Can you believe - 21 days and baby boy will be here?
TWENTY ONE

Things have been fairly quiet around here. I would love to reflect on amazing nesting ideas or happenings but not so much. This pregnancy has been both incredibly long and short all at once.

However - some really cool things I can report are:

• We chose a theme for baby's room. It is " ( Read more... )

I voted this morning. It took me about 25 minutes to drive, park, validate, vote, and drive home. Easy peasy..

Now.. to just deal with this lovely nasty horrible cold that is making my nose raw and my chest hurt... let me tell you, sneezing and being pregnant is no laughing matter.

This is when I get beyond frustrated. I am trying so hard to be on time, be there for Violet, be a good stay at home mom and I am stuck behind a train and I drove myself because I am pregnant..just in case. A parked train that is not moving. . I know this area well enough to know it is likely that every road leading to the orchard is blocked by ( Read more... )

Can I just say I would like to get Ophelia a pair of jeans and it is impossible. She is 4 1/2 and tiny for her age. She is just under 36 lbs and about 37 inches tall ( Read more... )

So my washer crapped out.  We are due with baby #3 in February.  Tell me what you have that you love that is not a HE.  I need a washer that does well with cloth butts and a crazy family.  Bonus points if I can get it at Sears..

On the flipside - if I should avoid something.. holler that too

I finally have my week structured so I can have Wednesday Mornings free.  I went to sewing class.  It is such a unique format.  Basically, it is 15.00 for 3 hours.  You pick anything you want to do and make it.  The instructor helps you as much or as little as you want.  It is a bunch of women (maybe 10) working on folding tables in the back of ( Read more... )

Some of you who know me, know I have some physical limits on what I can and can't do due to my lovely auto immune issues.  Anything that involves physical pressure is pretty much a no no.. think tight clothes, walking on hard floors, squeezing something for a long period of time, carrying thing that are heavy, heavy purse on my shoulders, etc.   I ( Read more... )

Well the Mom to MOm sale was a bust.. people were in line over 100 deep when I got there "early". The lines were like black friday.  People were making jokes that we were in line for the new iphone ( Read more... )

Let the Mom to Mom sales begin...
time to head off to the other side of town to buy itsy bitsy baby clothes for my SON.

Wow. So weird.
So So Excited.

We took the kids to kahalari for 2 days.  Did they have fun.. mostly.  Was it the place for our kids... uhh no ( Read more... )