a few of my favourite things...

This picture has a few of my favourite things all together...

1. spending time with Leah during the day...I absolutely love my new stay-at-home-mom status which means I get to hang out with my little buddy every day

2. Three year olds...seriously how cute are they?  I love Leah's imagination, she loves "cooking" among other things

3. Old Navy's collectibles shirts...I admit, I'm a sucker for almost anything Disney and I do love their shirts.  The girls each have 2 cute Minnie Mouse themed holiday shirts and Kyle has a few of their super hero shirts

4. Getting a great deal...besides online shopping for good deals I also scan kijiji when there's something specific I need want.  We had an old play kitchen which was handed down to us when Kyle was a toddler and quite frankly I didn't like it very much.  However I couldn't bring myself to spend a lot of money on something that wasn't reeeaally needed, even though Leah adores pretend cooking and all the pretend kitchen accessories.  Then I came across this deal on kijiji, this Step2 kitchen for only $25 and it is in fantastic condition...score!

A neat and tidy craft table...seriously I love seeing it cleaned up (it really doesn't take much to make me happy!).  Of course the craft table actually looks like this most of the time.

My new storage bench in the front hallway with a coloured bin and paper slot for each of the kids.  This is keeping school papers and library books in their place and hats/mittens/scarves contained.

Seeing my girls this happy about their new dresses from Nana.  They tried them on to make sure they fit and are so excited to wear them to Nana's house and church on Christmas Eve.  I even managed to get Kyle into a picture with Nana (he's not nearly as happy to pose for pictures as my girls).

No list of my favourites would be complete without Things 1, 2 and 3 (Leah's current favourite show is Cat in the Hat, we've been watching it a lot...one of the downsides to being a stay-at-home-mom is the limited access to adult oriented topics!).