I have decided to get working on some scrapbook layouts in my spare time. I want to do one for every month of Princess Snifflefritz's first year of life (The same as I did for Princess Magpie). It will be a nice way to de-stress.
I am really longing for Spring to come now. I have enough of being cooped up all day every day with the girls, we need to get out and enjoy parks and outside again. It doesn't help that I don't remember the last time I got a full night's sleep. I think it was about 14 or 15 months ago before Princess Snifflefritz was born. These days the girls take turns tag-teaming me to keep me up at night and still get me up at 6 or 7 in the morning and I am chronically sleep-deprived. And they love to get into trouble. The minute I turn my back on them, they have either destroyed something, broken something, taken something they shouldn't have, or someone has made someone cry. So, if my girls are awake, I am with them, watching over them, loving them and keeping them out of trouble. I love me girls but I would be better equipped to spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with them, if I could do it on a full night's sleep. Today, Prince Charming (God Bless his soul) saw that I was losing it and took over care of the girls so I could get a nap and a shower. It is amazing how much difference having a chance to just de-stress and get a shower can make.
I am making Lazy Cabbage Rolls and Cornbread for supper.
Lazy Cabbage Rolls Ingredients
* 1/2 medium cabbage, shredded
* 1 1/2 lbs lean ground beef
* 2 onions chopped fine
* 2 - 3 cups tomato sauce
* 1/4 tsp garlic powder
* 1 tsp salt
* 1/2 tsp pepper
* 3 cups cooked rice
Directions
* Place 1/2 of the cabbage in buttered 9x13" dish
* Pour about a fourth of the sauce on the cabbage.
* Saute onions and brown the ground beef.
* Mix beef ,onions,spices, rice and another fourth of the sauce and place on the cabbage.
* Top with the rest of the cabbage, and pour on the rest of the sauce.
* Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
Cornbread Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups cornmeal
2 1/2 cups milk (I used water)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup cream-style corn
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). In a small bowl, combine cornmeal and milk; let stand for 5 minutes. Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan (I used muffin tins).
2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix in the cornmeal mixture, eggs, oil and remaining ingredients until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center of the cornbread comes out clean
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On the homefront, not too much has changed. Still working on my secret project. I am having a problem with Princess Magpie that I would love to ask your advice. At night, when they are in their beds, she has taken to biting her baby sister. I haven't caught her in the act, but I have seen the evidence. Poor little Princess Snifflefritz is such a gentle soul, I hate to see that happen to her and Princess Magpie is only 3 years old and has limited language abilities. I can't make her understand what she is in trouble for if I don't catch her in the act. Advice??
Pics of Princess Belle in her nightdress and a layout about that nightdress these were taken somewhere around 2004. 
Your fetus weighs more than 1.3 pounds/ 600 grams. Though she still has little body fat and her skin is thin and fragile, she's now well-proportioned. Her brain is growing rapidly, and she is starting to fill the space in your uterus. From crown to heel she could measure 11.8 inches / 30 centimetres. If you went into labour at this time, however, many obstetricians and midwives would make every effort to halt the progress of premature labour to enable your baby to continue maturing.
