good morning

I never knew what to expect when I had children. Would I love it or completely disrupt my life and my daily routine? Now, I love it and I hardly remember what weekend mornings were like with my little man lounging on the bed with us.(note: he does not sleep in the bed with us)

i heart faces

scavenger hunt

capture the sky

Even with the starkness of Winter, the blue sky looks beautiful!

everyday

Must do dishes everyday! Yes, I have a dishwasher. Yes, I wash the dishes before they go in the dishwasher. No, I am not OCD.

furry

All of that fur on his neck will be shedding very soon and will be all over our house. Love this dog, but don't love having to vacuum or swiffer every.single.day when he is shedding!

life

Does life get any better than this?

blurred

This is Mason at eye level with me. He loves to jump up to grab sticks that I hold over my head for him. This dog can jump over Matt's 6'-5" height.

my skye

When going back over my photos from this past week, this one keeps me laughing. Now that Skye is 5 years old, he is a very serious boy most of the time. From time to time though, he gets a little pep in his step and lets loose and acts like his old puppy self and I love it.

My tip for animal photography - get down on their level or lower. Yes, I have been known to sit or lay on the grass/deck/snow/mulch just to get a good shot. My dogs are used to this so they don't trample me, but other pets may need some time to adjust before you can get a good shot.


flashback: Skye as a wee little fella. He just loved his little husky friend. He was super cuddly and soft puppy, and when he "talked" to us he sounded like he had a frog in his throat!

photo share

challenge: food


I love a warm, buttery, sugary sweet potato!

sofa time

laundry

laundry: I finally feel like I am getting the hang of all the extra laundry that comes along with having a baby. Before Will, I had our laundry down to 2 loads of clothing and 1 load of towels per week. In addition to an extra load on the weekend, I now have at least one mid-week load of just Will's items.

His little clothes are so darn cute though!

highs + lows

warning: complete miscellany to follow (don't say my blog title didn't warn you)



When you are pregnant, everyone warns you about pregnancy brain. The dreaded forgetfulness of everything. Why is it that no one ever tells you that it never.goes.away? Pregnancy brain just sneakily segue's into mommy brain.

Whether I am showering, washing dishes, feeding/burping/changing baby, or folding laundry, my mind works like I am typing out a blog post and as an idea or phrase comes to mind, I run for a piece of paper and pen because if I don't write it down, it will be lost forever in mommy brain land.

Memory is a strange animal. I have what some call an amazing long term memory, but I have to admit that my short term memory is truly lacking these days. I can't remember walking from one room to the next what I was going in there for, but I can remember that a particular shirt is 3/4ths of the way down in the middle of the laundry pile because I washed it over a week ago... go figure!

In all of my mommyness, it is difficult for me to wrap my brain around an entire thought, much less than an entire blog post. Then I came across this post and thought, "highs and lows - I can do that!".

Here goes:

high | Will is all smiles every morning, almost like he missed me while he was sleeping.

low | When the smile means that he is going to spit up.

high | Every time I prop Will up on boppy while we dress for work, he just smiles and giggles with his little hands resting on his belly.

low | I never have camera on hand to capture the moment or the time to even take a picture if I did.

high | Will and I went to lunch and spent the afternoon with my cousin Angela on my day off.

low | Will slept the entire time barely opening his eyes until she was leaving - he slept the entire four hours we were with her.

high | We have had a few warm weather days recently.

low | The cold weather came back.

high | Will has recently started sleeping flat on his back and loving it.

low | He hates tummy time and fusses the whole way through it. I am a bad mommy for not doing it more often. He may never crawl because of me.

high | Work is a lot less stressful since my return from maternity leave. I have a lighter workload for now!

low | The work days go by very slowly and I know that I am totally jinxing myself here.

Ok, so there is my first shot.  I will have some better ones for you next week hopefully! 

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great outdoors

I finally got out and spent a few minutes with my furry boys in the backyard. They were overjoyed!!

sweet shot