High Five for Friday

I am linking up with Lauren at From My Grey Desk  for the High Five for Friday.  You can recap your five highlights of the week and link up too.

1.  Despite a middle of the night vomit session, Ryan seems to be feeling just fine this morning.  And this kid is a rockstar at making it to the toilet to get sick, which I find impressive for a 4 year old.

2.  Pat and I started to refinish a nightstand for our bedroom, which by the way is one of the tasks on my To Do list.  Unfortunately, we've hit a few snags in our plan, but hopefully I'll have some progress pictures soon.

3.  I enjoyed an evening trip to Target BY MYSELF!  I looked at regular clothes and even splurged buying myself some comfy pj pants for after baby girl arrives.  I have to say I'm looking forward to feeling like I own my body a little more, and possibly fitting into normal clothes sometime in the near future.  

4.  I got a new blog design this week.  I really love it.  Go check out my blog designer, Brea, over at Utterly Chaotic because she is awesome!

5.  I have a new found love for Rimmel London Lasting Finish Pro nail polish for my toes.  I received the one on the right, Steel Grey, from a blog swap a while ago and just got around to trying it out.  I am super impressed.  The brush is wide and makes applying it so easy and clean.  The coverage is great; two coats were perfect.  It has been a week and a half and I have no noticeable chips and they still shine like I just painted them.  Plus have I mentioned that this polish only costs $4?  I'm no nail polish junky, but I really do appreciate a polish that lasts a long time so I don't have to repaint too often.  I picked up the color on the left, English Rose, during my trip to Target to brighten up for the spring.   

I hope you'll link up your High Five for Friday!

Refreshed!

For a while now I haven't been feeling like myself.  I feel like I'm going through the motions of everything, but my heart and head are somewhere else.  It's probably been evident in my blog posts for a while now.

I needed to get back to me.  

And what better way to start feeling refreshed than by getting a makeover, right?  While my wardrobe could certainly use one, I thought I'd better start with my blog (especially since I'm hugely pregnant right now;)

I had noticed some blogs that I really liked and made note of the designer.  After a while I kept seeing more and more blogs that I just loved from this designer.  I checked out her design site and wasted no time getting on the list.  

So who is this designer, you ask?  It's Brea over at Utterly Chaotic.  She is so talented and easy to work with.  She was also super fast too.  

I honestly didn't give Brea much to work with.  I told her a few of her designs that I liked.  I also said I liked "simple, classic, and somewhat modern" and gave her a color palette.  That was it.  You can imagine my anticipation to open the first draft, given that I hadn't provided her many details.    As soon as I looked at it though I was in love.  I could not have imagined a better design for what I wanted to capture.  

I feel like a big part of me and my spirit is back on my blog.  I look forward to getting back to me, and hope you'll enjoy reading along, especially now that it looks so pretty around here.

A huge thank you to Brea for the wonderful design and all her hard work.  If anyone needs a little face lift at their place, Utterly Chaotic is the place to get it!!!

A Disorganized Mom

During Pat's last deployment I started drinking coffee.  I had never been enthused at the smell/taste of coffee prior to the deployment, but for some reason I found myself CRAVING coffee.  I guess I needed whatever boost I could find while taking care of two little boys by myself.  The morning cup (and sometimes afternoon cup too) helped me start my day.

After Pat got home I stopped drinking coffee as much.  I'm not sure if it was the weather warming up, less need for caffeine, or just that things were changing so much that my routine adjusted too.

With pregnancy I do not drink coffee at all, and I suspect it will be a long time before I indulge in a daily morning cup since I will be nursing too.  I have to wonder if that cup of coffee was the secret weapon I needed to stay organized.

I've found this past school year, I have been such a disorganized Mom.  Ryan has preschool 3 days a week and goes to speech therapy appointments the other two mornings.  Me and the two boys are running out the door 5 days a week.  And I literally mean running out the door because we are almost always running behind.  It doesn't matter what I do to prepare for the morning, I'm always a step behind when it comes time to go.  I'd love to blame this on my pregnancy, but I'm just not sure that it will be any better when it is me and three kids running out every morning.  While I hate this 5 morning a week schedule, I know that I better get used to it because before long Ryan will start school 5 days a week.  No matter how much I want to keep my kids as babies, they're growing up, and I need to get organized to keep up.  

I'm sick of feeling disorganized and like I'm always running behind.  With only 3 weeks left of the school year though, I'm okay living in denial and believing that it will all be better next year once I'm in the swing of things with three kids.  A mom can dream right?