I mean, GINORMOUS.
You really have no idea. Do you remember the Sweet Harper Holidays giveaway? That was huge. This is, well, off the charts I suppose.
Sweet Harper introduced me to Giddy Up and Grow. Super cute headbands and trinkets. I luff.
Giddy Up and Grow introduced me to Laura Winslow Photography. Aside from having absolutely stunning photographs, LWP has a stellar giveaway for the next week.
Are you ready for this? You may want to go grab an extra pair of pants because you are going to pee your current pair from the excitement. Seriously.
LWP has a giveaway. A giveaway for 61 shops. $2,600 worth of certificates and free goodies. FOR ONE WINNER. And some of it? Props for photography. Just what a budding photographer might need if she were to, um... try to start something on the side hoping it would turn into something in the front??? Maybe???
So, head on over to Laura Winslow Photography and hit it up. Lots of ways to enter. Lots of goodies to be won.
Don't say I don't watch out for you, m'kay?
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Am I really that insensitive?
It's beautiful out today. GORGEOUS, really.
So I opted to take the kiddo on a walk in the sunshine. We're walking along, with Ansley wearing her hot pink sunglasses which are too big for her head but apparently the sun was just too much for her today.
Anywho, she's still in her clothes from church.
So, we pass this couple with a little boy, prolly about 3 years old. I'm pretty sure he had just been to the park playing and that's why his face and clothes were dirty.
I'm not talking "Oh, that kid really enjoyed his lunch" kinda dirty. I mean dirt-dirty.
As we pass, the young mother looks at my kiddo, saying "She's really pretty." To which I respond "Oh thanks. See ya later!"
::gulp::
Seconds later I realized I should have said something about her kid. "Man, he sure is healthy," or "He looks like he's a keeper," or "Bet he keeps you busy." But, no. Instead? I thank her for her comment about my child, and say "See ya later."
Total.utter.complete.loser.of.a.person.fail.
So I opted to take the kiddo on a walk in the sunshine. We're walking along, with Ansley wearing her hot pink sunglasses which are too big for her head but apparently the sun was just too much for her today.
Anywho, she's still in her clothes from church.
So, we pass this couple with a little boy, prolly about 3 years old. I'm pretty sure he had just been to the park playing and that's why his face and clothes were dirty.
I'm not talking "Oh, that kid really enjoyed his lunch" kinda dirty. I mean dirt-dirty.
As we pass, the young mother looks at my kiddo, saying "She's really pretty." To which I respond "Oh thanks. See ya later!"
::gulp::
Seconds later I realized I should have said something about her kid. "Man, he sure is healthy," or "He looks like he's a keeper," or "Bet he keeps you busy." But, no. Instead? I thank her for her comment about my child, and say "See ya later."
Total.utter.complete.loser.of.a.person.fail.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
What was I thinking? For real?
So much for finding time to blog more. We are just beyond busy at this house.
With a kiddo that refuses to sleep, a hubs that works about 20 hours overtime AND attends classes, and me who is too far behind to even think about working ahead, we are functioning on the bare bones here.
We are going on about 4 months of Ansley not sleeping well. We get about one night a week where she will sleep straight through, but even that is becoming more of a rarity. I keep telling myself that this is all because ALL her teeth decided to come in at once. Seriously. We've had at least one tooth cutting since 13 months old. At times, we've had as many as three. We're up to 6 teeth completely in with her cutting two more as wespeak type.
So, I've thought of a possible solution to this problem. I think we are going to transition Ansley to a toddler bed. Very soon. Because as it is now, she wakes up, and if we want her to go back to sleep in her bed, it's about an hour to get her to sleep, with her waking again about 2 hours later. So, we put her in our bed. And I'm so over it.
Now, before you start hassling me about how she's only waking up at this point to get into our bed, I KNOW. But there comes a point were sleep is more precious than insisting that your kiddo stay in her own bed. And crying it out? Yeah, she's gone for a whole hours without letting up.
So, here's my plan. Move her to the toddler bed, gate her door so if she does wake up she is free to play herself back to sleep, and if she decides to cry, Mommy will go crawl in bed with Ansley. Once Ansley is sawing logs, Mommy goes back to her own bed. Hence, no more Ansley in my bed.
Hopefully.
That is the plan.
The only foreseeable hiccup? If Mommy falls asleep in Ansley's bed too. Which, at my current state of exhaustion, is a very likely possibility.
Until then, I have an ever growing list of housework that needs to be done. And after last weekend's little mouse adventure, I feel like I need to scrub every surface of this house with bleach. Especially my pots and pans, which little mousey friend left little presents in. Fabulous.
With a kiddo that refuses to sleep, a hubs that works about 20 hours overtime AND attends classes, and me who is too far behind to even think about working ahead, we are functioning on the bare bones here.
We are going on about 4 months of Ansley not sleeping well. We get about one night a week where she will sleep straight through, but even that is becoming more of a rarity. I keep telling myself that this is all because ALL her teeth decided to come in at once. Seriously. We've had at least one tooth cutting since 13 months old. At times, we've had as many as three. We're up to 6 teeth completely in with her cutting two more as we
So, I've thought of a possible solution to this problem. I think we are going to transition Ansley to a toddler bed. Very soon. Because as it is now, she wakes up, and if we want her to go back to sleep in her bed, it's about an hour to get her to sleep, with her waking again about 2 hours later. So, we put her in our bed. And I'm so over it.
Now, before you start hassling me about how she's only waking up at this point to get into our bed, I KNOW. But there comes a point were sleep is more precious than insisting that your kiddo stay in her own bed. And crying it out? Yeah, she's gone for a whole hours without letting up.
So, here's my plan. Move her to the toddler bed, gate her door so if she does wake up she is free to play herself back to sleep, and if she decides to cry, Mommy will go crawl in bed with Ansley. Once Ansley is sawing logs, Mommy goes back to her own bed. Hence, no more Ansley in my bed.
Hopefully.
That is the plan.
The only foreseeable hiccup? If Mommy falls asleep in Ansley's bed too. Which, at my current state of exhaustion, is a very likely possibility.
Until then, I have an ever growing list of housework that needs to be done. And after last weekend's little mouse adventure, I feel like I need to scrub every surface of this house with bleach. Especially my pots and pans, which little mousey friend left little presents in. Fabulous.
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