Author: Melissa

How cute is this? If anyone is in the market for birth announcements, invitations or just moved cards, please check out Wee Little Designs! Run by a super talented fellow mommy-blogger, Jamie, these cards are soooo adorable — I had a really hard time choosing my favorite one. I had to narrow it down from 5 that I loved.  Jamie is so easy to work with and customized my card until it was just want I wanted.
These are a terrific price (much cheaper than elsewhere I looked – including places like Snapfish!), she is willing to customize to your heart’s content and the entire process took less than 24 hours. (Seriously!) She even offers a jpg version of your card, so you can just email it out to your heart’s content!
Bookmark this site for winter, because the holiday cards are amazing. I’ve already picked my design out! Now I just have to get a picture of my three kids that looks decent. You may be seeing that one on the birth announcement again!

Our first bleeding head injury.

She claims she hurt her head “on the couch.”
I don’t know how exactly… but I suspect something else happened.
Call it my “keen powers of deduction.”

It is incredible that he has been here for a month. True, we are viewing this month through sleep-deprived haziness, but that seemed to go quickly.  And I’m a little sad. He’s already huge. 11 pounds, 4 ounces. 90th percentile. If they adjusted his age, since he was a few weeks early, he’d be off the charts. He’s already outgrowing some of his clothes. (We seem to have one incredibly chunky monkey on our hands here.) Where is my teeny-tiny baby? He’s gone already!
He is so precious to me – I can hardly describe it. Its different somehow than with my girls. Not more or less or better – just different. Maybe he seems like more of a miracle, since we really, really wanted a boy. And we got our heart’s desire. And he’s probably our last. So I feel the need to treasure every baby moment.
I love watching his sisters with him – singing to him, trying to comfort him when he is crying. I love cuddling with him and probably hold him too much. I love how everyone in the grocery store peeks into the baby sling and tells me how cute he is 🙂 I love what the girls’ call his “pirate face” – when he has one eye open. I love his serious face – when he looks like he’s contimplating equations or something. I love how he calms down the second he hears my voice. I love the yawns. And the little stretches.
And even though lately he is often doing this:

I wouldn’t miss a minute!

Yesterday I was out BY MYSELF and Husband’s little sporty Jetta needed gas. Its so fun to drive a teeny-tiny car after the mommy-van. I feel like a race car driver.
Anyway, I was filling up with gas and this guy pulls up next to me. In some nice BMW-type car. He’s pretty young, dressed in a shirt and tie. He starts the flirting. I admit – I’m flattered. ESPECIALLY after being large and pregnant for so long or else dragging 3 kids everywhere (now, I’m not a man, but I’d guess that is a turn-off?). But, I’m really not in the mood. I was tired and grumpy. He’s giving it a shot though, attempting to be all suave and cool.
I get in my car to drive away. He gets into his. As he pulls out of the gas station – still giving me the “Oh, I’m so suave it hurts” look – I noticed that his gas tank was open and he had never screwed the gas cap back on. It was dangling against the side of the car.
I BURST out laughing. He noticed and sheepishly pulled over to fix his car as I drove past, still laughing.

I needed that.

to get everything done. Well, its enough to get done the essentials. But now enough to get done all the  things I want to do.

• I want to exercise. I was so excited to be able to exercise again. (Which should last about a week 😉 I haven’t been able to since January due to the pregnancy issues. But now that I can, I’m not finding the time.
• I want to sew again. And reopen my business. But I’m not finding the time to sew the new products I need to put in the shop.
• I want to nap. Well, time isn’t really the issue here. Its more “having 3 kids” that is preventing that.
• I want to clean my house. REALLY clean my house. Since I had the baby, actually since I went into premature labor in February, the house hasn’t really been cleaned well. Things aren’t in their place, dust is under furniture and the windows! Oh, my!   But I’m not finding the chunk of time I need to tackle this.
• I want to go out with my girlfriends. Haven’t had a good girls night is forever!

Examples of the craziness:

1. I stepped down from leadership in Community Bible Study yesterday. Too much going on next year. Two hours later, I got a phone call asking me if I’d be interested in leading women’s bible study at the church this summer.
2. The next two weeks are totally insane, for several reasons. End of the school year for the kids and such. So guess what weeks the Boss wants Husband to travel?

Apparently, this boy child has decided to mess with my brain. He recently found he enjoys staying awake for around 2 hours in the middle of the night. Apparently he likes to have conversations with Mama that go like this: “Please go to sleep, Colin. Pleeeeeeeeeze? Just go to sleep. I pay you money if you just go to sleep.” And he like watch me go crazy from sleep deprivation the next day.
Last night we partied from midnight to 2am. Then again at 4. And again at 6:30.
I’m sure there are some clever, witty remarks I could make about this. But, frankly… I’m way too tired.

…how amazing my husband is.

He launched a new product at work. (And has a patent! My husband! Invented something!) So, on Friday, he was given a sheet of paper – and told he could pick a reward/gift/thing. There was a GPS, a nice watch, golf club travel case, a digital camera, a Sony picture station, a designer purse, some ugly jewelry. And what do you think he picked?

The ipod.

He does all the work and uses his reward to buy something for me. Even after living with a pregnant me. And a seriously-sleep-deprived-new-mom me.

I married the sweetest guy out there. Sorry, Ladies.

Sleeping in is a wonderous thing. Especially when you haven’t done it in awhile.
Then, later, getting to take a nap.

hee hee

1. Drop kids off at school.
2. Take nap.

That’s as far as I got….
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Its a law of nature. As soon as your husband buys a new, cute little camera to replace the one your darling children launched down the stairs…
…it will go on sale. D’oh!
Time to go back to Circuit City and turn on the charm at the returns counter!
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My sister is coming to visit today. Yay!
I’m  not cleaning in preparation for her visit. This is totally unlike me. Actually, I think a few close friends and family may have just fainted in shock. I always clean before people come over. Granted, it is occasionally what you might call “surface” cleaning, but the house will be looking presentable.
Not this time.
Well, I may go crazy and empty the diaper pail. But that’s probably about it.
You know what I really miss? I used to strap my ipod in my arm when I cleaned. So I got to listen to great music, sermons or a book while I cleaned. Now, with the ipod broken and no longer owning a working cd player, when I clean I have to listen to… my kids fighting or the baby crying. Or something equally relaxing. (Cause it certainly won’t be quiet! Not in this house!) Not as much fun. I realized I really used that cleaning time as “me” time – even though I was technically cleaning, I was able to mentally check out and listen to something I really liked at the same time.
HEY!! I just had a BRILLIANT idea! What if I went on a cleaning strike until my Husband caved and bought me a new ipod because it would be cheaper than hiring a cleaning lady? Isn’t that a fantastic idea?!?!? Think it will work?

Me neither. Shoot.

Darn you, Apple! Why is everything you make so addictive and expensive???!?!?