Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Reality of Taking Photos of Sisters

Sisters..
they are fickle little things!
I'm sure the same thing goes for brothers...
but based off of my experience,
I'm focusing on the little ladies in this post.

One minute they love each other... singing Jesus songs and doing ballerina twirls.
The next minute they are ready to body slam each other
with a very high pitch warrior scream.
I'm scared. for myself and the one getting attacked.
Taking them out in public is always fun and exciting...
(Sophie: 4 Sienna: 2... birthdays in august)

Because of my little ones fickle attitudes about each other during this period of their life..
Photos are a bit tricky to get the first time around.
And because I get lots of comments on Instagram and Facebook
implying how much my girls love each other and how good they are...
I thought it was time to put this out there for the world to see.
They are stinkers. cute-adorable-love each other-then heaven
forbid you take their purple crayon-arm pincher-stinkers.
Pretty sure they aren't the first of their kind.

I'm so glad they have each other though...
Because they are helping each other learn to love more!
learning to share and be patient... learning to roll into a ball for protection.
jk. on that last one but I'm sure that'll came later.

The day I took these photos at target I laughed out loud as I looked through my photo feed.
A delirious, how am I going to ever survive, laugh.
It seriously sums it up right now.
I wasn't laughing DURING this moment...I wanted to pull my hair out because they were acting like I was torturing them making them eat an icee.
As moms, we know you have to take a few MILLION photos to get a good one.
And even though I probably won't frame all the bad ones...
I love my little stinkers. even when they drive me bonkers.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

BUMPED by BLANQI Bloggers- Video Reviews!

It was my job to help BLANQI Founders, Valerie and Sabina, round up
a great group of Bloggers to try out their new line BUMPED by BLANQI
which is now available! exclusively on Target.com!
There were some bloggers I knew we HAD to get...
and then some that I found, and fell in love with immediately! You will too.
Here's the first round of blog reviews!

 I'm so happy with the girls we got on board to try the
Maternity or Postpartum cami and do a video review for all of you!
Look below for links to their blog post where they share their thoughts on the new line.
It was so fun seeing the real people behind the blogs through the videos!
And I loved seeing BUMPED on each of them
after we had been chatting about it!

Some of these girls are rocking the
postpartum and some the maternity...
ALL of them are giving away a cami of your
choice from the BUMPED line!
AND a $25 gift card to TARGET!
I know 2 or 3 of the giveaways have ended...
but go enter the ones that are still going on! hurrry!!!! ;)





Stay tuned ten more AMAZING bloggers who are
set to share their video reviews this upcoming week!!
(and MORE chances to win one of your own and a Target gift card!)

Monday, May 13, 2013

I was that crazy lady in Walmart today +Free Gifting Printable

I was going to write this blog post...
about my crazy day.

About how I took a trip to walmart because we had NO diapers.. and NO Toilet Paper.
It was a must trip. So I loaded up all three kiddos by myself and headed there.
only to end up being a shoppers' attraction with both girls in the cart, micah strapped to me, racing through the aisles to the bathroom because
sophie was screaming in pain from her stomach hurting and dry heaving
(she is super sensitive and was gagging from her tummy hurting. insane. I know)
I thought she wasn't going to make it and throw up all over the walmart floor...
so we ran for one of those recycle box/trash can things. yup. classy.
when I thought she looked better and wasn't going to throw up,
we made our dash to the bathroom....alllllll while the
LONG line of people for returns stared on horrified.
 LOVE hanging out in a public bathroom with 3 kids. it's super fun and not gross at all.
Plus loud automatic toilets are known to be LOVED by small babies.........not.
Poor thing though.. as soon as I got sophie to feel a little better we grabbed the toilet paper/diapers and she started sobbing again.. race to the bathroom!! AGAIN.
We finally ended up checking out. and if one more person told me I
had my hands full I was going to flip. flip or cry. one or the other. haha.

And what do you do when you have new toilet paper in the house....
Play with it of course!!
Later came across this and realized a certain toddler
was trying to cover her tracks..... ::cough:: sienna ::cough::

I was going to write this blog post about how some days
I feel like I'm running in circles..
Sophia came up to me wanting me to check out her hair
"I'm making it not crazy"..................
She thought it was my hair product that I put in my hair to smooth it out.
nope.
my face wash.
Oh and Micah was rocking a hand me down christmas outfit because it
was the first thing I saw that he fit in. grabbed it. he didn't leave the house like this..
I don't want to look tooooo crazy out in public.

But tonight, while snuggling with sienna before bed,
I started thinking how I don't want to post just about how hard my day was.
Of course I want moms to see that we all have hard days...
I want my readers to leave my blog relating to me..but also feeling uplifted!
I kept thinking about when someone dropped off this gift basket for us when we moved in..how I seriously wanted to cry I was so thankful for their kindness.
I feel a connection with you as my readers...
and I wish so badly we could all just do one big play date! ;)
That we could drop off meals for each other when we knew someone was having a hard day.
I kept thinking how important community is as moms.
It made me want to reach out more to my mom friends...
to not just think about my hard days, but to think about them and lift them up!

If you feel like me... and want to celebrate motherhood
and lift up your fellow mamas...
I just made up this printable for you to download and use when dropping
off something to show you care!
I asked on my blog's facebook page:
"If a fellow mama did something to show she cared,
by dropping something off,..what would you be SO HAPPY to receive?"
read what other mamas said and leave your choice!)

MOM FRIENDS" - PRINTABLE DOWNLOAD

I'm also offering, by request of a blog reader via facebook, the same design but
with my blog and 'celebrate motherhood' tiny at the bottom of each tag!
Would love for you to share our little community with other moms.
Maybe it'll be the connection that mom needs to feel a boost!
DOWNLOAD that version HERE

AND, since a lot of my readers say Mum instead of Mom..
I made up a british version as well. :)
Download the MUM Printable HERE.
and the MUM Printable with my Blog HERE.

Motherhood is hard...
and so very beautiful.

Sisters.

Please Pin, Tweet and Share the printable!
We all need to bless our fellow mamas more.
We know how some days are hard..and we aren't alone in
feeling 'happily' exhausted while taking care of our sweet babies.
So let's reach out and love on each other a little more!
I would seriously cry if someone dropped off a case of diet dr. pepper at my door.
That's all it would take! haha.
sophie update: she feels better! an hour after we got home she was back
to her normal self. must have been gas bubbles. poor little thing.

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