10 Signs You Are in Mommy Burn Out Mode

My sister found this and its so cute, head over to 3 kids & a Break Down, Diary of a (mostly) Happy Housewife.

Jacinda added her own to the end, thought I would share :D

10 Signs You Are in Mommy Burn Out Mode

1. You secretly fantasize about being kidless

2. You consider a doctor’s appointment your “me” time

3. You feel empathy when you read about a mother who left her kid in the car while she partied at the bar

4. If you have to watch one more episode of Dora (or Thomas or Bob), you’re going to put a fork in your eye

5. When you’re daughter asks you to make (yet another) snack for her you burst into tears

6. When your husband asks how your day was you respond with, “How the "insert bad word here" do you think my day was?!”

7. An hour alone to browse the aisles in Costco sounds better than a week in Hawaii with the family

8. You pour your first glass of wine at noon...Or pull out the ice cream...

9. It’s been a week since you gave the toddler a bath

10. You feel like a complete failure

My OWN Additions

11. You wake up singing the theme song from Thomas the Tank Engine or Any song from one of the 72 Land Before Time episodes.

12. You just realized you haven't showered in 3 days. (I admit this has happened to me at least once!)

13. And when you do get to shower, you consider it a luxurious 10 minute "me" time.

14. The highlight of your day was the mail... even though you know you aren't expecting anything.

15. When you go to the bathroom, you do so with the intent of gettting a sweet 5 minutes to your whole self, (ok maybe even 1, you're not that picky)

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Mallie Skye Oliver

Introducing our newest member of our little family, little miss Mallie. She was born on March 2,2011 at 1:48 AM, weighing 7 lbs & 9 oz, nineteen and a half inches long. She is the joy of our life and is always making us smile. Life has been definitely different since she arrived, but in a good way. She is growing like a weed, we have our 6 week check up today with the child health nurse, but I can already tell she has gained weight and is getting longer. Not so little anymore, even though I wish she was.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

I wanted to make a yummy treat and I was craving red velvet cupcakes, so I found the recipe and made them, but I never ate any of them! Robin took them to work to share with his fellow employees, they seemed to love them, which was good that they didn't go to waste, but I took a picture of them when I was done, they sure did look yummy!

3D Sidewalk Art at Belmont Forum

Now that we have high speed internet, well at least more high speed than normal, I can upload pictures faster. These are some I had taken at the Belmont Forum, which is our little mall. These are of the art of Kurt Wenner, 3D sidewalk artist. This was before the christmas season, so it was going along with the holiday cheer. Check out some of his other art at www.kurtwenner.com he has done some work for the Calgary Stampede, as well as some work in Vancouver. Very talented artist.

Kurt Wenner is a Master Artist and Master Architect famous for inventing three-dimensional pastel drawings. Also known as: 3D Street Painting, 3D Pavement Art, 3D Chalk Art, or 3D Sidewalk Art, they are a form of anamorphic art. Anamorphism is usually considered a form of Illusion or Trompe loeil, but is really the logical mathematical continuation of Perspective.

Once known as Madonnari, Street Painters, Pavement artists, Chalk Artists, and Sidewalk Artists have designed impermanent or Ephemeral Art for centuries. Currently, Kurt Wenner is writing a Street Painting History, explaining how sidewalk art and pavement art transformed itself into a spectacular medium, popular in Advertising, Publicity and numerous Street Painting Festivals.

A Madonnaro or chalk artist in Italy may be a Strassenmaler in Germany, a Sidewalk Artist in the United States, or a Pavement Artist in Britain, but street painting and pavement art have been transformed beyond recognition. While studying classical architecture and perspective, Kurt Wenner applied the principles of classical drawing and classical design to the sidewalk, completely transforming the art form.

Masterpieces in Chalk was the National Geographic documentary that established 3D Street Painting as a new art form, but only after 15 years could other artists (with the aid of computer programs) replicate the illusions. Today, artists like Julian Beever, Manfred Stader, Edgar Muller and numerous artists create 3 Dimensional Pastel Drawings, sometimes original and often emulating Kurt Wenner early works.

In fact, 3D Pavement Artists, 3D Sidewalk Artists, and 3D Chalk artists can all trace the roots of their work back to the street art of Rome in 1982, where Kurt Wenner transformed the complex geometry of Classical Italian Architecture into a new form of Popular Art. Whether they are called Street Paintings, Chalk Paintings, Sidewalk Paintings or pavement art, if they have a three-dimensional illusion they can be traced back to Kurt Wenner pastel drawings.

In addition to creating 3D Street Painting for Publicity and Advertising, Kurt Wenner designs Villas and Residential Architecture. He also creates lavish Interior design and classically inspired Product Design

AMY

So my cousin Amy recently had some photos done for her mom, and she asked me to edit them, so it has been keeping me busy at least, they are great photos! Here are some of the befores & then the after I edited the photos... I miss taking photos of people, theres only so much scenery I can handle!

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After

Before

After