And here’s the long-promised video, everyone! We are so thrilled!
I’ll post some pictures of the finished cupcakes later today. We put the colored frosting inside them so you could discover the baby’s gender when you bit into one. They were quite a hit with some little friends later that evening, too.
Ahhh… aren’t you excited?!
This photo is from this week when we had our 19-week ultrasound and found out the gender of our baby! We are tickled pink (or umm… blue?) around here. Lena and I spent much of the morning (and some of the afternoon… it’s a long process with a little one) baking cupcakes with colored frosting in the middle. Tonight we’re going to bite into the cupcakes with our friends and reveal the gender!
I took a little video of Lena mixing up the colored frosting and “discovering” if she was going to have a baby sister or brother. Right now I’m just sharing it with the family so they can know first, but I’ll post it here on Monday morning!
Any gut feelings from you all if we’re having a boy or a girl? We’d love to hear your guesses!
This photo is from this week when we had our 19-week ultrasound and found out the gender of our baby! We are tickled pink (or umm… blue?) around here. Lena and I spent much of the morning (and some of the afternoon… it’s a long process with a little one) baking cupcakes with colored frosting in the middle. Tonight we’re going to bite into the cupcakes with our friends and reveal the gender!
I took a little video of Lena mixing up the colored frosting and “discovering” if she was going to have a baby sister or brother. Right now I’m just sharing it with the family so they can know first, but I’ll post it here on Monday morning!
Any gut feelings from you all if we’re having a boy or a girl? We’d love to hear your guesses!
Over the weekend away in Noto, I had a rush of inspiration to truly maximize our time here in Sicily and live a simple, productive life with no regrets. (You know, just your average goals in life.) I journaled for pages and pages. Obviously this is a work in progress, but there are so many ideas and goals swimming around in my head. I hope to share more about this in the future.
In the meantime, I have made myself a massive to do list and am gritting my teeth and working through it this week. I’m taking on tasks that have been bugging me for months, like changing the light bulb on the porch (well, actually, both light bulbs on both porches) or going to IKEA to replace some battered lamps with brand new ones. There’s lots of purging going on around here, too. What is it about the end of the summer and wanting to clean out your closet and redefine yourself with less clutter? I’m not the only blogger/mother out there with the bug!
Day 1 of the productivity rush found me canning an autumn’s worth of chicken broth by 9:30 am. I shouldn’t try to give too favorable an impression, though, because I am easily distracted, especially by wonderful, inspirational lists like this one: 99 Ways to Simplify Life with Kids. But actually the five minutes it took to read that post made me more inspired than ever! So sometimes procrastinating is actually productive, right?
What’s on your to do list as you face the change in seasons and feel autumn in air?
Over the weekend away in Noto, I had a rush of inspiration to truly maximize our time here in Sicily and live a simple, productive life with no regrets. (You know, just your average goals in life.) I journaled for pages and pages. Obviously this is a work in progress, but there are so many ideas and goals swimming around in my head. I hope to share more about this in the future.
In the meantime, I have made myself a massive to do list and am gritting my teeth and working through it this week. I’m taking on tasks that have been bugging me for months, like changing the light bulb on the porch (well, actually, both light bulbs on both porches) or going to IKEA to replace some battered lamps with brand new ones. There’s lots of purging going on around here, too. What is it about the end of the summer and wanting to clean out your closet and redefine yourself with less clutter? I’m not the only blogger/mother out there with the bug!
Day 1 of the productivity rush found me canning an autumn’s worth of chicken broth by 9:30 am. I shouldn’t try to give too favorable an impression, though, because I am easily distracted, especially by wonderful, inspirational lists like this one: 99 Ways to Simplify Life with Kids. But actually the five minutes it took to read that post made me more inspired than ever! So sometimes procrastinating is actually productive, right?
What’s on your to do list as you face the change in seasons and feel autumn in air?
