Mommy Musings

I'm here today to introduce you to someone I hold very dear in my heart.  I have known Christophe since we were in first grade.  I had a huge crush on him in 6th grade {which I'm not actually sure he ever knew about}.  We were close friends in high school and I even took him as my date to my freshman year semi. So why am I telling you all this?  Christophe has suffer from a rare degenerative muscle disease called Myofribullar Myopathy his whole life.  Only 100 people in the entire country have been diagnosed with it.  He has had several organ transplants and many other medical procedures done.  He is 28. Christophe has the greatest heart and will to live that I have ever seen.  He has started his own blog to start to spread awareness about both his disease and organ donation.  Please head on over there and give your support to him and continually send him your prayers.  If anyone can come up with research or a cure for this disease, it's him!

There's a little known fact about me that I've decided to finally share with you all.  I'm a baby monitor expert.  Seriously.  It was never a life-long dream of mine, but somehow it just evolved that way.  Want to know how I have become such an expert?  It's simple.  I'VE OWNED 6 MONITORS IN THE PAST THREE YEARS .  Yup, you heard that right...SIX.  How is that even possiblewhen Emmy is not yet four?  I'll give you the break down. When I was first registering for my baby shower when I was pregnant with Emmy, I got just an audio monitor.{monitor #1}  We had nothing for the baby and I felt like a video monitor was an extravegance.  I can't find a picture of the one we had online, no can I remember the brand, but it was total crap so I don't think anyone wants to buy it anyway. The base went in the baby's room, and we had two receivers we could listen too.  The whole thing stopped working when Emmy was only a few months old.  So we just went out and boug

Okay, so I ramble on a bit past the 2-3 min mark and I say ummm waay too much..but here it is!  My very first vlog link-up with Ashley !!

I've been hiding a secret from all of you.  One I was too afraid to mention for fear of massive repercussions.  Until this past Saturday, I had gone 3 1/2 years of motherhood without a single puking incident. Sure we had our fair share of projectile breast milk and formula from each of the girls when they were babies, but that was it.  And that's hardly a big deal in my book.  I knew one day the stomach flu or something similar would eventually end up in our lives, but I rode out the puke-free wave as long as I could.{I also think I got to live without puke for so long since I had more than my fair share during my pregnancies} Enter Saturday.  The day of my sister's wedding rehearsal and dinner.  Skip, the girls, and I are all dressed up and ON TIME.  Something I used to pride myself on and something that rarely happens with two kids.  I had a huge diaper bag filled with everything I thought we'd need.  We hit the road and begin our hours drive.  Charlie was pretty scre

This weekend will go down as one of the best of my life.  My baby sister is now married!!!! I've been sitting here for a good half an hour now trying to think of the perfect words to describe what this weekend meant to me, but some things are just indescribable and can only be felt, not articulated into words.  So instead I'll leave you with the few I Phone pics I snapped yesterday.  At the end is the Matron of Honor speech I made for the happy couple.  Bridesmaid dress Hair and make-up My sweet flower girls #1 Sweet flower girl #2 Cocktail hour with my cousin My bestie J who came {and was a HUGE help} with the girls! They're married!!!!! Her dress was very Kate Middleton {though my sis was way prettier and more radiant than Kate} Dancing with our dad to "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban.....commence tears and sobbing Dancing the day away! Me and my MARRIED sister! {let it be known I'm standing on my tippy toes in this pick...I'm the really short on in the

I'm going to be MIA on here, Twitter, Facebook, etc for the next few days for a VERY important reason. After a beautiful shower A fabulous bachelorette party These two, my baby sister and her fiance, will be getting MARRIED on Sunday. I cannot WAIT, with both tears and laughter to celebrate these two as they start their lives together!

In cased you missed it, I blogged about all the decorations/food for Charlie's birthday yesterday .  We kept the guest list very small...just immediate family {hardly any of our friends have kids and we don't think it's fair to subject them to a one-year-old's birthday}  It was a very relaxed party.  No one blinked an eye when Emmy and her cousin needed to run off some energy outside or when Charlie needed an impromptu bath after cake time.  We ate, opened gifts, and made some nice memories for Charlie Bear! We had a mini photo shoot before everyone got there I *love* when she scrunches her nose! The sibling picture was not working out so well Opening some gifts Had to steal this one from my sis...Skip took NO pictures during the cake! Girl loves her sweets! My crazy girls

When Emmy turned one , we gave her an Elmo birthday party {quick rant, why do people hate giving their kids character parties?  Isn't the party supposed to be for the kid and what they want?} but since Charlie hasn't shown any real prefence to characters, I decided to go with a butterfly theme.  I'll be breaking her party recap into two posts...today is all about the theme and decorations! I actually picked out this theme MONTHS ago and have been grabbing butterflies every where I saw them.  This actually made it really easy and helped spread out the cost!  Now with the invention of Pinterest and having photo evidence of these parties for centuries to come, my desire to throw the 'perfect' party is always in full force.  But as a SAHM with a mortgage and two kids, extra money for expensive party invitations and personalized labels is rarely in the budget.  So I have to get a little more creative on things. Most of the things I bought for this party were from Doll