Happy 2014 everyone! The year is off to a good start as I have been lucky enough to get in a little bit of puzzling time this week. Cole is sleeping through the night most nights so I’ve been getting a little more sleep lately which certainly helps with enabling me to get in some puzzling time once in a while. I haven’t posted new progress pictures in quite some time I know, so here are the latest and greatest….
I am happy to report that I got a nice little chunk of Mommy Free time this last weekend and it was WONDEFUL!!! It was the first completely kid free time I’ve had since Cole was born about 2.5 months ago. Randy took both kids out for several hours and gave me a break. Of course, instead of napping like I probably should have, I couldn’t wait to get in some puzzling time. I spent close to 4 hours working…
Wow, hard to believe it has been two months since I touched my puzzle! Of course, having another baby and a toddler has definitely had a huge impact on that. Plus the fact that we’ve had almost nonstop company since Cole was born. Not that I’m complaining about our growing family, lack of sleep, or the visiting relatives and friends, but it sure isn’t allowing for any puzzling time. So for the first time yesterday, I got to spend about…
After not having puzzled for more than two weeks due to baby Cole’s early arrival, imagine my surprise when my mother in law is in the kitchen day before yesterday and says, “Here’s a puzzle piece.” She pats it dry (apparently the back was a little wet) and said she had found it laying on the kitchen counter. At first I thought, oh this must be a piece from one of Derek’s puzzles, but then when I saw it I…
I have made a little progress on some of the anemone areas surrounding the clownfish over the last week. It’s not a significant amount of progress, but as they say, any progress is progress, right? This evening I am planning on working on Tom and Mercedes’ mystery puzzles. I have had to put off working on it further until after I got some things done in preparation for Cole’s early arrival. I should be able to post new pictures of…
This morning I was able to get in about 45 minutes with the puzzle before Derek woke up. It was nice to get a little longer length of time to puzzle at one sitting. My secondary goal of having Section 2 finished before baby Cole makes his appearance is looking less and less likely. I think I am getting close to the 50% finished mark, but we found out yesterday that Cole will be arriving a week earlier than the…
I’m not getting enough time at any given puzzling session to really make much progress which is frustrating. I think tonight I’m going to try and bring a section of the puzzle upstairs so I can work on it even if Randy wants to watch a movie or something. This way I can be with him, but still move forward on the puzzle. I got in about 30 minutes this morning before Derek woke up. I guess it’s better than…
This is an example of my luck….for the first time all week I got up early to work on the puzzle before Derek woke up. I literally had been in the room for less than 5 minutes and he decided to wake up early (6:30 a.m.). I decided to just let him talk and babble in his bed for another 10 minutes or so while I knocked out a few pieces. I counted them at the end and looks like…
Hmmm….I wonder if I can qualify for some sort of “longest amount of time to finish Life puzzle” award? LOL I am making very slow, but progressive progress on Section 2. Sorry I haven’t updated in a while, but haven’t been working on it much due to being sick a lot. Hoping (fingers, toes, and eyes crossed) that this is it for a while. I’m tired of being sick! The last couple of mornings, I worked on the puzzle a little…
Last night I stayed up until 1 a.m. working on the puzzle! That’s really late for me as I’m usually in bed by 10 to 10:30 at the latest. I was on a roll and just wanted to keep puzzling. Plus, there’s no clock in my puzzle room so time really can get away from me in there. Anyway, I am happy to report that I made some good progress. The horse is now mostly complete as well as the…