things like THIS
Perhaps what I was trying to describe here was much better described with this. Anyone else have tears in their eyes or am I just an overly emotional pregnant woman?! The “Thank you, Mom” campaign by P&G is a great concept as moms certainly don’t get the appreciation they deserve on a daily basis. *Thank you to MY mom! You didn’t mother an Olympic athlete or have to send me off on buses or anything, but you did a pretty {Read More}
monday motivation: closet reorganization
Today I blogged over on The Household Helper about closet reorganization for Motivation Monday. I am knee-deep in a million home projects as we prepare for our little girl to make her appearance in what feels like next week. One of those huge ones is reconfiguring my closet space as I lose all my extra storage and junk space in our guest room as it becomes my son’s new “big boy” room. It really wouldn’t be me to do anything {Read More}
state of a pregnancy: 28 weeks
Since we last discussed this pregnancy three weeks ago, our family has taken a week long trip to Virginia, added a new room to our home, started a new job, lost every ounce of motivation to stay on top of daily tasks and tackle projects and are currently battling a “very bad case” of hand, foot and mouth disease in one 19-month old. No one ever wants to hear “very bad case” and “disease” in the same sentence, ever, but {Read More}
he’s so sneaky
Yesterday I was lucky enough to be home for dinner with Jason and Carter. This happens zero times during the week as I work part time in the evenings, so it was pretty awesome. C clearly says “eat!” now when he’s hungry, which is all the time, so when I heard him chirping “eat! eat! eat!” behind me, I didn’t think much of it. I was finishing up getting his plate ready and was about to pick him up and {Read More}
life lately, according to my phone
On Friday, I talked about my love for The Rockstar Diaries blog. My love affair is continuing, my friends. One of the reoccurring posts I’ve been really enjoying are her “life lately, according to my iphone pictures” ones. I was inspired to browse through my phone (and Jason’s!) and compile a similar summary. Here’s our life lately, according to one Galaxy and one iPhone (and a little playing in Instagram on the iPad!): We love stripes, bath time, playing outside {Read More}
favorite thing friday
Two Friday’s ago I posted about some of my favorite things. Today, I decided to link up with Jenny at Sippy Cup Chronicles for her weekly favorite thing Friday post – and follow the rules and post about just one thing this week. My favorite thing this week is a blog – well, more specifically, the blogger and her adorable family! Meet Taza over on The Rockstar Diaries! She is fashionable and free-spirited and I really enjoy reading about their {Read More}
state of a pregnancy: 25 weeks
So we’ve hit the big 2-5. This pregnancy is flying by at a pace that makes me super uncomfortable considering all that still needs to be done before the little miss makes her appearance. Jason and I are making huge life changes at a rapid pace…or, in other words, everything is status quo with us. In the next couple of weeks he’s starting a new job and we’re closing off our two story foyer and making it into a study. {Read More}
what’s in that massive bag, anyways?
I read a post my friend Chelsea wrote about what’s in her diaper bag. Chelsea’s daughter is only a few months old, and as I read through her post I realized how much my diaper bag contents have changed over the last 18 months. So what’s in my massive bag, anyways? Short answer: everything. Longer answer, with crappy cell phone pictures, goes a little like this… For starters, I’m obsessed with my diaper bag. Obsessed. It was a “mother’s day” {Read More}
MY rundown of a perpetually exhausted procrastinator’s days
An assignment in my blogging internship for the Moms Talk Network involved making a list of 50 blogs with similar themes to mine. Fifty is a lot, and as someone who is constantly overwhelmed by my Google Reader and could consistently, nap after nap, night after night, get lost in catching up with any one of the blogs I follow, was obviously a little intimidated by this project. For starters, what is my blog’s theme? I like making people laugh. {Read More}
one of those moments
I’ve been at this mom gig for 18 months now. Certainly not very long, and certainly not long enough to not still get hit with these overwhelmingly powerful moments of realization of where my life is right now. I am a mother. What I used to be was an athlete, a swimmer, to be more specific. During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, I made a scrapbook that included daily newspaper articles and pictures of my favorite swimmers and how {Read More}
