A Great Mother's Day

For Mother's Day this year Amelia made me a bouquet of flowers. It is not the taller arrangement that was Great Grandma Hinko's from her boys. Amelia made the smaller, artificial arrangement in Nursery today. The best part are the 5 butterflies that she put into the arrangement. So sweet, love that girl!!!!

The greatest gift though....French Braids!!! I have tried a few times to braid the little woman's hair but today ta-da they stayed and she wore them to church. A beautiful gift to a mother who loves to do hair. Oh how fun my girl is.

After years of this day being so bittersweet I have learned to take joy in mothering; weather literally being a mother or not or having your mother close or far. ~Mrs.P

TBA II's Nursery

I am pretty excited that our new babe's room is ready! Her first quilt from Grandma Hinko and teddy bears from Daddy all waiting and ready just for Her. Oh how we can't wait to meet Her!

Book case is full and waiting to be enjoyed.

Rocking chair and cradle in place. Check!
Lamp and table painted. Double check!!
Picture frames waiting to be filled.

Dresser filled with her sweet smelling, newly washed baby clothes. Cool antique truck and vintage doilies. Check!

We are seriously pumped and feel so thrilled to have another little person joining our family. I have so enjoyed thinking about our little TBA II, dreaming about her and who she is. I am so excited for Amelia, she gets to have a sister. Sister's totally rock. I feel beyond blessed. The plan is that Monday May 30th @ 10:30am she will come. So the plan is, we will see how things transpire.

With much excitement and a full heart! ~Mrs.P

Crafty Projects!!!

Since my energy has sort of returned I have finally finished a few projects and have a few more swirling around in my head. We'll see what I am able to accomplish in these last 23 days!!

Wow the time is drawing near for TBA II to come!

This sweet pink visor was not made by me BUT I bought it so I could copy the pattern and plan to make a few for some of my other favourite ladies. Isn't it sweet?! When we found out we were having another little woman I had visions of matching adorableness and this visor has a black matching one that Amelia and TBA II can wear next summer.

Above is a sewing project I've had cut out for awhile. It was Mia's Easter dress...it finally got finished a few weeks before Easter. I forgot to snap a picture of her after church, post church usually means grumpy/hungry and we never get it together early enough for a pre-church photo shoot. I was happy with how it turned out, it is kimono style so wraps around her so fun!

For Young Woman's and our yearly New Beginnings activity we found a wonderful poem about embracing who you are now and going out to face the world. It was of course much more eloquent then my brief description but the last line of the poem talks about putting on your purple hat, walking past the mirror without judging yourself and going out with your head high into the world. So what did we do for our Young Woman? Made them hats of course! The hats were made from men's t-shirts, most hats were either grey, white or brown but all had purple flowers on them. I modified the measurements to make a summer hat for Miss Mia and

she digs it.

My most favourite recent project is this sweet bag. I had seen the idea on a blog I follow and thought the adjustable strap was genius. The fabric was darling and given to me as part of my Christmas present from sis-in-law Jenn. I was totally pleased with how it turned out and Mia is fan which makes the effort worth it.

She even wears the bag to get the mail.

So I've been sorta crafty around here! Having little girlies will do that to you I think!!! ~Jenny

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!

Doesn't this picture below just say "I'm so excited it is Easter!". Hahaha a true Polischuk expression. It really was a wonderful weekend, with time spent as our own little family, with Graham's family and with mine...fabulous!!

On Friday we had a date with Graham's Grandma for an IMAX called Born to Be Wild. It had baby Monkeys and Elephants and was a hit with Amelia. We checked out the various exhibits and again it is so neat to watch Amelia experience things for the first time. This is one of the great blessings of being a parent. Graham's sister Jenn was with us for the weekend and snapped a family pic of us as a family of 3, only five weeks left until we are a family of 4!!!! Graham has surprised us by coming home a day early from Cold Lake.

The bunny visited our house Saturday morning and again so fun to watch our wee woman. She was way more into celebrating the holiday then Christmas a few short months ago. She totally got into the egg hunt and had a blast as we had meals with family over the remainder of the weekend.

Graham will be away for work until TBA II arrives at the end of May so along with celebrating Easter we worked on preparing the nursery. Picture frames are up, furniture set up and painted. All that is really left to do is wash baby clothes and then have babe come home. We are excited!!

One of my favourite points in the weekend were some sweet moments Graham and I shared with Amelia as we looked at pictures of Jesus Christ and talked about the last week of His life. I love that she knows who her Savior is when we show pictures. Although finding eggs, eating turkey and spending time with extended family was great, the moments we shared talking about Jesus Christ really was my favourite part of the weekend.

~Mrs.P

Just Mia, Mommy and TBA II

We are soooo on the countdown at our house! Counting down the 6 weeks until our new little Miss arrives and counting down until Daddy works in town again. Right now I am thinking 'gosh this pregnancy went fast' even though a few months ago it seemed to be going so slow. What a blessing, what a tremendous blessing!!!

This past weekend Graham and I were able to do some running around and check off a ton on my pre-baby to do list, I feel now like we may actually be ready in time. We have one more weekend together and then Mr. P starts his shutdown in Cold Lake. We plan to move all of the heavy baby gear into the den which is becoming our nursery. My sis-in-law Jenn is going to help with a bit of painting. I am so excited to see the final product and welcome our new one home.



I am currently at 33 weeks and have certainly hit that spurt of energy that some books mention. Graham even commented to me about my drive to purge and be productive....this is sooooooo not indicative of the pregnant Jenny that has been around for the past 7 months. I am running with it prepping for babe and trying to treasure my alone time with Mia.

This pic was snapped when I poked my head into the den. Miss Amelia sporting her favourite Elmo dress, stylish hat, just chilling and reading. She has loved books since she was a wee babe and I am thrilled to see her enjoy books, picking out what interests her at the time. It is so neat how certain books won't be touched for months and then are suddenly the 'go to' book that we read over and over. She is a fun woman. Still getting over being sick and totally morphing into a toddler....in EVERY WAY!!!! Even though some things test my patience, I love it. Love being a momma and so enjoy her strong, precious, tender spirit. I tell her often that I am glad she came to our family, we are so lucky.

Off to shower and dress the woman for Rhymes and Storytimes. ~Jenny

It was Spring here....and other news!

We had spring weather...until today!!

Dum dum dum alas winter has returned. I think the picture below looks more like mid-January not mid-April but hey we live in Canada why should I expect any different. On a positive note Tula's spring puppy presents are all covered again with beautiful white snow and really when I look out my kitchen window the field does look rather beautiful. This is the view from our front door. After having a fevering little lady the past four days I really, really needed an escape snow or not. We both got dressed, I actually showered and we dug out our winter wear. This was no day for Mia to wear her rubber boots or me to venture out in my ballet flats. I had to get out of the house.

A friend made this adorable hat for Miss Amelia and with the snow it was rather appropriate that she wear it today. Amelia is no longer running a fever but has a sore throat and a cough that may linger, luckily she finally had a good night sleep and is having her second nap of the day as I write this. She has mostly been a one nap a day kinda girl since about 18months but she is fighting this bug with rest, hey work it little lady. Today is also the first day this week that she has allowed me to do things other then hold her, it really has been kinda sweet but a challenge at the same time if that makes sense. She will ask for 'hugs' and will reach up to me saying 'hand come'...how can my heart not melt. I really do miss Mr. P though, goodness having a sick person and being alone is no fun, I have such respect for single parents, military families or families where a parent has to work away....not fun. In other exciting news (excuse the gross picture) this picture captures the third day that this has occured before Miss Mia hops into the 'bafff'. How awesome is that?! She received this potty for Christmas and has a little sit down before her bath each night. Until this week we have NOT had any pee actually occur in the potty, twice on the floor and once in the hall. Monumental, I think so!!!! I of course made a big deal, clapped, let her choose a sticker and she was so happy that she kept wanting to hug me. Maybe it clicked. I was proud. Really though I am sooooo not pushing or stressing this, just celebrating pee! Having listened to many a friend and their potty training war stories I am determined to fight my Type A personality and follow her lead.

I should start some supper. It is so hard to be super motivated when there is no Mr. P around, I think we'll clean out the fridge and nibble on leftovers. I'll do something domestic when Graham is home from Cold Lake tomorrow. ~Jenny

Weekend in the Mountains...just Jenny and Graham!!

Cute, cute young white tail deer! I am not normally a person who takes pictures without people but seriously how adorable was this little guy?!

Mr.P is a man who loves a beautiful view and refers to the mountains as one of his happy places. He took the picture below, what a gorgeous view. A quick self take as we walked around Pyramid Lake located just outside of Jasper.

The best husband and daddy I know!!! What a handsome dude!

Mr.P has been my rock these past 7 months. Pregnancy although a precious experience can be tough. The guy is seriously awesome, he will read this and be embarrassed but for real he has been the best sidekick a girl could have. Thus a surprise weekend in the mountains was in order. Kindly, Alyson and Jon offered to keep Amelia and we headed out Friday night...after Graham got home from Cold Lake.

There is something wonderful about just being together with your best friend! I truly learn so much from him and admire so many of his qualities. Crazy to think that we started dating almost 10 years ago!!! What a ride we've had together over those years. This weekend though we slept, slept in, toured around Jasper, checked out some gorgeous views and just enjoyed being with one another. Dinner, oh the dinner we had yummy!!!!!

Fabulous weekend! We were soooo excited to come home to our little woman though. ~Jenny