New Designing a Room Websites I Stumbled Upon

I might be repeating myself…but loved these finds:
HGTV’s Rate My Space – real people upload their rooms, and some of them are amazing:

Really liked hers

Specifically nurseries

Exclusively Yours Interiors someone blogging about design…pretty cool
BHG-Design Gallery – more traditional…but some ideas
Design Sponge – lots of ‘before’ & ‘after’
The Nest-designs This is the website that comes after The [...]

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My Guilty Pleasure: Cupcakes

Yes, I know…they are very trendy now…and have been for a year or two. But I LOVE cupcakes. I always have. There’s something…sweet, nostalgic, satisfying…poetic about that little bit of goodness. For some people, it’s just the perfect amount…not too little, not too much. For others, finishing one leaves you wanting just one more bite.
<sigh>
I [...]

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Baby (room) on the brain

B and our friends have been having babies around the same time left and right. Which is really nice once we have our own…many ready made playmates. But with so many babies around, talk turns to…well, baby things. Right now, a few of us were talking about the ideal baby room. So for this post, [...]

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Evolution of a blog…Evolution of a parent

When I first started this blog…or rather the first versions on other blog services…I was doing it more as a ‘diary’ and a place to keep all of my internet ‘finds’ and fav sites.
Looking at all of my past entries, I can see how I have changed…don’t know if I have ‘grown’ necessarily…but definitely changed. [...]

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Our Babymoon to Las Vegas

So I’m finally sitting down to write about our last trip before Noodles arrives. I’ve never been to Las Vegas. It’s been on my list of places to visit. B’s been there several years ago back…pretty much before all of the ‘mega’ hotels started to sprout.
Since this was our last ‘hurrah’, we wanted [...]

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Unique Baby Birth Announcement

This isn’t really my thing. But I thought it was very cute.
Baby Announcements like movie posters!

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No such thing as a ‘free lunch’?

I somehow got sent a free subscription to Woman’s Day. One article in the most recent issue was about ‘free websites’.
As a way for me to keep things in one spot, I am listing them here:

language lessons
wififreespot.com (finding wifis all over)
RememberTheMilk (time management organizer)
Protonic.com (computer help)
business classes (30″ online classes for a multitude of things…gov [...]

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10 things I’ve learned as a first time pregnant woman

1. GAS…

Who knew that there was so much farts & burps were trapped in a woman’s body?! Little boys everywhere look at me with newfound respect and awe. I’m tired of running out of the room pretending that I forgot something.
They say when you are pregnant, there’s nothing about the woman’s body that will remain [...]

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A newly discovered ‘Favorite pastime’

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Originally uploaded by dragonfly_727

We are almost at 25 weeks. Noodles has become very active. I no longer worry why I haven’t felt him move.
I have discovered while I was reading a magazine propped on my belly that when Noodles is practicing for his World Soccer debut, the magazine jumps rather noticeably.
The next week…a few days [...]

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What’s in a name? part 2

We’ve got to find a name for this boy. The name “Noodles” is just to easy to say. Our friends call him “Noodles”. Our respective co-workers all refer to him as “Noodles”.
I’m afraid he’s going to be a 40 year old man named Noodles. You’ve seen grown men…and some women…with childhood names that they never [...]

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