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Saturday, March 30, 2013

What's in the Easter Basket?

I'm kind of a bad mom. I don't go all out on holidays because I know the kids will be getting a lot of candy and gifts from relatives. Maybe that actually makes me a good mom? I don't know.

Either way, this is what my kiddos are getting in their Easter baskets this year. I use the term "Easter basket" loosely since I don't actually have baskets for them and plan to just arrange their gifts on the fireplace hearth (lame moment alert-I had to google that because I couldn't remember what it was called. I kept thinking mantle, but that's on top of the fireplace. I'm so shmart.) Don't worry, I'll stick a post-it or something with their name above each ~~pile~~ lovely grouping of gifts so they'll know whose is whose. This should especially be helpful to 6 month old Star since she's been busy reading War and Peace in her crib at nights and appreciates all the extra practice reading she can get.

This is the "joint gift pile". The egg shaped marshmallows will be shared by all (except Star, of course). I won the Veggie Tales dvd at a giveaway on the Our Journey blog and was thrilled that it arrived in time for Easter!

In case you couldn't tell, this is Star's pile of Easter goodies. She's getting a couple of Carter's bibs and "shoe socks" from Target and a small doll from Tansy Dolls. I won a $50 gift certificate to Tansy Dolls from a giveaway at Forty Toes Photography and was able to get a small gift for each one of the kidlets for Easter.

Little Man's loot. He's realllllly into cutting up paper and coloring so I got him his own pair of safety scissors (he's been using Princess's) and some Crayola Twistables crayons. The sweet little robin is from Tansy Dolls.

Princess is in need of some new hair supplies (after 4 years, she's finally running out of hair elastics!) so I got her some hair elastics, glitter barrettes, and a hairbrush and comb set. The cute little doll is from Tansy Dolls.

What are your kids getting in their Easter baskets? Link up your blogpost here!

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Random Monday-March 25th, 2013

I survived my first craft show in over a year. Last year, just as the spring craft show season was starting, I was throwing up and being sick all the time, plus I couldn't carry all the heavy boxes. Yeah, pregnancy will do that to a girl. When the fall craft season started, I was 9+ months pregnant and then I had a newborn (yes, those two things are related) so I took a whole year off from doing craft shows. As much as I hate having to set up and tear everything down and take 18 trips to and from the car to load/unload everything, I LOVE doing craft shows and I really missed them during my 1 year hiatus.
I made $60 at last weekend's show which covered my table fee and my gas money (but not the yummy cupcakes I bought from another vendor) so it really wasn't worth my time, but I still had fun getting back in the craft show business.

Do you remember in my last week's Monday Randoms post when I said that it was time to move Star out of the cradle beside my bed? *sob* She is officially sleeping in the pack n' play in my room now. I was expecting her to look tiny in the pack n' play, but she really doesn't.

I still haven't started the kids' Easter outfits. I still have 6 whole days, right? If you want to find me next Saturday night at 11 pm, I'll be sucking down caffeine and sewing like a madman so I can be all nonchalant and cool when someone asks me where I got my children's Easter outfits. "Oh, I just whipped them up."

Star still hasn't figured out how to roll over from her back to her tummy. Instead, she can be found doing this most of the time...

My mother said she likes the kids' names as is on the blog so I won't be changing them. After all, I always listen to my mother. Right, Mom?

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Monday, March 18, 2013

Random Monday-March 18th, 2013

About a month ago, Princess threw up on my bed, 5 minutes after I'd put clean sheets on it. On Saturday night, I changed the sheets on her bed which is akin to wrestling an alligator since she has the top bunk. The next morning, she threw up on her bed. I'm seeing a pattern here...

I'm having Star's 6 month pictures taken on Thursday. Be prepared for an overload of baby cuteness later this week.

Speaking of Star being 6 months old...HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!?!? I noticed that she's starting to outgrow the cradle by my bed and it makes me sad that I have to move her to the crib in the kids' room soon. I'm not ready for my baby to be that big already.

I'm thinking of changing my kids' blog names to more realistic names. Something just irks me about calling my oldest "Princess" like she's a puppy or a spoiled entitled child. Their new names would probably be Katie, Nano, and Anna if I change them since those are spin-offs of their real names. What do you think? Yay or nay?

This morning, Little Man put on his coat, hat, scarf, and boots and informed me that he was going to the store to buy chocolate cookies, vitamins, and pizza. Mean mommy that I am, I refused to give him the car keys.

It has come to my attention that Easter is in less than 2 weeks and I haven't even started my kids' Easter outfits. I've made their outfits the last 2 years in a row and would like to keep up the tradition as long as they will still wear mommy-made clothes.