"My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I was already strong, and they just made me prove it." ~ Emery Lord At almost 35 weeks pregnant, I was excited to capture our progress and success after two failed pregnancies. A year ago, you couldn't tell me that we'd be here now. I wouldn't have believed it. Life was hard. It felt like quick sand that we just couldn't get out of. Beyond our fertility ...
WHAT’S IN MY HOSPITAL BAG
This post may contain affiliate links. Let me start off by saying this is my 3rd official time at packing a hospital bag and I honestly think maybe this 3rd time is the charm. With my first, I admittedly overpacked. How could you not? I had never staying in a hospital before, nor did I ever have a baby, so I had no idea what I really needed. I read the recommendations online, and honestly, in ...
PREPARING FOR BABY #3
The countdown is on. Here we are just a short 6 or so weeks from d-day... otherwise known as the arrival of baby #3 and we're slightly freaking out. Completely normal, right? It's been such a long haul to get to this point and now it's almost unreal that we're about to have 3 kids. THREE! I don't think it will ever really settle in until he's here - healthy and in our arms. With each pregnancy ...
GETTING MY NEST ON WITH CALIFORNIA CLOSETS
Thank you California Closets for sponsoring this post. There are a whole lot of exciting things happening over the next few months, one of which is getting our home ready for baby. My need to "nest" has been in full-blown over drive lately, so when California Closets reached out to partner on a home project together, I was thrilled to say the least. Let me paint the picture for you: we ...
BUMPIN’ AT THE POOL: SUMMER FAVES
I've been pregnant for 3 summers now, so I consider myself to be pretty savvy when it comes to navigating the beach and pool on those 90 degree South Carolina days. One thing though, I've never been this far along in pregnancy at the start of the summer, so having to squeeze my 31wk bump into something that doesn't make me feel like a beached whale has been, needless to say, somewhat of a ...
LIBRARY INSTALL
In our upstairs landing, right when you hit the 2nd floor for the bedrooms, we had this weird indented space that we didn't know what to do with. I guess in a way it's nice to have the flexibility to put something like a desk there or in our case, we stored our huge floor mirror that we used to keep in our master. It served its purpose for the first 3 years we lived here, but my husband is a huge ...
STARTING SMALL SERIES: Polka Dot Print Shop
The focus of the Starting Small series is to introduce you to some amazing individuals who have built their own businesses from scratch. They are full of passion, life, and love. Once a month, we feature a new business owner, and pick their brain regarding how they started their business, advice for those who have/wish to have a business themselves, how they make time for themselves, and most ...
RECONNECTED
One of our favorite things to do as a family is to spend some good ol' fashioned quality time together. Some of the best memories are made when we disconnect from our phones, iPads, and television to really be all there with each other. It's so easy to get caught up in the day to day chaos with the boys, and so often, more than I'd like to admit, it's more convenient to throw on a cartoon or give ...