Melisa's Life

Last night I was tucking Kade in and he kept looking at me and saying "Go?", "Go?" I said, "yes, mommy has to go." He said "uh oh." Then I said, "do you want me to stay?" He said "uh huh" How do you say no to that? So I laid down on the floor next to his crib and right when he would start to close his eyes, they would fly open and he would look down to make sure I was still there.

I have been overwhelmed lately. Orders seem to come in waves, people needing their hair done comes in waves, why is that? It always seems to happen all at once. I don't want anyone to feel like you are burdening me to do your hair, I don't mind at all, I just wish things would even out. I got a huge list of orders done last week(I still have 2 more waiting for me) and I have 6 packages sitting next to me waiting to go in the mailbox. I decided to dedicate 2 days a week to shipping, it has made things a lot less complicated. I came up with a new way to organize all the orders that come in, which has helped a lot. I also have Chris's whole family coming to my house for Thanksgiving tomorrow. All of this and this morning I wake up to a horrible sore throat and I feel totally weak. This sucks, I can't get sick right now. My house is messy, but at least I don't have to worry about the business part of things. All I need to do is get my sorry butt off this chair and walk to the mailbox. I just needed to whine for a minute.

I'm having a Black Friday sale in my store. Here's a link. There will be free for shipping lottos, buy one get one free and discount codes good for this friday and saturday. I encourage you all to buy homemade this Christmas. There are a lot of talented work at home moms that need support. 90% of our Christmas this year will be homemade. Hyenacart.com and etsy.com are 2 great sites to find things homemade. Ok, I'm done.
I also am participating in a giveaway week on a work-at-home mom's blog. She will be giving away things all next week. Mine will be toward the end of the week. I'm giving away a diaper cover embroidered with Minnie Mouse. For more info, click here.

I found a woman who designs store sites for hyenacart, the site who hosts my store. We did a trade for a couple of outfits for her boys. I bought the royalties to some pics, told her what I had in mind and she sent me what she had so far. I totally love it! I couldn't have asked for better. It's like she could see what I had in my head. She says she's not quite done...I don't know what else needs to be done, but she's the pro. Anyway, here's a link.

My new great nephew, that's right, my niece gave birth last night to a healthy baby boy! He is 7 lbs 4 oz and 20 in long. Welcome to the world Kash!

I have been meaning to post this and haven't gotten around to it. November is prematurity awareness month. This is something that is very important to me. The top photo is my baby boy born 3 1/2 weeks early, the bottom photo is my nephew, born 3 months early. If you have a chance to donate to the March of Dimes please do. I'm the crazy person that starts crying if a cashier asks if I want to donate. All I can do is nod my head. Hopefully we can help find a way to keep these babies go full term.

I just registered Saige for kindergarten. Aaaaaah! Here is the school she will hopefully be attending. http://syracuseartsacademy.org/

I read this on my neighbor's blog this morning and had to share it.

"Oh, and now you can see how much we've talked to our 4-year-old about politics. Today, I overheard Malia's friend, Saige, asking her if she knew who our new president was going to be. "no, who?" was Malia's response..."Barack Obama" said Saige, followed by an immediate giggle by Malia and ..."that's funny his name has bum in it." I laughed for a good 10 minutes. Maybe you had to be there."

I started a new craft blog. You can check it out here.

So, we put an offer on a house, they came back with something ridiculous and we didn't want to fight with them over it, so we rejected it. We had someone interested in our house, scheduled them to come on Saturday. After working for a week putting doors in, doing the baseboards and trim around the doors, patching drywall, painting, cleaning and making it look like no one lives here, they don't show up. It got us thinking. When we move, we want that to be it. We want that house to be the one our kids grow up and move out of. These houses in our price range aren't it. I started thinking about things and how I need to be grateful for what I have. We are comfortable here. Saige has tons of friends and we just got the house done. I want to stay and enjoy it for a while. So, we decided we're going to stay. I'm going to go back to school next year when Saige starts kindergarten. This is something I've been waiting for ever since she was born. We're going to save up and put in a fence and a dog door, do some painting and put in a ceiling fan in the kids room. I feel really peaceful about this decision.