Mother's Day Giveaway!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there! I wanted to do something special to say thank you to all of you who have walked along side me, sending encouraging tweets, emails, leaving comments, and making me feel like I'm not the only one who struggles sometimes as I muddle my way through motherhood. I so cherish the support and friendship with my online and in real life friends and as a way to say thank you I want to offer to make one of you a mother's nest necklace similar to these:

To enter please leave become a public follower of my blog and include a comment on this post with your favorite memory of being a mom as well as how many eggs your next would include. (I will work with the winner to pick the appropriate colors from my stash of light green, pink, white, and possibly cream beads.)

Earn an extra entry by tweeting about the giveaway and another one for blogging about it. Don't forget to leave a comment for each entry.
 Contest will be open until 8pm Friday Central Time. 

Then as soon as I can get to a craft store I'll replenish my supply of wire and get started on making a unique nest with just the right number of egss for you!

Good luck and Happy Mother's Day!!!

Disclosure: I am not a professional jewlery maker (I learned how to make these necklaces from this site).

Racing ahead

This pretty much sums up life right now. 

 

Is it summer vacation yet?

March Journal Entry

It's time for another monthly phone photo dump! It would be easy to get mad at myself for not ever posting pictures from my big camera but instead I'm going to choose to be happy that I'm at least doing something to record our daily happenings for our blog book. I've kept up with my daily journaling and I know that it is going to be instrumental to have those photos and the notes I've been taking when I want to pull 'real' photos later on.

New Year's goals have slipped a little - The house hasn't been as picked up as I would like and while the laundry get's washed & folded, it doesn't always make it into the closets in a timely manner. I'm waking up at 5:15/5:30 every day to work out so hopefully I'll be able to fit in my summer wardrobe again, that is if summer ever gets here. This has been the worst spring ever. I think we've hit 50 degrees twice in the last month. Soccer has been delayed two weeks and 7 inches of snow fell last Thursday so all the melting progress was lost.

March was a busy month due to Easter and Spring Break. I'll be blogging more about that in the days to come because I just HAVE to share the great experience we had at The Rad Zoo in Owatonna.  Until then, here are a whole slew of photos in no particular order (thank you stupid Droid Razr for not being consistent in where you store photos so I can't pull them out chronologically) *sigh*