Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Cake decorating

So over the past month I've taken a Wilton cake decorating class at my local Michael's with a friend of mine. I've always liked decorating cakes, but I've been lacking the proper technique. Now that I've started a family, I thought it was time I picked up some cake decorating supplies and some formal technique. It's been a lot of fun. Here are the first two cakes that I've made. I had less than an hour to do each one, so they're a bit of a rush job. I feel like I could have done better with more time to fiddle. Oh well!

I've also returned to work lately. Here in Canada we get 50 weeks of maternity leave, so my son is just about 11 months. I'm only working 12 hours a week, so it isn't too bad. My husband is able to look after our son most of the time right now. He's in University but only has one class this semester (graduation is in May!), so he's home a lot. My sister had a baby girl two weeks before I had my son (we didn't plan this - God is good!), and she is also a nurse, so I'm looking after her daughter about once a week. It is exhausting to have two 11 month olds, but as long as I keep them on the same eating/napping schedule then it is manageable. They are just starting to take notice of each other and they like to play side by side, but don't really play together yet. I also joined the leadership team for the Mom's group at my church, so that is keeping me busy but I am enjoying it.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

what good luck I have!

About a month or two ago I stumbled upon this blog: alittlebirdietoldmecanada.blogspot.com. It is a blog belonging to a Canadian mom who posts links to giveaways for free baby stuff, like cloth diapers and other products made by work at home moms. Anyway, for about a month and a half I've entered probably two contests a day on average, and so far I have won two high end cloth diapers and a super cute hand made shirt for my son! That's pretty amazing luck, don't you think? If anyone actually reads this, I'd love to know what the best thing you've ever won is. I once won a roundtrip flight from Westjet.com (anywhere that they fly), and used it to go to NYC.

Welcome to my unglamorous life!

Today is the day that I start a blog! I spend a lot of time reading other people's blogs (and lurking - I rarely comment), and I've decided to start one of my own. So I suppose I'll start with a little info about me... I'm in my early thirties, a committed Christian, married to a wonderful husband (who I am going to call Mr Bunny), and I have a ten month old son (who I am going to call Baby Bunny). I live in a very cold and boring, northernly part of Canada. My husband is finishing up his university degree (he's a smartie), and I'm a registered nurse. Soon I will be going back to work part time. I'd really love to be a stay at home mom, but I can't yet. I live a very frugal, unglamorous life at the moment (old clothes and porridge!), although when I was a young and single nurse I traveled the world and had all kinds of adventures.