Today…

Outside my window: it’s calm and clear with blue skies. We had some snow over the weekend but luckily there was very little accumulation. It looks to be fairly warm this week with highs in the mid-fifties and no rain predicted. This makes me happy. Hopefully the weather will stay nice this weekend for our trip to Milwaukee (either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, weather depending).

I am reading: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and Never Tell Our Business to Strangers by Jennifer Mascia which I’m reading to review at Mommas Review hopefully in two weeks time.

Last night: we attempted to get Miss BB to “sleep through the night” whatever that means. We ended up moving MM to the toy room so he wouldn’t have to cover his ears through her protests (i.e. screaming, crying). This whole thing is simply no fun for me, when every bone in my body wants to spring from the bed and “rescue” her but I know how important it is to help her learn to put herself back to sleep. With MM, I had to go sleep on a different floor (we were lucky to live in a 3 story house) and after a couple nights he was sleeping through the night with no problems. I don’t have that option here so I’m trying to just be tough but… She stayed in bed from 8pm-3am and then I decided that hour-wise that was probably about as “through the night” as I should expect so I fed her and then put her back to sleep. Tonight I think I will nurse her if she wakes up closer to midnight in the hopes that I can then get her to sleep until the actual morning.

In the kitchen:

• Monday: Baked Sweet Potatoes and a salad
• Tuesday: Spaghetti with Sweet Potatoes
• Wednesday: Grilled Cheese and Campbells Soup
• Thursday: Spaghetti with cheese and black pepper
• Friday: Fish and couscous with mixed veggies

I am really excited about: our trip to Milwaukee this weekend. It’s just a quick day trip but we’ve never been there and it’s always good to get out of town.

I really want to make: this raspberry kulfi recipe from The Kitchn and this quick recipe for strawberries dipped in sour cream and brown sugar at Sweet Savory Life. I’d also like to make my printer / scanner function just a wee bit more reliably. I think I am missing a driver for it or something.

This weekend we: did a lot of home projects like setting up the Kenneth Brown nursery goodies that I got to review from his Sweet Stitches collection for BB. We also framed some of MM’s cuter drawings / paintings and hung them above his bed. Took out a box of cardboard that has been here for too long and straightened up around various areas.

We also: did a lot of cooking – Dan made a delicious Gorgonzola and black olive calzone for dinner last night and I made these really great biscotti-like cookies and frosted some of them with a can of cream cheese frosting. Yum.

Some other links I think you should click:

• Breastfeeding Your Baby in Public by Rockin’ Mama
• The Pioneer Woman’s love story is being turned into a movie! Here are her thoughts on this.

One last thing I want to tell you about before I go: we took the kids to El Cheapo Movie Theater (seriously matinée prices are $2.50 per person) and saw Princess and the Frog. I know MM’s probably seen previews for this on Playhouse Disney a lot so it wasn’t too surprising that he was excited to go. He did a great job watching the movie, eating popcorn with us and seemed to like it a lot. I was all silly proud that he remembered the name of the movie we were seeing from the time I suggested it yesterday afternoon to when we left the theater and he announced, “Wow, I really liked watching The Princess & The Frog!”

I thought the movie was very good – it was nice to see something in the traditional 2d format for once from Disney and the story was really good. It was Classic Disney at it’s best – and about time. The voodoo scenes might be a bit frightening for some kids but MM I think was too young to actually grasp the idea of why it should be scary and just enjoyed the movie plain and simple. It was a bit over his head but I don’t think he knew that.