making a list and checking it twice

I will be celebrating my 29th birthday on Wednesday, and I think it is safe to say that these lovelies are being added to my birthday wish list!

photo courtsey of ToryBurch.com

updates

I have so much I want to talk about, but I am trying to save all the topics for separate posts!

****side note: My dog just jumped up and ran to the front door barking and woke Baby A up! errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Okay, baby back to sleep, now back to blogging!

The storm wasn't too bad. Just a lot of rain and wind. And to be honest, Ina made landfall sometime during the night, so I was sound to sleep and didn't hear a thing. We drove over to the beach on Tuesday to take a look at the waves and watch the surfers. Baby A was very interested in the waves... he couldn't take his eyes off of them. Maybe I will have a little surfer one day!

On another note... I spoke too soon about my brother JP. Long story short, the doctor that he was referred took a while to call my brother back. JP was really nervous that he was going to need surgery. He finally spoke to a nurse at this doctor's office and she told him that if needed surgery they would have done it that night. WRONG. JP, finally met with the doctor and he does need surgery.

Apparently, it is very rare to operate on a collar bone but his was a bad break. Another nurse told him that they had a patient in earlier that day and he had broke his collar bone in 3 places and that man did not need surgery. So yeah, it's a pretty bad break.

His surgery will be this coming Wednesday. The hospital is going to work with him on the payment for the surgery but he will have to pay a large portion of it up front.
Please keep him in your prayers! Thanks!

Hope you ladies are having a wonderful weekend!

This is November, right?

Just in case you happen to be wondering what I am doing tonight, well, I am preparing for a hurricane. Yes, you read that correctly, a HURRICANE in NOVEMBER! Crazy, huh?! I really don't think the storm will be too bad, just lots of rain and some wind. Lord knows, I have been through worse! But they have closed schools until Wednesday, which means students get a 3 day "vacation" since Wednesday is Veterans Day. Lucky them!

Honestly though, I am really not doing much in the way of preparing. I went to the grocery store yesterday so we are good in that department (I did just realize that I am out of nursery water though). Really, I am just catching up on laundry and amusing myself with every one's status updates on Facebook! Oh and I need gas in my car but at this point, all of the stations close to me have probably sold out. This tends to happen when a storm is coming.

Thankfully, we have a built in generator on the house so if our neighborhood does lose power, we will still have it!!!

Hope y'all have a nice start to your week. We'll be here riding out the storm. =)

Many thanks for all your prayers and sweet words regarding my brother. He did brake his collar bone but thankfully, he will not need surgery. He is still in a lot of pain and discomfort but he will be fine.
Thank you again! Hope you are all having a beautiful day!!!

prayer request

Hi everyone! Could you please keep my brother in your prayers. He was riding his bike this evening and his brakes locked up which caused him to flip forward over the front of the bike. He split his lip open and has broke his collar bone.
He has an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon tomorrow and the doctor will determine if he needs surgery.
Unfortunately, because my brother is self employed, he does not have health insurance. Please pray that he does not need surgery and if he does that the doctor will work with him as far as the cost.
Thank you for the prayers! My family appreciates it so much!!!!

trick or treat!

Tomorrow is A's first Halloween! Even though he doesn't really get the whole Halloween thing, we have been celebrating up a storm!

We started out by going to the pumpkin patch. This was so special to me. It's the same pumpkin patch that my brother and I have been going to since we were children. Over the years this has become a huge family tradition which consists of many of my extended family going. It's so much fun to see my younger cousins and my 1st cousins' children enjoying picking out the perfect pumpkin! It's even sweeter to introduce A to the tradition!

although I was thrilled for A's first trip to the pumpkin patch, clearly, he was not!

took literally a 100 pics and this is the only smile I got!

just what am I doing up here?

I wonder if I can get this in my mouth?

I love all the facial expression which clearly state how displeased he is but I wanted some smiles! So we took a trip to a local church which has a "pumpkin patch" and got lots of smiles and I even took some pics of A in his Halloween costume.

my courageous little lion!

Hope all of you have a fun & safe Halloween!
I am sure we will have more pictures to share from A's first Halloween!
Happy Haunting!!!

I Want it All

More often then not, I log onto my blog and feel so restricted. For whatever reason, I feel as though my blog should have a theme... should it be a mommy blog, a "cute finds" blog, etc. etc. I am not sure why I think this way or feel the need to put these sort of restrictions on myself, but lately I have been. So therefor, I have decided that I will give it my all. I will post pics of Baby A, my latest shopping finds, life moments and whatever else comes to mind. And if y'all like it, great, if not, well at least I have given it my all. And hopefully this will help me to post more often (maybe not though).

So let me start by saying that this post is lucky it even made it onto the blog.

My sweet son is napping and I am in desperate need of a nap myself. However, the moment I tried to go to sleep, my mind began to spin with things that I wanted to blog about, or get off my chest, so here it is...

Before I go on though- I want to make it perfectly clear that I am SO BLESSED. That I LOVE my son and have NO regrets!

The latest: the grass is greener on the other side...

Last night we had some friends over for dinner. These are some of our single friends. The ones who have great jobs, who travel often, are not married, not in a relationship... you get the picture right?

So in an effort to make conversation, one asks what I have been up to. I look at my son, and reply this is it. Which left a bittersweet taste in my mouth.

If I have struggled with anything since becoming a mother (and especially when I was pregnant), it is change.

I am not good with change. Not knowing what to expect, how things are going to work, all the questions that can't be answered - this just stresses me out and sends my anxiety level through the roof.

So when I answered that question, it made me think about how much has changed in my life... the care free days of traveling and coming and going as I (or we - the hubs and me) pleased. The great stories I had to share of all my adventures or latest purchases of fabulous clothes.

Not so much anymore. This led to a case of "the grass is greener on the other side syndrome." I must admit, I miss those days and the changes the baby has brought have sometimes been hard, but then minutes later, Baby A, did something really funny and everyone laughed and my heart filled up with joy.

Sure, I miss those days. But I had them. And you get to a point (or at least I did), where going out, traveling, and all that "stuff" does not fulfill you the way a child's love and the love of a child does. I miss traveling, but I am excited to take A places for the first time. I miss my old clothes budget but I LOVE buying clothes for A and even more, I LOVE how ridiculously cute he is in them.

So it may have not sounded like the most glamour answer but I would not trade the smiles, the laughs, the kisses, the tears, the teething, or even the lack of sleep, for one minute of it.

Or the fact that I have perfectly good reason to nap in the afternoon!