Pretty Paisley

This paisley monogram is just so pretty! When Rachel limited my color palette to brown, tan, and cream, I worried about it having enough "pop". It turned out prettier that I had ever imagined and I love the monochramatic look.

Best wishes to the Harvey family today who should be welcoming baby Weston anytime now. (That's his canvas on the new header!)

LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I'M WATCHING MY PROGRAMS!!!!!

The beginning of the week is hard for me.  After not writing on the weekend, I always feel like whatever I do next has to be legendary to make up for it.  But when I am trying to write something legendary, all I can think of is stuff like "cake is awesome" and "one time I fell down and hurt myself."  Eventually I just end up hiding in a corner and watching The Bachelor for six hours straight because it "helps me think" but really it's because I want to forget about my responsibilities.  That approach actually works pretty well until I start yelling at the contestants and Boyfriend walks in and says "Oh, there you are!  What are you doing?"  And I look up at him from my corner, my face and hands covered in honey because I just ate a honey and butter sandwich and I say "LEAVE ME ALONE!!!  I'M WATCHING MY PROGRAMS!!!!!"

Then Boyfriend says "What's on your face?"  And I'm like "IT'S HONEY! GET OUT OF YOUR FUCKING TOWER AND STOP ACTING LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HAD HONEY ON YOUR FACE BEFORE!!!"  And Boyfriend is like "What?" And I'm all "DON'T JUDGE ME!"  And I run away.

Then it's suddenly Tuesday and I haven't accomplished anything aside from making myself really sticky and totally disillusioned with love.  At some point I'm like "I just have to do it.  I'm going to sit down and write and see what comes out.  No pressure."

Anyway, that's how posts like this happen.

UPDATE:  I started responding to comments on this post and I realized that most of my responses were explaining butter and honey sandwiches, which is an admittedly weird thing to eat.  I decided to elaborate here instead.

I used to really enjoy peanut butter and honey sandwiches, but I can no longer eat peanut butter because Boyfriend is deathly allergic to nuts.  We cannot have peanut butter in our house.  I still love bread and honey, though, so I got the bright idea to substitute regular butter for peanut butter.  It's like all the best parts of every food ever, combined into one sandwich.  If you could put happiness on bread and eat it, that's what eating a honey and butter sandwich would be like.

I Heart Fabulous K

Fabulous K Creative did my new blog design! Woo hoo! It's like the "blog fairy" comes in the night and gives me a new look! She always seems to know what I want, even when I don't describe it so well. I wanted something fresh, a little funky, and clean...yet professional. Thanks, Kelly! I love it!

Also, Paige gave me a blog award. That's always nice! Thank you!

MLK Day and Looking Ahead

I guess I don't really think about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as much as I should. In my line of work issues with race do come up occasionally. Lauren brought home this paper Friday afternoon and I thought it was just so sweet and innocent. I am not one to keep every little thing that comes home, but this one is going in keeper box. Our children are lucky to be "living the dream".

The green, lavender, and yellow are taken. Pink is still available!

I decided to spend the day off doing something special with Lauren. She and I took off for a girl's morning in Murfreesboro. We had all of our errands finished in time to pick Emily up for her lunch hour.

I found these adorable pastel colored signs at Hobby Lobby. The larger ones are wooden and measure about 3" x 16". They are available in pink, green, yellow, and lavender and have coordinating sheer ribbon. They are currently available with whatever you would like on them for only $10.00! That's a deal! Plan ahead for Easter, spring, teacher gifts, Mother's Day...whatever!

These smaller ones are tin and measure about 2" x 5". The are available in pink, yellow, cream, and lavender and have a metal wire for hanging. All of these are also currently available with your personalization for only $5.00 each. Another deal! Wouldn't these be cute labeling your Easter baskets? How about just organizing in general...

I only have one each in these sizes and colors so it is first come, first serve!

Birthday Plans

Lauren's fifth birthday is coming up soon and I've started making plans. Instead of a party this year, she wants to go to the American Girl Place in Atlanta. She has a Bitty Baby, but we've told her she has to be five to get a "big girl doll".

I ordered her a birthday shirt from the etsy shop "made for you tees". It is the cutest birthday shirt ever. Period. The end. The best part is that you get to design your shirt...hair color, skin color, eyes, everything. Too cute! Plus, the people are super nice!

We've decided that this little trip to Atlanta will be a girl's weekend. I've got the American Girl package at the Marriott booked. You even get this doll bed! I've also got lunch reservations and the American Girl Cafe. I know a lot of you have been and taken your little sweeties. Do you have anymore good tips for a first timer? I really want this to be a special birthday!

Torrye

A Christmas gift to Torrye from her mother. I am so happy to be able to finally post all of these things I did before Christmas! I hope Torrye loved her black, white, and hot pink. I think this one is so youthful and pretty...and how about that matching ribbon?

Hi. I'm the Internet's Leading Expert on Unicorn Stabbings

The keywords people use to find your blog or website on Google are very important to your success on the internet.  According to StatCounter:

I think I'm doing it wrong:

Or maybe I'm doing it exactly right because I've most definitely cornered the niche on "101 Ways to Abort Your Gay-Married, Al-Qaeda-Loving Baby for $39 or Less!"  Good career move, me.

UPDATE:  I emailed Boyfriend at work and I was like "If someone asked you the question 'uterus babies not sticking to?' how would you respond?"

Boyfriend:  "That's not really a question - more like a statement.  Or just a string of random words."

Me:  "But if it was a question, how would you answer it?"

Boyfriend:  "Well, first I would want to get more information.  Are you talking about a fetus or embryo inside a uterus or an actual baby uterus?  Or a baby's uterus?

Me:  "What if it's just a giant uterus that people had to throw babies at and if the babies stick, they win the game or something?"

Boyfriend:  "I don't think that's what they meant."

Me:  "I'm just trying to be prepared, Duncan. I'm supposed to be an expert on stuff like this and I want to  have all my bases covered if that question comes up."

Boyfriend: "So they're trying to figure out how to make the babies more sticky?"

Me:  "I was approaching it from the angle of making the uterus more sticky, but making the babies more sticky would also work.  How do you propose we make the babies stickier?"

Boyfriend:  "How long do they need to be stuck to the giant uterus?"

Me: "About 20 seconds."

Boyfriend: "Wow.  That is really specific."

Me:  "The rules of Baby-Uterus-Wall-Ball are extremely rigid."

Boyfriend:  "You need a job."

Me:  "This is my job.  And you are negatively affecting my career by not cooperating with me on this."

Boyfriend:  "I need to get back to work, Allie."

Me:  "So do I!"

Boyfriend:  "Okay, what about wrapping the babies in velcro?"

Me:  "That could totally work."

Then Boyfriend reminded me that Google tracks all of his emails because he works in a Government lab so I sent him an email that said "furry penis, REDRUM, sphaetergøten!"  And Boyfriend was like "WTF?" and I said "I'm trying to throw Google off your trail."  And Boyfriend was all "I don't think it works like that." I honestly don't know how he hasn't been kidnapped by the government yet.