Ever feel like there aren't enough hours in the day?...

I often talk to other moms and find myself wondering "how on earth did they find time to do that"... or I read a facebook status and say "man, she's taking a nap, that sounds so delightful".. (My husband actually took over while I took a nap last week.. I ended up sleeping for over 6 hours! I guess I needed sleep, but it was so wonderful, and I could definitely see myself getting used to that!--well, if it were something that happened a little more often than once every several months!)

 Right now, I'm busy getting everything ready for some family to come visit us! I am so excited.  I love when we get visitors.  When people visited our apartment, I loved it, but it's going to be SO much more pleasant to have them visiting our new house ("Here's the guest bedroom" just sounds so much better than "Here's the couch you will be sleeping on while you're here, how many blankets would you like?", which is what we've had to say to everyone while we've been here. In traffic, my husband was forced to take some side roads, and ended up driving through the neighborhood we lived in when we first got married.  He said it took him down memory lane, and was amazing to see how far we've come.  He is going to be on vacation while our family is visiting, and I told him I wanted to drive out there to look too.  I honestly think that sometimes it's important to really look back and see just how far you've come together..

Good Morning!

I just wanted to wish whoever happens to be reading this a wonderful day today! I am completely hoping to have the same!  I am trying to post more often now that I'm back, but I seriously wonder how often this is read.

My first mom project I'm posting in a while:

Home Decorating!!  I have ordered prints of our photos from our house being built.  I am going to do a few different scrapbook pages with them, and put them inside 12x12 scrapbook frames, and then, I'm going to take a 4x12 (probably, maybe a little longer), use my cricut to cut the words "Home is where the heart is" put them into that frame, and that's going to all take over one of our walls.  I have a lot of different project ideas like this.  I think everyone should have at least some form of homemade home decoration.  I will write my ideas here as I implement them. I am excited!

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New giveaway from another blogger

For those of you with younger children, this seems like an awesome giveaway. I know I would love one of these when we have more children!  Follow the link to enter her giveaway, and hopefully follow her blog!

http://www.the-mommyhood-chronicles.com/2012/02/zanes-first-birthday-bash-1-kidco-go.html?showComment=1330005851729#c3003977649618565691

Pinterest

So, I have JUST started doing this (like finished signing up 3 minutes ago..) Have you started doing this yet? I'm going to take a minute to figure it all out I think.

A new blog I found

I just wanted to share this blog with you, check it out here:http://www.giveaway-gal.com/  This blog is awesome!

Wow, been a while.

I haven't posted in a LONGGG time.  So, let me just say, I'm baaaaaaack.. We have been moved into our house for about two months now, but our phone and internet company was ridiculously slow in getting us hooked up.  It is a new construction, so they had to "survey" our property before they could do anything, and this process was insanely slow, and the company couldn't seem to get it right, we had to give them all of our information numerous times over the two months we were waiting.  My advice to you, is that in situations like mine, patience isn't a virtue that will help you get anywhere.  I am not saying to be unkind or discourteous, however, you have to keep calling.  If we had not called we would never have gotten our service.  It appears in some situations, companies really don't communicate as well as they should.  But, long story short, we FINALLY have our service and I will be back to posting again.