Mummy's staycation

This weekend was action packed! We had an awesome time at the wedding on Friday! Everything went smoothly. The family was so excited to meet Emerson. We had so much fun hanging out with everyone. We stayed for almost 4 hours (5-9pm). It was awesome seeing how happy my cousin is. The wedding was beautiful. They planned it kind of last minute, so I was shocked to see all of the beautiful décor and everything that was set up. Everyone looked so nice! Afterwards, Emerson and I went home. He had a bath, then we both went to bed. It was such a nice day. It was so fun dressing up too. That doesn’t happen very often! Emerson was the best wedding date a gal could ask for! We were both beat by the time we went to bed and slept very well!

On Saturday, we slept in a bit. I was so shocked to wake up seeing 8:00am on my clock! That never happens. Emerson was all smiles and absolutely adorable. I love waking up to that smile! We headed over to my parent’s house around 2pm. They were having friends over for a cookout. Before we went to their house, we went to Kmart to buy Emerson a float for the pool. ADORABLE! It’s a rescue boat that has a canopy to shield the sun. I got it for $9.74! I couldn’t beat the price. We swam all day. It was awesome and he absolutely loved it. I’m so glad we have a float for him for the rest of the summer. It makes pool time a lot better because he can go in with me now. We had a great time hanging out, eating, and catching up with my parent’s friends. We stayed pretty late. It was nearly 9pm when we left. We headed home, took care of Kodie, bath, boob, bed. Not too shabby for a Saturday!

Sunday, Emerson and I headed to a wedding reception at the park near my parent’s house. We went with my sister and nephew. It was a lot of fun. Em and I only stayed for 3 hours though. Afterwards, we headed over to my parent’s house for dinner. We had a nice time. Dad grilled out and we played and talked to my mum. Afterwards, we headed to Walmart. I had to buy diapers. Emerson had sweet corn casserole for dinner when we got home. He absolutely loved it!

We did have a few hiccups this weekend…

On Saturday, I dropped my IPhone and cracked the screen. I’m due for an upgrade in October, so I guess I’ll just deal with it until then, but man. It does suck. I’m not going to lie. After that, I had the biggest blonde moment. After going to the grocery store, my sister and I came out to get into my car. I noticed a new dent. I immediately blamed it on my dad and assumed it happened when he was driving my car. My sister noticed an old dent had been fixed. At the same time, I couldn’t get into my car. The keychain lock wasn’t working and neither was the key. We were both scratching our heads until Britt realized…DUH, THIS ISN’T YOUR CAR!!!!!!! Lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 minutes of trying to get into the wrong vehicle. Thank goodness the owner didn’t have an alarm. Too funny!

There has been another weird thing happening since Friday night. I’ve been getting text messages from someone named “milk”. I have no idea who “milk” is. On Friday night, I got a text asking where I was. I ignored it. Later, I got a text asking if “we” made it okay. Um, no idea. I didn’t have that number stored in my phone. The sender said “It’s milk” Last night, this person called my phone FOUR times. I was PISSED. Clearly, my phone doesn’t need to be ringing off the hook at 1am. I have a baby that is sleeping! So, this morning, I asked the sender who they were. “Milk” I wrote back and said, “Well Milk He apologized. I took to facebook and asked if anyone knew who this mysterious “milk” was. My cousin’s wife responded and said her son’s nickname is milk, but she doubted that it was him. I told her the first 6 digits of his number…BINGO. Mystery solved. ”Milk” ended up being my cousin. LOL I gave him my phone number on Friday when he came to my parent’s house to pick up cookies and drink dispensers for the wedding. I guess he must have had me confused with his friend. I am still laughing. I feel bad for reaming him out, but I don’t mess around when it comes to Emerson’s sleep!

Today, Britt is babysitting for me. My mum is also here, so it’s nice. They can both help each other out. Britt didn’t start watching Emerson until 10am. I fed him and he slept for over 2 hours. He’s due for a nap pretty soon though. I hope they put him down for one, so he’s not cranky. Anyway, this week isn’t going to be too exciting. I’m in the office on Tuesday, but home on Wednesday. I’m doing laundry and grocery shopping that day. Friday, the office is closed for the 4th of July. I took off Monday and Tuesday, so I literally have 5 days in a row to spend with Emerson! I am so excited! We’re kicking off our staycation at my parent’s house for the 4th of July. Swimming, food, fun, and fireworks. I cannot wait. Emerson has four 4th of July outfits too. My mom went a little overboard. LOL She also bought me a really cute tank to wear, so we’ll be all festive. They have a lot of fireworks and décor too. I’m so excited. I can’t wait!

We’ll probably log more pool time between Saturday and Sunday too as long as the weather is nice. I’m going to see if my best friend wants to take the babies to the animal park on Monday. Tuesday, we’ll probably log some more pool time and maybe go down to the waterfront to walk around. I can’t wait to spend all of these days with him! My mom is off of work too, so she’s going to babysit him a few times next week for me, so I can save on daycare. I’m just really excited and cannot wait for this week to be over, so we can begin our mini staycation!!!!

Alright, that’s about all I have for now. Have a great week, all!

Mummy's tired!

I can’t explain how overly happy I am that its Friday. This week has seriously beat the crap out on me. I feel like I’ve spent no time with Emerson outside of bathing, feeding, and putting him down to sleep. We did visit my parents after work yesterday for a little bit, but by the time we got home, it was bath, dinner, then bed. I feel like we’ve had zero playtime this whole week. Tonight, we have a wedding to go to. Tomorrow, we have a cookout. We might skip the wedding reception on Sunday that we were invited to. I just feel like with how busy it’s been all week and with things going on this weekend, it’ll be nice to just hang out with him for the day instead of having to talk to people at another wedding reception. I don’t know many people that will be at this. I was just going to see my friend from Nebraska, but we can coordinate and have a real playdate with the kids. It doesn’t have to be at her mom’s wedding reception. I’m just exhausted. Usually, this feeling only lasts a day, or so. It’s been all week. Work has been extra demanding lately too, so I know that’s taking a lot out of me. It’s so hard being two people. I need to figure out how to shut off my work brain when I get home and to shut off the mom brain when I’m at work. Double duty is not working out very well for me!

This morning, I woke up at 5am. I pumped, packed the diaper bag, packed my work bag, took care of the dog, got ready quickly, dressed the baby, and dropped him off at daycare. I had to send extra clothes on top of the extra clothes I already was sending. Now that he’s eating solids there, he’s going through more clothes. Anyway, directly after, I went to the Laundromat. Holy laundry! I am almost done drying it all at home. I still have to fold it and put it all away. So much laundry! I shoved 4 loads into three washers because I thought I didn’t have enough quarters. I’m glad it’s all done and I hope I don’t make the fatal mistake of waiting nearly two weeks. Brutal! On a positive note, I am so freaking happy to have clean clothes again. I was wearing the goofiest stuff and so was the baby!


I’m done working early today, so that I can get ready for the wedding, head to daycare to pick Emerson up, then take him home to change, eat, and then head back out the door. I am over-the-moon excited for tonight though! I just hope he isn’t rowdy during the ceremony! He isn’t one to just sit still. He likes to be talked to and played with, so watching a wedding quietly probably isn’t going to happen. If he starts getting out of control, I’ll just take him out of the room until it’s over. Luckily, the couple getting married has a brand new baby too. She’s 8 months old, so I’m sure she’ll be rowdy herself. It’s a no-kid reception, but my cousin made an exception for me. Plus, her 8 month old daughter will be there too, so she’ll have a pack and play, etc for the kids. Emerson is going to be the BEST wedding date ever! I have an adorable tuxedo mustache bib for him to wear. I haven’t figured out what he’s going to wear with it. My friend had it made for Emerson. It is absolutely adorable and he hasn’t worn it yet, so it’ll be perfect for today!

The cookout tomorrow is at my parent’s house. Our friends from Texas are in, so we are going to cookout and swim all day. Emerson and I are going to run to Walmart before heading over, so that I can buy a baby raft for him for in the pool. I fill up his little baby pool now, but it would be nice to be able to push him around in the big pool. The water has warmed up A LOT, so hopefully he’s okay with him. I guess we will have to wait and see tomorrow!

Alright, I am ending this for the day. I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

Mummy's planning on a budget!!!!

I’ve been so busy that I’ve barely had time to really blog at all. Sorry, guys! You aren’t missing out on too much. Just more of the same! Emerson and I taking over the world..muahahahaha  Jk (sorta)

Let’s see, Emerson’s half birthday party planning is in full swing. The entire party is only going to cost $88! This is absolutely KILLING me, but I don’t want to miss out on celebrating because of money. I’m able to divide the $88 up between the next three paychecks though, so that helps. I put together an amazing party with an even more amazing budget. I’m so excited. August 2nd will be here before I know it. I can’t believe my little man is going to be ½ a year already. Today, he turned 5 months old. Crazy! I am working on picking out pictures from the last 5 months to have printed. I plan on creating something really adorable for the party to show his growth. It’s so hard picking out pictures! I want to print EVERYTHING! I’m trying to hold back though. It makes me a little teary looking back though. He was so tiny. He’s growing way too fast! I know everyone says that about their kids, but it really is true. It’s like you blink and they are grown! He is so beautiful though! I can’t help, but to brag!!

Daycare asked me today if they could start feeding him solids throughout the day. I gave the go ahead for breakfast and lunch. I’d rather not have him eat solids later in the day because I usually feed him when we get home. I don’t want to mess up our routine. Plus, I still want his main source of food to be from my milk. I hope it doesn’t start to decrease. I want to add in a few more pumps to compensate for the loss from what he’s eating in solids now. I still can’t believe he’s already five months old! Okay, okay, I’ll shut up about it now!

Last night, I put together my cousin’s wedding gift. I made some art for her. Her wedding is on Friday. Considering I’m always on such a tight budget, I couldn’t afford to do more than make something. It turned out so well though. I took adorable wedding paper that I bought at Michaels for 79 cents and framed it into two 4x6 frames. I bought brown, textured paper from Michaels for $1.00 and made a tree that extends into both frames. I extended a tree branch and cut out a sparkly heart from paper that was also purchased from Michaels. I connected both frames with adorable pink ribbon that I purchased as well. I was VERY shocked at the outcome. I think it looks beautiful! I guess I should thank Pinterest for the idea!


In other news, I still haven’t been sleeping very well. I hope tonight is different. It’s making me feel sick throughout the day. Let’s hope things turn around tonight and I get a ton of sleep. I let myself sleep in until 5am today because I was so absolutely exhausted. The baby is sleeping very well though. That’s what I care about most. Let’s hope that trend continues! Tonight, we have no errands to run, which is nice. We went to Michaels after daycare yesterday. Emerson slept the entire drive up there, but was wide awake to shop. (Side bar, that wedding gift only cost me $9.17 to make) Anyway, he cried at the check –out, but ended up fall back asleep during the drive home. He slept until after 6. We played for a bit afterwards, but he got a bath, some guava, and the boob all before bedtime, which ended up being around 7:45pm. After he was asleep, I headed downstairs to put together the wedding gift, have a snack, and let the dog run around outside. I didn’t make it to bed until about 9:30pm. I didn’t fall asleep until sometime after 11. That doesn’t seem so late, but when your alarm is set to ring at 4am, it seems insane going to sleep that late!

I have to do laundry on Friday, which is going to SUCK! It’s been almost two weeks since I was able to get to the Laundromat. I have so much laundry to do. Usually I only have ONE load.. Doing 4 loads is going to suck! Luckily, no one is ever in the Laundromat that early, so I can load everything all up at once and hog all of the washing machines. I’ve been thinking lately about getting a washer. Obviously, it would take me awhile to save up for one, but the luxury would be nice. I know we need other things though outside of a washer. Going to the Laundromat is fine for now, but later on I really do hope that I can get one though. After this half birthday, we have two baby showers. I have some cute, crafty gift ideas for those, so that shouldn’t be too bad. Alright, That’s about all I have for now. Happy Hump Day, All!

Mummy's not ignoring you!

Well, the weekend was really nice. Friday, we did nothing, but hung at home. We went to bed early, so that was nice. On Saturday, we went to a graduation party. We had such a good time. Emerson was a charmer during the party. Afterwards, we went to my parent’s house and hung out until about 9pm. Sunday, we swam all day and brought the dog with us. She swam too! We were all three pooped last night by the time we got home around 7pm. It was bath time, boob, then bed!

Today is the last day that my sister is babysitting Emerson this month. I brought over all of his swim stuff, so she could take him swimming today. His stroller is here too in case she wants to take him on a walk. I’m so appreciative that she’s been helping me out, so that I can save a little money on daycare. Next month, my mom is babysitting 2 days, I’m off two days, and I have Britt down for two days. This way, I only have to send him to daycare for 13 days. We will save a little bit of money!

We have a busy week ahead! Tomorrow, Emerson and I have to run to the craft store to buy the supplies we need to make a gift for my cousin’s wedding on Friday. We’re making the most adorable gift! I’ll take pictures, but you print out the wedding song lyrics and frame them. Then, over top of that, you cut out a tree and then hang two red hearts from it with the first letters of the couple’s name! I found it on pinterest and will literally cost me $5.00 to make, but it looks more expensive than that. Then, we are buying two pillow cases/pillows (very cheap from Walmart) and iron on letters. I’m going to put You complete me across both pillows! Adorable! I’ll package it up very nicely in a gift bag for them. I know it’s DIY gifts, but they are very adorable. I think my cousin will greatly appreciate the gesture.

On Saturday, my parents are having a cookout at their house. Their friends from Texas are coming in! It’ll be a fun time. Everyone is so excited to meet Emerson. I can’t wait! We aren’t doing anything for that aside from showing up all ready to swim! On Sunday, friends from Nebraska are coming in, so my sister, nephew, Emerson, and I are all heading to our friend’s mom’s wedding reception. It should be fun. It’s at the park right down the street from my parent’s house. Busy weekend! Lots of fun coming up. Aside from shopping tomorrow for our supplies, we don’t have too much going on. I need to do laundry so badly. It’s been about 1.5 weeks. I’m working from home on Friday though, so I’ll go after I drop Emerson at daycare. By that time, we are going to have about 3-4 loads. I need to wash sheets and blankets too. Sigh. It’s going to be a big laundry day!

I wanted to address something that happened yesterday. I received SEVERAL rude comments because apparently someone thought I was ignoring them after they commented on photos of Emerson that I posted. That isn’t the case at all. Most of the time, I post and I don’t check back for days at a time. I get busy with Emerson and honestly, social media is very low on the priority list. Google+ is lower than my Instagram and facebook because I personally know the people following me on there and I use it to communicate and coordinate plans. I hope no one else is taking it personally when I do not personally respond to your comments. When I post pictures of Emerson, I get a lot of “he’s cute” comments, which I really appreciate, but I don’t personally address each and every comment that I get. There are some moms/people that I met while I was pregnant with Emerson that helped me through a rough time. I do usually respond directly to those people. That doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate your comment. I do. I just don’t dedicate THAT much time to my social media. Again, I do appreciate all feedback and comments that I get. I respond when I have time. Along with this, I do not use hangout. I had it installed in my phone, but I honestly uninstalled it because A. it was taking up unnecessary space on my phone B. I don’t use it C. I can’t keep up with all of those conversations. Between text messages, emails, and facebook messaging, I barely keep up as it is. I wasn’t keeping up with hangout, so I deleted it. If you message me on there, chances are, I will never respond, so please do not take it personally! I hope I’ve cleared the air here. The person that was upset with me apparently deleted every nice comment she ever posted and blocked me. I just don’t want anyone ever thinking that I am being rude to you on purpose! With all of that said, I am going to end this now. LOL

Have a great week!!!!!!!!!!