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Blissdom ’11

Once again this year, we are headed to Nashville for the annual Blissdom conference. Jenny went to the first-ever Blissdom in 2008, when it was nothing more than a few women in a cocktail lounge. I joined her for the next conference in 2009, which is one of my very favorite bloggy memories ever (and also the time Jenny got stuck in the elevator). And last year, we loaded up in Cortney’s car and drove down again – this time, to the lovely Opryland Hotel.

Needless to say, we are excited to be heading to Blissdom again this year… especially because we’re being sponsored by one of our very favorite companies – Lands’ End. As you may remember, Lands’ End sponsored our trip to BlogHer in 2009, and we are absolutely thrilled to be representing them again. We are beside ourselves about this, because part of the job is wearing their clothing all weekend long. How’s that for a sweet gig?

Here are a couple of the pieces we’ll be wearing at Blissdom:


I’ll be wearing the argyle sweater on the left, and Jenny will be cozy (and stylish!) in the Feel Good ruffle cardigan.

Of course, that’s not ALL we’re wearing (that would be interesting…)! The beautiful thing about Lands’ End is that on their site, we found everything we needed for three days of conference wear as well as cocktail party wear… and of course, accessories, shoes… you name it. Lands’ End has it all!

As you may have noticed, Jenny and I may have a slight Lands’ End addiction problem. I kid you not – last week just about everything I wore to work each day was from Lands’ End or Lands’ End Canvas (if you haven’t seen that line, check it out now. omg bff, I’m in love). We are honored and grateful to be representing a brand that we are obsessed with think so highly of.

So, stay tuned next week for pictures, memories and stories! I mean, it’s me, Jenny, and a five-week-old baby, traveling five hours from home. You know something incredibly embarassing disastrous hilarious bloggable is going to happen!

Look out Nashville, here we come!

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Baby Mama

During my pregnancy with Jonah, I was very worried about how Sophie was going to react to the new baby.  After all, she as already four when he was born and very used to being the baby herself.  And she is a TOTAL mama’s girl and I was afraid she would be super-jealous and want to eat him alive for taking up my time and attention.

Whenever I expressed this fear either to friends or here on the blog, everyone said that Sophie would surprise me; you all said that she would looooove the baby and be a “Little Mommy”.  Since I can barely get Sophie to glance sideways at her baby dolls, I was not really believing you all. At all.

But YOU were RIGHT.

She adores him.  She wants to burp him, snuggle him, pick him up (no), change his diaper (um, NO), and shove his paci in his face all day long, even when he is soundly asleep without it, or happily awake without it.  She tells him she loves him constantly and she is SO. Sweet.

But of course, she is a little TOO attentive, and I fear I am going to spend the next six months constantly saving Jonah from his big sister who loves him so much!  Earlier this week I changed his diaper and then left him in the pack & play to wash my hands.  I came back to find Sophie un-snapping his sleeper (4 snaps down!).  “I’m gonna change him.” She informed me.  I then informed her that he had just been changed and that, oh by the way, only grown-ups were allowed to change his diaper!  (Although I HAVE let her “assist” with a gentle wipe after I’m already done.)  Then, the next day as I was making dinner, Jonah was again in the pack & play when Joshua came running into the kitchen and said, “Mom, this is REALLY bad…” so I pushed him out of my way (he is incapable of saying ANYTHING quickly) and ran to the pack & play.  Sophie was standing there with innocent eyes and Jonah was crying.  Joshua followed me into the room and said “She kept trying to pick him up but she couldn’t. And she kept telling me it was my turn but I knew I wasn’t supposed to so I ran in to tell you.”  (What a saint.)  So I had to give her the lecture about how only grown-ups can pick the baby up.  She cried and cried.  She was really sad about it, because she was afraid she had hurt Jonah.

But despite the near-misses, Jonah seems to love her already, too.  I caught one of his early smiles on Friday and he was looking right at Sophie as I took this picture:

smiling at sister

Of course, two seconds later when she was trying to put his bootie on his HEAD instead of his foot, he was less enthusiastic:

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And yet. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful sibling relationship! And I couldn’t be prouder of my girl for doting on her little brother!

And did you hear me? I said I was WRONG! You were RIGHT! I’m so humbled. 🙂

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E’s a-bloggin’

For those of you who are now stalking (and hopefully praying for) my friend Elizabeth, she is feeling well enough to BLOG!  I got to visit with her today and she was a real encouragement to me.  Check out her blog here for updates from her. And go back and read the old stuff, too, cause E is really funny and a great writer.  And her kids do some awesome stuff!

Thanks again everyone for caring.  E is in good spirits because of God’s grace and all the PRAYERS of those who love her and those who have never met her.

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