Yesterday was a lot of fun. I was able to have a really successful day and still relax. I started doing more preschool related stuff with my daughter, even though she is only 1 years old I feel like its still important to do little things everyday to help her learn and grow. So that when it is time for her to start school she will be prepared. I have tried many different things to do preschool with my daughter from construction paper and doing animal alphabets. They all kind of fizzled out and I didn't have time to really prepare them everyday. So I got this book from hobby lobby, for preschool age kids and just adapting it to her age. I have been a lot more successful doing this then all the other methods I have tried. Why? For one all I have to do is take a page out of the book quickly adapt it to her age, then we do it. After we are done I let her color the page and we are done. Less fuss and less planning, sounds good to me. I want to go and get more booklets just like the one I got to help keep us on track as time goes on. The one I got is not that big so I will have to get another one as time goes on. I know Sam's Club has great options for this sort of thing so I am going to try and get some from there.
I had a lot of fun at my moms house, letting my daughter swim in the pool. As soon as I got the hose out she wanted to help fill the pool and she couldn't wait to get in and splash around. She is so much fun. I put my feet in the pool and splashed around with her. My mom through rings to her in the pool, she loved every minute of it. I also sat at the edge of the pool and let her splash me a little, she thought it was a hoot to splash me with water. She was having so much I felt bad when we had to take her out, but we cant spend the whole day in the pool. She had so much fun she just zonked out and had a really good nap, which was really good. Considering I wasn't able to get her into a nap earlier. It was nice to take a day to have fun and just chill and not have to worry about what I need to get done.
Later when we got home it was hard to try and get dinner done while my daughter wanted to be held. So I had to wait till my husband came home to help. We had my friend from high school coming and her husband. I really get nervous cooking for other people even though I can cook, I always worry that other people will think its horrible, and later run home and eat again. I know that all that matters is that I do my best, but I still worry. I made potato soup and I accidently cooked the bacon to much and almost burned. I was afraid that I totally ruined it. However it turned out really good and everyone said they liked it. My daughter eat it and she is a really picky eater, so that made me feel really good.
We were able to put my daughter down for the night, and then play video games with my friend and her husband. It was nice to see her and talk with her and have fun. I haven't seen her in a while, so it was nice to catch up and have fun relaxing and having fun. Days like today are fun to have, I wish we had people close by that we could hang out and have more days like this. I know its time for me to step out of my comfort zone and meet new people.
Until next time have a great day.