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Anticipating some upcoming play dates! I joined a meetup.com play group and they have soooo many play dates scheduled! We're going to kindermusik next week. :) Dreaming of what the future holds. Feeling so grateful to be back home. Traveling with a baby whose waaay off any kind of schedule is rough.  Hoping that Joseph won't have any middle of the night wakeups. I'm pretty sure that's delusional of me though.  Listening to podcasts! I'm new to podcasts but I'm loving them. My current fave is the New Moms New Babies podcast. Making a lot of baby food. Roasted yellow & orange bell peppers, local green beans, blueberries, strawberries. Yum! Joseph loves to eat and has quite the appetite lately.  Watching An Idiot Abroad . We came across it on Netflix yesterday and watched a few episodes. Hilarious!

I think I first met Emily through swing dancing. She's also a girl Boy Scout (so much more so than me!) and she's married to my best friend's (Note: I miss you Anne Marie!) younger brother. As for Emily's blog, Keepers of the Orb ? It is fantastic. Like, really fantastic. She started drawing comics to chronicle her first pregnancy. It is hilarious and cute and filled with very accurate, non-glamorous glimpses into life as a mother. I am excited to an embarrassing degree to have one of her comics on my blog. If you're a mom, or a mom-to-be, her blog is a must read! This comic is currently resonating with me right now! • • • • • • • • • • Hi everyone! I’m Emily from Keepers of the Orb , an illustrated blog about my adventures in parenting. I’m a mom of two girls, Lucy and Amelia, who provide me with no end of comic material. I’m so excited to be doing a guest post for Tiffany, whose blog is so full of sweet and stylish morsels (like Joseph!). When I was a k...

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Stephanie and I met via the Cara Box Exchange . It was so much fun to get to know her and connect with her. Aaaaand, she went to Clemson (which is just about 30 miles down the road from me). Y'all, sweet Stephanie is having a little baby soon. So right after you read this, head over to her blog to see all the cute photos of her belly and baby clothes and all the fun stuff that comes with being a mom-to-be. :) • • • • • • • • • • Hello! My name is Stephanie, and I blog over at Finding My Yellow . I blog about being an Army wife, a soon-to-be mom, my two boxers, and the crafts that distract me from all that life brings. I hope to see you over there sometime! I hope that Tiffany is enjoying her trip! Thanks for letting me take over for the day. I don't know about yours, but my grandparents always provide me a good chuckle. Here are just a few of examples of things they have said over the years. When my grandma...

Tracie is another friend met via Cara Box . (Seriously, I miss that exchange!) If you love GIFs and funny photos, you will certainly love Tracie's blog , it's very fun and lighthearted. Also, she recently got married (congrats!) and she was a stunner in that dress, so go check those photos out as well. ;) Fun fact about Tracie, she was the only person (other than Mike and I) to know any detail about Joseph's name before he was born. Because she made him the cutest blanket with a J on it! • • • • • • • • • • Hey guys! I’m excited to be over here while Tiffany is away. I’m Tracie from Tracie Everyday and I can’t wait to hear about Tiffany’s trip, where baby J gets to meet his [great] grandma for the first time! When Tiffany told me she wanted a little snippet focusing on grandparents I knew exactly which tidbit I wanted to share. But in order to do that, I have to let you guys in on a little secret… I was a bed wetter. Legit until I was like 6. I was fine during ...

Lacey is a friend. Like, in real life friend. I've known her for a few years and I've loved her blog, So Every Day, for as long as I've known it has existed. I love her voice and her honesty. Aaaaand, she and her family just got back from a fabulous road trip to all places Laura Ingalls Wilder. So, you should probably hightail it over to her blog and read all about it. Because seriously. The little house books were my childhood addiction! • • • • • • • • • • It's outdated. Printed first in 1931. The Searchlight Recipe Book. The category tabs are frayed and browned from age and finger-turning.  It was my grandmother's cookbook. And her diary too. Scrawling pencil lines scratched across the copyright page and beside the fish section. A memory of Thanksgiving past right beside the recipe for horehound candy. It's a gift. And a memory. A treasure. Because I don't possess scads of those with my grandmother. I don't know lots about h...

I'm up in Michigan visiting my grandmother. While I'm away from my little blog, I thought I'd have some of my favorite bloggers share some of their memories about their grandparents. First up is my sweet friend Megan. She's not a blogger, but she's a fabulous Instagrammer ( @megharks32 ) and the mother of the cutest little girl around. We "met" when we were paired together for a Cara Box exchange . I'm so happy to have her share on my blog today! • • • • • • • • • • I just want to say, thank you for thinking of me, and asking me to do this! I have very fond memories of both sets of grandparents. Some of my fondest memories are from spending time with my mother's parents on a small farm in Sumter, SC. It was way out in the middle of nowhere, a small brick house surrounded by tall pine trees with a circle driveway that would go all around the house. At the time when I was 7 years old, this place seemed huge and very different from the suburb...

• five years • grace • grace • and more grace

• a field of yellow • play dates • the joy of swinging • a canning jar lid

Hoping that Joseph "sleeps in" until at least 7:30! Listening to thunder rumbles. Loving weddings! Two friends go married today and it was such a lovely little wedding. Watching the Lego Movie with Mike. Well, it just finished. And it was fantastic! Only 3 years and 4.5 months until I can buy JoJo some Legos! Writing  in my new journal. Or I'm about to at least. :)

After reading over some old blog posts yesterday, I realized how much I miss writing! I also remembered how valuable it is. How fun it was to remember this moment of wittiness , this prayer with a once-preschooler , or quiet mornings with this once-baby ! Photos are great. Photos are wonderful. And goodness knows I have enough photos! But somewhere along the line I stopped recording the little, the very special, day to day bits.  I sit at my computer with the curser blinking and I have nothing. I desperately want to record, but I find myself lacking the words. So, when I saw my old journal/dairy/book-for-ranting next to my bed last night, I grabbed it. I just started writing until, five pages later, I ran out of ramblings. It felt so good to write! This morning, I reread the older entries in that book, the ones written half a decade ago. They made me cringe. So much negativity! I don't want that and I wouldn't want to be remembered that way. I chucked ...

• fully belly grins • that baby in the mirror • tiny hands turning pages • puppy snores • remembering how good it feels to write

• front porch sitting • rocking and dozing with my sweet little one • smiles despite feeling yucky • chubby hands rubbing sleepy eyes

So, I'm pretty behind in my Project Life. Which, really, is no big surprise because the main subject of my scrapbook (Joseph) takes up a lot of my time. I'm still trying to hone my Project Life style, but there are a few spreads that I really like. And I thought I would share them with you.  Week 12. The nice thing about a baby being born on New Years Eve is that the weeks correspond with his age. So, yeah, this was when Joseph was a wee twelve week old. Almost all of my photos are taken with my iPhone because the best camera is the one you have with you. This was a low-photo week, so just a half spread. It was around this time that my addiction to Thickers began to blossom. My sweet friend Carrie and her husband Andrew stopped by while they were in town. Carrie brought us daffodils in a vase with this little card attached. I love saving things like this and PL gives me a place to put them!  Joseph's three-month photo shoot took up half the spread of week ...

• an unexpected bouquet • soft baby skin • piles of fresh, clean cloth diapers • my voracious baby attacking his applesauce

•windows thrown open •dulce du leche ice cream •bella's heavy head as she nods off •when my husband's silliness makes me laugh