easter card link-up!

Have you made an Easter card this year? Show us your design and help us spring into holiday mode! (Yes, cheesy pun intended!)

Here's my example:

Just write a post including your card and the Easter card linky image above (right-click and copy the url) and then link-up here. The linky will be open until Thursday, April 21st. A guest judge and I will then pick some favorites and feature your card and your blog on Easter weekend!

Categories I will choose from include: 

• best faith-inspired card
• cutest kid card
• best photography card
• most clever/funny card 
• overall favorite card

I may expand the categories... based on how you inspire me with your work! I'm looking forward to featuring some of your blogs and showing off your fabulous creativity!!

Dear friends, I'm getting so excited for Levi's first Easter egg hunt... and all other things "Easter" including dressing up for church, great food with friends and family, and celebrating my faith. How are your Easter plans shaping up this year?

happy egg coloring,


p.s. If you do enter, please try and visit at least one other blog that's entered as well!


Update 4/22: I've canceled this contest (and deleted the linky) due to insufficient entries. :(

Are you an expecting mom? Have you linked-up yet? Join the Bloggin' Babes and Babies of 2011 here.

adriel booker | the mommyhood memos | 2011
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i am craftabulous

It's been a long while since I've done anything crafty. But with Levi's upcoming celebration on the horizon my little brain has been bursting with ideas...

And the most exciting part? I've had the motivation to actually be deliberate about carving out the time to make a few things happen.

I've dusted off my hot glue gun. I've sharpened my scissors. And I've buried myself in felt and card stock, clothespins and toothpicks, tinsel and string.

I'm having so much fun!

Here's a sneak peak of his birthday party next weekend...

I'm having so much fun!

Oh, I said that already? Well, this sure beats preparing my incoming taxes, organizing my address book, or any of my other *ahem* more adult-like responsibilities. That's for certain!!

I keep asking myself why it's been so long since I've unleashed my crafty creativity on the world! And then I remember those... responsibilities. (Apparently the IRS doesn't take "crafting" as a legitimate excuse for an extension.)

But while I've found my groove, I'm gonna enjoy it. And not just for the party.

There's a project that I was inspired to do over a year ago to decorate Levi's nursery... But it never happened since it just never made it to the priority section of my to-do list. (Don't you hate it when you just live from one urgent thing to the next? Not good.)

I was determined to have this little project done before his first birthday... so finally, here it is - the Little Red Caboose inspired name letters for his room:

I love how these turned out! Such cute, unique, inexpensive room decor. (I sure wish I had done it a year ago like I meant to...)

When I'm able, I'll post a tutorial for how to make these. It's fun and easy!

And now, I must be off. I have banners and pinwheels and party favors to make.....

It's an exciting week folks! We're celebrating my baby and we're celebrating parenthood!

Dear friends, do you like to craft? I've found my crafty groove again during these last couple of weeks. I'm enjoying it while it lasts!

craftabulous,

adriel booker | the mommyhood memos | 2010 
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cross it off your list

How long do you let things sit on your to-do list? 


I am a huge list-maker. I have lists for everything: 


The usual stuff like groceries, errands, and chores that need to be done... but also the emails I need to write, the cards I want to send, the gifts I have to buy, the things I need to remember to talk to my hubs about, the people I want to make an effort to catch up with, issues I want to pray about, subjects I want to write about, meal ideas, books I want to read, things I want to study or learn about, albums I want to listen to or buy, home improvement projects I want to do, movies I want to rent, craft and decorating ideas... ohmygoodness the list of lists goes on and on! As crazy as it sounds, I really do have all these lists going.


I write lists for three reasons: 

1. I am extremely forgetful and if it's not on a list it might as well not exist. (Why can I never remember that important movie I wanted to see when I'm actually at the video store?)
2. I need visuals to help me stay organized. (Or should I say get organized?)
3. I feel accomplished when I get to cross things off my list. (Do you ever put things on your list for the day like "take shower" or "make the bed" or "do the dishes" just so you can cross a few things off and feel accomplished? No? Oh—ahem—me neither...)
4. I have a baby that constantly interrupts my thought processes. (Will I get to use the "mommy brain" excuse for the rest of my life?)

Ok, make that four reasons.


There are a few things on our "house projects" to-do list that have been there way too long. One of them is to finish the painting that we started in December. 


Yes, December.


When I was eight months pregnant we moved into a new house. The house was awesome except for the fact that it desperately needed to be painted. My hubs and a bunch of friends set to work for an entire weekend getting it looking beautiful while I stayed at our old apartment tackling the packing. They painted the whole inside of the house in 90+ degree heat (add 70-80% humidity) and no air-conditioning. Ugh. Not fun.


They did a fabulous job and the walls and ceilings looked amazing... But we decided to wait and finish up all the detailing and the doors and trim until the winter-time (June/July) when things cooled down (to 70 degrees?). 


And then... winter came.


And then... winter went.


Ooops.


We found ourselves in spring, with temperatures climbing into the mid-80s and the summer fast approaching, and we knew that if we didn't finish up that job pronto, it would soon be worth reasoning to wait again until next winter.


So we decided to get busy.


I can now say that the house-painting is nearly completed. Just one last room to finish on Saturday and we can cross another (giant) thing off of the "house projects" list.

{after being shuffled from the playpen to the jonny jumper to the exersaucer and back
again, by the end of the day levi was incredibly bored and very vocal about it. this was
the only way we could possibly finish up - some mommy multi-tasking at its best!}

We're not always this bad at finishing things... but sometimes.


Dear friends, how about you? Are you a list-maker? Are there certain things that tend to sit on your list for-ev-er? What's one thing that you need to take care of that will bring great satisfaction to strike a big, black line through?

loving a chance to cross things off,

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adriel booker | the mommyhood memos | 2010 
do not reproduce without written permission