Monthly Archives: January 2013

6 month mushiness

Reesie-Girl,

Today, I felt like I didn’t get nearly enough awake time with you and as I sit here in your dimly lit bedroom, looking down at you sleeping in my arms, I am overwhelmed with love.

I say it a lot but where does the time go. I desperately want time to slow down, but I know that can’t happen. Maybe it’s because I know just how fast years can fly by, or maybe it’s knowing we’re done having kids, but I’m trying to soak up every last second. I don’t want to miss a thing. I never want to forget.

Sometimes, if you wake up just a little too early, I’ll scoop you up, bring you back to my bed and snuggle you back you sleep. The quiet moments alone with you are some if my favorites.

You’re a mama’s girl. And I kind of love it.

You cut your first tooth last Friday night. This weekend you’ll be starting solids. You’re trying desperately to crawl. You can sit up on your own for short periods of time.

You, my sweet girl, will be 6 months old on Saturday.

I have no words that can adequately describe the love I have for you and the joy you bring to this family. Your entire face lights up each time you smile. Your eyes sparkle. People can’t help but smile back at you. You are a little charmer.

You have this face you make…you purse your lips and kind of crinkle your nose. It’s a half smile smirk and your eyes are fiery. You are so full of spirit I have no doubt you’ll be keeping me on my toes as you get older.

I hope you never lose the sparkle in your eyes, even if it does make my hair turn grey prematurely.

These last six months have been some of my best. I am blessed to be you mom. Never doubt my love for you.

Xoxo,
Mama

Working with Style – a thing

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{Said in the voice of the most interesting man in the world} I don’t always take pics for Working with Style, but when I do there’s skinny jeans, wedges and sock buns.

Seriously…I think I may have a problem.

I love this look lately. I feel put together. Trendy. Not too casual. Win-win-win.

Oooh Life

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I almost started out this post by saying that this last weekend was just what I needed. Then I remembered that’s pretty much how I started my post about my New Year’s weekend. Is it really possible to have two weekends in a row that are that good? Am I tempting fate by putting that out in the internet-world? Does that mean that this weekend will just downright suck? Perhaps.

This weekend we tackled part of our new year’s resolution of revamping our laundry room/pantry space. Then that morphed into tackling Ry’s closet and our office/play room the next day. We also hit up costco. Andy went shooting with a buddy. And the girls and I spent some much needed time playing outside. In the SUN! Slowly but surely our house is getting into order. I sense this weekend will be another busy one with organizing and purging. I need to finish the office area. We’re getting rid of the GIANT desk that is used for nothing more than to stack papers on top of. I seriously can’t wait!

I’m eyeball deep in tradeshow prep at work. This is our first major tradeshow as a company so this week/two beforehand is extra important for me and my Type-A self. So, please excuse the photo dump…that’s pretty much all I’ve got the time for at the moment. One day I may return to some sort of real blogging.

Someone has been practicing her sitting up skills…she was doing pretty well on Saturday and was making herself belly laugh every time she realized she was sitting on her own.

Rylee was super into the shelving project. The checker at the home improvement store let her scan everything with the handheld scanner. Then she helped Andy with all the leveling and stud finding…legit doing it by herself. Andy was having a blast doing the project with her. It was the sweetest thing to sit back and watch.

Safety first, friends!

The mostly finished product! Horray for smarter use of space! {Boo for how much that shelving stuff costs! Holy crap}

Her closet has been like straight out of the movies, if you open it you’re not sure if you’ll be taken out by a toy avalanche. Don’t tell Rylee, but while she wasn’t looking I started throwing stuff away.

Go ahead and file this under heart-melting moments. Rylee is such an amazing big sister. Seriously almost makes me cry. {Side note: WHEN DID I BECOME SUCH A SAP!?!?}

Our front yard. Amazing day.

MUD PIES! What’s hilarious is how Ry is still, 3 days later, so shocked I let her play in the mud. What she doesn’t realize is that this was so me when I was her age. I LOVED playing in the mud when I was little. She was building a robin’s nest, by the way.

I think we’re finally starting to get the hang of the work/fun balance thing. At least I hope we are.

Our little family of four is settling quite nicely into itself. I love them. So much.

So. Resolutions.

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Happy New Year!

Let me just start out by saying that this latest 4 day weekend is exactly what I needed to feel refreshed. A little bit of lazy. A little bit of fun. A little bit of productive. A perfect amount of time spent with my family. It was great.

Now, on to the resolutions.

I’ve never been one to make resolutions. I still don’t know that I’d call them “resolutions”, but whatever. I put some together for Liberating Working Moms a couple of weeks ago and it got me thinking about things other than “working mom” stuff. I guess it all ties together, really. It’s just life. There’s things I can do better. Things I WANT to do better.

So anyway, here’s some of my other “things”…

I want to floss more. Yep, it’s true. I am awful at flossing my teeth…as in, I may do it 2 or 3 times during the week before my dentist appointment. Because clearly I’m fooling them. NOT. Rylee was told at her latest cleaning that she should floss her teeth so Santa brought her some of those little animal shaped flossers in her stocking and now she is all about flossing once a day. Sometimes twice. So, if my 4 year old can do it, why can’t I!?

I need to declutter. My house just overwhelms me sometimes. I feel like we have so.much.stuff. We’ve been talking for a long time about putting up a better shelving system in our laundry room, moving the current shelving we have in there into Ry’s room and the “office” in order to help better organize those spaces. And now, it’s happening. Our house has been more overwhelming that not lately and I’m ready to tackle it.

In a step to declutter, we’re switching everything to paperless billing. Why it’s taken us this long to do so is beyond me. But basically, making this switch will clear up our filing cabinets so we can consolidate and then get rid of the giant desk in the office that we NEVER use. Unless you count stacking up paper bills that need to be filed on it. Seriously, I file our “very important things” maybe twice a year. DUMB. No reason for that.

My theme for the year is simplicity. I want stuff streamlined. I’m sick of stacks of paper all over the place. I’m sick of feeling overwhelmed to the point of just flat out not wanting to do anything. It’s time for a change. Might as well be staring along with a new year, right?

Did you make any resolutions? What are they?

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Monthly Archives: January 2013

6 month mushiness

Working with Style – a thing

Oooh Life

So. Resolutions.