Thursday, April 30, 2015

Spring Cleaning Two Ways - Part Two


Hello my wonderful readers. This is part two of the spring cleaning post and it is going to be more of an emotional and spiritual cleaning rather than a physical, like part one. Recently as I was cleaning out our apartment of things we didn't need, it made me think of what else I don't need in my life. It made me think of Facebook for one thing and the people I do not need to be friends with on there or other sites. I either do not like things they post or they never talk to me anymore, those are the people that I was looking to not have in my life. I deleted about 20 people I think from Facebook and Instagram. I also unliked pages that were not good spiritually to look at on both of those and on Twitter. I am striving to be a better person so I need to surround myself with better people I believe. 

My goal is to be a better wife and mother everyday and a better friend. Some of my friends from back home and from school that I have been friends with for years have stopped being interested in my life in anyway, not even to say hello. This has made me sad recently. I have made some new friends in my moms group at church but that is when I see them at moms group and church not any other time. My other friends from back home don't come to visit me since I live 2 hours away now and they don't want to go to the effort. They think that I should take my baby in the car for 2 hours and go see them when they don't have any kids or anything and it would be easier for them to come see me. I just want people to be honest and say they don't want to come see me instead of saying mean things and never apologizing about it and just giving excuses. Also I have had friends that just stopped talking to me after I got married and pregnant and called pregnancy a disease while I was pregnant. I have gotten rid of being friends with everyone of these friends but one. I have been praying and continue to pray about this one friend and whether I should continue what is left of our friendship or if I should just say nevermind and be done with the whole thing. 
Other than this one friendship I feel like I am doing good with cleaning everything out and laying new things down in my life that are good for me and my family. Loves. 

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Bouncing Baby - Penelope's First Easter

Hello my wonderful readers. I'm here to share with you Penelope's first Easter! She was actually really lucky and got to have two Easters. The first was a little trip to see the Easter bunny the day before Easter and she took some pictures with her first Easter basket at home as well. I got her Easter basket from Lillian Vernon and had it personalized so we can use it for many years to come, I wanted to make sure it had handle too so when she gets big enough to hunt Easter eggs she has a basket to put them in. 

The first Easter was at her Grandma Rhonda's house, my mother in law's, in Brentwood. We drove there and had a nice meal just the three and a half of us and played with the baby and visited. We did not attend church on Easter like we had plan to unfortunately due to have a really bad night with Penelope the night before.


The second Easter was at my grandma's house in Manteca a week later. We drove there after church and had another wonderful meal and visited with my family. Everyone couldn't believe how big Penelope is getting and everyone loved her little Easter dress. She got a little Easter basket from my parents we took pictures the next day with it because she wasn't having it on the day she got it haha. 
Hope you and yours had a wonderful Easter. God Bless! Loves.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Spring Cleaning Two Ways - Part One

Hello my wonderful readers. Today's post I decided to share with you what we have been doing in the Thorsen household the past few weeks to get ready for summer, also called Spring Cleaning! Starting about the beginning of March my husband and I decided to go through all of our clothes and get rid of a bunch because our closet is just overflowing with stuff of ours that doesn't fit or we just don't use and we need more room for Penelope's things. I went through all the maternity stuff and it went in tubs along with any pregnancy stuff and went to our actual storage unit so we have it ready for the next baby down the road. We also went through our storage shed that is attached to our apartment and threw out many things to make room for some baby stuff in there too. We took about three big bags of clothes to the Goodwill and a box of kitchen stuff, since we went through that too. It felt good to be able to clean out some stuff and make room for stuff to not be out in the open. Also around that time I made a little cleaning chart for myself to try to keep the house as clean as it can be with a 5 month old almost crawling around. I also made the chart to spread it out for myself, since I have the thought process that I have to do everything in one day and that's just not realistic. The stuff written below is just normal stuff in a household: Wash towels and sheets on Monday, Clean bathroom and Clean out fridge on Tuesday, Wipe down all baby toys and Wash Penelope's clothes on Wednesday (both of these actually get done about twice a week but this is the main day), Dust the living room and Vacuum on Thursday (this was super important to me since we just had our carpets cleaned and Penelope is on the floor so much playing), the big one is all of my husband and I's laundry on Friday (this takes all day), Grocery shopping (which sometimes gets done on Friday) and Prep breakfasts and lunches for the week on the weekend (done on either Saturday or Sunday depending on what we have planned for the weekend). Everyday I try to take time to clean the kitchen up since our kitchen is not that big it's a disaster after I cook every night, so I try to clean it up and fill the coffee pot for the next day, etc.  
 The bottom picture is what I will do on a monthly time table: clean the slider door inside and out with the window cleaner and I usually do all the windows at this time (we have a slider and 3 windows), and sweep the front porch outside our front door of our apartment so it looks somewhat inviting.
I will let you know how this schedule works out for me and I would love to hear your schedules if you have one! Loves. 

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Update on What's Going on!

Hello my amazing readers. I'm very sorry I haven't been around for the past two weeks at all, we have been traveling then Penelope has been going through what we think is a growth spurt and that has been a serious adjustment (more on that in another post). I have been thinking of what direction I want to take this blog so there might be some changes coming to this space soon, not quite sure what they will be just yet. I will sometime soon be doing some baby posts, reviews and some other posts I have in mind that I would like to do as I figure out what direction I want this blog to go. I appreciate you all standing by me at this time of discovery. Loves.