The Little Things

Let me tell you a little bit about my family. I count myself so blessed to have married into the most incredibly wonderful family imaginable. The first time I met them arms were opened wide to me and there hasn't been a day since then that they haven't let me know in some way or another how happy they are that Trent married me, how happy they are to have me in the family. I'm pretty darn glad myself. Not only did I marry the love of my life but I now have the family I never knew I had. They're amazing.
Today Eliza and Rachel stopped by to say hi...... and give me some cupcakes. Just cause.
Love you guys.

Pinocchio

At our family's Christmas White Elephant gift exchange we received a mini box set of Pinocchio books from Caleb. Recently Ethan has decided that there's one of the four that is his favorite. How do we know it's his favorite? He'll pick it out of the pile, bring it to us and have us read it to him..... again, and again, and again. At least 4 or 5 times. Not bad you say? It's a good thing he enjoys books, you say? I agree. Except this particular book is summarized in about 4 page turns.

To Be or Not To Be...... balanced.

As if our semester hasn't been crazy enough I decided it'd be fun to put some effort into building a Melaleuca business for a little supplementary income. I've been working pretty hard and seeing some great success over the last couple weeks. I've also tried really hard to make sure I'm giving my other household responsibilities the attention they need and I've managed to do a pretty good job at it. All except for the dishes. Somehow the dishes are the one thing that get away from me the fastest. I've gone from doing dishes 2-3 times a week to once a week. Exhibit A is the result of the lack of time spent on dishes. *sigh* Makes for a considerable amount of time spent on dishes when done only once a week.

Late Night Ramblings

Nearly 2 a.m. and here I be, home from work nearly two hours, content to know that my boys are (and have been for over an hour) fast asleep in bed. I'm tired but I'm not sleepy so I figured I may as well add a new post to our somewhat naked and newly founded blog. I've been looking through a few family/friends' blogs and can't help but be quite envious of the plethora of pictures on each page. I haven't seen our camera since after Christmas and, camera-happy as I am, I'm experiencing quite the withdrawal. There have been so many moments that I have so desperately wanted to capture and the bitsy camera on my phone just doesn't cut it. *sigh* Perhaps my beloved camera will come back to us one day someday soon. Until then I can only hope that near future funds will allow for a decent replacement.

Life's pretty crazy here in the VanderSloot home as of late. There are two versions of an update that can be told, 1. the female version, or 2. the reader's digest version. The female, or my, version tends to be a bit lengthier than the reader's digest version which is usually/always the version my eternal companion prefers to hear. Being that it is now 4 minutes to 2 I suppose I'll stick to man's preferred version.
Trent is in school full-time, working part-time as personal assistant for the owner of Holladay Real Estate.
I'm at home with Ethan during the day with a few other things on my plate. The past few weeks have proven quite interesting as I've striven to balance out my responsibilities to home, hubby, baby, piano students, Melaleuca, and Craigo's. Although exciting..... I'm a little tired. Hence my being up later then I have been in months.
I could go on with this late night update but I'm feeling the effects of my brain shutting down and best give in to my body's need for sleep.
until next time.

Band Wagon

In this case I consider the band wagon to not be such a terrible thing. Many friends of ours are doing it, sisters are way into it, and there have been multiple recommendations tossed my way to start one. So here be. And here is our blog.
We survived the holidays and even made our way through the month of January. And I'm glad. The last couple weeks of January brought with them a pretty decent size curve ball that landed us in a plethora of doctors' offices over the course of just a few days. But fear not all is well and I'm very grateful to say the three of us are all healthily moving forward into the month of February.