Since I spend most of my spare time on the sofa anyways, I figured it was about time to start knitting for baby #2 due in October. (I’m not a very fast knitter!). Since we won’t know the gender for another couple of weeks, I thought this pretty teal would work either way. I had {…Continue Reading}
If you’ve seen the movie Up, then you know of what I speak. If you haven’t – what are you waiting for, it’s really funny for adults and kids alike! Anyways, many of the characters in the animated movie are dogs that can talk through translators on their collars, and one of the dogs has an {…Continue Reading}
In preparation for baby #2’s arrival, we ordered a toddler bed to free up the crib for the new nursery. It arrived a couple of days ago and I put it together in the evening while Dave was putting Arden to sleep. The plan was originally to wait a little bit, but we had shown {…Continue Reading}
I have the dress part of my giveway version of the Every Occasion Dress completed, so I thought I’d tease a bit with a couple of sneek peek photos… Jennifer asked if I could use a different fabric than the original birdcage print, so I prowled her blog My Mommy Can to try to get a {…Continue Reading}
I had planned to put together posts about my travels and other activities in my pre-blogging life, so when Brittany at Mommy Words began her What’s Your Word series with “Adventure”, I thought I’d jump on the chance to participate and share a little peek into my past with you! My husband and I love {…Continue Reading}
I feel like I had an unusually productive day considering my lack of motivation lately. Here’s how my day went: Woke up ~ 7:00 Got Arden up and dressed Made scones for breakfast with Arden “helping” Took a shower Intervened with a toddler meltdown – she wanted to color with marker pens and Daddy didn’t want {…Continue Reading}
Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and today is the final day of Spring Fling. But we’re going out on a high note with today’s giveways: A honeysuckle pettiskirt from Bree at Extra Ordinary Bree: And a $20 gift certificate to her Etsy shop from Rebecca from My Girlish Whims:  So {…Continue Reading}
Have any of you won anything? I’d love to hear about it! Today’s giveways are: A handmade French/shabby chic fabric tray from Sena at By The Bluegrass: And a $25 gift certificate to her Etsy shop from Becca at Bare Feet on the Dashboard : So head over to their sites and enter. The giveways will be open {…Continue Reading}
Do you see them? THERE’S TWO BABIES IN THERE! I went for an appointment to hear the baby’s heartbeat, and the doctor found it right away and then sort of hemmed and said she wanted to take a peek with the portable ultrasound. I guess that’s because she heard the two heartbeats! I thought I {…Continue Reading}
  image source  Yeah – I wish that were me – I’m not that cute pregnant! I thought I was past the first trimester exhaustion when I stopped needing to take a catnap in my office chair every day at work, and I actually managed to sew a few things (and sell one {…Continue Reading}
