Scents Sense

Lets see a raise of hands of who likes to smell good? *survey the crowd* I am pretty sure that was everyone. And pretty much all the ladies, I am sure.

There is just something in a woman that overtakes us when something stinky come within 20 feet. We whip out our perfume bottles! Even if we think "BO"  we slink off the the bathroom to reapply the little deodorant we keep in the secret pocket of our purses. (Heaven forbid another sees us and think we have some chronic smelly disorder!)

And let's just tap a little into soaps and shampoos we use. There is not one Bath and Body Works I have passed that was not packed full with women picking up bottles and cracking one open like beer and taking in its scent.

Seriously! As women we have an addiction to smell goodies! It's a drug! And what makes it worse, all the soap and shampoo scents are not longer just your simple "Spring Fresh" or "Rose", its expanded!!!

We now have scents like "Apple Cherry Vanilla Blossom" or "Rosewood Evergreen Citrus".

I mean, it used to be just be I would shower with "clean" scented body wash, now I smell like "Orange Morang." and why not top that off with " Morning Dew Fern Fresh" shampoo. Oh! And guess what I bought a new conditioner treatment, lets make my hair smell like "Sugar Cookie Cotton Candy Balls!"

And since I am enjoying the bath so much, like make it more romantic and add candles!

Let's see, I'll burn "Winter Snow Flake by the Fire" (Didn't know snow had a smell, but apparently it does!)

And when I am out I will burn another as I get ready for day, titled "Fall Leaves" Yes, Bath and Body Works has a candle that smells like fall's dried up leaves. The very leaves you are endlessly raking and you gripe about when your husband tracks them into the house. But hey! your house can at least smells like it! Link here if you want that candle in a mini version!

 

*sigh* By no means do I mean to sound negative about all the new smellies that have come out. I am one of those ladies who love scents and buy candles and use twice, before I buy another. I am an addict!

 

But I just gotta know, who was the person who woke up one morning and thought, "I want to smell like Chocolate Cake" Linke here!

 

My favorites are from the people who invented the soda and Twinkies scented AND flavored lip balms! Sheer genius! My personal favorite is Mt. Dew.

 

But hey, who is to judge? If you want to smell like an ice cream sundae, you can smell like an ice cream sundae. If what makes your day is to get a wiff of your house in cascades of "Cherry Berry Banana Glazed Bun Blossoms," then be my guest and burn that candle!

 

Anyways until another day!

 

toodles

 

A pic of my baby!

 

Valentines day at the PICNIC

Well just a little post for now. Our little mini man is in the hospital due too a very bad virus. No worries he is getting better. Prayers are always appreciated.


So we start our valentines day off the night before with pink sparkly cupcake:)


And then my minimal being a stud muffin and giving all his nurses a valentine:)


And PICNIC stands for the picu and the nicu patients because this poor hospital is so full of poor sucky babies with this bad virus:( no worries they are in good hands


No worries another post soon and more pictures of MiniMan and BabyGirl to come:)

Toodles!

Valentine Cards :)

So now that Holidays are all over we can now all breathe a sigh of relief we no longer have to spend weeks budgeting, shopping, wrapping, cooking....(the list goes on forever!)

Now comes my favorite part of a new year; the Not really Real Holidays! You know which ones I am talking about. Valentine's Day, St. Patricks Day, etc. The ones that you can simple throw on a green shirt or send a little red card and that is enough. Heck you really don't have to celebrate in anyway with these little holidays, but why spoil the fun?
Besides with Valentine's Day coming next month can you complain about an excuse to eat boxes of chocolate or give cheesy cards? Better yet! Why not make your own cards?

Go ahead and break out your scrapbook paper, stickers and ribbon and just start cutting hearts and making lovely card designs.

The one I made above is just blue wood looking paper folded in half. I then cut a contrasting floral piece with crazy scissors. Added a little ribbon strip, a pink heart and blue squares you come up with a cute looking card. :)

This one I just designed around the 3D floral sticker I had.

Anyways, with your cute homemade card why not grab some strawberries; melt some chocolate and make chocolate covered strawberries. It makes a great gift for any loved one. :)

Anywhoalls, Until another Day

Toodles :)

Palmolive Fresh Infusions

Well I have only had the last few days to try out my Palmolive Fresh Infusion dish soap which I recieved from Influenster. If don't know what Influenster is, there is a link at the bottom of this post for you to check it out. I must say, I love the Lime Basil scent.

At first, I thought it would be my least favorite and the Gensing White Tea would be my favorite, but it actually reversed. The green bottle is my most favorite.

The White Tea is the pink bottle, The Green is my favorite and the Yellow is lemon scent.

A big bonus for me is that my hands don't break out to this soap. I have pretty sensitive skin so dish soap really had to be gentle on the skin for me to use it. I have so far only done three loads of dishes since getting the soap, but I love it already. :)

http://www.influenster.com/

The Night!...*insert epic music*...Baby #2 came!!!

So Saturday, at 1 in the morning, I was throwing up. (I know. A lovely starter to a blog post.) I had caught that tummy flu bug that had been going around this holiday season. So achy, nauseous and to top it off ready to pop any day, I was miserable!
And then when a decent hour in the morning came, while I was throwing up even more, my poor baby girl woke up with puke all over herself and crying. And to make it worse, my husband has this bug the other day, but he just got a head ache and little tummy ache....*grumble grumble* NOT FAIR! But wonderfully he took the day off to take care of us. ( LOVE YOU HUBBY MAN!!!)

Well by night fall, I was still feeling like gum stuck to a stinky shoe, but good news was was that Baby Girl was feeling much better. By 10 o'clock I was feeling much better myself. Sore and achy from hacking up all day and being pregnant, but I was honestly feeling much better.
Now let me tell you, here I was feeling much better, good enough to feel like I was going to get a decent night's sleep and low and behold around midnight I was feeling a bit off again. Not even thirty minutes later I had this horrid thing happen...a contraction!!

Ok ok ok  BREATHE! I told my self. It was just one contraction. It wasn't really anything. Being the good prego lady I did my research and learned you usually have a few contractions here and there a few days before labor. Well, I had just felt one. That didn't mean anything at all it was just one...oh wait was that another one? No it couldn't be. Probably just a charlie horse...well sure enough 10 minutes later I was calling my mom about having 3 contractions each 10 minutes apart. With the good advice of "Call your doctor", I did just that and of course I was told to not wait and come right on in.
I mean here I was just healing up from my puke fest and now I have to go to the hospital in the middle of night! *contraction! OW!* Ok stop complaining and move along!

So I waddle out of bed, Hubby man starts to race around trying to gather everything and all I can think about was trying to find pants (I was in jammy shorts) and where was my daughter's coat. And low and behind my water breaks. Then as I look up at the clock where it was suppose to say 1:13, since my last contraction was at 1:03. (Don't quote me on those times. Those are what I remember. I was told it was much later in the morning.) Well yeah....It didn't say 1 with a pretty number 13 next to it. It had a 0 and an 8. ...That was 5 minutes apart.
So we went from let gather everything in order and makes sure we have everything too "wake-up-the-neighbor-to-help-and-gather-what-we-can" mode because we were not sure if I was about to have the baby right there.
With our wonderful neighbors help, what seemed like forever, went much faster and we were on our way to the hospital. Poor Baby girl was under six layers of blankets because she was wearing nothing but a jammy shirt and diatee and I was under about the same, because I couldn't find my coat and was too stubborn to wait a second longer to have someone fetch it off the bathroom floor were I left because I was still trying to find socks for my feet.

So! You think out little rush would end there...well...not even 5 minutes into our little drive..."Ding" "Ding""Ding" ...what could that little harmless dinging noise possibly mean at this hour of the night?

*the gas light was on*

Oh yes! Very true, we on E and our little gas light came on so sweetly chiming. Taunting me! Our evil car had planned this! It was a conspiracy!!! (Maybe, I was little high on hormones then)

FINE! We stop for gas...and then...Hubby Man forgot his wallet! Luckily I had my purse!

So 20 minutes at the pump we were back on the road racing to the hospital. Hubby man was flying down the highway, probably speeding and praying to God there are no cops. I am next to him doing my prego lady duty of *breath* "THIS HURTS" *breathe* "Why didn't we have gas?*breath* "Are we there yet!?!"*breath* "Is Baby girl warm enough!?!" *breathe*

So finally after what seemed like forever and my poor Hubby's ears chewed off, we arrive at the hospital. Of course, we had to circle the building few times and go through the wrong entrance a few more before we actually found the entrance where we were suppose to enter. Once inside I was whisked away to warm and comfy room, with Hubby and Baby Girl right behind.
Once settled in I thought, here there was all this drama and I am probably going to be here a few more hours.

Beside I was told I was only dilated to 5, no wait it was moved to 6...

I thought then I should probably call my mom again, not sure if I called her again about arriving at the hospital or not. So Hubby or I, not sure which, gave her a call.

Oh look I was told I was at 7 now and the 8.

Yep around here things get pretty hazy. I asked for some nice drugs, because the pain got pretty bad, even after Hubby tried all the back massages.

After all this, I remember mom racing to the hospital, the nurse telling me not to push and I wanting to push and my doctor racing in.

So yeah within minutes this little guy popped right. :P

We thought he was kinda cute and decided to keep him. :)


More updates from the organic poptart to come. :)

Toodles!

Christmas update and going nuts

No...no that baby is not here yet. I know! You would think after eviction notice after eviction the little tike would take hike right out of my tummy and straight into my arms. However, the little booger has other ideas.

Anyways, how was everyones Christmas?  I mean who in the world stays pregnant this long!?!?! No answer that. Answer how was your Christmas question. Ignore my baby rants, I am losing my mind. How about an update of how our Christmas went?

As you can see, my little darling was having tons fun with her uncle and large roll of bubble say. I must say that is probably the best present my brother ever got for Christmas. (It would have been more fun with another little baby! It her were here!)

And of course it was chocked full of presents! Here, baby girl is enjoying the large teddy she got on Christmas day. Its now her buddy. And the thing is huge. ( Almost has huge as my belly!!!)

Here, Hubby-Man enjoys opening a present from my mom. All eleven Time Lords in little Lego figurines. I'll post another picture of them up close in another blog. Maybe new years, when baby decides to pop out...hopefully!

And day after Christmas after putting away Christmas presents, (Yes, being pregnant still!! I had enough time to put her presents away!) Baby girl decided she could put herself away too in one of hertoy boxes. How cute!

Anyways, just a brief update about the fam. (Well two of them at least. The third is a stinker and still in the belly!!!!)
Anyways, Happy holidays everyone!!!

Toodles!

The Fineries and Pleasantries of Parenthood.

Often people think becoming parents stop you from experiencing the pleasantries of life. You trade high heels for sneakers, Friday night parties for sleepless nights. Which some of that may be true, however, on the contrary of what most people think, parenting actually comes with a...higher quality of life experiences.

For one most, people think fashion sense gets tossed out the door. Oh no. I guarantee my child at such a young age has already developed a glamorous personal style.

And to top off her fashion sense, she can find style in anything even in a table runner.

One of the biggest fineries we enjoy now is art. One thing our daughter has taught us to look at art with different point of views. Really get into the art. Sometimes you have to set yourself in or "on" a masterpiece to truly understand the artist.

 Here we learned from this painting that sometimes you to sit on the "flowers" of life before you can make a choice.
Oh course as an adult I have also had the choice to savor the fancier tastes in life. One thing being a parent has taught me is to enjoy lighter taste pallets. 

Here, I am trying a much "finer" grape beverage of my daughter's choice. Not sure what its vintage is, but still had a sweet and fruity pallet, so only shows to true quality and value.


And after a busy day's work and excitement full of culture, posh and life experience, we always take sometime to ourselves.Here Baby Girl has taken time to set a cozy spot to enjoy some down time watching a peaceful classic fairytale (Snowhite). Afterwards she has a book by her side to read once the movie has finished.

I hope this has shown you what you learn from being a parent. Things become not only practical, but become more life altering. I would becoming a parent truly dives you into the world of culture and and passions. It truly gives a better understanding of the world.

Until another day

Chio