I have a confession. I kept a secret–a really, really big secret! And it’ll explain why I haven’t posted much in the last 6 months. Meet my Oliver. He was born February 8th at 1:38pm and weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was 20″ long, making him my biggest baby. Though Chloe was 7 pounds, 5.3 ounces and he was 7 pounds 5.5 ounces, so he just barely eeked by as my biggest! Darn that…
Continue readingHas your family been sick a lot this year? If there’s one thing I try to avoid every winter it’s the constant string of cold and flu that goes around. We were lucky this year and managed to escape all but the crud and some ear infections right around Christmas, but have otherwise been healthy! I like to think it’s because of our healthy diet, making sure the girls get plenty of rest, constant hand…
Continue readingHappy New Year! I know blog land is overrun by resolutions, goals, and all things “fresh start” so I thought I’d throw in my little spin on an awesome New Year project. I introduce to you The Wonderful Jar. I have a pretty bad habit of focusing on the negative things in life instead of the positive. Don’t we all? Well I don’t want my girls to grow up with that being what we dwell…
Continue readingI have several half-finished projects I’m trying to finish up and share, so until then, I thought I’d share about my latest money-saving project. Last week a Mom at school had her daughter’s hair cut off in a precious little bob. It was our topic of conversation for several days and got us all thinking about the hair on our own little ones. A quick look at my girls confirmed what I’d been trying to…
Continue readingI know I’ve been MIA lately and I have 2 really HUGE reasons for that. I’ll share them soon, I promise, but until I’m ready to divulge my surprises, I wanted to get this tutorial posted. We talked about it on my Facebook page late last week and I was finally able to get all this together! I’ve received many notes, emails, and messages from you amazing readers over the past 18 months about using…
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