Baby Steals & Deals

The Preppy Baby posted this site the other day and I have become addicted to it!

Baby Earth is a great site, but what I love most is the GaGa Deal. Every hour a new item is posted and for every second the item remains unsold, the price drops. They only offer a certain number of items at this price, because at any point the product can sell out. It is exciting to see how low the prices can get.

The Maclaren Quest sale just ended and yesterday there was a Britax sale. Both items ended up selling for MUCH LESS than what we paid for them at Babies R Us.

Mad Men

Mr. and I really want to start watching Mad Men, but we have not seen the first two seasons.... We are currently tivo'ing season 3 with the hopes of watching at some point, but sitting down to catch up on seasons 1 & 2 don't seem too likely. Something about having a 6 month old cuts into tv time.

Here is my question... could we start watching with season 3 and know what is going on? I know a lot of blogland is crazy about the show, so maybe you all could give me some sites to help get caught up.

Pink, Green, Yellow and Black

This is LONG overdue, but here are pictures of Baby M's wonderful bedroom.

My Grandma and mom made all of the bedding and curtains. I have said it before and I will say it again, I am LUCKY to have access to such wonderful and talented ladies. Now if one of them would teach me how to sew...

This purse used to be my Mema's. What you can't see is Baby M's middle name - which was also my Mema's name - is hand embroidered on the purse. Baby M never got to meet her Great Mema, so I am glad we are able to have this little keepsake of hers.

Need something to put the CD player on... Maybe we will just toss the changing pad and put it on the dresser. We never change her on that thing. Maybe because it is upstairs and we are downstairs most of the time. We decided just to get a large dresser and add the changing pad to the top, versus getting an additional piece of furniture. The room is not that large, so adding a separate changing table would have been impossible. Plus, changing tables are obsolete after a little while.

The pink and green banner hanging over her crib is Baby M's first name.

The wall art is framed nursery rhymes.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the tropical monkey print we used for the curtains. Someone (me) miscalculated the amount of fabric to purchase, so I have lots and lots of this stuff left over. Not sure what we will do with it... I think it would look cute on a chair in our game room.

I originally designed the nursery to be 100% gender neutral, since we did not know if Baby M was a boy or girl. Now that we know she is a GIRL, I have been adding touches of pink to girlie it up.

Also, head over to the Baby M blog for some new pictures.

Weekend Recap

Our weekend was a flurry of family, friends, baking, cooking, cleaning, laughing, and baptising! Baby M was baptised yesterday and afterwards we had about 25 of our closest friends and family over for a little shin-dig.

In preparation for the party, I spent all week making these little cake balls. Extremely time consuming, but totally worth it.

And I got to break out some of the wedding gifts.... loving the marble and silver cheese tray. And Nambe trays.... love.

For more pictures that actually include Baby M, head over to her blog. And you can admire the BEAUTIFUL gown that my mom made.

If I "know" you want and you invite to the Baby M blog, just let me know.....

Latisse

I have been using Latisse for 3 weeks now and I love it.

The first time I used it, my eyes were red for a couple of days. Nothing major, and it went away after 3 days or so. Occasionally, my eye lids itch after I use it, but since I am about to go to bed it does not bother me. And, I have not noticed that my eyes are getting any darker.

Shoes

This weekend I finally have an occassion to wear this navy paisley beauty:

But now the question is shoes. I am thinking nude...

I have these, but not sure if they work with the dress.

Thoughts?

Hey good lookin... What ya' got cooking?

Last night for dinner we had a veggie/turkey bacon quiche with roasted rosemary new potatoes. I did my best to make it WW approved, and it was delish. (I did not calculate the points...)

It was also my first attempt at making homemade crust. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. (That crust was totally NOT WW approved)

I took a standard Paula Deen quiche recipe and went from there.

I shredded 2 zucchini and 1 green bell with our Microplane shredder, then chopped up a handful of mushrooms.

I cooked some turkey bacon and used that instead of normal bacon or sausage.

I used 6 eggs - 3 whole eggs and 3 egg whites and about 1 cup of low fat/part skim mozzarella cheese and 1/2 cup of skim milk.

Bake at 375 for about 45 minutes.

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LOTS and LOTS of people that I know in real life know about this little ol' blog of mine... Most of the time that is all fine and dandy, but when you just want to YELL and SCREAM and VENT... you can't.

Which then leads me to drink wine. Or champagne.

And when I want to talk about all of the cute and funny things Baby M is doing, I can't.

Oh well... at least I have one blog that is private. Check out Baby M for new pictures.