{one of those days}

Today I'm having a feel sorry for myself kinda of day...

I've reached 29 weeks in pregnancy today! Down from the 31 I truly think I should be at!

I'm happy with the weekly reports and updates on the little one, and they truly keep me going but I'm feeling extremely frustrated!

At work I'm seeming to explain myself over and over again that I'm:

A) not 19!!! I wish I was, but I'm far off from it! - meaning customers give me this shocked face when they see I'm pregnant and constantly say, " you look like you just graduated high school! You can't be having a baby! " then I proceed to tell them this is my third, and they look at me like I'm for sure a teen mom who just keeps on reproducing over and over again! With a look of disgust!

B) this is not my first so I don't need to hear congratulations a million times a day! Especially from high school Korean boys! What's with that??

C) I don't want to hear anymore that I'm having a boy! And the only reason of this would be because it's the year of the dragon... Or alligator, or whatever the calendar says this year will be magical for! We knows it's a girl, and I'm beyond thrilled!

All in all.. Having to repeat myself thirty times a day with this conversation is getting old, and I really don't want to work tomorrow!

Not only is this bad... Having to get out of sweats for work is starting to bum me out... The constant reminder that nothing fits is beyond annoying! I typically gain 60+ lbs.. Only being around the 25-30 mark at seven months just shows I have another 30 to go, and honestly.. My underwear is already leaving red marks on my hips! And buying clothes isn't really an option as this is my last!! VV probably won't even have what I need! Ugh.

I'm at the point of realization this is indeed my last and am worried I may not get to do all the fun things I've never done before! I've never had maternity photos, I've never had newborn photos.. And I don't want to miss out on these things either! But finding the time and money to arrange for them seems to be a task on their own!

And lastly.. I'm really realizing I have zero patience left for my kids.. An this hurts. I don't want to be this way but I'm finding it hard to change! I'm very overwhelmed with everything these days.. And don't know how to fix it......

Thx ladies. There's my rant.

{Valentines}

I typically dont decorate much for Valentines Day around the house. It's not that I wouldn't had I been given the chance, I just don't have a lot of decor to put out.

I'm really trying to stick with a budget these days as I'm going off work in another two months. We've just finished the reno of the basement, and I'm trying to get everything in order for the next year of me not working.

The kids are getting just a cute little basket of a few items. Nothing more than some cute Valentine straws, some pencils and notepads (which is honestly their favorite thing these days!)

If anyone knows me ... they know that I love Cupcakes!! Cupcakes Cupcakes Cupcakes! They are truly delish!

As my last post stated, I do like to be as hands on as I can for the kids activities. I signed up to bring something for Riley's Grandparents Social tomorrow (so cute that Grandparents are the ones being invited to schoool for Valentines Day this year!). When the teacher asked for decorated cookies, I was a bit worried.. cookies are not my thing! unless they are my oatmeal m&m ones.. other than that.. cookies and I dont get along. Thankfully, she has allowed me to bring cupcakes ;)

I'm quite last minute these days and it hasn't really caused me any trouble until I hit about three stores yesterday looking for ANY Valentine decorations.. I mean.. ANYTHING! there were no sprinkles, no liners, nothing! They've all moved onto Easter already.. which meant I had to hit my bins. Thankfully I had a few items that seemed to work for the event.

I've made both large cupcakes and mini's, because really. Who doesnt love Mini Cupcakes?! And.. I of course had to test them to make sure they were decent ;)

{inspired}

I must say Moms inspire me!

I'm truly amazed at the creativity some of the ladies I know have. The blog world is so funny.. I've made friends through this interesting following, and feel as if I truly have great insight as to who they are and how amazing they can be!

Some ladies I've met once or twice before through mutual friends, some only in passing. But they still inspire me! Some I know through old high school friends who I've unfortunately not had enough contact with, but again.. The blog world keeps us connected!

I'm so amazed at the creativeness that some of these wonderful ladies hold. I've always dreamt about being a designer.. But I think that ideally I'm too cheap to follow this path. Maybe that's why I now do nails.. A little bit of design work in my own little way.

I look at this house that we now live in and besides being entirely in love and beyond thankful that we've had the luck along the way to finally be here I always see room for improvement.

I think my husband would kill me if I mentioned yet one more time something I'd like to fix or do! Deep down he hates these ideas and whims I come up with! But... Thanks to some great mamas I'm always reminded perhaps I can do it myself!

I get deep gratitude when I look at something I've accomplished for my kids or my household. I love to make my kids birthday cakes, I love to fully hand make every part of their parties... Even if its not picture perfect, I know that I did it myself and that makes me happy.

I truly enjoy just the little things I can add!

After someone clued me into a cute little etsy photo, I figured I could do my next little project again.. On my own..

Fabric Poms for baby no. 3s nursery.

Now.. This nursery is half completely out of my comfort zone. If anyone has been to my house you'll know it's alllllll white! White walls, white blinds, white curtains, white tiles, white moldings, white carpet! White white white! This came after living in two houses that we feel we made bad color choices on... Not really bad... But not the best.

So the nursery has a color that in actually have never truly liked.. Ever! Yellow!

Yellow and Grey seem to be the in color scheme these days.. And I will admit, I'm in love!

Etsy and pinterst have such cute ideas that I wish I could replicate.. But my true interior designer isn't nearly crafty enough to pull any of it off..

But these fabric poms were definitely easy enough for me!

I wish I had taken step by step photos as a few have asked how I did them.. But.. I didn't.. Maybe in the future I will remember those things!

Each pom cost me less than $5 to make.. Well worth it in my mind!

All you truly need is fabric, cut into circles.. I used a yard in each pom. I made my inner ball out of paper towel and wrapped it in packing tape as I wanted them to be super light! (and cheap)

I glued all the circles to the ball, hung with ribbon and voila! Seriously easy!!