What I’m Loving…

• Sleeping until 6:20. Daylight savings threw Colton for a loop, and he’s been waking up at 5 am. Combine that with a day where he took a 45 minute nap, 6:20 feels like HEAVEN.
• Target’s Shawl Collared sweatshirt. Soooo comfy, but still cute (and I can wear it multiple days without a wash). I want more.
• Crazy 8′s kids’ clothes. I spent less than $50 last night for a pair of jeans and a t-shirt for Colton, plus jeans, 2 shirts, leggings and a skirt for my friend’s two kids. Jeans are $12.99 when you buy two or more, you can save 25% on your order right now, and shipping is only $5. Plus, I’ve found the clothes hold up super well, and you can’t beat $2.99 shirts.
• This photo from our recent shoot with Caroline. I don’t think there’s one thing about this photo I don’t love.

• Panera’s Fuji Apple Chicken Salad. It’s my all-time favorite salad, and Hubby picked one up for me today since we forgot to defrost our meat in time for dinner. But, I found two different recipes for making your own via Pinterest.
• Pumpkin bread and apple cider in the evening with Hubby.

Random Letters

Dear Stomach Bug,

Please leave my family alone. Five days with a baby who’s in too much pain to eat, two days with a baby of a sick husband followed by a day with an out of commission mom are not fun. Since it’s been two years since I last saw you, could you please stay away for at least that long again? Thanks.

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Dear Dean, Kroger Bagger,

When I bring my own bags, all nicely folded and stored in one bag, please take out one bag at a time, as needed. Please do not dump all the bags out to use the one bag they were all in. If you do decide this is necessary, please put the bags you don’t use back inside another bag. Do not dump them all over my cart. Thanks!

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Dear Colton,

Please gain weight. But do you have to wake up screaming bloody murder at 1 am to do it? Your poor Dad has had to get up to feed you two nights in a row (thanks stomach bug!), and it’s getting a little old. Also, do not feed your puffs to the dog. Love you!

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Dear Romantic Comedies,

Most of you may be brainless, but there is nothing like you when it comes to cheering me up while I’m convalescing. The best part about you is if I happen to fall asleep, I can always follow the story line whenever I wake up. Thank you, RomComs, for always being there for me.

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Dear Ball Popper,

You scare my son. Why did I buy you thinking you’d be fun?

Irresistibly Sweet

Apparently, Erin at Polka Dots and Pearls thinks I’m irresistibly sweet! Thanks Erin!

Generally, I appear to be bad at receiving blog awards, based on the one other time I received an award and pretty much ignored it. But, this time I’m at least going to answer the questions that come with said award! I can’t pass it on, as it gives me anxiety.

Apparently, I am to list five guilty pleasures, so here goes:

1. Say Yes to the Dress – Love, love, love this! I have a friend getting married in July, and I’ve been watching for “research” so I can be of assistance in dress-finding. Even though she already has her dress.
2. Shopping for baby clothes – no, my child does not need any more clothes for the foreseeable future (this includes, most likely, into next winter). Does this mean I can stop shopping? Um, no.
3. Glee – I’ve just now gotten into the first season of Glee (thanks Netflix!). I’m a little embarrassed to admit how much I love it, mostly because I’m a little late jumping on this particular bandwagon.
4. Computer games – I really like time management and building games. It’s not cool, it’s not “adult,” but I like it.
5. Dessert – preferably of the chocolate variety. But I don’t usually feel guilt about it, just pure pleasure.

Do any of these surprise you? Are any your guilty pleasure too (I don’t want to be alone on the random computer game thing!)?

Because Kanye’s Always Funny

I’m a fan of Josh Groban, going on eight years now. He’s one of the only artist’s whose music I liked in college and still like now (especially when I need time to mellow out). Anywho, I “liked” him on Facebook about a month back, figuring that would be the best way to keep up with when he had an album out and whatnot. Over that month, I’ve enjoyed some of the off-the wall things that were posted. But yesterday, well, yesterday’s posting ensured I would be a fun for a very, very long time.

Does it get any better than that?

File This Under Strange

As part of his job (the “if I tell you, then I’ll have to kill you part), Hubby gets to spend most of his working hours in windowless, concrete room where he can’t have a cell phone or MP3 player, and where the radio only picks up 2 stations. So, he spends a lot of time listening to radio commercials.

After work one day, he was telling me about a commercial he heard repeatedly for Hoodie-Footie pajamas. These are, essentially baby pajamas with hoods for adults. (No wait! I just saw that they make them for the whole family! Everyone can wear matching footie pajamas!) He told me he had heard that they made a “sleek and sexy” version, and was interested in how one could make footie pajamas sexy. I said something to the tune of, “oh, well Colton’s pajamas look comfy. If I had footie pajamas then my feet would be warm at night!”

Apparently, the husband thought that meant I wanted a pair of Hoodie-Footie pajamas. And recruited Colton to help him pick out the perfect pair for me. He was seriously suprised when I told him, “no, I really don’t want a pair.”

Except these penguin ones look super cozy…

I kid, sort of. Yes, I would consider wearing these. No, I wouldn’t pay $100 for them. I would look completely, totally, and utterly ridiculous, but I would wear them and be warm. Do you think I’ve lost my marbles? Would you wear something like this? Would your husband ever seriously think this would be a great gift for you?