It’s March!! Crazy. But such a FUN month ahead!! And that much closer to meeting our baby too!! YAY! No pics today – just a quickie! I am in super cleaning mode and heading out to shoot around with my photographer friend this afternoon! Her little guy just turned one and we are meeting up and I get to take some photos of him!
1. Huntler worries about our baby getting smashed. I don’t think I have shared this yet? Anyway, several weeks ago we were at Target and I squeezed myself between the cart and the counter to pay. It was a tight fit and I said, “Wow! I think I just smashed the baby!” He instantly puckered up and was fighting tears. He is definitely our sensitive child. Anyway, I explained to him that the baby was fine and I was only teasing. Goodness – I will never say anything like that in front of him again! He was crushed! So now every time he accidentally pushes on my stomach or something, he panics. “Is the baby okay? Did I smash it? I didn’t hurt it, did I?” He is so protective already. I look at him and I know we are doing something right.
2. And then there is Gentry. My word that child challenges us, especially me, daily. She is as cute and sweet as can be, but she is opinionated beyond belief. I am in the middle of reading this book right now. Hopefully I can get some control back without breaking her spirit.
3. I am finding it harder and harder to get down on the ground to take photos. Well, not on the ground necessarily, but flat on my stomach. I LIKE to lay flat on my stomach when I take picutres of the kids…now I am learning to lay on my side and look like a fish out of water or something un-natural! It isn’t pretty {or comfortable}, I can assure you of that!
4. I have given up on creating our birth announcements…for now. I desperately want to learn design, I do, but my plate is so full right now. I have so many things on my “to do” list that I am afraid I would spend 60 hours working on learning something and still not love what I created. Sooo, I have decided that I can in fact wait until the baby is here and have Chris (the design whiz!) help me! Or just do it. He’ll be home for a week or two after we have the baby and that will be top priority! Plus, this way we’ll only have to design one and not two!
5. I took Gentry to the dentist yesterday. For the THIRD time. I have a whole post I am hoping to get to one of these days, but for now I’ll leave it at that she FINALLY cooperated and there were NO tears. And no cavities. It’s a miracle! I can not even begin to tell you how completely and utterly thrilled I am to have that behind us for another six months!
6. I am super stoked about getting to take this online workshop starting at the end of April. Happy 30th birthday to me!! It is two months and runs through the end of June so I am sure I’ll miss the tail end, but I am confident I can work ahead and get what I need to from it!! Between Kamee’s workshop in just three weeks {EEEK! I am so pumped!} and this one at the end of April, if I don’t take my photography to the next level, then there is seriously something wrong with me!! 
7. I will never eat bagged salad again. EVER. Do you guys eat it? We did all the time. It’s easy. It’s good. It’s convenient. And then I heard something on the news that I did NOT want or need to hear and from now on, I am going to MAKE every salad I eat!
8. I also have a paranoia about popcorn that you pop in the microwave now. Some other random study I heard on the news one night and now I don’t touch it OR let the kids have it. It totally stinks because I LOVE kettle corn. I mean REALLY, REALLY love it. And you can’t just pop some kettle corn in your air pop popper, ya know?
9. I am still trying to decide how I feel about the way The Bachelor went down last night. I wasn’t a Vienna fan from the very beginning, but maybe there was some selective editing that went on to make her seem worse than she is? Not sure. I DO know that I loved Tenley and hope she finds happiness. As far as Jake and Vienna, I guess we’ll just have to see!
10. And last but not least, KATE GOSSELIN on the next Dancing with the Stars? Seriously? I don’t really watch that show, but now I might?
And on that note, I am outta here! The clock is ticking and I have oodles to get done!
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by Bethany
I’ve never read that book, Love and Logic, but I’ve heard good things about it! Good luck! Gentry is sure to be a strong leader one day!
Also, I feel the same way about Kate Gosselin! Really? Dancing with the Stars? I may have to watch it for the first time ever just to see the drama!
I also would love to learn design, but like you….don’t need one more thing on my plate…it would be nice if I found the time to learn though. Oh the dentist….my goodness….I have to take my girls so badly. I keep putting it off because they are both terrified….what’s up with that? Hmmmm…salad and popcorn….never heard anything bad about them. I’m not sure I want to know…ha! I wish I watch Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars, but I don’t
Okay, I’m super curious about the bagged salad and microwave popcorn now!! We eat a LOT of bagged baby spinach, and love it! Do I want to know?!?! I am NOT a fan of popcorn really, but the Barrett really likes it…especially the kettle corn.
Have a great afternoon
really all you have to do is wash your bagged lettuce. there will also be some of that “stuff” on fresh too. but if you wash everything then you should be fine.
I don’t want to watch DWTS just bc i’m sick of Jake and sick of Kate. Who will be watching her kids for the 8 hour a day practices?
Okay, forget microwave popcorn. You need to get a Whirly Pop. It’s a stovetop popper. It takes about as long as microwave popcorn and is sooo much better. They have a recipe to make kettle corn (but give it a different name) and it’s yummy. Here’s a link to check it out on Amazon, but I think you can get it at Target.
http://www.amazon.com/Wabash-Valley-Farms-25008-Whirley-Pop/dp/B00004SU35