Day 6: If you couldn't answer with your job, how would you answer the question, 'what do you do'?

What do I do? Non-work related...this is hard.   Right now what I am doing is easier to answer: i am stalking my new iRobot rumba.  We are on its third use, I am not sure about it yet...a little mistrusting if it will do a good job or not but I am sure it will soon gain my trust (just like the dishwasher.)

Anyway...

I am a newer (nearly 10 months, that is still new right?) mom trying to figure this balancing act out.  I need to give enough at work, with the baby, the house. And the hubby?  Yeah, a true balancing act.  Trying to find the right mix is exhausting and it hurts to think to much to think about it so I will just have to leave it at that.

Blog challenge Day 5: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them?

Day 5: Publicly profess your love and devotion for one of your blogger friends. What makes them great? Why do you love them?

http://www.schuelove.com/?m=0 I enjoy this blog with Natasha. And her adorable little Ethan, our boys are two weeks apart and I feel like they are so similar! It seems like Ethan starts something and our little mr follows in suit.

I started reading blogs and blogging after I saw the cutest chalkboard baby progress reports from Little Baby Garvin. She really caught my attention when I noticed she was from Iowa and loves the Hawkeyes ( where I went to school!) if you haven't seen her site check her and little miss Harper out: http://littlebabygarvin.blogspot.com/

With this great collection of links, I think a can now blogstalk some new "friends."

Blog challenge Day 4: Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it

Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it

"You can be hard, you can be judgmental, but those two things alone can ruin your life the likes of which you won't believe"

Wow

I read the above quote in a book my sophomore year in high school. I loaned that book to my English teacher (thinking back on that is a little awkward since I just retread it, hello sex scenes...) and it took me years to find it again-thanks kindle. The whole time I remembered the quote, it is just so true!

This book still remains one of my favorites, a little romance but with a great story: a Place to Call Home by Deborah Smith

Blog challenge Day 3: Things that make you uncomfortable

Day 3: Things that make you uncomfortable

What makes me uncomfortable?

Well, having a child has made my personal space bubble stretch but it is still there! I feel uncomfortable when I am "exposed" in one way or another like when my baby pulls down my shirt to pull himself up, going to the bathroom had having someone else came in (kid excluded), or when your in laws (super excited about their first grand baby) rush into the delivery room to soon as I was being stitched up spread eagle. I am not ok with being surprised in those moments, this will fade as I get more parenting under my belt but right now, I will not choose you to see me breast feed so close you can comment on my son's funny faces.

Being uncomfortable when a lady asked how old my baby was followed by "he has such a nice shaped head, did you have him vaginally?" UNCOMFORTABLE! Why would it be ok for a stranger to ask me about my vagina?!

It also makes me uncomfortable watching a birthing video in parenting class sitting next to a guy friend from high school that I hadn't seen in ten years...flash back to sex education.

There are other things but this is a big one for me!

Blog challenge Day 2: Educate us on something you know alot about or are good at

Day 2: Educate us on something you know alot about or are good at.

Hhhmmm

Well, if you asked my husband, he would not say that I am good at keeping up with housework, so what to say?

I believe I am good at finding something to make last minute to eat for the three of us or a crowd. I love company and if the stores would all close, our house would be the last on the block with food (unless I have an extreme couponer in the neighborhood.)

I have a couple of quick hit semi-homemade dessert recipes that take under an hour to have a fresh hot slice of yumminess to impress. For example: one egg, 1/2 cup sugar, and softened block of cream cheese will add a simple cheesecake layer to cookies, brownies, or cakes that come from a box or premade dough.

Also I have on hand a couple long lasting items like cream cheese, canned diced green chiles, canned hormel chile, apples, creasant rolls, plain cereal (corn flakes or Rice Krispies), cool whip, instant jello/pudding mixes, blocks of cheese, crackers, cherry pie filling, boneless pork ribs, ground beef, and tortillas. With theses items I can make so many snacks, dips, main dishes, and desserts to impress a group in a hour or less.

What to eat now, I got options!

Blog every day for 31 days~ Day 1: The story of your life in 250 words or less

Ok, I am going to try it, write about a given topic for the next 31 days....this is part of a challenge a couple of blogs I follow are doing which then lead me to http://storyofmylifetheblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/blog-every-day-in-may-challenge.html

Are you ready... DAY ONE

The story of your life in 250 words or less (or one paragraph... no one will be counting your words... probably)

I was city born-Omaha, NE, but raised small town high school football Harlan, Iowa. Grew up on a small acreage in the middle of some big farms with only an outside dog for a pet. I had three sisters until high school when my baby brother was born. Met a boy in high school who twelve years later is my baby daddy and hubby of five years. Left home for college, lost my father unexpectedly and never went back- lived in Council Bluffs, Harlan, Iowa City, Orlando, and Des Moines. Got a great job, my masters degree, a new car, then a baby last summer. Starting a new position in June that will hopefully let me do more of the things I love: be a mommy, craft, travel, cook, and read.

Wow that is amazing that you can pack so much into so little words! Who's next?

Baby on the move, eating everything

It is amazing how life changes completely again once a little one becomes mobile. I hardly feel I can walk out of view for even a second these days. Prior to eight months I thought rolling, pushing backwards, and sitting up was a lot of movement. Starting promptly after 8 months, he crawled for food then for toys and familiar people, and now just to discover anything within view. With spanning out in space comes finding more stuff, I am amazed how the sense to put everything in one's mouth develops quickly! I was cleaning the spare bedroom last weekend and saw little mister put something in his mouth. I sprung to action sweeping a game dice out of his mouth. Sadly I wasn't quick enough to reclaim that small chunk of dirt off Greg's work boots before it left LO (little one) with a muddy disappointed mouth. His dad's reaction....oh, Holland boys eat dirt!