New Art for Molly's Room

I just bought the cutest print on Etsy for Molly's room. I thought I would share it with you.

The Etsy seller is called Trafalgar's Square. If you want to see more of this artist's work, click here.

Carolina Parent article

Check out my article "What You Really Need to Know Before Having a Baby" in Carolina Parent Baby Guide, pg. 11.

Molly when she was a newborn

Tourist Attraction

Every so often, cars slow down in front of our house to take a closer look. Sometimes they will back up to get a better view. Or even stop and a take picture.

I admit, it certainly isn't something you see everyday.

I haven't seen any before.

I am surprised it has managed to survive as long as it has.

This is the view out our front window.

Our neighborhood albino deer. At least all the snow lately has been his color.

"Snow" Day

It was really more like ice day. Kids school was closed. So we all the spent the day at home. I had grand plans of getting things done. Sheets were in the washer by 8am. Folded load of laundry and put away. Playroom picked up. Then, something happened. Inertia. Followed by Molly wanting to take an early nap. Thought it was a good day to take one with her, so I took a 2 hour nap. It was so nice. Did I mention I have a bit of a cold? So really it was necessary to aid the healing process, right? I thought so too. Somehow the rest of the afternoon sort of flew by and I am not sure what I did with it. Now is it after 5pm and all I can say is that my bed has clean sheets.

Belated New Years Resolution

So I know I haven't blogged as much these past few months. With the holidays, and my focus on other projects, it's been hard, but I resolve to blog more. See you here more soon!

Santa Babies

I had Bambi killed.

Tuesday, our neighbor saw in our yard, a deer that was laying down and it looked it might be sick or injured. Over the day, it moved around a little bit, but still came and layed down. The neighbor had called Animal Control, but they couldn't help. That evening, we called a wildlife rescue who said they couldn't come out and help because of the size of the deer. But, they did tell us that we should give it another 24 hours and see what happens. They said that the deer would either 1. die 2. might be in labor or 3. may get up and leave.  If it was still there in 24 hours, they said we should call a State wildlife officer.

Wednesday, we didn't see the deer.  We had hoped that maybe the deer was in labor and had a baby. But, we were at work all day.

Thursday, after going out midday with the kids, I saw the deer. It was snuggled into the bushes by our front door. It didn't move, but I could see it breathing.

I called the Wildlife officer. He said they could not try and rehab the deer because of the overpopulation (A term I disagree with, but I digress.  I mean isn't it the humans that are overpopulated and taking over the deer's territory?) Anyway, he came to our house and he had to put the deer down. I felt really bad, but I hope that I did the right thing. I hope that it ended it's suffering. Being that it was so cold, and it been laying around for a few days, I doubted that it would recover from whatever it was ailing from.

Rest in peace, Bambi.

P.S. -- The kids didn't know anything about what happened. Emmett thought the Wildlife officer had come out the house to make sure everyone was safe and happy.