Breathtakingly Romantic!

So here it is! My Valentine's Day Gift!!

Isn't it just amazing?! I have to RAVE about the customer service my husband got from:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5273857

BdDesigns.Etsy.Com

She was quick with shipping, easy to work with and best of all, he said she was nice! He loved the piece so much she is even making a ring for him with the kids names on it!! I can't wait to see it! I love how sappy my guy is :) It's quite romantic! I think old age does it to those hard, bad boys! So remember ladies if you are all about your bad boy that's always in trouble, he just may sometimes turn into the biggest softie you will ever know!

Fantastic Friday!

WOOHOOO!!! Is all I can say! I love fridays. The weekend just seems to go by too fast lately though. I'm really hoping to do some good sales this weekend at my open house, but who knows only time will tell! My goal is just to make 100$ it doesn't seem like a lot, but my stuff is not that pricey. So let's hope :) I'm using that money to buy my darling little husbands Christmas gift. Not sure what I want to get him though. I was thinking about a new wedding band, since I found some fabulous ones on ETSY:

I stumbled across these at:

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5053816

AnneHolmans shop! So beautiful, don't you think!! I am thinking of something new to engrave them with. I really want to do:

To Infinity (in one ring)

And Beyond (in the second ring)

hahaha! Is that nerdy? We're huge Disney Fans, so it seems appropriate, since we were married in Walt Disney World. We're renewing our vows in 09, though, so I don't know if I should wait until then to get new rings. grr.. it's so annoying to not know what to get my own husband!

Any thoughts??? :)

Echo

The crickets are chirping (literally, we have a gheko and he was just fed!), the wind is whistling softly and the smell of fresh cut watermelon is in the air. The family is asleep and I am relishing this silence that has overcome the house. It's almost as though time stops. I wish I could be a true insomniac and stay up all night enjoying this before the insanity starts up again at around 6am.

I love to sit and stare outside at the empty street and catch an occasional car drive by, as I work on my jewelry or just type away. I like to listen to Michael Buble and Josh Groban softly serenading me from the buds of my IPOD. The evening is mine and sometimes I want the night to stretch on forever. The stars light up the night and the moon eerily illuminates the outdoors. Is it odd that I sit here in the dark with only the glow of the computer as my companion? These are the moments that I think about all the cute things the kids did today, the wonderful stuff my husband said and took care of today and most of all the time I give thanks for all I have. I really am very lucky. To be loved is truly a feeling that keeps me feeling energized all day. Its a feeling that makes me swell with happiness. Love can really do so much more than many people think.

Another day is over and one more is just a sunrise away, but for now, I will sit here in the dark and think about how perfect a few minutes alone can truly be.

Hospital Etiquette?

Well I just got back from having some testing done at the hospital and we're off in a bit to another hospital to visit a sick relative. Now when you walk into a shared room and the person you know is in the far bed, what do you do?

Do you stop and chat with the first person?
Give them a smile and a wave?
Walk right by and make no eye contact?
Put on your invisibility cloak and just stroll in the room???

I am the right by and no eye contact type of person, I don't know if they want me looking at them, or if they even know I'm walking past. I get all nervous about this less than one second encounter and I have no idea why!! I think about it in the parking lot, i mention it to my husband (who really doesn't even see the big deal!), it nags at me in the gift shop, where I proceed to purchase magazines that I know will only get eaten by my one year old and drawn on by my 2 yr old and then i think about it in the elevator ride, the walk down the corridor and then i'm there, at THE DOOR, to the room of the relative. My palms are sweaty and I think, today I am going to smile and wave. YES today I am going to change the world with a smile. YES I am going to make this persons day...Open the door, in we go.....

ahh...the roommate is gone. Oh well maybe next time :)

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Naptime is upon this household (Let the chorus of angels sing) and the dishes are done, everythings clean and while I was gone husband even spot cleaned some of the carpet! Ohh maybe I should go away more often!!

Meet Me!

I've heard it so many times, it's just become me. Do you know what I mean? You show up to a party of any kind. The family bar-b-q right up to the swanky wedding. You look great (at least your husband said so, even though he barely glanced your way, he's just so used to answering every question with a yes dear), you smell good and you managed to get that strained pea stain out of last years dress that is just a bit too snug in all the obvious places. Your hair is actually down and brushed and you even have make up on. Then you meet someone new and you know it's coming, the big question...

"So, what do you you?"

and before you have the chance to answer one of your oh so witty CEO of the household comments, someone steps in and answers for you, and it's always one of those people that you just want to strangle 99% of the time.

"Oh Michelle? She's JUST A STAY AT HOME MOM."

and the answer that follows:

"oh um wow, you must love being home all the time."

Then they walk away and are gone to someone more interesting. You know, the ones with REAL jobs and now you are left with the feeling you have become all to familiar with, the whole, no one really understands what I do, I just want to go home watch DORA and snuggle with my kids and go to bed in my queen size bed that somehow feels like a twin come 2 am when 2 kids crawl in and your husband is snoring up a storm and there is just no room for your 8 month pregnant body to fit, so you end up on the couch, cold and alone. Yeah, that's always better than sitting here in this too tight dress, these heels that are KILLING me and all I want to do is pull my hair up in a ponytail and wipe this stuff off my mouth.


So there you have it! I'm a stay at home mom to 2 kids and I really do have one more on the way! Yes, I have my hands full, OF COURSE I never miss an episode of Dr. Phil, Oprah, MArtha Stewart and of coruse Judge Judy. (Insert MAJOR EYE ROLL HERE!!) If only people really understood that stay at home mom usually means NEVER at home mom! I think I have more clothes in my minivan than I do in my closet! Ahh yes, the minivan, the ever present mom mobile! It's big, mean and green!

My kids are 1 and 2 and I am due next month (I am soo ready for it to be now!)
My newest start right now is my business! I make jewelry and cell phone charms and all those kinds of goodies! Check me out: http://www.michellescharmworld.etsy.com/. So on top of watching two toddlers (both insanely hyper) and a husband that manages to come home for lunch for an HOUR EVERY DAY, I am running a business!

But well, you know....

I'm Michelle and I'm JUST a stay at home mom.