Silent Sunday: A Messy Confession

I'm almost embarrassed to post these, but here is my basement. I still haven't gotten much organizing done since we moved in at the end of November. Hopefully these are just the 'before' photos and someday soon I have 'afters'. 

Silent Sunday: A glimpse at our Christmas

The tree Christmas morning

Our stockings

All the presents at Mom's... no tree :(

You can't even see half of it, but these are all our presents under the tree on the 26th before I put them away.

All of Chloe's toys (some that are also Madi's, of course)

Also, head over to my Facebook page and tell me how you chose your wedding date. Please?

I don't feel like a college kid faking adulthood anymore

Sometimes when I take a look around, it leaves me breathless for a moment. 

I just can't wrap my head around how much life has changed in less than a year. 

Take this apartment, for instance. 

Almost a full year ago, I moved into this apartment, terrified about how I was going to make it on my own. I didn't know how I would get caught up on the bills by myself. I didn't know if I could survive alone with Chloe on so little sleep. I moved in here with the ugliest, free, dirty white couch and love seat that you could ever imagine. So gross, that my mother couldn't wait to buy me sheets to put over them. 

Somehow, I got into my own routine with Chloe. I got caught up on the bills, and still had a decent Christmas. I upgraded my gross off-white couch, to a less gross, free blue couch and chair set. 

I look around the room now, and I'm no longer watching tv on this baby: 

This is my tv:

Except right now it's my bedroom tv. And there's always clothing and clutter in front of it. This photo was taken last night. 

I don't sit on a dirty old couch set. I sit on a pretty couch set, and my apartment looks like adults live here, instead of young college students. 

Yes, these might all be material things, but I look around at it all and it makes me so happy. I'm not struggling to get by. I have nice things. I'm officially an adult. I provide for my baby. I have a place that I'm not embarrassed to bring people to. I look around and I feel like I'm doing something right. I'm not a kid any more. 

I'm a big girl now. 

I'm so happy with how far I've come since last year. 

Was there a moment in your life where you just looked around and felt so happy with how things have changed? 

Family Fun Time

On Saturday boyfriend and I both had the day off with our girls, so we took advantage and did something we'd been talking about doing for a long time. We took them to a big indoor play place that just opened in town. 

For less than $5 for each of the girls, they played happily for two hours, and could've stayed longer if it wasn't time to go home and eat. 

I had never seen Chloe so excited and happy. Her favorite part was the slide, so I'm definitely going to look into getting her one of those second hand. 

The rest of the weekend was spent with two little girls doing a lot of fighting, followed by a day of packing and cleaning the apartment, just boyfriend and I. Which was more fun than it sounds.

Anyhow, here's some iPhone photos of our playing adventure. 

Chloe loved this rocking toy

"Ahhh"

Lil M on the slide

"Yay, balls"

So much love for this slide

I linked this post up with Moments that Define Life and Momof6.