For those of you who, like us, have someone in your household who is dairy-free, CHECK OUT THIS GIVEAWAY! Pardon the caps, I'm just really excited about this. How have I not heard of these goodies before? I can tell you that if I win this, I'll be spreading the love among my local dairy-free friends (it's surprising how many of them I have!) Thank you to One Frugal Foodie and Erin Baker!
The only thing I am going to spend money on is special ingredients for a lunch I'm having on Wednesday. Peanut and I are going to be entertaining two moms and their assorted five children - one of which has more allergies than I can count on my two hands. Seriously. Poor little guy. So I think I will probably need to pick up some specialty ingredients, but I don't mind doing that at all!
hey all.
i'm just about to unveil the new blog. it is pretty darn fabulous, if i dare say so myself.
but while you're waiting for that, go over to confessions of a yummy mummy and enter her AMAZING giveaway of organizational supplies! She calls it a super fab giveaway, and I'd have to agree! Halfway down the prize list, I was like "hey, this is a great giveaway!" and I hadn't even gotten to the big stuff yet!
So whenever I enter blog's giveaways, I always skip the extra entries that come from blogging about the contests. I used to do that, but then found that my blog was turning into a couple thoughts from me and a lot of talking about other people's contests.
Actually, now that I think about it, I should just have a separate blog for those - and if you're into learning about new contests, you could follow that one. Huh. Good idea, me!
But - here's a contest that is making me break with my habit. Seriously want to win this one!!
A Daycare Life is hosting this diaper bag giveaway!
I'd never heard of Hoohobbers before - which is a good thing, as I would have spent too much money there!
i'm in the midst of a blogging debate with myself.
should i blog for the public?
should i blog for family and friends?
how much privacy should i have?
i've been toying around with a bunch of different options, so i have a lot of "inactive-ish" blogs while i figure out what level of privacy i want to have.
thanks for understanding.
Peanut and I are taking a trip from Illinois to Baltimore / Virginia this weekend. I'm kicking myself that I didn't buy her a seat. What was I thinking!? Flying solo (Mister's staying here) with a toddler on my lap? Who will want to nurse at every opportunity since the proximity will remind her constantly... Note to self. Spend the money next time! Of course, I'll have to since we have no plans to fly again before her 2nd birthday, but still!
I was envisioning this trip last week and realized that my diaper bag, as much as I love it, was not big enough to contain snacks for two flights, books, a dvd player, changes of clothes for both of us, sippy cup, enough toys to distract her, etc... So I made a new one. This was my first bag, and definitely a challenge for me. I'm usually a curtain sewer, with the occasional venture into baby clothes.
I learned a lot of new things in the process: fusible fleece is awesome, magnetic snaps are easy to install and look cool, bias tape isn't that intimidating as long as you have the proper width for your project, and a heck of a lot about why my threads were looping. It didn't usually mean that I needed to adjust my tension, it meant that I threaded my machine with the presser foot down! How did I not know that you weren't supposed to do that? So I really got past something that had been bugging me during my last few projects. It's not perfect, but I'm pretty pleased with it.
It has oodles of pockets - one for:
