Mommy Musings

Me and Little M visiting my sister down the Jersey shore last week!

WAHOO!!!  I was very excited the other morning when I got a comment from Young Wife/Mom over at I Took the One Less Travelled By...  saying that she had awarded me with this fabulousness! It is my first ever award, so I'm pretty excited about it!!!  (in case you couldn't already tell)  Ok, so now I'm supposed to share 10 true things about myself that you all may not know, give it away to some other deserving people, and let them know they've been awarded.  I feel like coming up with the 10 things is going to be hard,  but I will give it my best shot. 1. There might have been years here and there that were tougher than others, but I have really loved every stage of my life.  I hope this continues in the years to come. 2. I don't mind calling my friends at all, but I really hate calling companies.  It's totally irrational but I get very anxious about having to do it.  The same goes for talking to people in stores.  It is for this reason th...

I was pretty pleased with myself last night. Since the baby, my house cleaning has obviously fallen by the wayside and is no where near the standard it used to be. Laundry seems to be the worst. I always get it done, but it seems that I really only have time to get one load done a day. Which pretty much means that I have to do laundry *every* day, since I never seem to be able to get on top of it. And big organization projects I want to get done around the house? Forget it! That is until last night. Skip had two of his guy friends over to hang out, so I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to get some stuff done (and to let them have some boy time!) I figured I'd start some laundry in the basement and see where I went from there. While I was down there, I couldn't help but notice the absolute disaster that is our basement. It is unfinished, and with the very low ceilings, we will only ever be able to use it as storage. Because of this, anytime we ever need to p...

I have yet another fabulous giveaway to tell you about. (I should really get on doing one of these myself!)  This one is by Mrs. over at Trying Our Best  (remember she's the one with the awesome button on the side of my blog)  She is giving away two "green" products from a great eco-friendly website she found.  Head on over and check it out!

Hey guys...no, it's not me doing a giveaway this time...not yet anyway. In honor of her 100th post, Vanessa over at Journey to James 1:27 is doing a fabulous giveaway. Make sure to head over there and check out her blog!

A flash back to my pregnancy days. Here I am at 23 weeks. I thought I was *huge*. Haha...little did I know how much bigger I would get!

Happy Father's Day! to all the dads out there...especially my dad and my most amazing husband. Skip unfortunately had to work the late shift today, 3 pm - 11 pm, so we spread out his Father's Day activities and presents over the past few days when he was off. On Friday Little M and I took him to his *favorite* bakery about half an hour away. He got to pick out any cake he wanted and it was all his to eat. (don't worry, he didn't eat it all in one sitting!) Then that night we watched 'Revolutionary Road' (EXCELLENT movie for anyone interested in seeing it. It is a much sadder than I thought it would be though) On Saturday we took Little M and drove out to PA to spend the day with Skip's parents. We don't get to see them all that much, so it was nice to just get away for a few hours and relax with them. Once we got home Little M and I gave Skip his presents a day early. I had gotten him a wet vac, which he had been wanting for a while now (this is...