Good Housekeeping

Too excited not to share, looks like we snuck into Good Housekeeping's

April Issue!!!

A small feature but seriously a dream come true! There was a phone interview and everything, it was pretty cool. I have flipped through the pages of Good Housekeeping since I was a kid, dreaming of what my future house would look like. My mom and grandmother have always had stacks of Good Housekeeping around so to be inside the magazine feels very full circle for me!

Thank you again to all of our readers! Things like this are only possible with the support of amazing readers like you.

 

I will be back tomorrow to share our new organic bed :) Because with a 9 month old sleep has become a precious commodity. ;)

Pack it up, Pack it in

Let me begin . . .

We are MOVING!!!! And we are pretty excited about it!

I will start from the beginning. Lee has always had a bit of a commute to work, about 50 minutes each way . . . that's almost 2 whole hours lost in traffic (and that's assuming there were no major accidents or incidents on the roads).
That alone was enough to have us thinking about moving, but Hudson is another major reason. He is a little boy and all the 'warnings' I've received about little boys from friends basically leads me to believe we needed a bigger yard, and stain resistant everything. ;)

We decided to list the house Feb.27th and we had 5 offers from 6 showings by Feb. 28th. We weren't expecting it to go that quickly so we hadn't bought or really looked at anything, so we are a bit behind the gun. So what I really mean is we're homeless, with an 9 month old baby. ;) We are lucky and have late closing dates so we don't have to be out of here until the end of May.

While we don't have a house yet we do have an area picked out. We are moving to a beautiful town with a small town feel, close to beaches and not too far the city! And the best part is, it will be 10 minutes from Lee's work!!!! To say we are excited would be a huge understatement.

As soon as we know where we are moving I will let you know. We are moving to a more expensive area so while we will be increasing our budget, we will be decreasing our house size by almost 1000 square feet, and definitely looking at older homes. But older homes have tons of character, so I am super excited . . . at least until I have to downsize my shoe collection, say it ain't so!! ;)

So that's our BIG news.

It's Official

Hi, my name is Ashli.

I have been gone so long I feel like I needed to introduce myself again. ;)

All joking aside I wanted to thank everyone who sent me an email or a tweet or a message making sure we were ok. We were just fine. Life gets busy with a baby around, I wanted to get our routine and life under control before I could find time for my first baby (the blog).
It's been a really nice break and I can now report that most days, our life is routine and under control . . . most days. Although once a month, on the full moon, he goes a little crazy and is a little hard to handle (I now have a better idea of how Lee feels once a month ;).

Hudson is a bouncing 9 month old baby now. He can walk with limited assistance, he can pull up on everything, but has almost no interest in crawling! He eats everything that's put down in front of him (including a lemon wedge once, he made a sour face then went back for more). He is such an easy baby, he can go days at a time without crying, he sleeps through the night, and easily entertains himself. Although he doesn't travel well, he has about a 30 minute limit in his carseat before he turns into part baby, part zombie and starts growling and trying to eat his feet.

Honestly the last 9 months have been amazing, especially this month because . . .
Hudson's Adoption Order finally came in the mail and he is now officially our SON!!!!!! There is no word big enough to explain how happy we are. I am a mom, Lee is a dad and Hudson is our son, we are a family!

I put together a little video to commemorate this huge milestone in our lives, if you have a second please have a peek.

 The journey might not have looked exactly like I thought it would, but what I wake up to everyday looks exactly as I always dreamed (although honestly in my dreams my baby didn't wake up until at least 9am, reality looks slightly different . . . about 3 hours different to be exact). ;)


I will be back this week with an update on Hudson's nursery, an update on our new bed (errr. . .  kind of) and a HUGE announcement tomorrow!!!

Thank you again for all the love and support while I was gone!