New Look, Prizes and Awards

1) Okay last week was quite the week. We survived Alex being sick all week... the medicine that was supposed to be getting her better; yeah she was suffering the side affects. Luckily, after a call to the Dr. she isn't taking it anymore and seems to be doing fine now. The part that drives me the most crazy, is that from the start I just didn't feel good about it and knew it was causing problems.. but I just brushed that feeling aside and figured it was because she was still sick still. Mommy's do know.

2) I obviously have a very new look. Do you love it?? I do! I have been wanting to redesign my blog for a while now and kept thinking I would take a crack at it, but well let's just be honest, I didn't and wasn't taking the time to do it.

So I entered a contest for a gift certificate towards a blog makeover at Beautiful Blog Design. She has a great site that features great blog looks, lists blog designers, and gives great design tips too. So I entered the contest and I won! Then I began my work with Louise at Adori Graphics

She is actually on the other side of the big blue, but that didn't slow down the work process at all. In fact, when she was ready to install my blog, it was early early in the morning here so it didn't interfere with me one bit. She responded to my e-mails very quickly and her prices are great. Definitely check out her site if you want some blog redesign.

3) I have been in the market for a baby sling; let's face it with two other kids running around I know I am going to need to keep number three safe and going to need to have my hands free at times. So when I saw that Future Mama at Baby Makin(g) Machine was hosting a giveaway for a gift certificate to Clementine Rose, who has so many cute things including slings, I knew I had to enter. I figured it was a long shot as Future Mama's site is awesome and she has a ton of followers, but I won!!

I had some questions about the slings and emailed Lana from Clementine Rose and she was great! She got back to me immediately and answered my questions and then some. The sling came quickly and I am excited to try it out in a few months.

4) I have gotten 4 blog awards in the last week!! I am so grateful for them and will post about them here soon. I just have to admit, I can only remember where three of them came from. :( One is from one of the blogs that I have found more recently. So if you left me an award recently, just leave a comment here so when I post the awards I can recognize yours too. It makes me so mad that I can't remember where it came from and can't find it.

5) If you saw our Time For Tot's from last week, you saw Alex's Movie Box which tells a spooky ghost story. She probably got the inspiration from our dinner table. Every night the kids ask Eric to tell a story, usually a new story, i.e put daddy on the spot to create one. This last week they wanted one of their favorites, The Coughing Ghost.. and since Alex was sick, well she had the perfect sound effects... So here is a little peek into what our dinners are often like.