Meal Plan Monday

Monday - burritos

Tuesday - grilled chicken balsamic salad. caprese salad

Wednesday - green beany pilaf & tofu

Thursday - rice, veggies, lentils

Friday - Pizza/Last Friday

Friday Fun

There is always something fun going on at the fairgrounds but what's happening this weekend was cooler than I expected. It was the 'Got To Be NC Ag Fest' which also hosted the Carolina Fiber Festival. We're leaving town again this weekend so I didn't think I would be able to make it but I happened to find out at the last minute that it was all going to start Friday so we got to go!

I was eager to go to the Fiber Festival since I had a few friends who I knew would be there. The Fiber Fest part was just amazing, there were so many beautiful and inspiring yarns, fleece, batting, and finished objects galore. It was very inspiring.

The whole festival was great the for the little dude too, lots of animals, farm equipment galore and lots of general people and commotion that he loves to watch. We took our time making the round of the food and wine expo - seeing all the food that comes from North Carolina was so heartwarming - I saw quite a few of my favorite people there and have a number of new favorite products to check out.

Here are some photos from our day

So many tractors

these were much more Q's speed however

and Fiber Fest....

so many gorgeous fibers

and will someone please buy me this drum carder please? I've been looking for a good deal on one

ok, ok, how about this?

or this?

please. pretty pretty please.

We ended the festival with some of our favorite things, live music (at the bluegrass stage), honey sticks and the highlight of Q's day - a balloon!

Think Green

Smoothies!

One of the only reliable ways to get leafy greens into my little boy is in a smoothie.

Our favorite right now is - orange juice, frozen rasberries (and/or peaches), spinach, and a spoonful of plain greek yogurt.

Smoothies make my boy happy. and messy.

I Didn't Forget

my list. my goals. my 101 in 1001. See, I've been checking stuff off. I don't know if I'm making enough progress but I'm still doing it.

I think #49 was my favorite so far. And why didn't anyone point out that I can't do #21 and #101 at the same time. Oy.

WIP Wednesday

My kitchen table has been transformed into a sewing table this week while I work on a rag quilt for Q. It's made of various flannel fabric I had and some old receiving blankets and it's very patchwork-y.

It's also taking over the living room floor and I am going to try my hardest to have this done before the weekend.

Inspiration

For mother's day I bought myself a subscription to Living Crafts magazine. I have bought a few issues before each time I've continued to flip through it for weeks because there are so many projects and photos that inspire me.

I know that being crafty is really important to me, especially being a stay at home mom I need an activity to do something besides run around and clean up after my kid. So in support of craftiness and inspiration I made myself an inspiration board this week.

It has little bits of fabric on it that I love and want to do something with, it has magazine clippings of projects that inspire me. It has a picture of my Q - the best thing I ever created. It's still pretty empty but I think that's good, I don't want to add too much at once.

I'm trying to clean up my craft stuff and get it all organized and as I do that I'm sure I'll add more to the board, and take some more pictures of it.

Home Education Starting Early

We have talked about homeschooling, public school and various private schools in our area and they all have so many pros and cons it's overwhelming every time we talk about it. Thank goodness we still have years before we need to make a decision. For now, I find myself wanting to incorporate more education activities into our stay at home routine. I can see how much Q is learning at story time at the library and in classes we've taken and I want to encourage that learning as much as I can. I'm going to try to start sharing some of the things we're doing and if you have ideas for us of educational activities for a one year old that are appropriate and fun please share!

Here's one of our recent activities that was a big hit. Muffin tins + puffs. For counting, sorting, throwing, eating, making noise, dumping over and lots more.

I put two muffin tins side by side and only put puffs in one, he started putting a couple in the other pan but mostly ignored it, my plan had been to find another item to put in the other pan and let him sort them out and explore. I also put puffs in a small pile on the floor so he could be the one to put them in the pans, that was a big hit too.

Q was entertained for a long time considering a one year olds attention span.