Girlymama

 I was given this from Mel over at Life is Like a Box of Chocolates – how sweet is she?

So I get to pass this on to some girls that encourage and entertain me!
First, as always, Musings of a Housewife (my in-real-life friend!) who is just so fun and always has great posts!
Second, Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry who is so cute and funny!
Third, my little sister. Who really needs to write more.

And some additional great reads for you:

I’m totally obsessed with this cooking site. Makes me sad I’m missing Thanksgiving dinner this year!!
Musings of a Housewife answered my pressing questions about boots.
If you’re Christmas shopping for kids, Scribbit has a great post on the funniest children’s books.

My own Christmas list is fairly pathetic this year (Boots! I need boots!), but I can recommend some fun shopping places for you all to enjoy! Most of these are on Etsy, so they are guarenteed to be super unique!!!
For stocking stuffers:
Try e.l.f. cosmetics. Almost everything is only $1, and they have some good stuff. The pumping lip gloss and nail polish  are great!

For kids, Tags on Bags  are cute for them to hang on their backpacks.

For grown-ups, these headbands are so adorable!

Gifts:
For babies, you can buy things from my wonderful store (cough, shameless self promotion, cough)

For kids, I am totally crazy about these winter hats by Portland Beanie Company.

For the ladies, how about a cute and flirty apron?

And for guys… this always stumps me…  I’ll have to think about this one.

If you know what that title means, you rock 😉

My head is swimming – SWIMMING – this week.  We leave for India in 6 days, so I have lists upon lists in my head of everything I need to do and everything I need to pack. I’m totally waking up at 3am thinking “Purell! Do I need more Purell?!?” And not like this time of year isn’t busy already – sheesh. So, I’m just trying to stay afloat over here.
I’ll make up for it when you have some fantastic posts next week when I can log in from India 😉

I was driving to pick up the girls from school and I was stuck behind this big ol’ car. It was trying to turn left onto a busy street and it was taking forEVER. This car was pulled out so far that cars had to squeeze around it. And it was taking forEVER. I could not believe that no one was honking at this obnoxious car! (This is Philly, after all, where people honk at everything, including such atrocities like ‘turning right’ and ‘stopping at a red light.’)

The mystery was solved when the car finally turned left. And I saw the driver.

It was a nun.

Husband always buys me a very nice gift in a pretty little blue box when I have a baby. Its the least he could do after I’d… well… Lets just say that I’d earned it.
After Ellie was born he bought me this ring:

When Gracie was born he bought me this necklace:

Is it a mere coincidence that my baby is due in April and April’s birthstone just happens to be a diamond? I. Think. Not.

Husband was reading to the girls from the Children’s Bible the other day and they got to the story about the birth of Jesus.
Husband: “Look at Mary’s belly. She has a baby in her belly just like Mommy does!”
Ellie: completely serious and very impressed “Is God in Mommy’s belly?”

I just spent way too much time reorganizing my playlists and adding some new music. Is having 3.7 days worth of music on my iPod slightly obsessive? Because I don’t think so. Because there’s still more music that I could add.

Speaking of i-pods, what do you all think of the new iPod Touch? I don’t think I like it.