Post-Turkey day winners

The winner of the Vintage Santa Scrabble Tile Pendant, chosen by random.org is number 3...

The Neaves'!

And the Christmas Sarcastic gift tags, chosen by random.org, go to number 8...

Vee!

Congrats winners - and thank you so much to Missy Beez and every jot and tittle for contributing!!

Christmas giveaway: custom gift tags!

These gift tags are seriously so adorable. I love all things funny and sarcastic and so my eyes lit up when I saw these. Then I was even more excited when every jot & tittle agreed to give a set of her Sarcastic Gift Tags to one of you!

The set comes with twelve tags, 2 each of the six sayings. My favorite is "This is the most awesome gift ever, which is why I bought it in my size. If it doesn't fit you, I guess I could keep it." They are printed on natural white linen textured cardstock.

To enter just leave a comment here about how much you love these. Contest will run through Turkey Day as well at midnight and announced on Friday. Good luck!

Christmas giveaway time!

In the spirit of Thanksgiving week, and everyone beginning to pull out there Christmas decorations, L&M is going to host a giveaway! The lovely Missy Beez Dezignz is giving away a Scrabble tile pendant for you to wear to all your holiday parties. :) It is made with a real wooden Scrabble tile, handmade, sealed with a non-toxic acrylic coating.


Contest will run through Thanksgiving day at midnight. All you need to do is comment here telling me that you love the pendant!

Also - there will be a second Christmas giveaway tomorrow so check back!!

Week 8: kidney bean!

New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.

A word from Jenny McCarthy

So besides all of the nausea I'm experiencing, I am also suffering from extreme exhaustion, which I'll admit has been overshadowed by the vomit. It's a kind of tired that is inexplainable. For me though, everytime I sit on the couch for 5 hours without moving, knowing there are so many chores to be done, I feel guilty. Like, am I really this tired? I must seem so lazy! I feel like the world is looking at me like, dude, get off your ass. But I can't. It feels as though the task of rising off the couch is equivalent to walking to the grocery store, shopping, then lugging all the bags home on my back.

Point is, when I listen to stories of other womens exhaustion, or read about how normal it is in books, I feel a little better. I know what a hard job my body is tasked with right now and it is no surprise that I'm flat out sleepy. Tonight I read some wise words from Ms. McCarthy that healed my soul for the night:

"Imagine staying up all night, then running a marathon, then doing 300 loads of laundry and raking the leaves off a football field all in one day. How tired would you be? That's how tired I felt EVERY DAY in my first-trimester. Its like someone snuck in and stole all the juice out of my body. Our bodies give so much to the embryo I'm surprised we can even get off the couch."

And that's when I yell at the book and say YES that's exactly what its like! Then I go back to resting my head on the pillow like before, only this time not feeling quite as lazy.

Our Christmas cards

This year I wanted super cute, unique, personalized, AWESOME Christmas cards. I was tired of the same 'ol, same 'ol. So I searched around Etsy for hours and found some cards that fit my criteria. I looked at all the options the seller had and saw some that would be so adorable, if only I was pregnant. Perfect timing! After I found I was in fact preggers, I ordered these immediately. (Do you notice the little something extra??)

Sarah and Abraham have such cute stuff and has the fastest turn around time of any Etsy shop I've seen. I ordered them on Friday and had them in my hands on Monday. I just love them!

Telling you how I really feel

Hey little baby: the majority of the photos you will see of mommy pregnant will be smiley, happy, belly shots. The reason is that I am very happy to have you and am so excited to meet you.

HOWEVER...

Right now, I don't feel smiley or happy. It's more like pukey and sleepy. So for that reason, and for the reason that one day you might be all, "my mom is so lame" I want to show you what I look like currently on a daily basis.

This isn't like, in the morning or a particularly rough day, its every day. That doesn't mean that I'm not okay with it (happy wouldn't be the word) because I am - it's my job. I just wanted you to know. Just in case I need leverage some day. "Kid I was sick as a dog every day for the first ___ months I carried you in my WOMB and you can't rinse your plate before you put it in the dishwasher??"