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october goals

October 1, 2013

I woke up this morning and just decided it was time to start up monthly goals again. I took a break due to pregnancy exhaustion and then just didn’t feel the motivation to pick back up until now. My plan is to finish out the year with these and then reevaluate how I want to do goals for next year. When thinking of my goals this month I wanted to keep it fun and easy. These days things are hard enough with raising a toddler, growing a human, and working. There is also the stocking and cross stitching that I’m working on and will try to keep up with. These are just little extra things that I want to add…
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quick takes

September 27, 2013

one So, this happened at the beginning of the week: Apparently I’m prone to stomach viruses because I seem to catch one every year at least. But catching one when you’re pregnant is a whole different ballgame. It’s super easy to get dehydrated (especially when one doesn’t drink enough water to begin with – I’m working on it, okay) and when you get dehydrated you start contracting and that’s no bueno all around. I spent the night in the ER on Monday night receiving fluids and getting the contractions to stop (they gave me terbutaline and that stuff is weeeiiird). For some reason they refused to give me anti-nausea meds until I was still vomiting at 3 a.m. even though I…
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quick takes

September 20, 2013

Another round of randomness coming at you! (Linking up.) one Fair warning that it just might start to get very crafty/nesty up in here. Our new carpet will be installed in a couple of weeks, and we’re painting our bedroom this weekend. I have barely touched the back half of our house and so this is really inspiring me to fix up our room. It’s such a sad state of affairs in there right now and I would love to have a happy master bedroom. I have plans, people. Will be sharing them soon. two I’m also spending almost every spare moment working on my niece’s stocking. Here is what it looks like so far: The lighting is kind of…
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quick takes

September 20, 2013

Another round of randomness coming at you! (Linking up.) one Fair warning that it just might start to get very crafty/nesty up in here. Our new carpet will be installed in a couple of weeks, and we’re painting our bedroom this weekend. I have barely touched the back half of our house and so this is really inspiring me to fix up our room. It’s such a sad state of affairs in there right now and I would love to have a happy master bedroom. I have plans, people. Will be sharing them soon. two I’m also spending almost every spare moment working on my niece’s stocking. Here is what it looks like so far: The lighting is kind of…
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around here

September 9, 2013

this bag gets packed several times a day with different stuff, usually swimsuits, socks, and shorts library books for the win her shirt matches the pillow still love these stamps painting my toenails and getting a Project Life spread done lifted my spirits all of the stuffed animals and dolls need to be fed choosing new carpet is kind of hard but very exciting on a solo Target trip I bought a $6 full-length mirror the better to take Instagram selfies, of course cross-stitching with 30 Rock  on a walk to fight the no-nap tantrum *** On Friday afternoon as I was wrapping up at work I felt so energized, inspired, and geared up for life in general and the weekend…
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