Friday Things
Hi friends!
Time for some Friday chitchat.
I haven’t been sleeping all that well this week so I’m particularly happy that it’s Friday. Some nights I’m waking up every hour…and not even to pee!…and some days I’m waking up at 5am and not able to fall back to sleep. Annoying, but I usually just get up and start working and try to catch a nap in the afternoon. It’s definitely been one of those weeks when I’m thankful for a flexible schedule.
In other news, the weather here has been GORGEOUS this week. Think low 70′s and sunny…IN JULY!! What?! I love it. We’ve been enjoying some long walks with the dogs in the evenings and then temp has been, dare I say, cool!
This was also a particularly busy week for me in terms of recipe development. I seemed to have tons of deadlines that all fell this week for both the blog and for other clients, so I think I made and photographed something like 9 recipes this week! #exhausting!
We’re working on some big decisions in baby world. First- finding a pediatrician. Luckily, when I put out a call for local suggestions on Facebook we got an overwhelming number of responses for one specific practice that’s close to our house so that definitely helped narrow it down. We have a meet-and-greet appointment with one of them in a few weeks, so that will be good.
Next, we started trying to figure out childcare. To say it’s been stressful is an understatement. I’m fortunate to work from home and have a very flexible schedule, but that also makes it challenging trying to figure out how much help I’ll need and coming up with options. In my opinion, this is one of the hardest aspects for us to plan for….but we’re fortunate to have a good friend who is back in school and also has a flexible schedule so I think the plan is to have her come over a couple mornings a week after the holidays to help me out, give me some uninterrupted time, etc. And from there, we’ll see how it goes!
Finally we signed up for some classes. We chose to go the express route for the parenting class and knock it all out in one day instead of spreading it out into shorter classes for 3-4 weeks…and we’re also signed up for a breastfeeding class and a CPR class.
I mentioned this is a previous post, but a couple weekends ago we finally sat down and made a big dent in our baby registry. We ended up using BabyList and I’ve been super happy with it. There’s a little button you can install on your tool bar and then you can basically add items from any website to your registry. It’s almost like the Pinterest of baby registries. A lot of our stuff is from amazon but I was also able to add stuff from Etsy and some other stores. It was a pretty overwhelming experience but I’m feeling good about our choices and feel like we at least got a lot of the big stuff researched and added.
Plus our crib is being delivered today! Yay! Once that’s in place, we’ll be able to see how the rest of the furniture fits, hang some stuff on the wall and then share some pictures!
Another fun weekend project was painting a couple of photo boards. This has been on my list forever and we finally got around to it. We just went to Home Depot and picked out a few pieces of wood and now we’re painting them or staining them different colors so I have some different options to shoot my photos on! So far we have a white circle and a gray-stained square. This weekend we’ll flip them over and paint the other sides for a total of 4 options. (Excuse the terrible photo- the white board is actually a beautiful white- not yellow!)
In the evenings, I’ve been spending some time on Etsy this week looking at various things:
I’m looking for a new planner.
I love mine but it’s just a little too small due to a mis-order on my part,
so I’m looking to switch back to a bigger one.
Some options:
One
Two
Three
Four
Other random finds:
Obsessing over this necklace.
Adore this bag.
Dreaming of this.
Love these nursing reminders.
Dying over this.
Pretty much need this.
Question for moms:
Did you keep some sort of memory journal of baby’s first year? Milestones? A thought a day? That type of thing? There are a lot of books out there and I don’t want it to be overwhelming but I would like something where I can jot down little memories as the days go by.
I think that’s all for today.
What’s on your agenda for the weekend?
Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
