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Our Days are Bananas

Filed Under: motherhood //

This post is sponsored by Baby Boxy but all opinions are my own.

Hi, hello there Monday! Nice to see you … and you all, too! I know to many people Mondays are hectic and yes, they can be for us, too. But if I’m being honest many of our days are hectic. 
A year ago, we’d wake up at 4:30AM, leave our house at 5:30AM and get home around 8PM. That would leave us little down time to unwind. We’d watch a couple shows, if that, climb into bed, and do it all over again. Oh, and I was pregnant at the time so those long days were not the easiest for me at times.

After our second baby was born, we realized we wanted to slow down a bit lot more. Maternity leave helped us to do that. And while we have improved our quality of life since our crazy 4:30AM wake ups, our days are still bananas — but in the best possible way now!

Our toddler and our baby, who’s steps away from being a toddler, keep us on our toes every minute of every day. I’ve told you how becoming a mom to two under two was a bit overwhelming. And while we’ve definitely found our rhythm, it’s still challenging at times. But I think it always will be and that’s okay — that’s parenthood, and quite frankly, life for ya. 

  

Work-wise, I juggle my full-time job (my commute for which is three hours roundtrip!) along with  my MOM projects. My work days are kind of unconventional as a result. Sometimes I have evening or weekend events to attend, or photos to shoot, which I mostly do on my days off. Thankfully, my husband shoots most of my content and my kids are included in some of it so it’s a family affair and we still get to spend that time together. I like to think that an upside of my busyness with work is I am setting a good example for my kiddos.

All of that being said, I wouldn’t ever trade our days for calm days. 
These have been my most favorite days. 

Speaking of bananas, R’s cute bananas onesie is courtesy of Baby Boxy. Baby Boxy offers a uniquely curated and beautifully packaged baby gift box set for babies. It features top brands like Kickee Pants & Milkbarn. R’s particular sleeper is from Little Sleepies and it is such a comfy material. (Get 15% off with code MOMENTS15)

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Why I Write

Filed Under: blogging, life, writing //

Writing became an outlet for me during my then-boyfriend/now-husband’s career. I felt lonely and missed him and sometimes sulked that we were living two separate, very different lives. I was in law school and he was an ocean away working for the Navy. 

So I wrote to simply express my feelings. My very first post was secretive, short and to the point (and not very well-written…). Since then, I’ve catalogued my life and our life together in much greater detail. 

These days, I write for similar reasons (as an outlet, to express myself and to connect with readers and others) but I also write with a more pointed reason in mind: for my legacy. I want to give my kids (and their kids and so on) something from me that captures part of the essence of who I am, what I think, and what I do. 

Sure, photos capture moments and memories. But words capture feelings in a way that photos can’t.


I want my boys to know how much I thought of them and loved them and have no doubt they’re my world. They’ll be able to tell that from the way I treat them, and from my smile and look in my eyes in photos of us together. 

But they’ll also know because I am writing and telling them so.

And so I share my writing on this little corner of the internet…that will hopefully survive the test of time and not be lost, like, say, a journal could be. 

Thank you for reading my writing. 

Our Christmas Card – 2018

Filed Under: Uncategorized //

When it comes to Christmastime, some of my favorite activities are getting Christmas cards photos taken and ordering our Christmas card. I’m not even kidding when I say I have been designing (choosing a layout and which photos to include) our cards for a month. Lo and behold, I chose the original design I liked, Basic Invite’s Country Club Christmas. 

We used Basic Invite to create our card again this year because we’ve used it for so many other special occasions —  our 2017 Christmas card, our Save the Date and First Married Christmas cards. I’m happy to have used them again this special holiday season.

I just started mailing our cards over the weekend so I am hoping everyone receives theirs by Christmas!

Some of Basic Invite’s unique features are:

  • Almost Unlimited Colors – Customers have almost unlimited color options with instant previews online. Once you select a design you can change the color of each element on the card to over 180 different color options so you can make sure the card is exactly how you want it down to the littlest detail. 
  • Over 40 Different Colors of Envelopes – You can choose from over 40 different colors when it comes to their envelopes. A big bonus is that all of their envelopes are peel and seal so no licking required!
  • Address Capturing Service – Basic Invite offers an address capturing service that allows customers to simply share a link on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other form of social media to request their friends and family’s addresses.

Basic Invite has over 500 Christmas and holiday card designs. It offers custom holiday cards for business, as well as vintage holiday cards. 

I know it’s late in the month but don’t worry — if you didn’t order a Christmas card, you can still get a holiday card wishing family and friends a happy new year!
Right now Basic Invite is offering 30% off with coupon code: holi30 

Without further ado, here is our 2018 Christmas card:

 

Our Michigan Visit — Fall 2018

Filed Under: fall, foliage, life, michigan //

Happy Monday. We’re battling colds, potty training and daylight savings time adjustments. We just recently got back from visiting my husband’s family in Michigan and let me tell you — 6AM flights with two babies is not for the faint of heart. We were all SO tired when we got back on Saturday and pretty much slept on and off the whole day.

We stayed in Michigan for a week— the longest I’ve gone for and which was a good amount of time to visit family, do some sightseeing and not feel rushed. We got to celebrate our niece’s birthday, see the foliage at its peak, visit Bronner’s (largest Christmas store in U.S.), celebrate my husband’s Halloween birthday, get Culver’s (their cheese curds are so yum!), visit Ann Arbor a couple of times ANd get Christmas photos taken by my talented sister-in-law Ashley Bellis Photography (just wait til you see them!).

As for the foliage I mentioned, here is photographic proof of just how beautiful it was: