Eleni

Shameless self promotion

My two new friends Kristen and Sandee started this cool new business called Perfecting Expecting, which is a really cool concept and one that I wish was around when I was preggers with my first.  Anyway, it's like a concierge for you during pregnancy, a pregnancy planner, someone to help you wind (and waddle) through all the craziness that is pregnancy and everything that goes along with it.

So these two gals, besides being entrepreneurs and go getters, are also really nice.  So nice that they decided to do a little feature on their blog of little ole me and my baby bags!  Here is the link!  Check it out, and if you are expecting in the Boston area, you should check them out. 

Now I'm it!

Ok, so I got tagged by my online friend Mary.  Aside - the web is so cool, without it I would never have "met" Mary, thanks to all the tech-y people out there making this possible, you rock.

So, the rules are, that I must spell my first name and give a little juicy tidbit about me (just a tidbit is all she asked for, I threw in the juicy).  So, I have been thinking of this all weekend, and this is hard but here goes:

Head - my zodiac sign is Aries and it rules the head.  It's true that whenever I get stressed, fatigued, whatever, I get a headache.  Isn't that neat to know.

Escalators - I am afraid of them, I may have mentioned this before, if I did, it's because I am really scared of them.

Laugh - Love to laugh, love to hear laughter, especially coming from a certain 9-month old baby boy.

Exaggerate - I hate when people exaggerate in a story and you can totally tell that they are, it makes me feel uncomfortable and bad for them.

Nagging - I also hate nagging and naggers.  I really try not to nag Dennis because it just sucks to be the "nagging wife" .  Dennis you can pick your self off the floor and stop laughing now no really, please!

A.d.d. - when it comes to crafting, gardening, cooking, and just generally doing stuff with my hands (except cleaning), I have this big time.  Dennis actually had to have an intervention with me this weekend, no seriously.  It happened right after I presented him with a new baby blanket that I was embroidering, whilst having the iron on to press seams in one of my bags, whilst preparing a doll quilt top for my niece's birthday, whilst looking at beads online to make my mother a bracelet and topping it all off with the announcement that I would be taking a quilting class on Tuesday nights and am going to be participating in a weekly moms group crafting extravaganza.  God love that man, because if there's anyone in the world who's testing his limits, it's me -- not on purpose though, I can't help it, any tips on how to slow my roll and focus?

Ok, so there you have it, my babes is away for the day, so I must log off and get behind the machine.  I guess I have to tag some other gals, (one for each letter of my name) so here goes I'm actually de-lurking for some as I do this:

Laurie, Christine (you can use Chris if you want because I love ya babe!), Sandi, Amanda, Rhembein, and Carrie. 

All these ladies are fabulously talented and have such great taste and style, I can't wait to see what they come up with.  Many read the paper with their morning coffee, I read blogs!  But I must be going now have a great day!

It's an addiction

Getting lost in blog-land, something I do regularly and look forward to.  I started to think about why?  Why do we (I) like reading blogs so much, why at the end of a long day, do I look forward to logging on and reading and looking, and I realized that it's the intimacy of it all, through reading a blog, we get to see the insides of people, inside their heart, their home, they let us see their families, their art, their hopes and dreams, and inspiration. When I thought about it in these terms, I started to remember how pre-baby, hubby and I would go for walks late-night and during those walks we'd always find ourselves drawn towards the blue flicker of a television through someone's window in their living room, or maybe the warm glow of a little lamp in another room, you could picture a comfy soul  curled up with a book enjoying their evening. It's fascinating isn't it, how fascinated we are by other people's lives?