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I don't usually enter into blog giveaways, but this one is awesome and I must enter and let all of my other bloggy friends know about it.
Make it and Love It is giving away a $50 gift certificate to Teacups & Mudpies.
This store has some of the best boy shoes I have EVER seen!
Head on over and enter, but not to many times because I want to win!
Ugh! Thursday afternoon my 7 month old laptop died on me!
At first I thought it was the plug. Me and power-cords don't mix, because I've noticed that at time it doesn't hold the charge.
I headed out Friday and brought a plug, asked the Walmart man to test it for me, he did and laptop came on.
I quickly shut it down and bopped home all happy thinking I had solved my problem for a measly $70 bucks...NOT THE CASE!
I get home to start it up and it shut down on me again! Twice, before the HP logo even showed up!
I threw my clothes back on and flew to Best Buy.
The pubescent teenage PC genius does a little of this and a little that and shaking his head says "Yup, your motherboard's dead."
What?! Since when are moms aloud to get sick! Huh?
Great! I'm totally whining at this point, what's this going to cost me?
Free. Luckily still under manufactories warranty. Bad news, going to take 2-3 weeks to come back, even worse news, my computer could be wiped clean. Question: Do you think I back my computer up? If you answered no you win, well, nothing. My kudos for knowing me so well I guess.
Teenage genius doesn't think they'll wipe it clean but he's not sure.
Pissed does not even describe how I feel.
Sure I could use my husband's MAC to do all my important "internet" work but it's not the same!
I said all of this to say you may have a vacation from me for awhile....is that sighs of joy I hear?!
I have so many great post ideas but I'll have to figure out how to post in between Shawn working, AND I have no pictures and I hate posting without pictures.
I'm thinking it's time to look into a MAC. I hear those suckers never die.
They're like cockroaches.
I usually keep me picks for the Etsy to only four, but today I could not just settle on two good ones.
It also won't be hard to spot the two that don't belong
Last week I told you about one of my favorite things about being a new mom.
Nursing.
Today ladies & ladies we'll talk about another favorite of mine during that first year.
Sleep!
For some of you, you may think "Wha? Who sleeps the first year?"
And your right for the most part that is the case.
But then there are those times you get that free pass.
"Sleep when the baby sleeps.........Sleep when the baby sleeps....."
What is more glorious then being able to take a nap smack in the middle of the day and not feel guilty about it?
I love sleep. I hate mornings, I hate waking up. I even have a 30 minute rule that Shawn can't talk about exciting things or important things while I'm still waking or I get really pissed.
I love sleep.
I love taking naps, I love conking out in the middle of an afternoon rerun.
So as a new mom being able to actually schedule in "mommy naps" was one of my favorite things.
I looked forward to being able to fall back asleep even just for 30 minutes at 10 in the morning.
Now that Phoenix is bigger this is hardly possible.
When he does take naps this is my time to catch up on breakfast dishes, or work emails, laundry folding, or blog work.
Every blue moon I'll find myself passing out during All My Children only to be right at the cusp of delicious sleep to hear him go "Ma! Ma!"
Did you have any favorite things about being a new mommy?
Pink Nothings (the blog I was featured on) blogged last week about her little guy falling asleep all on his own on the floor.
Now call me crazy, but I have anxiously been awaiting the day Phoenix decided to play in his ball pit and just conk out.
or
Eat lunch and fall asleep in the high-chair.
Why might you ask do I have such a desire?
Because this is the best kind of sleep.
Being the oldest of 8 I have always been around kids and because there were so many of us people always assumed my mom wouldn't mind having extra
(FYI: Not always the case. Especially when the extra kids are bad ass)
Anyway all the kids I've ever been around have always seem to sleep well when they fall asleep in unconventional places and at unconventional times.
So to recap. They sleep well and they look so cute.
Even me! I love when I fall asleep, ok this NEVER happens anymore. I'm a mom! .....when I used to fall asleep like this!
It would be 4 PM and I'd wake up at 9 PM not really understanding what was going on (kind of like a vertigo day) but I would be so rested and I could still fall asleep that night.
Except for two occassions....
Once home from work on Friday (I got off at 12 on Friday's) I fall asleep at like 4 PM wake at 8 PM and freak out because I thought I had missed going to work.
So I ran in my parents room screaming "Why didn't you wake me?!" and calling for my brother (who worked near me so we "carpooled") and everyone is like "Alex what the heck is wrong with you? It's 8 PM!"
And so I nodded and went back to bed.
or
The other time (which I think was the following Friday after the first incident) I woke up screaming and jumping on my bed because I thought there was a dead pterodactyl on my bed....
So maybe I don't want Phoenix to fall asleep this way.
Reading one of my craft blogs today Little Green Notebook and she introduced me to this really cool website. Daily Drop Cap.
I'm going to print out all the letters and frame them and hang them in Phoenix's playroom.
And maybe print out the ones for his name and hanging them in his room.
And maybe blowing up the A and the S and hanging them above my bed.
Too much huh? Am I going to turn my house into a schoolroom?!
Well now that I'm thinking about it, I kind of don't care. I actually really love the ideas.
I went to pick up my awesome $20 couch yesterday and brought two more ceramic elephants.
A huge wooden mirror for $4! Have you seen how much these are in stores? All it needs is to be painted.
And this footstool which I'll recover.
I kept fighting the urge (hopefully I don't offend any of you with my next comment. I swear it's not my intention) to feel like really poor. But it wasn't why I was buying the stuff.
I could go out and buy a brand new couch with a triple digit price tag, but it wouldn't really be something I loved.
I love print. I love it print. I love print. I love print.
Have I mentioned how much I love print?
But all the printed couches I've seen in my price range look like Grandma.
This might be slight Grandma. But it's Coco Chanel Grandma.
I honestly see so much potential in things I've seen at thrift stores and Craigslist.
It amazes me what some people find garbage.
Now I was pursuing CL yesterday and stumbled upon a libertor for sale.
If you don't know what one is, that's ok because I didn't either.
But why in heaven's name would someone sell this and who in their right mind would buy it?!
I'm still on the hunt for the perfect end and coffee tables.
And I also have this idea of getting a big farm house style kitchen table and painting it like this.
Maybe you don't quite see it yet, but I do and I think it could be fantastic!
