Stay at Home Mom

Being a Stay at Home Mom is wonderful. I am so blessed that Alan and I were able to make it work so I could stay home with Adeline. 

 We are almost to crawling people!!! So glad I'll be able to see her crawling first!

 Big Girl Toys!

This is what I live for - holding my sleeping baby before I lay her down!

 These have been floating around on Facebook, they say it all...

Love this girl!

I love my girl! She has such a wonderful personality and spirit. Every day I am thankful to God for gifting my daughter to Alan and I. Because that is what she is, a gift from God.

I don't want to give a false impression that Adeline is a perfect baby all the time, of course she has her moments and she wakes me 2-3 times a night. But I can deal with all of that, because she is my baby and I love her.

Adeline loves to ham it up for the camera.

Adeline has already figured out how to tease and play with Marie.

Today Adeline got to visit Maw Maw at work.

Cloth Diapering #1

Once Alan and I decided to start trying for a child all the various decisions started - what diapers will we use, where will we give birth, to vaccinate or not to vaccinate, etc. Most people don't even think about these issues - they just assume paper diapers, hospital birth, to vaccinate, etc. I probably would have been the same way if not for friends who made me question the "norm".

In later posts I'll discuss our other choices, but for this post let's talk about Cloth Diapers!

Way before I became pregnant I met Jenna. Jenna is my husbands best friend's wife. At the time she was cloth diapering her baby and running an online cloth diaper business with her mom. At the time I was just like, oh cloth diapers. But that planted a seed and once we became pregnant Jenna was a great source of information.

If you are wanting to Cloth Diaper and wanting more information I found lots of help on BabyCenter in the Community section. The ladies there are awesome. I also purchased the book "Changing Diapers" by Kelly Wels it was nice to have something physical to reference and not just online references. She also has a great website and blog.

Photo From: http://www.kellywels.com/

We decided to cloth diaper mainly for the cost savings aspect. However I love that I'm not putting all those chemicals on my baby's butt, and I can joyfully say we've not had one instance of Diaper Rash! Adeline used disposable diapers in the very beginning due to having very skinny legs and not having enough newborn diapers, so we basically had to wait until the one size diapers fit. She also had to use sposies (disposables) at daycare for the few months she was there. So for only cloth diapering part time then and full time now we've had a ton of cost savings!

Do you cloth diaper? What was the reasoning behind your family cloth diapering?

That's all for today, tomorrow I'll discuss the types of diapers we chose to use.

Chalkboard Tags

I know I got this idea online somewhere but I've scoured my Pinterest boards and can't find where I pinned it. Just know that this is NOT an original idea by me!

Adeline has a bookcase that has several storage boxes in it with handles, and I can never remember what is in each drawer. So I'm making reusable tags to hang from the handles.

Supplies Needed:

• Some sort of Tag - I used the 3.25in Diameter Wooden Circles from JoAnns and had the hubby drill holes (1/4") for the ribbon
• Chalkboard Paint - I used the Black from Plaid, but it comes in lots of colors 
• Brush - I used a small foam brush
• Ribbon - 1/8" - you can use any size you wish, just make sure the holes are big enough.
• Fray Check - to stop the fraying of the ribbon

Step One: Drill holes in the wooden circles. I recommend getting a higher quality tag as when I had the hubby drill the holes they splintered some on the backside.

Step Two: Paint! The can recommends at least 2 coats and wait 1 hour between coats. Well I did 3 coats just to make sure.

Step Three: Wait 24 hours for the paint to cure before use.

Step Four: While you are waiting (patiently of course) for the paint to cure you can be cutting your ribbon to length. I'm using 6" pieces as I don't want them to dangle too much. Also go ahead and put some Fray Check on the ends to prevent the ribbon from fraying.

Step Five: Put ribbon in tag and write with the chalk then hang for use.

Love the look in my daughters room.

May use this idea in other organization areas of the house like my craftroom!

Here is a small pot I also used the Chalkboard Paint on while I was waiting for coats dry:

Before:

 After:

Too Hot

It is crazy hot today! We ran some early errands now home playing. Adeline took all her toys out to play! Grandparents are coming over later to babysit so mommy can have a girls night out. We are heading to the movies to see " Magic Mike". I`ll write up a short review tomorrow.

Welcome to my blog!

After spending the past couple weeks reading blogs and doing a lot of thinking I've decided to start my own blog. I love to DIY from directions found online or just things I think of (which I think are original, but most likely not!). 


I've decided to make my blog a mix of DIY and Mommy. Yes, the dreaded MOMMY blog! I have a 7.5 month old, how can I not blog about our ever changing lives and the adventurers of Mommyhood! 


I love to do crafts. Currently my big crafty adventure is sewing. However I also scrapbook with a great group of local ladies - Queen Bee Croppers of NRV. If you are local and looking to join a scrapbooking group, we welcome new ladies! If you don't use Facebook we also schedule crops here - Group Spaces.


Thank you for reading and I hope to entertain each and every one of you with my future posts.


Upcoming: Using chalkboard paint for a craft for the nursery.