It’s hard to believe that our Little Bean is already 6 weeks old.
Over the weekend we put the finishing touches on her crib and then let her try it on for size.
I can’t believe just how little she looks in that big crib.
I think she will be staying in her bassinet a little longer!
In other Bean news, she’s still doing good. She spits up A LOT so we are constantly doing laundry. Right now she has a bit of a cold so we are doing our best to get rid of it.
All in all, things are great and we are still just as smitten with her as we were the day she arrived!
Every January I start to get the itch to redecorate something. Since we do not own are current home, I am very limited as to what I can do. Our current landlord does not allow us to paint anything, use nails any bigger than a picture nail and is very strict. Since I am stuck with white walls that needed to be repainted a decade ago, carpet that is begging to be replaced and a home that is falling apart around us, I do my best to mask it any way that I can.
Since the carpet in our living room is so far gone, we use a large area rug to hide what lies beneath it. I also have learned to not let a lot of light into the room as a way to help hide the problem areas as well.
Our kitchen is a whole other story!
There is an ugly brass chandelier with frosted globes that I would love to replace with 2 drum shade pendants over our dining room table. I would also be very happy to replace the light fixture in the kitchen with some mini pendant lights as well.
Oh, and I can’t forget to mention the ugly pink floral wall paper in our half-bathroom and the tacky teal and white striped wall paper with the god awful pheasant border in our den/office area with matching teal ceiling fan and teal can lighting…..yes, this house is in dire need of a new look and I wish I was able to do more with it!
Have I mentioned that I cannot wait until we have a home of our own???
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As you know, we recently welcomed the newest addition to our family, Little Miss Baby Bean. Of course with her arrival, we were very excited to share her and announce her birth to all of our friends and family near and far. Thanks to our wonderful friends at Tiny Prints we were able to do so with some beautiful custom birth announcements.
When choosing the perfect birth announcement for Bean, I spent hours looking through them all and trying out different pictures until I finally went back to the first one I had ‘tried on’ and decided this was the one!
Tiny Prints did such a wonderful job with these announcements and was even nice enough to adjust the coloring in the original photo to make sure we were getting a great print! We have grown to love Tiny Prints over the years and have used a variety of their products including holiday cards, day planners, thank you notes and more and I’m already looking through baby shower invites for a close friends shower that will be happening in a few months!
Thank you Tiny Prints for once again for a job well done and for helping us share the news of the birth of our Little Bean!
Disclaimer: Tiny Prints provided us with product at no cost to us in exchange for our complete and honest review of their product and service. All thoughts and opinions are our own.
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Have you had one of those teachers who really made an impact on your life?
I did.
Here name was Mary Johnson and she was my 8th grade C.A. (Communication Arts) teacher. She was the one and only teacher who encouraged me to continue with my creative writing. I’m pretty sure if it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t be writing this post right now.
In Dead Poets Society (one of my favorite flicks), Robin Williams inspires his students to think for themselves and live life to the fullest. This method of teaching is, of course, frowned upon by the faculty when an unexpected tragedy occurs.
The movie stars Robin Williams as Professor John Keating, Ethan Hawke as Todd Anderson and Robert Sean Leonard as Neil Perry. Oh, and if you watch the show The Good Wife, you will recognize a young Josh Charles (Will Gardner) as Knox Overstreet (he is in the clip below!) Tom Schulman won the Academy Award or Best Original Screenplay in 1989 for this film as well.
Here is a short clip from the film.
The Blu-ray is filled with awesome bonus features such as:
“Dead Poets: A Look Back” featuring interview footage with Director Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and many others; “Raw Takes;” “Master of Sound: Alan Splet” – interviews with David Lynch And Peter Weir; “Cinematography Master Class” – an intensive and inspirational lighting workshop with Cinematographer John Seale; “Audio Commentary” with Director Peter Weir, Cinematographer John Seale and Writer Tom Schulman; and the “Theatrical Trailer.”
I personally enjoyed watching the “Theatrical Trailer” again for the first time ever since the film came out when I was a mere 11 years old.
This is also a film that I was happy to introduce to my 2 older children (age almost 13 and just shy of 12). Both of the kids really enjoyed the movie and loved the message they took from it which as they summed it up was to think outside the box.
We gladly recommend this film for any home movie collection!
Disclaimer: This promotion was based on using information provided by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Buena Vista Home Entertainment does not represent or warrant the accuracy of any statements or product claims made here, nor does it endorse any opinions expressed within this blogsite. The opinions stated from me are 100% mine and they are my true thoughts.
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