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Continue reading →: small business saturday and maker’s mondaySo today is Black Friday and I’ll confess: I went out shopping. Old Navy was having a 50% off everything sale and mama needed some cute maternity clothes (which don’t exist, btw). I bought some craft stuff at A.C. Moore, and a stocking for Holden at Home Goods (if anyone…
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Continue reading →: birth of the cuff beltMy friend Hilary, the super fashionable shop owner of Arthur & Daughters in York, PA, occasionally likes to stroke my ego and ask me to model for her. But when I get to wear gorgeous clothes and have my photo taken by The Susquehanna Photographic, how can I say no?…
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Continue reading →: a trip to the please touch museumOne of my best friends lives outside Philadelphia, so when we found an amazing Living Social deal for the Please Touch Museum, located in the Fairmount Park section of Philly, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to get together with the kids. The Please Touch Museum is basically two floors…
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Continue reading →: the dreaded christmas listSo the Christmas list requests have started rolling in for Holden and… I don’t know what to tell people! The kid has literally everything she needs, plus a father who hates junk and… just “stuff” in general. So what’s a mom to do? She likes to watch Sesame Street and…
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Continue reading →: elf on the shelf: it beginsSo I jumped on the bandwagon and bought The Elf on the Shelf. Let’s be clear: I’m fully aware that this is more for me than for Holden at this point. But I see all the adorable Elf on the Shelf Pins on Pinterest and it looks like so much…
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Continue reading →: a “great” gender (and name) revealSo along with the nontraditional reveal for the gender reveal party, we went with a nontraditional theme as well… to go with the nontraditional name we’ve chosen for our baby boy. See if you can guess it before I tell you… My mom’s friend made us this adorable “Hello Old…
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Continue reading →: an illuminating gender reveal partyBecause we didn’t find out what we were having with my first pregnancy, I was pretty excited to hop on the gender reveal party train this time around. I’ve been to some super cute gender reveal parties where the big reveal was done with cakes, balloons, even a poem. So…
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Continue reading →: baby #2 is a…I’ll post details about the gender reveal party tomorrow, but I figured I’d share the news tonight! Baby #2 is a boy! (photo credit: Katlyn Marie Photography)
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Continue reading →: halfway – then and nowI’m now 20 weeks and 3 days pregnant, which is just over halfway through this pregnancy (I actually had Holden at 39 weeks, so I could technically be more than halfway, but you get me). Here’s a then-and-now shot so you can see how my belly is progressing this time…
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Continue reading →: the angle of the dangleTomorrow is the day I find out whether baby #2 is a boy or a girl. I really wanted to find out what I was having when I was pregnant with Holden, but Mr. B wanted to keep it a surprise so I relented. Not this time! I’ve been obsessed…
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