super awesome giveaway

Well honestly I don't really want to be shouting about this giveaway from the mountaintops, because I want to win, but blogging about it gets you FIVE extra entries so I'm going for it! I would only do this for something I really really wanted to win, and the prize is so freaking awesome! It's maternity clothes! From a really cool and actually STYLISH site! And you get to pick THREE items!! How awesome is that???

The giveaway is by Shannon at Potamus Prefers. Nuka is giving one Potamus reader the chance to choose three items from their store. I'm over halfway done with this pregnancy but there's still a long way to go, and I am CONSTANTLY looking for cute clothes to wear with this body. It's really really tough! Yes you can wear strechy pants and loose tops but sometimes you want to I don't know, actually look nice? Or feel like you look cute? Not just a person with a ball attached to your front? So I am excited to find a site like Nuka because all their stuff is stuff you'd actually love to be seen in.

i love this guy

"I just really want to go to The Olive Garden."
– Taylor Lautner, on what he'd do if the paparazzi weren't around

As if being totally cute and sexy weren't enough, he likes the Olive Garden. I would even share my alfredo dipping sauce with him!

28 weeks

Twenty-eight weeks and feelin' fine. I'm tired, but what mom isn't. I have a two year old, I think I'd be saying "I'm tired" even if I wasn't pregnant. Especially when that two year old has decided he'd rather not take a nap and just plays plays plays all day!

My cousin Brandi asked this week what I'd like for my baby shower. Although this is our third baby this is my first shower ever. I am really excited! It's going to be Valentine's weekend, my favorite holiday. I wish I could do the decorations but I guess that's not "allowed". I made a registry on target.com and walmart.com but they're both pretty short! With Riley I went crazy with the registering for stuff. I had pages and pages of stuff! This time around I know what we really need, and we do have most of the big stuff anyway. I'm not one of those moms who want everything to match everything else. The baby doesn't give a rat's hind parts if her stroller and car seat aren't coordinated with her binkie clip...hopefully she won't want a binkie come to that. Riley never wanted one so that was one less thing we had to worry about 'breaking' him from.

We've been reading the book "I'm A Big Brother" before bed. There's a page where the big brother is holding the baby and feeding her a bottle. I wonder if Riley will just try to take the baby like that when she gets here? I am so curious to see how he reacts to a new person in his world, and one who is going to have so much of mama's attention. It's been just me & him (& daddy) the past almost three years. It is going to be such a change!

this boy...

I don't know why this kid makes it so difficult for me to get a picture of him...

I guess here he's thinking "if i can see her, she can see me and that's good enough"

At least I got one smile!

27 weeks

Well I had this long post yesterday about how I was spending my "day off", but I pressed something that made it all disappear! I'm still trying to figure out this new computer. It seems to have it's own mind when it comes to hot keys. Last night I thought I turned them off, but it's been acting wacky again today so I guess that wasn't successful.

At any rate, I am now 27 weeks! According to thebump, Kira is the size of an eggplant. Personally, I feel like I've passed a bit of a milestone because I made it past 26 weeks. Twenty-six weeks is how far along I was when I had Aiden. Some babies do survive being born that early, but my precious son was not one of them. So it's a bit of a scary time for me being pregnant right now...the entire time I'm pregnant I'm wondering if everything's going okay but making it past 26 weeks is kind of a big deal for me. I am still going to be trying not to worry until she's here and healthy, of course.

I've been noticing how fat my face is getting. I didn't really think it was happening yet until we took those pictures on New Year's Eve. Of course it really doesn't matter what I look like, I'm pregnant and that is beautiful...but I am a Scorpio and I'm vain and I'm hormonal so if I want to lament over my fat face I guess that's okay. I was looking at maternity clothes websites and most of those models have the heads cut off. Is that because the models are not really preggo and I'd be able to tell by their non-preggo faces? Or are they really preggo and their faces are too fat to be shown? Which is it PeaInThePod and Motherhood??? Either way, I take offense.

Now I'm off to clean the house so it can get messed up one more time. Yay for Saturdays!

Stray cat strut

Here in Phoenix there is a big stray cat problem. Pretty much anywhere you go you'll see a stray kitty or two just roaming around...it's pretty sad. We live in an apartment and there are about five cats we see walking around that we're not sure if they're strays or just outside cats on the prowl. One kitty in particular seemed to live in the bushes in front of our apartment. I call her a 'she' but really I have no clue if it's a
boy or girl because she won't let us touch her and I've always felt it was kind of rude to look at a cat like that.

We started leaving food outside for this kitty which I started calling Black Cat because guess what-she's black! There's also Skinny Black Cat, Grey Kitty and Fat Striped Cat walking around out there. Anyway, black cat would
wait for us to totally leave the food alone
before coming to eat. If we even opened the door to go outside while
she was there she'd take off like a rocket. Eventually she would kind of hang around as we were leaving the food out, like sit there at a distance but still not getting anywhere near us.

When it started getting cold I made her a bed on our porch. Just a box with some old blankets but I felt really bad that she was out in the cold all the time. She started sleeping in it right away, so I guess she liked it! After that she got a little more friendly and would not orally take off if we came outside to feed her. She still wasn't approaching us but at least she wasn't completely heading for the hills the second we made a move around her.

Last week I guess she got brave because I found her walking around our living room! Oh yeah I don't think I've mentioned that we do actually have a cat of our own, an orange Tabby called Jax. Jax & Black Cat are total BFFs. So maybe he's been telling her we're a nice family and she should join us. We have a kitty door so Jax can come & go as he pleases and this is how Black Cat came in. The first few times she would of course make a mad dash for the exit as soon as she spotted us. Now it's been about a week and she'll come in, eat, sleep in the new bed I gave her (an old doggie bed but it's really cushy) as long as we don't try to pet her. It's been months of feeding her, she sleeps either on our porch or in our living room but she's still too scared to let us pet her.

I wonder how long it will take before she lets us snuggle her? Will it ever happen?

Hi there!

Welcome to my brand spankin' new blog! Here I'll be doing what zillions of other women can't help but doing: writing about my life, as plain and ho-hum as it may be. We all know the plain and boring days are usually the best and most cherished!

I am mama to a beautiful little boy named Riley who is 2 years old. Almost 3, his birthday is in march. I'm currently expecting our first (and probably only) little girl, who is named/will be named Kira! I'm 32 so no spring chicken here, I feel like I've been waiting a loooong time for this little girl. Okay maybe not that long, but I've been waiting :)

I've been a stay at home mom since having Riley in 2007. It's been such a fun and rewarding experience getting to watch him grow everyday. I don't know if I'll get the opportunity to be home as much after Kira arrives because I like to shop and having a little girl=lots of cute things to buy!