This post is part of a writing prompt blog hop some lovely ladies host called FTSF (Finish the Sentence Friday). If you haven’t heard of it, I highly recommend checking it out! This week’s prompt was to finish this sentence:
A funny thing happened on the way to…
So, here it goes:
Well, it wasn't so much a "ha ha" type of funny, than it was a "I have to find the humor in this" funny before I rip my hair out and lose my mind!
Being a stay-at-home mommy to a 3 year old, while rewarding, is more challenging than anything else. Luckily for me I’ve always had a lot of patience. Or at least I thought I did, until Alivia turned 3 and started to prove me wrong. And while there are days I’d like to curl up in a ball, suck my thumb, and cry myself to sleep, most days I try to see the humor in things. I try to step out of my body as if I were an outsider watching us on TV. I try to imagine the genre we’d fit it into on each particular day. For instance, one day on my way upstairs to see what Alivia was doing, I found Vaseline all over her face, neck, clothes and, yep, in her hair. It was awesome having to scurry to clean her up as we had plans to go out. Yes, I’m being facetious. On that day, I’d say we were a comedy; the two of us! See, I can be easy going. While “the episode” was rather inconvenient, who wouldn’t have laughed at the sight of their toddler all greased up with that “deer in headlights” expression on their face while mommy repeatedly asked “why would you do this?” as if it could be rationalized. Seriously? Of course, I’d take those days over serious ones any time. In fact, days like those are a break from what seems to be the norm these days. The norm being Livi doing something she’s not supposed to and mommy having to put her in her room. If you read, Crying, and whining, and tantrums, oh my, I’m sure you know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s been a struggle for the both of us lately.
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Welcome to the nineteenth week of our blog hop! Last week I shared the winner’s posts that were pinned the most times since our hop went live for the first time back in September. Since the numbers were so impressive, I thought I’d feature our Pinterest All-stars once again!
As a reminder, the winners of our hop get some major Pinterest exposure when their content gets pinned by my team of pinners (below) and by, YOU, the blog hop participant! I’m happy to report that the number of times our winner’s content gets pinned has been averaging around 60-70 times! As fantastic as this number already is, there are still many times our winner’s posts are pinned well over 100 times! Take a look for yourself!
Love is in the air; I can feel it! With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I thought I’d offer YOU some free Valentine’s Day Cards! These are for those that will be printing their cards at home or know of a fabulous printer they’ve already worked with in the past! You can steal my cards in one of two ways. Either by downloading the Adobe Photoshop .psd file to customize yourself or by completing my form to have me do the work for you! That’s right! I will insert your images into my template and personalize with your family name(s).
