After some sanding and a couple coats of paint it’s now a whole new woman:

The cost of this project was just some sandpaper and paint that I already owned. Not too shabby!

It was 1:30am on a busy Saturday night. I was working at The Pub with another bartender, Geo. Our friends were there, drinking raucously and joyfully carrying on. I was in the pass rolling cutlery while the dishwasher washed the floor. With two full pitchers in his hands, Geo walked through to deliver crisp beer to a thirsty table. He was walking, he was talking and in one second he was flying through the air, the freshly washed floor having created a surprisingly slippery surface. He landed, flat on his back – with two full pitchers of beer in his hands. “THE BEER IS OKAY!” he yelled out to a silent bar, full of witnesses to his potentially embarrassing situation. The crowd cheered and in one moment he became a legend. (2007)

It was the last day of my fourth year of University. I was running across campus in my pyjamas, with an 82 page final project in my hands. I hadn’t gone to bed the night before and I was scheduled to work at The Pub 15 minutes earlier. I was cursing my project partner for not having completed her portion of the project, causing me one last sleepless University night. My eyes had bags under them and my hair was noticeably greasy. I handed the project in just under deadline and drove to The Pub. I burst in to see two of my favourite coworkers and I looked at them and cried. I had just finished University and in that moment, my life was starting. (2008)

I was sitting cross-legged on the comfortable, dated, green leather couch, and Tim was on the computer in the bedroom. I was talking to Kate on the phone, exclaiming about a mutual friend’s freshly announced pregnancy. “I told her my sisters better not get pregnant soon or I’ll have to move home!” Kate, ever so nonchalantly, said “Well, then you’re going to have to move home.” I laughed it off, telling her I was kidding and no one was pregnant. “No, Leah. You’re going to have to move home soon.” My mind dropped and I told her to say it, to spell it out for me. “I’m pregnant,” she finally confirmed. I laughed and screamed and cried. “I have to put the phone down! TIM! TIM COME HERE!” With the phone sitting in my lap, I cried. I was feeling emotions I didn’t even know I knew how to feel. A new life was starting. (2010)

Babies legs are just about the cutest things ever. They are so rolly polly and just adorable.  What better way to cover them up that with some baby leggings! Baby Legs is a company that makes these cute leggings but I (along with many other mothers out there) found that you can make them really cheaply.

What you need:

A pair of ladies knee socks in a cute pattern

Scissors

Thats it.

(I do this the easy way, there are other ways that involve sewing but seeing as I am not as talented on a sewing machine as my mother, this way works fine.)

All you need to do it take the sock and cut above the foot portion of the sock and you are finished. The bottom end rolls up a bit (as you can see on the one above because Hailey has already been wearing them) and doesn’t fray at all.

I found really cheap socks a pack of 2 for $5 and bought 2 different packs. So I paid $10 for 4 pairs and buying them it costs around $18. We do have 1 pair of real Baby Legs that Hailey received as a gift and I think they stay up a bit better, than the homemade ones but there’s not really a huge difference.

Hailey update:

She’s getting really great at sleeping- averaging about 6 hours a night-from 10-4 than she wakes up for a feed and goes back down from about 4:40-7. I feel a lot more rested now- still a bit sleepy during the day but it’s so much nicer than before. She still loves to nap during the day, but started doing this weird wake up and scream after 20 min, I’d have to go in and rock her back to sleep and would sleep for a bit longer. Her 6 week growth spurt was horrible. A few days full of crying and eating constantly (I felt like my shirt was off all day long), and now that we are over the growth spurt I feel like we can concur anything!

Hailey LOVES bath time, and sleeps really well after them. She’s playing a bit more now, we have a little play mat for her and I bought her a lamaze horse (Trotter the pony) which she loves.

Hailey is 6.5 weeks old. Shes up to 11 lbs 8 oz and is 23 inches long. She’s in the 75-90 percentile for her age.

She’s growing like a weed and having lots of fun!

You want to know what else I am really good at? (No? Shocking. I’m going to tell you anyway). SLEEPING. I love sleeping. I am also really good at it – give me a pillow and a blanket and a hardwood floor and I am golden. Give me a pillow and a blanket and the floor of the busiest dance club in town on a Saturday night and I will snore away.

Since navigation and sleeping are my two best skills, that can only lead to one thing – I should become a professional traveler. A citizen of the world. I will navigate my way around any city or countryside and will sleep on any train, horse-drawn wagon or even the basket of my bicycle.

First up?

Paris. The girls and I went to Paris with our Mom about 10 years ago and I Paris, well, I loved all of France. I would live there in a heartbeat.

Me and the Eiffel tower are like two peas in the pod.

But why would I stop at Earth? I could definitely sleep in a space shuttle, even during take-off.

Me in space.

That is all, my apologies for wasting your time but I drive around a lot for work and these are actually the things I think about while on the road driving from client to client. Sometimes I forget to turn on the radio and then my imagination gets a little weird. And when you are a blogger, you just have to write these things down. You just do.

I’m hoping to do more of this (especially as springtime arrives) and encouraging my sisters to do it as well!

Sweater: Groggy -  from a store in Calgary that is no longer open. //Scarf: Gap // Flower necklace: Forever 21 // Bracelet: Micaela’s dresser // Leggings: Jacob // Boots: Ecco, from another store that is no longer in existence (thanks, economy).

Also, I’m a giant. Okay, I’m 5′10″ but this photo very much accentuates my height.

Messy hair! I kind of like it that way …

A photo that didn’t turn out too well, but I still liked it.

I found some amazeballs boots for Micaela that day and forced her to buy them so I hope she blogs about them soon! (Hint, hint)