get a bit of quiet time and get back to myself.
Hopefully I will be able to start posting more regularly again, I just need to get back in the swing of things.

Back Soon

Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been feeling under the weather add to that a life that seems to get busier each day and I seem to be forgetting about my blog a bit. I will try to get back to more regular posting as soon as I am feeling a bit better.

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