Why is it so much fun to dress up your kids in cute clothes? Im never this excited about dressing myself up! Maybe because kids can get away with pretty much any style and look so cute. 🙂 A great place to shop for clothing and accessories in all kinds of different styles for your baby up to about 5 years old is My Baby Clothes Boutique. This online store features baby clothes and accessories thatll rock your kids socks off! (Yes, they have socks, too.) They even have costumes for holidays or super cute photo shoots. In December, I received a beautiful Christmas dress for Emma from My Baby Clothes Boutique, and now were checking out their accessories for kids. And believe me, there are a lot of accessories. Toys, diaper covers, baby hats, blankets, baby headbands and bows you can accessorize any outfit and have a blast doing…
If youve been mourning the fact that you cant easily breastfeed in your pre-pregnancy tops, youre gonna love this. If you hate that nursing tops are spendy, you need to keep reading! Undercover Mama. This is THE ANSWER to a moms wishes for easy and affordable nursing clothing! What is it? Its an undershirt that hooks to your nursing bra, allowing you to wear any shirt you want and still have the convenience of a nursing top at your fingertips! Heres a visual of how it works: If you, like me, have a few nursing tops but dont wear them every single day, youll appreciate this. When Im not wearing a nursing top, I usually put a nursing cover on, pull my shirt up, and nurse that way. Its a chilly experience for my tummy, let me tell you not to mention it reveals the fact that I still have…
Today I went a little crazy and started sewing again. 🙂 I forgot just how GOOD it felt to create! I made these two skirts from this amaaaazing skirt tutorial @ Made Skirt #1 Skirt #2 I love this Michael Miller fabric Ive been hoarding it for awhile and really am happy with the result! I plan on making Emma spring skirts out of all the material I have and will be working on matching appliqued t-shirts as well. 🙂 Are you up to anything crafty?
SleepyWrap. Need I say more? 🙂 Actually, its not only finding the time to blog thats the issue, its being able to put more than two thoughts together so I sound like a semi-intelligent human being. Its hard! Im looking forward to being able to do it while the kids are napping right now Im so tired I nap at the same time so not much quiet time until about 10 or 11 p.m. Emma is still pacifier-free and since that first no-more-pacifiers night things have gone smoothly. Shes asked for a pacifier a couple of times in the last week but there was no whining or crying once I reminded her it broke and we had to throw it away. Im starting to feel that waiting on their time is good. Mommies can usually tell when its a good time just dont do what we did and buy more…
I am so excited about this post and this company! Exposed Envy solves the problem that every woman faces every day: Ugly bra straps showing. Especially during the summer when I want to wear tank tops with spaghetti straps (and I never do in public). If youre wearing a white bra, theres the problem of the straps becoming discolored or looking unattractive its just a pain to have to think about! I tried to solve this problem once a couple of years ago by wearing strapless bras, but that was not a comfortable solution for me. I felt like it was going to fall off and it really didnt give me that great of a shape, so I gave up. When I first discovered Exposed Envy, I was ecstatic! Seriously, if I can have one less thing to worry about during the day Im beyond thrilled, especially if its something…
The 30 Day Photo Challenge is hosted by the awesome Angie @ Blessed Beyond Words! How It Works: (From Angies Blog) For 30 days each day in April I will post a subject. You take the photo, upload it to your blog, and leave a link to your post/photo in that days linky here on Blessed Beyond Words. Todays Challenge: Self Portrait I only had to take about 500 pictures to get one good one. 😉 If you would like to participate, link up your photo or blog post HERE.
This is a sneak peek at a photo shoot a good friend did for me. She was sooo sweet and took a bus to my house to take the photos. I havent seen all of them yet but we took some of just Isaac, just Emma, the two of them (Im pretty sure those didnt turn out since Isaac started crying and Emma decided she was tired of all that photography), and a couple of all three of us. It was fun! Thanks, Taylor! 🙂 Heres a link to her photography site: Downtown Amoreux Photography
A Billion Reasons Why by Kristin Billerbeck Thomas Nelson, 2011 Christian Chick Lit/Romance Rating: 4/5 Synopsis: Katie McKenna leads a perfect life. Or so she thinks. She has a fulfilling job, a cute apartment, and a wedding to plan with her soon-to-be fiance, Dexter. She can think of a billion reasons why she should marry Dexterbut nowhere on that list is love. And then in walks Luc DeForges, her bold, breathtaking ex-boyfriend. Only now hes a millionaire. And he wants her to go home to New Orleans to sing for her childhood friends wedding. As his date. But Katie made up her mind about Luc eight years ago, when she fled their hometown after a very public breakup. Yet theres a magnetism between them she cant deny. Katie thought her predictable relationship with Dexter would be the bedrock of a lasting, Christian marriage. But what if theres more? What if…
Spring cleaning. Two words that brought dread to my heart before I ran my own home. I pictured myself donning an apron and scarf for my head like one of the classic 50s housewives and tackling all of the areas that accumulate dirt and dust in my house. In my imagination, the work is neverending. And who knows if Im doing it right? If youve ever googled Spring Cleaning, youll know that there are checklists and instructions galore. Seriously, if I followed one of those lists it would take me a year to finish and then it would be time for spring cleaning again. So I made the decision to complete all my cleaning in short, doable spurts. And throughout the year rather than in one exhausting week or month. Now I dont mind it at all, and even look forward to it the resulting cleanliness that means healthy surroundings…
This is Wally Wonderbug isnt he cute? I didnt have an activity center like this for my daughter when she was a baby, so now (at age 3) shes making up for it by playing with Wally and helping to entertain my baby boy with it. Isaac is only 2 months right now and Wally is recommended for 4 months to walking, but he can sit in it and reach most of the toys. What he loves most right now are the bright colors and the fact that all of the toys make noise. Here he is, being introduced to Wally for the first time: Putting Wally Together: This is the part I usually hate. I actually put off assembling Wally for about a week because I wasnt looking forward to figuring it out. Imagine my delight when I saw that there are no screws or special tools needed you…