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Pregnancy Diaries: Waiting...

My sister Katie arrived last Wednesday to spend some quality time with her prego sis and is hoping to catch the arrival of her first nephew.   Since this event is quite out of our control, we’ve been making the most of our sister bonding time… shopping, pedicures, cooking, cleaning, baby preparations, walks… But at [...]

Pregnancy Diaries: The Final Weeks

The bump has grown quite drastically in the last 5 weeks.  I am feeling pretty good, but I think our little man is BIG and making his mama slightly uncomfortable at times.  We are anxiously awaiting his arrival.  Here’s the bump as it’s grown in the last month…

Week 35

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Pregnancy Diaries: A Room for Ethan

I had a hard time finding too many boy nurseries that inspired me, so I ended up choosing colors and just creating the room around them.  The quilt and pillow make the nursery unique and extra special, because they were hand crafted by my very talented Grandma Lura.  At my requested, [...]

Pregnancy Diaries: A Name for our Little Man

Choosing a name for a child is quite a responsibility and a task that is not necessarily easy.  I am not the type of person that wanted to wait to pick a name until I saw our little guy, and I didn’t have a list of names I loved to rattle off to Josh in [...]

What to Call Grandma Cindy

Since this little man is going to be my parents’ first grandchild, my mom was pondering what she wanted to be called.  I guess Grandma just wasn’t going to cut it!  We’d been mulling over ideas… Nana, Grindy (Josh’s idea- a mix between grandma and Cindy), Me ma, Mimi, Granny… and we finally [...]