Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Our Sweet Blessing Has Arrived!


A little less than two weeks ago our Declan made his arrival in the afternoon. After spending about 3 hours in the hospital he arrived and is perfect. It was a peaceful, non-medicated delivery where the only additions to the room were the nurses and doctor. We are so grateful that all of our wishes were honored and supported, which made this birth story more intimate and calm, a direct juxtaposition to Baby Love's delivery. We are working on his birth story, but wanted to give a few details and pictures!
Declan Donovan
7lbs 2 oz
20 Inches
Proud Parents 2 Hours After Arrival
Long Limbs and So Active!

Part Of Our Support Team and Close Friends, Jessica and Caitlin
(It was Caitlin's 30th Birthday and we promised her a special gift!)
Baby Love Meeting "Duckie" As He Has Come To Be Called
So Cozy With His Hands Next To His Face
A Heart To Heart With Dad
My Heart Has Been Stolen Away

Going Home As A Family Of Four
There are truly so many people that we want and need to thank for their help and love to our family, but know it would start to sound like an Oscar acceptance speech. Suffice it to say that this delivery and recovery truly took our small village of support people, all of whom we are incredibly grateful for.
Brothers. Let The Next Big Adventure Begin....
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Crave to Create~ Felt Food
This past week my sweet friend Jessica and I came together to create a birthday present for a lovely little girl turning one. We decided after much debate to craft a set of felt play food and were absolutely thrilled with how they turned out. She blogged about this fun activity as well here. 


The Apron Jessica made...
Breakfast! Jessica made eggs, bacon (not pictured), a tea bag and cinnamon rolls. Then the cupcake was an accompaniment to my sugar cookies for dessert. The strawberries went with lunch, which I made.
My creations. Lunch was a sandwich with tomato, cheese and lettuce. For dinner there is a chicken leg, mashed potatoes and gravy and green beans. The sugar cookies were for dessert of course!
We packaged each meal separately in little plastic bags that were tied with ribbon. That way it was easy to see what was for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. So much fun!
Below are some links that we perused while trying to come up with our plan. Let me know if you make any of them! I am incredibly excited to make a set for Baby Love as he is very interested in all things in the kitchen. What a great way to involve him in the cooking process!


http://lyneya.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/tutorial-felt-banana-in-peel-or-corn-in-husk/


http://www.craftpad.com/search?q=felt+food


http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2007/09/felt-food-toys.html


http://www.colorfool.net/2007/03/20/play-food-the-final-episode/
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Thankful Thursdays
Wow, we have so much to be thankful for and will update you on some of those things shortly. Playing along with me today is my longtime friend Tanya. Pop on over and hear what she is thankful for! Recently Abbey has been moved to thankfulness by...

...friends who love to craft and create. They inspire me and remind me of the creativity I possess and encourage me to use that part of my mind. Their ability to show love and to truly care for someone through something that they have personalized is wonderful and a blessing. I am grateful to have so many of them in my life and am inspired to pay it forward on a daily basis. 


Play along with us! Every Thursday we will post something we are thankful for, and I would love it if you did so as well on your blogs. It is medicine for the soul to give thanks and when done regularly contentment comes into reach. And it can be anything, silly, personal, or blog related. Just take a moment to give thanks!
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Mommy Cards
Dear friends, I need your input here. So please, please let me know which way you lean on this topic. I promised hubby that I would listen to the census on this topic, so weigh in!


I am contemplating ordering a set of "Mommy Cards". For those of you who aren't aware of this trend they are basically how corporate women have decided to deal with the "making new friends" conundrum I talked about here. These business cards have your information, your child's name, contact information and then your choice of neighborhood information, places you go to play, or where they go to school and maybe even a picture of you and your child. I have seriously considered getting these from about the 5 month of my pregnancy with Baby R. Of course there was a lot of thoughts about it being overkill on the playground. Lately though I have been writing down my information on many scraps of paper and as such have rethought this possibility. Not to mention Kodak gives you the first 50 for free! This is the one I really love.
Via
So friends, what do you think? Should we get a set? How would you respond if someone pulled these out of their wallet in an interaction? Cool or creepy?
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How Do You...?


I was incredibly inspired this weekend. I "made a friend", which feels very elementary to state, but there isn't any other way to put it really, and it makes me chuckle to say it out loud. As we were talking we realized we had both had similar experiences and difficulties in meeting other moms. There is a delicate dance that is performed in mom-to-mom interactions. Often one side is more eager than the other, which can be intimidating. And this led me to think of the last time I had to really work to make friends, the dreaded junior high. 


High school you develop a "thing". You play sports, are in advanced classes, or maybe theater was your thing. Maybe it was a combination. All of these "things" come with a pre-made group that hopefully accept you. College, you have roommates, classmates, forced interactions, etc...But for me junior high time was the last time I really had to sit down and think, "What makes me cool? " 


So here I am again, "making friends" and truly having a blast. This woman asked me if living in the city made this process easier and I had to answer honestly that it wasn't. I have met many enjoyable nannies, but the mom's aren't very friendly. So it makes me wonder, how do you make new mommy friends? What is intimidating about someone like myself approaching you at the park? Share with me! Shed some light on this situation and please pass on your tips~
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