I couldn't have said it better myself. Wishing you all the best in 2012!...
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We weren't going to do a Christmas card this year because we kept missing the opportunity to take a family portrait...
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I have decided to take a holiday break from blogging. :-) So barring unforeseen circumstances, this will be my last entry until 2012. I won't be completely offline though. You can still find me sporadically posting stuff on my Facebook Page, Pinterest, and Twitter. But because I didn't want to keep you guys completely hanging for over a week...
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We've all seen the commercials. A doting spouse surprises his or her significant other with a brand new car for Christmas, complete with a big red bow on top. A screenshot from this year's "A December to Remember Sales Event" commercial And if you're anything like me, you're probably thinking, "Does anyone actually do that?" Apparently, yes — there is even a warehouse in California that stockpiles the iconic oversized red bows because the demand for them is so high! Granted, the article referenced is a bit old, but as Lexus's annual "December to Remember Sales Event" is ongoing, I highly doubt that this tradition of the financially privileged has expired in recent years. I always told J that I would be pretty angry with...
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Last week, I wrote that breastfeeding Aerin was going splendidly. Well, this just goes to show that anything can happen in the wild, crazy journey we call motherhood, because I am no longer breastfeeding. So what happened? I had mentioned earlier that Aerin was suffering from 3 different types of skin ailments: eczema, baby acne, and little red bumps that our pediatrician guessed was heat rash. Aerin developed these skin problems when she was about a week old, and they seemed to keep getting worse and worse no matter what we did. No only that, she was spitting up and vomiting frequently (I will never forget the Exorcist-like vomiting she performed on my birthday). I know that many babies spit up a lot, but Claire had only...
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