To Nantucket I go...

Hello! I went to Newmarket (my mom calls it Nantucket) today with Ava. It was a mommy and baby day out.

We went to the mall (if you could even call it a mall)

and got some coffee from the Costa coffee located inside.

I also got a wonderful little caramel shortbread thingy.

It was fun to get out and do something. Ava slept the whole time and I read my book as I sipped at my wonderful mocha. I didn't stay in Newmarket after leaving Costa Coffee. I would have liked to have gone to TK Maxx but I knew Ava would be waking up soon, wanting to eat. Instead I came home and am going to get dinner ready before Gregg gets home. Well I will update you soon on what we're up to. Bye!

They are so cute...perfectly harmless!

I will not do it this time. I repeat this to myself as I enter SuperDrug, a drug store that reminds me a lot of CVS or Walgreen's back home. I enter the store with these sweet little bunnies in mind. I know that they are most likely somewhere in the store but they are not what I came for and I will not and cannot buy any of them. They are addicting and once you start eating them, you cannot stop. They are too cute to stop. As I take my purchases up to the counter, I am proud of myself for not looking for or buying any of these wonderful little morsels of joy. I have real willpower I think, rather proud of myself at this point. As I near the counter, I take my wallet out, take out the necessary funds and hand the cashier my purchases. She asks me, "Is this everything"? I start to reply, "Yes this is every...". I suddenly stop short. Right beside me, within arms length are those chocolately wonderful bunnies of happiness. In a matter of seconds, I see my hands joyously plucking every last one of them off the shelf. I lose all willpower and justify to myself, "I am only planning for the future". Okay so you may be thinking, what the big deal? So you like the chocolate and you buy multiple at one time so that you can have them at home for Friday night snacks or what have you. WRONG. I tell myself every time I buy them that I am only stocking up for the future...but I have found that it is usually all for the very immediate future. Basically, they don't last long. Oh well...I guess I did work out extra long at the gym this morning, probably subconsciously planning for my little accident.

Sweet Dreams Little Angel

Book of Funny Stories

When I was a little child I was a little...umm bad. I say "a little" because I am ever so sure that my parents are exagerating my terribleness. Anyways, they have this book where they recorded all of the funny, crazy or bad things that all of their children did. Needless to say, they should just go ahead and write "Heidi" on the front because its all about ME. It may say something about one of my other siblings but the sentence is sure to follow with, "We dont know how but Heidi must have been involved". I am kidding.

So I decided after remembering my parents' book that I too should have a book about Ava and the other children we have in the future Lord willing. I know that since my little girl will be NOTHING like me, I wont ever have to write anything but good things in it. The picture below is the journal I decided to use for just this purpose. I love it! Isnt it very Englandy? I think it looks as if it used to be the queen's book or something. Actually it is. She gave it to me....

Seriously. Anyways, I will keep all of you posted with pictures of my adventures as well as with pictures of our sweet little ANGEL...(EMPHASIS ON ANGEL). When she gets older I am sure we will have good and funny stories to tell of the things she is doing. The only thing funny that she does now is go potty on my bedspread. She did that 3 times last week. I had to wash 3 huge bedspreads. It was really funny. Anyways, I will keep you posted!

Girls Day Out in Norwich

The other day Ava and I went with a friend and her little baby to Norwich which is about 45 minutes from here. Well...that's how long it took us to get there but I have a feeling we got there rather quickly. I looked at the speedometer when I felt we were slowing down and it read 80 mph so its probably farther away than I think. My friend has lived here for several years so she knows the area really well. She took us to Norwich which was great because I would have been scared to go all alone. I like going where its familiar which is not exactly ideal for exploring. I think to explore you generally have not been there before. Watch me be over here for 4 years and see nothing. NO I wont let myself do that. I have been trying to step out of my new NORMAL and expand my horizons. Ill keep you up to date on how that is going. Anyways, we went up there with two new babies so we didn't exactly do a whole lot of shopping.

It was more like, walk, feed the baby, walk, feed the baby, drive home. We did shop a little at H&M and at Pumpkin Patch for baby clothes.

We also got McDonald's for lunch
and had Starbucks before driving home.

I go to Starbucks and McDonald's every chance I get. I would sleep in a Walmart if they had one. BUT NOOOOO they only have ASDA. PISH POSH! While we were there we went into a really cute clothing store for women and I kinda tried a dress on.

What do you think? I think the hat and sweater go really well with it. I also LOVED this shirt that the mannequin is wearing( NOT )!!

Well I have shown you small tidbits of my trip as well as given a brief description. I definitely did not even make a dent in the shopping Norwich has to offer. They are apparently one of the top 10 places to shop in the UK. After seeing some of what they have to offer I would say I have to agree. I will definitely be going back!

Ava Hates Headbands...(she will eventually have to get over that)

Chunky Cheeks