Happy Tuesday!

Ellinor is 1 in 3 days! It's ridiculous how emotional I am about it, but that doesn't temper things at all. Haha. I am so blessed to have this beautiful, healthy, smart, funny, ADORABLE little girl in my life. She truly is the best!

We have family coming in this weekend to help celebrate her birthday. I am so excited to see everyone! While UT has grown on me quite a bit since settling here, I really do regret that all my family isn't closer. I would have no qualms about my parents and siblings all living down the street from me. ;) Needless to say, we are absolutely due for a visit.

Bryan and I decided to build an ottoman for our upstairs living room this past weekend. It turned out great - thanks mostly to Bryan's handyman abilities. All I did was cut fabric, sew a few seams and bug Bryan incessantly about how things were going. LOL. Thank goodness I have a mother who is a rockstar seamstress. I basically lose all brain function when I sit down at a sewing machine (and thanks to my mother-in-law Lyne for the new machine!), so it was wonderful to have her on speed dial these past couple of days. Anyway, it was fun making a piece of furniture together for our first official home. We really do love having projects to work on - even though it can get overwhelming at times when we list them all. I am grateful that we have this beautiful home to raise our family in - what a tremendous blessing, especially in this uncertain world today.

Ellinor has a new fascination with laundry. She wants to fling clothes in and out of the laundry baskets, dresser drawers, the dryer itself, etc. She's pretty funny to watch - one of my PJ shirts can entertain her for hours. She has also taken to carrying one of my camisole tops around. She doesn't do anything with it really - just holds it in her hand while she crawls around. Occasionally she chews on it. Haha. Not sure what brought this new habit on. Just another Ellinor quirk.

I have been asked to accompany a duet for the Easter program at church this April. I'm happy to be given a reason to sit down at my piano more often. I haven't been playing much these days - so many other things seem to come first. But when I sat down yesterday to get introduced to the song I remembered how much I do love playing. Time to get the piano tuned finally and make time every day to practice. I want Ellinor to grow up hearing me play, and then play herself as soon as can reach the keyboard. She already loves to boogie on down to EVERY type of music, from shuffle on the ipod, to the commercial jingles, to drumming on the kitchen table. I'm pretty sure we have a musician on our hands. Yays! :)