finding beauty, confidence, and rest in motherhood
Just like first day of school pictures I forced Dominic to take a first day at work picture this morning. Yes, that’s right folks … Dominic has a new, wonderful job and I am oh-so proud of him! When we first met Dominic’s closet was full of blue, blue stripes, blue and white stripes and […]
Baby has been kicking around for quite some time now. I think I felt the first flutters around 16 weeks. Now, baby has quite the legs and is kicking like crazy! In honor of the World Cup, Dominic felt our little one’s movement for the first time last week (at 24 weeks). Baby must have […]
Baby’s Uncle Anton has been on the safety watch. This morning he forwarded a crib recall announcement to Dominic so we could make sure our crib was safe. Before we got our crib I checked all the recall notices and we were good to go. Unfortunately, 2 days ago our Simmons crib was recalled :( […]
Trina over at Look at the Birds hosted a Moody Mamas giveaway last week. On a whim, I entered. Remember my obsession with Moody Mamas?Well, since I’m a budgeting kind of girl most of my maternity clothes have come from hand-me-downs, Target, garage sales and Value Village. But still, I lust over Moody Mamas/Nordstrom on […]
I logged on to Top Baby Blogs to see how the voting was coming along since the reset. Much to my surprise, guess who was listed as the feautured blog!?!?! YEAH! Keep up the votes by clicking above!
Cheers to Tasha for planning my very first baby shower … from 2,000 miles away! Here is a glimpse of the invitation style. I love it’s vintage flair and gender neutral-ness. A big thank you to Tasha and the other shower hosts for all their time and effort in putting together this special day!
I finally wrote the About Me section up top.So, if you’ve been following along and have yet to put the pieces of my topsy turvy life together it is worth a quick read.
We were approved for the house we applied for last Friday!!! They are negotiable on move in date so we are still working on that … sometime in June. YEAH! Some of my favorite things about our new pad … Newer home with lots of energy efficient features 3 big, georgeous bedrooms (master has vaulted […]
See the orange and purple “ExpectNet.com” button to the right?You should click it … you can enter your guess on boy/girl, birthday, weight, height, and birth time. After the birth you just might be announced the winner! How cool would that be?
I have officially declared May our family’s “Freezer/Pantry Meal Month”. I’ve got quite the stock pile in both and this initiative will help us to pack/move less and save money … what a concept!Rather than doing a weekly menu (which happens about 25% of the time) I created a monthly menu from the freezer and […]