Monday, December 31, 2012

{neiman marcus + target}




I may be late in discovering this, but Target has their Neiman Marcus + Target collaboration products on sale for a limited time 50% off.  I tried walking off with the Altuzarra shaker, Joseph Altuzarra serving tray, Diane von Furstenberg yoga mat, Carolina Herrera travel bags, Proenza Schouler iPad sleeve, Band of Outsiders cookie cutter & stamp set, Marchesa dress and Jason Wu dress for a little girl I don't have when my lovely conscience told me to put more than half of it back.  I hate you conscience.  Sometimes.  So, I left with the Altuzarra shaker and the serving tray and called it a day.  {insert dissatisfied face}  

Oh, before I forget, happy New Year's Eve!  Have fun and be safe!  Spending my New Years Eve indoors with my husband and sleeping baby.  Goodnight, see you in 2013.  xo, jules 

Saturday, December 29, 2012

{life as of lately}


Wow, has it really been that long since I last wrote??  I go through my spurts of being a dedicated blogger to a nonexistent blogger.  I find myself 1) losing interest and 2) not having the time.  I'm now the mother of (almost) 5 month old Connor, on top of the wife of my husband, and the full time employee of my employer.  

Life as the mother of Connor has been.... wonderful.  Well, I won't paint everything rainbows, I do have my low moments where I need to walk away and grab a breather to recollect myself.  For instance, I had this moment last night.  It usually dawns upon me in this combination: Connor being fussy as of late + lack of sleep/lack of energy.  The usual cure for these moments: SLEEP.  When I can find it.  I really need to remind myself that I don't always need to be Super Mom.  For example, last Sunday I hosted a Christmas party at my house for my college friends (which I loved), then on Monday I made 3 dishes for my mother-in-laws Christmas Eve dinner, and then on Tuesday I hosted Christmas dinner for my family.  WHAT WAS I THINKING?  Come Wednesday I was down for the count with the stomach flu/food poisoning.  3 dishes?  Why?  Why didn't I just do 1?  I don't always have to be Super Mom, right?  I'm not an evil mother, wife, person if I'm not?  Anyways...

We really lucked out early when Connor started sleeping through the nights at around two months/earlier in age.  (And yes, he has been sleeping in his crib since he was a month old.)  As for a few weeks ago he has been waking up 1-2 times during the night and fussing during nursing.  The culprit?  A pair of teeth emerging from his lower gum.  His two bottom front teeth are coming through!  My little boy is growing up too fast!  Waaah!  Slow down, buddy!  I'm hoping Connor will (soon) start sleeping through the nights again because this mama just went back to work.  And it has been exhausting and stressful to have the lack of sleep and to adjust to full time work.  Yesterday my mind was still boggled with exhaustion from the stomach flu that I  I fumbled a bottle of BM after pumping and spilled 2oz all over myself (at work in the lactation room)!  I literally stood there for 30 seconds in disbelief, staring at the spilled precious BM thinking, "did this really happen??"  


Well, world, meet our Connor.  Boy, is he special.  We love every bit of him.  

{Newborn Photoshoot at 10 days old.  Photography by Shawnee.)

{Photography by Shawnee}

{so precious when he sleeps}

{love}

{mama's boy?}

{babbling}

{he's a happy baby}

{Connor & Mama}

{my baby elephant on Halloween}

{mr. man}

{Christmas morning}