Sunday, October 23, 2011

Around the Apartment: Cameron's Room

I know I keep saying I'm going to show photos of our apartment, so I decided I'd start a little series here so you can see our new home in different posts. :) I decided we will start with Cam's room.

Here's a peek:

Cameron's Room

As you can see, it's ALL about Cars. :) I did the decals over his bed and he did the ones over his little table. I put the decals up higher than I would have liked, but I did it so Cam wouldn't peel them off all the time. ;) I'm making an effort to do more creative things here at home with him. I helped him paint some pictures on that table the other day. We have his bed from his old room here. He has a growth chart my mom embroidered on the wall, along with a birth announcement thing we purchased from the hospital when he was born. Cam and I colored that big Rex picture together that is on his wall. He has a bookshelf and a stuff animal net on the other wall that's not shown. He has two windows and I am so jealous because his room gets the most light in the whole apartment. :)

So there you have it. A little peek and a lot of ramblings. ;) I don't have too many handmade things in there yet, but that is something I definitely want to do. I'm thinking about making some curtains soon. I think it will make it feel a lot more homey. And also cut down on the light during sleep time... not that it bothers him. :) What's something you did in your child's room that you really love?

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Necklace Hanger

I got crafty again last weekend and made a necklace hanger I saw on Pinterest with the help of my awesome, handy boyfriend. :)

Here's my take on it:

necklace holder

Sorry for the not-so-great photo. It's hard to take indoor photos at night with a cell phone. ;) I'll try to get a better one soon with Daphne. :)

On to the next Pinterest craft!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Pumpkin Patch

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Saturday was a lovely day for pumpkin picking! I had planned on Cam and I getting our photos taken, but we had a change of plans so I decided to plan something fun for us to do. I remembered I wanted to take him to the pumpkin patch because I wanted it to be something we did every year. So we got up in the morning and headed to the patch!

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We had a really good time and are going back this weekend with my mom. Here were our picks:

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

On Being A Single Mom

If I said our lives were not very different from when I was still married, I would be lying big time. However, I have found that there have been some things that have come much easier than I expected. No one goes into a marriage with the thought of "this could end", but I know that through out my marriage I thought about how lucky I was to have someone there to (somewhat) help me with Cam, dinner (we ate out a lot), and grocery shopping (WHY did we even grocery shop? We ate out so much). When we decided to divorce, I imagined it would be much harder taking care of Cam than it really is. His dad worked a lot. There were days he would be gone 12+ hours, and he wouldn't get to see Cam before he went to bed. That was pretty rough to be with him by myself all day. That was also before I started working, but I find I'm just as tired or more after working all day than when I was staying home with him. There are times when I'm just "done" with the terrible twos, but I can't ever actually be done because there's no one to take over now. For the most part the actual caring for Cameron part is about as equal as before though.

I worry about money way more now. There isn't the comfort of having that larger second income now. There have been oh so many times if I wondered if I did the right thing, getting divorced. But I realize how much more peaceful our lives are, and I know it's right no matter what sacrifices I have to make.

The one thing that really gets to me kind of came as a surprise to me. It's the doing things by ourselves now stuff that really gets to me. It's seeing other families together when we're out at the grocery store. It's the wondering of how I'll handle the holidays this year being by myself, without Cameron here, on Christmas morning. We went to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday, and we had a lot of fun picking out our pumpkins. As we left though, I realized we were about the only ones there that weren't a family with a Dad part there. It wasn't a big deal. I didn't cry or anything, but those are the times that it just kind of hits me.

Sometimes I wonder if we'll ever have a Dad part around again... but that's a whole other blog post. ;)

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Element Monogram



I followed this tutorial today to make an E monogram for our dining area after I saw the photo of it on Pinterest earlier this week. It's the first bit of decor for that wall. :) The only thing I did differently was I used the Avenir font for ours instead of Helvetica.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

A Blog About Blogging... And Stuff!

I miss blogging.

It was something that was a very large part of my life when I was staying at home with Cam. I enjoyed doing reviews for different websites, posting recent scrapbook projects, and other life randomness. I shared a lot on my old blog. Since my divorce, I have shared a lot less about my life except with those I am closest to. I'm pretty sure some people still don't know I'm divorced, actually. I am in a very different place in my life now than I was even 6 months ago. At the end of the day though, I control what I share here and I think it's silly to sacrifice something I like doing. So I made this blog public, and I'll just share what I want when I want. I don't have a lot of time since I work full time and go to school full time, but I want to make an effort to at least post once a week. (Someone hold me accountable for this! ;)

We have quite a bit going on around here right now. I've been at my job almost 7 months now and I still love it. I often say that they are going to have to drag me out of the place before I'll leave. ;) There are days that I am frustrated, of course, but it is so rare to find a place to work that you love so much. I have learned so much, and I am so grateful I applied for that job online in March and that I stuck it out through those first few weeks when I wasn't sure what I was doing.

Cameron is doing great. He loves his preschool and I love it even more than he does, I think. He has the best teachers and has learned SO much since starting there in June. He is working on potty training now. So far he has gone 3 out of the 4 days he's been there this week. :) I am so proud of him. He knows a lot of his numbers and ABC's, and he knows a lot of animals and their sounds. I worried about him being behind when he started in his new class, but he is doing so well!

All in all, we are happy with our new life here in our apartment! :) Hopefully I'll get it together enough (and tidied enough) to show it off to you all sometime in the near future. ;)