Breastfeeding in Public: Tips you need to hide your nips; A guest post

Finishing up my contributions to Intoxicated on Life's series on breastfeeding, I give you my latest post

"Tips you need to hide your nips"

There is a small cameo from my childhood best friend Alberta.

Here is a short excerpt:

I remember I gave my husband a terrified look and said “I think she’s hungry.”

He looked back at me perplexed and said, “Then feed her.”

“Well I can’t here, we need to go to the car,” I said.

“But our cart is full, just feed her here.”

“I can’t. We need to go to the car.” And annoyed, he followed me out to the car. Once there, I asked him to move the car to the furthest spot in the parking lot that faced away from everyone. I then pulled out my cover, used about 4 receiving blankets to cover the windows, and I set her up to nurse. To this day, my husband still teases me about how I pretty much put up one way glass around our car terrified that someone just might think I was nursing my baby.

It’s true.  I was terrified.

I hope you all take a moment and check it out.  I know that I enjoyed writing it, so I hope you all enjoy reading it!

Back to regularly scheduled postings on Sunday.  

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Thursday Lucy-isms

Me: what are you hungry for for lunch?
Lucy: I want tacos
Me: eh I don't want tacos, what else do you want?
Lucy: well I can't find my crayons
Me: that doesn't tell me what you want for lunch
Lucy: well how about something juicy but not juice. And something yummy
Me: so like what?
Lucy: well I'm not hungry. I'm really not hungry.

Monster Cake: A tutorial

I wrote a quick tutorial on how to make this pretty awesome monster cake here for I'm Feeling Crafty!  Louise is also a fellow Seattle blogger so I was even more excited to write this post for her!

Head over to check out how I did it!!!

This week's menu

This week was boring.  Not much went on, except a scary little trip to the ER where I was having what seems to be gallbladder flair ups.  All my tests came back negative and I haven't had the pain since, but I really hope it doesn't happen again.

I am getting ready to audition for a crafting challenge on So You Think You're Crafty.  It's totally anonymous so I can't discuss with you my crafting ideas, but I am super excited for the chance to participate in this.  I also hope that you all know my "style" (if I even have one) so that you know who to vote for.

Oh and I had the most fabulous Mother's Day.  Where I failed to mail out cards to the women in my life (sorry mom, Candy and Christy), Matt did not fail to make me feel special.  Saturday, we went shopping, had a nice breakfast and a picnic lunch.  Then he and Lucy made a spectacular BBQ dinner with tiramisu for dessert.  Today, Matt and Lucy made me pancakes bacon and eggs for breakfast and Lucy sang me a Mother's Day song that she made up.  She also presented me with cards that her and Dexter made, but then she took them back and held on to them pretty much all day.  For the afternoon, we went over to a friend's house for a BBQ and some good times with a few other families.  It was very very nice.

I also made my very own "snitch" necklace that I am pretty much in love with.

Anyway this week is simple.  Matt won't be eating with us, so all week, it will be cereal, fish sticks and mac and cheese and chicken for dinner.  All week, so no plan.  We get crazy around these parts like that.

Hope you have a great week!

Last Minute Mother's Day ideas

It's too late to get a card in the mail to make it by Sunday...So mom, if you are reading this, your card will be late.  It is not, however, too late to get some projects done for your mom (and delivered as long as you live relatively close).

One of the discussion boards I am on we were talking about mom's crafts and a few of the ladies posted what they had been up to.  I asked if I could use their pictures to inspire my readers, so here you go.  I hope you enjoy as much as I did!

Footprint flower pots:  

A beautiful canvas painting:

Super easy and CHEAP frames! (My friend said each frame was less than $2 at Michael's):

And these super cute infinity scarves that Tiffany at Tiffany's Rockin' Bobbin whipped up:

I hope this gives you inspiration for something to whip together at the last minute!!!

Happy Mother's Day everyone!

Water paint coffee filter banner

There are only a couple things left that I wanted to share with you from Lucy's party and then I am actually going to have to come up with more content.  Like I am actually going to have to work to impress you all.  Oh no.  

This banner that Lucy and I made for her party was probably the easiest thing I have ever done.  It was so easy and guess what, it was free.  

It was right before bedtime when we started, hence why Lucy is in her jammies.  I gave her a stack of coffee filters (no more than 10 in a stack) and told her to select three colors of water paints.  Then I told her to saturate the filters with as much water as she could, and then start painting.

As you can see, this is serious business.

Anyway, we did stacks of ten.  This was because I wanted there to be different shades of filters.  The top filter had the most color and by the last filter, it was more of a pastel coloring.

After we got done painting them all and after they all were dried, I folded over just a small part over a piece of twine and taped it.  And that's it.

They really added some nice color to the party and I really liked how they turned out.  The morning breeze did not make them stay put though so they did flip up and down a bit, but I think that added to the beauty of it.  

Have any of you done any projects with coffee filters before?  I have decided they are a great addition to my craft case.

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