After seeing a similar post on a friend's blog, I started to think about the things that we often hide from one another. I've been learning a lesson on transparency and how rewarding it can be. I am so far from perfect, but I find myself only blogging when I have something nice to say. Something important, or pretty, or exciting. It's far rarer that I post the mundane, embarrassing and uninteresting things. To tell you the truth, sometimes I'd rather pretend to be perfect, but the posts that I enjoy the most in my reading time are those that are so brutally honest that they make me feel so much better about my beautiful disaster. So here goes… brutal honesty about where I am today and where I hope I’m going! To tell you the truth: I’ve only blogged three previous times this month. ...
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Blog Nook
This is where I used to blog. In my "Muted Gold" dining room. I chose this color when we bought our house because I thought it was yellow. By happy accident, it turned out to be a spicy orange that I loved. Six years ago. We haven't changed anything about our living and dining rooms since then with the exception of rearranging some furniture and adding new rugs last year. It was time for a change. While I'm nowhere close to being ready to share the rooms, I thought I'd share a sneak peek and tell you what we did to this one little spot. Before, our computer was on an antique sewing machine base topped with a rectangle of glass. We wall-mounted a shelving unit and stashed all of our techy stuff and called it a day. It was okay, but very cluttered and I hated not having a definitive ...
It’s a Fashion Show
I just wanted to share some bargains I got recently {most of these, today} for Ella. She LOVES clothes {just like her mommy} and is very agreeable when you ask her to try them on. She tried each of these outfits on {including bow changes}, posed for pictures and modeled for her SD. Notice in a few the change of location - she is very particular. The outfit on the left is from Remember Nguyen and I ordered it a few weeks ago on major sale. I think with shipping and monogramming and everything it was about $32. It's a little big now, but will be great for Christmas and Valentines. The outfit on the right I got at Little Blessings in Mt. Laurel. Today was the first day of their going out of business sale and everything was 40 to 60% off. This is a 4T, so it will fit much better next year. ...
Two Ellas
On Saturday we had the pleasure of attending a birthday for one of my Ella's best friends. Her name is Ella, too and we lovingly refer to her as "Big Ella" since she's four months older and instead of calling my daughter Ella she calls her "Dean Fields." No confusion there. Her party was at Build-A-Bear, which we've never been to and boy was it fun. The kids got to pick out a bear, name it, give it a heart and stuffing, bathe it and dress it. Our bear's name is Peanut and she is wearing a cute polka dot bikini (unfortunately we left her at Garan's this afternoon, so there isn't a picture of the finished product). The photos below are my favorites from the day and there is a link at the bottom of the post for the entire album. I hope you don't mind that I'm not blogging on the ...
Hello again
This photo is from so long ago, but it is one of my favorites. Taken by K, of course, while playing with her many baubles; Ella has been a girly-girl from the get go. Can you believe how tiny she is in this photo? The best I can tell, it was taken sometime spring of last year. It is amazing to me how she has grown since then. I'm blogging this picture because I'm in a hotel room without my girl and I can't take a "picture of the day." Fortunately, I should be receiving one each night via email so that I can see my little princess and share them with you. In another life, I worked for another company and traveled quite a lot. In this life, it's been eighteen months since my last overnight business trip and I'm finding it more difficult than I remember. Then, she was small and didn't ...
Back to blogging
Despite the fact that this weekend was wonderful, I must admit I'm exhausted! I vowed not to craft for seven whole days and to enjoy my home, my family and spend a little time blogging. In case you haven't figured this out yet, my child is a royal hoot. She has me in stitches most of the time and I rarely stop talking about her. She is so full of life and energy and has the sweetest little personality. Everyday she gives me enough blog-fodder for an entire week's worth of posts. I went to pick her up at my mom's and she had already eaten. Vegetable soup. Cornbread. Half of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And 3 banana nut mini muffins. We come home and start putting groceries up. Of course, I brought her a surprise, why wouldn't I? She climbed up in her highchair and started ...
Baby Blogger
We've discovered that Ella likes to type. She'd like to say a few words: fsjug;irjtg;ekjg;dlfkgjeg gmkvmr kgj;kgj ;rlkt s;dlkfj l ...