If you’re a mom who uses cloth diapers for your baby, there’s a nice sale on Bumkins All-in-One cloth diapers for $15.99 each. That’s 40% off the original price. There are 9 kinds of prints and a plain white one. Also, If you like Dr. Seuss, you’ll be pleasantly surprised…
Sale ends July 6th.
A fellow musician on Twitter, Makeda, turned me onto this wonderfully talented jazz musician named Esperanza Spalding. She’s only 25 and has already released 2 albums (with a 3rd one out in August), toured the world, learned from and collaborated with jazz greats, and was one of the youngest professors at Berklee.
Overjoyed
I Know You Know
Cuerpo Y Alma (Body & Soul)
I love that she took a standard and made it her own by singing the lyrics in spanish.
Here she sings the english lyrics.
Precious
This recipe for Double Chocolate Biscotti is one of my faves. I love making it for the holidays because they’re really good to eat with a hot beverage. Each time I make it I like to change it up- add walnuts, use only white chocolate -this time I only used dark chocolate chips. It was delish.
What to do next time I make this…
Do It Yourself: Turn an old t-shirt into a necklace!
There are a few tutorials online, just google it, but I followed this one on the Threadbanger website.
Here I used a long sleeve shirt but I did everything the same. The extra strips I cut from the sleeves I might use for a bracelet or something.
I wasn’t as adventurous with embellishments, just the cute little bow that actually covers up the seams from the shirt. I also took it back to middle school and did a friendship bracelet braid on a few of the strips. It might be simple but the color alone is marvelous. I’m satisfied.
Also, I think this post will explain the picture of Aiden in the next entry.
Have a great weekend!
OH MY GAH AIDEN!!
Kid, you are still amazing after another month on this earth. I don’t know what to say besides I love you.
I think it’s great you’re growing and becoming more of a unique person every day. You’ve discovered your voice and you’re definitely using it every waking moment. I love having nonsensical conversations with you. The sounds that come out of your mouth are too cute. I wish I could bottle them up and when you’re older and I’m feeling sad I can listen to your sweet baby sounds and cheer myself up.
I remember listening to the Mates of State‘s Bring it Back album for the first time and hearing their daughter Magnolia’s baby sounds in a song that Kori and Jason wrote for her. I thought it was the most adorable and endearing thing ever. I wanted to do that. Kind of. I don’t have my own band and am not recording an album, but I can still record your beautiful voice to revisit anytime I want.
If I didn’t have a reason for living before, now I do. You’re my everything. You’re my whole world right now. Whatever my baby wants, my baby gets. And my baby only gets the best. Seriously, have you seen my credit card bill? I spend all my money on you!
I’m glad you’re here.
Since the wreck, I know more what you need
You need me to put you in the trees
I know we haven’t said enough
But I know I’ve never loved this much
“Nature and the Wreck” by Mates of State
When I was shopping with my friend Monica last week she asked about Adam and when he’d be coming home.
She also asked me, “How do you deal with not having him around for so long?” I wanted to say I don’t know, I just do to sound like the strong independent woman I thought I was. Instead I said, “I pretend like he doesn’t exist.” I tried to answer in the fewest words possible how complex my reasoning is, without sounding like a jerk. I think I failed.
What I really meant to say was that I’m trying not to make myself think too long and hard about the situation or else living day-to-day would be really difficult. Sometimes I can get really emotional (newsflash: I’m a girl) so I’m trying to lessen the chance of getting depressed knowing the one person I love the most isn’t here right now. Plus I cried myself to sleep a lot in my first 2 trimesters so I’m practically tired of crying.
Okay enough sad stories. I need to save some material for therapy or a future in comedy.
So! When I became a mom I had an opportunity to become really good friends with a girl from my church. She’s Monica’s friend and I’ve known her for a little over a year now but we never really had the chance to really get to know each other. When I found out I was pregnant she basically became my best friend. She gladly held my hand and helped me get through my pregnancy because she recently became a mom herself. Any and all questions I had, she knew the answer to. She was an expert at all things baby and opened my eyes to cloth diapering, wearing my baby, and making my own baby food. I don’t want to sound like a nerd but I feel like we’re best friends now that we have this one thing in common.
So I feel like I can start paying it forward and be helpful to any girlfriends who are going to be mothers. I even enjoy telling the story of how I went to Planned Parenthood to take a pregnancy test, found out I was about 24 weeks along, then broke down crying in the middle of the parking lot afterwards. JUST FOR LAUGHS.
Anyways, I wanted to mention Lisette at Liketechnicolor. I love reading her blog and seeing pictures of her cute baby girl. If you read her writing you can just feel the love that she has for her baby and will do anything for her. So go visit Lisette.
He got a nice bath and grandma gave him a manicure, plus I give him daily massages so this baby is good to go. I thought I already took the cutest photos of him already but I think the last one is the best. I’m talking model material.
I’m pretty sure he’d make the cover of GQ: Gerber Quarterly.
so me and Aiden are trying not to wear too much clothing. He’s got cute overalls on and I’m wearing a dress.
Last week my sister Joan, her friend Nicole, and I went to see wedding dresses in Niantic but we had some time before the appointment so Nicole brought us to the Book Barn. I’m not gonna lie I was so excited because I’ve never been there before and I’ve always wanted to check it out but never went. Hi nerd!!
Earlier in the day Nicole tried to prepare us by telling us we should have a list of books to look for but we just assumed we’d be fine browsing. Oh. My. Gosh. We weren’t prepared. Not only was the Book Barn a barn full of books, but there are other buildings on the premises that house books by genre. There’s even an old school outhouse (cleaned out, mind you) with shelves of books in it.
The Book Barn isn’t just a place to buy books. They take care of their patrons. They serve refreshments so you can keep up your strength browsing so many titles. Got kids? Bring ‘em down! There’s an area for little kids to play with outdoor toys. Like chess? There’s a huge chess board you can play with.
The best part is that there are a lot of cats that live there and roam around wherever they please. When we were in the Haunted building looking at mystery novels, I met a cute black cat that jumped in my arms and sat on my shoulder like a parrot. I’m not sure if it’s considered feline molestation but that kitty got me good. I walked around the building laughing so hard with the cat’s paws wrapped around my neck.
These photos were taken when we went back to browse some more after the appointment. The first time we were caught in a downpour and were dodging puddles in our flip flops. Our pants were muddy but we had fun.
The Book Barn is located in Niantic, CT.
41 West Main St.
Open Everyday from 9:00am to 9:00pm
Closed Christmas & Thanksgiving
(860) 739-5715
(and)
The Book Barn Downtown
269 Main St.
Niantic, CT 06357
(860) 691-8078
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