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Today is the last day to enter the give away for the “Prima Princessa Presents Swan Lake” DVD over at O Momma Reviews.

It’s your last chance and only two people have entered so far!

July 24th, 2008 | Category: Freebie, Prizes, Reviews | Leave a comment

Just so ya know–There is a new review up over at O Momma Reviews with our latest decorating experience!

Decorating made simple and easy with a dash of bold color :-) We love the results and the house ware line we used is sure to inspire your own decorating ideas. Go check it out!

July 23rd, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Leave a comment

We’re bored. I guess that’s the thing about summer time, isn’t it?  Yea, it’s great to not have to do anything like school work, but doing nothing all the time gets boring. I’m sure you’ve heard your kids say it, too.

I’m running out of fun things to do with Savannah.  Originally I was trying to find us play dates to go to with kids at church or from school, or a toddler group at the library, but her nap time always interferes. We can’t really play outside unless it’s way early in the morning or near her bed time because it is so dang hot out there.  We can’t go any where because my car’s AC doesn’t work and we’d bake to death. Plus, I’m shy at meeting new people and paranoid.  I’m just little ole me, what if something happened to us? What would I do?

I’ve been trying to find new things for us to do together, like I bought some Color Wonder Finger Paints.  She likes it, but it only lasts for a few minutes before she’s ready to do something else.  Oh, the short attention span of a toddler.

Help?  How do you keep your kids entertained and interactive with them throughout the day?

July 23rd, 2008 | Category: Issues, Motherhood | Comments (3)

You know what my husband told me this past weekend?

I’m glad that you can be at home with Savannah. You know why she behaves so well? It’s because of you, you taught her that.

I hadn’t really thought of it that way before, but it’s true. For the most part (ya know, aside for the typical toddler temper tantrums), Savannah is a wonderful child who is sweet, smart, and funny. The girl isn’t even 18 months old yet and says, “peas” and “tank oo!” Someone had to teach her that, right?

So hi folks, I’m a great Mom! It’s nice to be recognized for it by some one else. Especially by a man who works so hard to provide for us. Thanks for all you do too, Daddy O.

July 21st, 2008 | Category: Awesome Husband, Blessings, Encouragement, Motherhood, Savannah | Comments (3)

She’s just getting too big, folks! Since when can she climb into a Hannah Montana chair and ask, “I uh color!” (Which in Savannah language means, “I want to color!”)? It’s all going by way too fast, she turns 18 months old in a little over a month. How is that even possible? I can’t remember what it was like to have her as a baby (which is probably a good thing since I do know that it was a very sleep deprived year).

Lately she’s rediscovered some of her baby things, like the Graco Entertainer we had in the garage and her old infant bath tub (which sucks for bathing slippery babies so don’t buy that one). She’s been asking to play with them on a daily basis, which is quite funny because while she still fits in them, but she looks HUGE compared to when she used them months ago.

Oh, it goes by fast.

July 18th, 2008 | Category: Growth, Motherhood, Photo Friday, Sadness | Comments (2)

The first review is posted since O Momma Reviews launched! And…a giveaway is involved :-)

I’ll give you a hint. It involves:

July 17th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Leave a comment

Remember my little fishy dress from when I was 2 years old? Well, I had a little surprise up my sleeve and now am able to share more about it. A few weeks ago I decide to finally get Savannah’s 1 year old pictures done (5 months after her birthday…oops!), which of course was also the prefect time to use my old dress. I haven’t said anything though because I wanted it to be a surprise to Daddy O, since it isn’t often I can find ways to surprise him. Yesterday he came home to the pictures already in the frame, ready for his desk at work. But enough talking, how about these gorgeous pictures? (Well, as good as you can get in a JC Penny studio).

Savannah at 17 months, me at 2 years. I promise she does look like me in person, at least that’s what random people in stores tell me. She does have my-mind-of-it’s-own wispy hair though, for sure. I just realized I rocked the side bang look even back then!

The problem with getting pictures done is that I end up buying way more poses and pictures than I know what to do with. I mean, we have tons of family that get them but trying to figure out who gets what? It makes me dizzy! And what do I do with my 9 poses I bought? My walls and table tops only have so much room to display their cuteness.

July 15th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (2)

I promise we’re still alive and well. I’ve just been busy…or not in the mood for writing. (Of course I finally start writing and some one calls!)

Things we’ve been up to:
1. Little surprises for Mark for when we get back home tomorrow. Just had to throw that in there to drive him crazy!

2. Playing games and shopping with my little sister. We got matching shoes. And, Savannah shop-lifted a bracelet! Oy. I returned it promptly.

3. Painted the hallway with my Dad. I’ve become a mighty good trim painter, if I do say so myself. Plus, it was just nice to do something with my Dad, that doesn’t happen often these days and it’s exactly why I just had to come back for another visit since he wasn’t around much last time because of work.

4. Said goodbye to our cat, Sam. For this, I am so glad I made the spontaneous decision to come to my parent’s earlier than planned, because other wise I wouldn’t have gotten to spend so much time with Sambo, or maybe even not have gotten to say goodbye.

See, this cat was nearly as old as I was, I can’t remember a time he wasn’t around at my Dad’s. We think he turned 19 this past Wednesday and that makes him a little under 2 years younger than I am, with myself almost 21. He went down hill extremely fast just since I had gotten here and we all just knew it was time. It was horrible to see him in so much pain, hardly being able to move around. He hadn’t eaten or drank much in days so he was literally pretty much starving and dehydrating before our eyes. We spent Friday snuggling him, telling him how much we loved him, said our final goodbyes, and eventually they took him to the vet.

I’m sure you guys could care less about our cat, but to us he was like another member of our family and it’s been hard to not have him around. And surely, if you’ve ever lost a pet, you know how it feels.

I keep thinking about how when I was little he liked to come sleep on my chest at night when I stayed with my Dad. And some how this week, he managed to make the climb up our steps and up to my room where I was working on some editing to have one last good snuggle. I will forever cherish that moment, knowing that he climbed up stairs, willing to jump up on to the very tall bed (but I didn’t let him, I picked him up since he’d had a habit of falling lately), in his fragile state just to come be with me for a little bit longer. He was such a sweet kitty.

I know he’s in a much better place now, free of pain and playing with his best friend, our dog who passed away 10 years ago.

July 13th, 2008 | Category: Family, Memories, Pets, Sadness | Comments (5)

I feel like I’ve been traveling all summer, and we still have much more to do! I wish I could say we are back home now, relaxing, but we’re not. As soon as we got back, slept like rock and did some laundry, me and Savannah were right back out the door to visit my family again.

Our little weekend trip to visit Mark’s family for forth of July went very well. Long drive for a very short visit, but worth it. Savannah has turned into a marvelous little traveler and I’ve been thanking God all summer long for that. It gets so much easier when they get older, oh my goodness! No stopping every 2 hours to feed, no bottles in the car, no messy baby food. A box of yogurt covered raisins or crackers and the girl is set for a few more hours. Since our trip was about 7 hours long, we brought along a lap top and played her Baby Einstein videos to help pass the time (quietly). She didn’t watch it the whole time obviously, but it helped those last few hours when she was getting more antsy. We also brought along the Kid’s music mix that doesn’t hurt my hears.

Things I learned on this trip:

1. I now get car sick in the back seat, not matter how long or short the drive. This is new to me, as when I was a kid I could read, play games, anything, no matter where I sat. Now? It’s pure torture. It’s sad when you prefer to drive than be a lazy passenger!

2. Savannah has learned how to get her arms out of her seat belt. Oy.

3. Driving through Atlanta with their 7-8 lanes of traffic is intense.

4. Savannah loves food.

5. I’m addicting to reading Karen Kingsbury books. I’m about to finish up the Firstborn series, and my library doesn’t have the last one right now. erg!

6. Spitting sunflower seeds is much fun. Not in the car, of course. The highlight of the trip for me was at a little league baseball game with Mark, spitting seeds at each other and laughing like we were little high school kids in love.

July 8th, 2008 | Category: Family, Savannah, Traveling | Comments (2)