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Do not go to sleep with wet hair. Because when Tucker needs your hair for comfort at 3:30 am and it's wet he will stay up and cry. NEVER GO TO SLEEP WITH YOUR HAIR WET. That is all. -B

Time. Time is flying by and life is getting so busy that I can't even think straight. I spend most of my time thinking of twenty five things at once and that is not a joke. While I'm doing one thing I'm always thinking a step ahead and thinking 99% of the time about my boys. That includes my husband. Anyhow that relates to how fast time is flying because when I wake up in the morning (yesterday at 6 am) and I have thought an hour has passed when really it's lunch time already. There is always always something to do and not enough time to do it. (I won't bring up my lack of printing pictures, I still don't have a single picture of Grant printed out) Therefore time is flying by at a rate that reminds me I need to document these times. There are so many things I want to remember while the boys are little. For instance how Tucker will rub Grants head when he walks by him, or how Tucker goes to the pantry and picks out what he wants to eat when he's hungry....

I find it hard to put into words everything that's going through my mind at 37 weeks and 6 days pregnant. I know that toward the end of most women's pregnancies they nest and clean and take care of house to prepare for baby, although I feel like I'm doing that, I also feel like I'm freaking out a little. As you know I have a 1 year old at home and now I'm freaking out about schedules. First let me say, I don't spend a lot of time at home, especially not as much time as I want. We are always visiting family or going out. In my ideal world I would be home more and cook more homemade meals. To me the key to eating healthy is cooking at home. So anyhow I have been freaking out about schedules because I fully believe in scheduling my time and I would LOVE to schedule my sons time, such as naps. BUT since we're not home (I work 4 days a week) as much that's pretty much impossible. So I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to stay sane with 2 littl...

What do you envision for your family in the future? That's what I've been asking myself lately, and my husband. It's a hard question but it's good to think about it and plan for it now when you still have control and time to think about it. I have all of these dreams for my family, and visions of what I believe our future will look like. I worry that maybe my husband doesn't share that same vision. I have tried to get it out of him, as to what he wants in the future but I don't think he's put a lot of thought into it so I plan to revisit it, until then here is what I want the future to look like for my family. I want to be active with my family and hike, bike, play sports and always have something to do after school or even throughout the day so that we're not always thinking of our next meal. I want to EAT TO LIVE NOT LIVE TO EAT. I feel as though currently I live to eat, always thinking about my next meal/snack and always thinking about healthy v...

Lately there has been things to happen to our family that can make life not so much difficult as uncomfortable. Since we've been married we have not had to worry about keeping a budget and sticking to it. We are truly blessed. But things have happened lately (one being having a baby) that have hit us hard financially. It has made things a bit uncomfortable. We are now trying to budget and get back on track but it's been difficult. We're working on it, it's a process. But obviously when there is a strain on your wallet there is a strain on your relationships and for myself a strain on my mood. Being pregnant can make your hormones go bonkers but add the stress of planning a 1st birthday party (which takes a lot of money), getting bill after bill in the mail and trying to adjust to a new lifestyle of budgeting and realizing your dream of building a house has been delayed AGAIN can make you even more hormonal. I have no been very pleasant to be around lately. I wou...

I listen to podcasts quite often, I should actually do a whole blog post on my top 10 because I love them so thoroughly! Anyways I listen to podcasts quite often and I have recently been listening to a podcast called Mystery Show. I won't get into exactly what the show is except you should know by the name the narrator and producer solves mysteries. So she was trying to find a way to talk to Britney Spears so she purchases tickets from ticketmaster and when she calls ticketmaster to try and find out how the meet and greet with Britney will go she has a long conversation with the representative about life. He said something that struck a cord with me, in their random conversation (who knew you could have such a lovely conversation with a representative when you ask questions?) he says "If more people worried about other people and asked questions, there would be less time to be selfish and more time to talk to others and learn about other people, cause that's what life i...

I can use the plural version of kids because I am now 32 weeks and feel as though our baby #2 will be here soon!!! Anyways todays post is about feeding Tucker and our new one. First lets acknowledge that Tucker did not breastfeed, he never latched so I pumped and it was really hard so Tucker got 2 weeks of breast milk and then was switched to formula. I'm not judging anyone using formula but I always always wanted my son to have the most natural nutrition, breast milk. Since that did not work out, I'm a little pessimistic about baby #2 breastfeeding. I wish I didn't feel this way but I almost believe it won't happen. I will try my best and try to breast feed but I'm scared the cycle will repeat itself. Hopefully in a month or 2 I will find out my worries are all for nothing. My current struggle is feeding Tucker. I've been pretty LAZY about feeding him healthy food. Lets face it I am pregnant and although I never can say I've really had "cravings...