our week in photos

Project 365 {week 9}

March 3, 2013 By Katie

This was a very Charlie-centered week.

He was happy, then he was sick, then he was getting better, then sick again.

And to top it all off, in less than 2 weeks he will turn ONE!

Where did this past year GO?

February 24: Charlie has his first piece of bacon. He likes it. Obviously. He IS a Sluiter.

February 25: Fever means he will stay home tomorrow. Poor buddy.

February 26: When these two are apart all day, they are inseparable in the evening.

February 27: I get flowers for no reason other than my hubby loves me.

February 28: Last parent/teacher conferences for this school year. Let the “lasts” begin!

March 1: It’s MARCH! And there is DAYLIGHT on my drive to work before 7am!

March 2: Baby Bird is sick again. Can’t shake the cough, snot, and low-grade fever. And SO SLEEPY.

As I type this, Charlie is coughing from his bedroom.

He is such a trooper when he is sick, but I just want him to be better.

Especially since I spent a big slice of time this week at Party City, the Zeeland Bakery, and Target getting things ready for his big FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY in a couple weeks.

I mean, a year old.

Why yes, I will be an emotional weirdo for the next couple weeks.

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Project 365 {week 7}

February 17, 2013 By Katie

Oh this week.

The week that felt like one big long day.

The week of no sleep and worry and, as one of my best friends calls it, Sad Sick.

February 10: Eddie falls asleep playing Mario. The first hint that sickness has entered Sluiter Nation

February 11: The one day this week I feel like I have it together. While Cort stays home with the sick boy.

February 12: My first day home with the patient. He does a good job with resting.

February 13: Popsicles feel good for the feverish boy.

February 14: Too sick for Valentine’s Day…but I set up a surprise for him anyway while he is at Urgent Care.

February 16: excited about his new super hero stuff…and sings to Sofia the First. Also spent the day with Grandma and Grandpa…feeling better.

February 16: My little guy is back to himself. Wonderfully sweet and also horribly moody. That’s my three year old!

There was a point from Wednesday to Friday where I only slept about 3 hours.

I called it WedThursFriday.

It sucked.

But not as much as seeing my little boy struggle with a fever that I could not take away for him.

Sick kids are the worst thing in the whole world. Hands down.

Thank goodness he is doing better!

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Don’t forget the giveaways I have going on! The Bona Clara skin care sample pack ends Friday, and the Affresh Cleaning Prize Pack ends tonight!

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Project 365 {week 5}

February 3, 2013 By Katie

Oh hey…this week brings us to the second month of the year already.

January 27: Mom, this is gone. Wanna snuggle?

January 28: This has always been my struggle, ahem. But I am trying.

January 29: After dinner with a great friend, I come home to this nonsense. It’s my favorite kind of nonsense.

January 30: Give a baby a spatula and, well, he chews on it. Ew.

January 31: As a snow storm blows in, this guy covers himself from hair to knees in avocado.

February 1: SNOW DAY FOR MOM! WOOT!

February 2: I do believe Charlie has inherited his uncle Chris’s musical talent. ROCK ON, YO!

Also this week, Eddie went down to only an hour nap (and a couple days zero nap).

Charlie gave up baby food for good. Just straight up turned his nose up to it.

Cort had a positive work week in many areas.

And I was accepted to grad school…for my second Masters Degree. This time in Educational Technology.

I’d say this week rocked.

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Project 365 {week 4}

January 27, 2013 By Katie

This week marked the start of the second half of the school year and our first major snow storm of the season.

Charlie also decided he was done with any baby food-type foods.

Eddie gave up his Pipey.

And Cort and I wondered, yet again, how it’s possible for time to move so quickly.

January 20: Cruising the furniture and trying out standing alone.

January 21: Wait, I have what where?

January 23: Almost every other school closed. Mine did not. Charlie was super into Cort snow blowing the driveway.

January 22: Almost every other school closed. Mine did not. Charlie was super into Cort snow blowing the driveway.

January 23: Cort cooks. Love these nights.

January 24: My view from where I sit during my planning period. hot chocolate with my boys…sort of. (also, pinterest on my planning hour)

January 25: Typical Friday gear right here.

January 26: Charlie loves watching the snow and the birds.

Eddie avoided the camera this week, but he had so much fun playing in the snow almost every day.

And the transition away from his Pipey (pacifier) has been easier than we could have imagined.

Project 365 {week 3}

January 20, 2013 By Katie

January 13: 10 months old!

January 14: He is getting so good at Mario Kart…it’s sort of scary.

January 15: Boys in jammes!

January 16: Found Starbucks Salted Caramel Hot Coco at the grocery store. GET IN MY BELLY!

January 17: My first pair of skinny jeans. I am nervous about this.

January 18: Late night of Hand and Foot with some of our best friends.

January 19: Eddie’s last day with Pipey (aka his pacifier). He did great sleeping without it at nap and at night.

Big small moments in the House of Sluiter this week, as you can see.

Charlie turned 10 months officially sending me in panic mode about his being that much closer to a year.

And Eddie gave up Pipey this week.

Just small moments in terms of the rest of the world, but pretty huge moments around here.

I have a feeling 2013 is the year of big small moments.

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Project 365 {week 2}

January 13, 2013 By Katie

The week that we went back to reality and schedules.

Back to school, daycare, regularly scheduled programing.

January 6: A little family coloring time on a lazy Sunday.

January 7: Charlie realizing he looks exactly like his daddy.

January 8: getting my ride bathed.

January 9: Look what came in the mail for me to review today!

January 10: New winter jacket for Christmas just in time for it to be 50 degrees in January. Weirdsies.

January 11: This baby doesn’t feel so good.

January 12: Doing some light coloring.

starting and ending the week with coloring is the way to go, by the way.

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Project 365 {week 1}

January 6, 2013 By Katie

Here we go…starting over from week 1.

This time in 2013.

Technically this week has the booty-end of 2012 in it too.

See?

December 30: we started the year with this guy in my belly. Ending it with him just standing around.

December 31: Soda after 8pm and scrabble. We rung in the new year with all sorts of crazy.

January 1: Here comes baby new year…or just a naked Bird.

January 2: And old laptop becomes the “game computer” and Eddie gets his “mommy face” on.

January 3: This guy has been my cuddly sidekick for two weeks.

January 4: Representin’ The Nation

January 5: Cort blesses me with a “Kate Day”: coffee with a friend, shopping, and then dinner with another friend.

I would say 2013 has started of quietly and calmly.

If it could just stay this way, I will take it!

Also? This could be the last day you see Sluiter Nation looking this way…design changes coming all over the place! WOOT!

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Project 365 {week 50}

December 16, 2012 By Katie

I know I complain about how busy we always are.

But in truth, we live such a blessed life.

This week Eddie told me, “Mom, I love books. They make me happy.”

And Cort finished college.

And Charlie sat on his booty by himself for the first time.

And I soaked in my boys despite all that is going on in our lives and in the world.

This was our week…

December 9: Making presents for the Grandmas and Grandpas

December 10: Happy Birthday to Cortney! (yes, the candles melted in the straight-from-the-oven brownies. oops)

December 11: This guy

December 12: Do you like my hat?

December 12: I am getting increasingly frustrated with postpartum hair. It’s growing back, but now I have sprouts that stick up EVERYWHERE.

December 14: Our new tradition of visiting Santa and then going out for dinner. And yes, Santa made me sit on his lap. He was a naughty Santa.

December 15: Cort’s graduation party with family. I was so busy this was the only picture I took: Eddie and Jack mesmerized by technology.

I have many posts bumping around in my head about the weekend’s tragedies elsewhere in the US.

But I haven’t separated myself from the anger and sadness enough to write about them clearly.

You will probably see my thoughts on them here and over at Borderless News and Views.

I will probably post about my faith this coming week.

And I have a sponsored post by BlogHer this week too full of Christmas goodies.

I also need to tell you about the Santa visit in my detail.

And of course on Saturday I will bring you another recipe.

Things will be serious and fun and downright ridiculous around here.

You know, like usual.

Hug your family.

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Project 365 {week 48}

December 2, 2012 By Katie

The last week of November.

The beginning of December.

The beginning of the end of 2012.

Crazy, yo.

November 25: Sunday morning snuggles with his baby.

November 26: A baby in overalls. End of story.

November 27: His first Grinch experience.

November 28: These two.

November 29: no seriously…these two.

November 30: the end of a LONG FRIDAY {and week}. Sometimes that needs to be celebrated.

December 1: My shopping date for the morning. First stop? The “donut shop”.

Today also starts Advent and we are celebrating it daily in our house for the first time.

I am very excited.

Eddie is already really interested in the few verses we read each day and is asking lots of questions.

He also makes a top notch Christmas shopping buddy.

In case there was any question.

Let’s do this, December!

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Project 365 {week 41}

October 13, 2012 By Katie

This will forever be known as the week our bodies forced us to slow down.

And for once we listened.

October 7: I have no words for how cute this child is.

October 8: Project day in my English class

October 9: My body is already telling me it’s going to get sick. But this kid doesn’t care. at all.

October 10: I try to make myself feel better about being tired and stressed and getting sick by making {and eating} apple crisp.

October 11: I have no voice. Charlie doesn’t understand this weird phenomenon. Also he does not find this hat as funny as I do.

October 12: Flying children…and a very sick mommy and daddy (with bad colds)

October 13: We opt to stay home & cancel our trip to Chicago due to lack of sleep and horrible colds. We stayed home all day in jammies and took it easy.

Most of today {Saturday} was spend doing absolutely nothing.

Cort and I actually crawled into our bed during the boys’ nap to watch a movie and doze.

I don’t think we have done that since before having children.

Next weekend is the last of our busy weekends until Thanksgiving.

And we aim to keep it that way.

We need some family time..

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