Carseat cover

I am totally hoping I win this giveaway — a new & pretty carseat cover: http://grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com/2009/11/chubby-baby-car-seat-cover-guest.html Both my girls are in carseats still, of course, but I have never been a fan of their carseat covers.  Totally stoked that this giveaway could be used for a toddler carseat cover, and oh my does Chubby Baby [...]

Happy 35th to Me!

I’m generally pretty easy-going about birthdays, but man, 35 suddenly sounds old!  Despite the growing number, my birthday was Fantastic! We started the day with going to Chuy’s Christmas Parade here in Austin.  The girls are at SUCH good ages for parades. The whole drive to the parade, Elena asked again and again about the [...]

Happy Thanksgiving! (with a flashback)

Hope you are all having good eats today!  Mmmm, baby, pumpkin pie! Once I had kids, I learned that one of the most important parts of Thanksgiving isn’t the turkey, or even the pumpkin pie, but…..the handprint turkey!!!  It just isn’t Thanksgiving if you’re not doing some sort of turkey handprint craft! Last year, I [...]

Ten

1.  A bad way to wake up in the morning:  You walk out into the living room and find a pile of kittie puke. 2.  An even worse way to wake up in the morning:  You do #1 above, and then make some exclamation of some sort about the kittie puke.  Your 4-year-old then pipes [...]

Joy in the New Year Challenge

I’ve been hemming and hawing about this challenge.  Of course I have lots and lots of UFOs (unfinished objects).  But ACK — finish them before the New Year?  When I have both one of my daughter’s birthdays and Christmas??? SO, instead of counting every UFO I have (seriously, we don’t want to even acknowledge that [...]

Crafting Get Together

This weekend I met up with some girlfriends for some crafting goodness!  There’s no set schedule to the meet-ups, and just whoever can come comes (its a changing group).  We all just bring whatever we’re working on and a snack to share.  It is fun to chat and see the other cool stuff coming together [...]

Ten on Tuesday

1.  Julia LOVES “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas.  LOVES it.  She’ll randomly start singing “Be..Night…Be…Night”: shorthand for “Tonight’s going to be a good night, tonight’s going to be a good good night.”  My husband plays it for her in the car regularly, and she’s a dancing fool in her carseat. 2.  I [...]

Happy Dia de los Muertos!!

What???  You mean to say that you didn’t make dresses for your children just to celebrate Dia de los Muertos??!?! I really can’t say that celebrating “Dia de los Muertos” is in my cultural background, but I am Catholic and celebrate All Souls Day (Nov. 2), AND I appreciate how Dia de los Muertos/All Souls [...]

Halloween Fun!

My girls are at the *perfect* age for Halloween! They are old enough to really get into it!  Elena ran from door to door as much as we’d let her, and yelled Trick-or-Treat while she rang the doorbells!  (kept trying to teach her to wait until the person opened the door, but her enthusiasm could [...]