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Trying To Conceive

oh CD1…

I thought this post out in my head the other day. I let it marinate a little before deciding to post {from my phone so excuse errors}. So CD1, you make me feel…angry, sad, depressed, jealous, then hopeful. All those emotions just in one day.

Angry that what we thought was a good cycle didn’t end up with a BFP.

Sad that we won’t be celebrating the 2010 holidays pregnant. I swore we’d be pregnant by football season~that’s out the window now too.

All the above’s made my usually happy self a little depressed this week. Crawl under the covers & sleep depressed but nothing a few beers & some Ben & Jerry’s & Christmas decorations couldn’t fix though.

Oh the jealousy this week. I’m normally not a jealous person. If someone has the fortunateness or luck or both to have something I admire, usually I’m like awesome for them & move on. This week, pregnant people I don’t know {ones I know I’m still just happy & excited for!} and baby toys & baby sale flyers just make me jealous. Instead of keeping the baby store coupons for gifts, this week they’ve gone right in the recycling bin.

Then back to hopeful. Hopeful that this new cycle, cycle 11 TTC, will be the one! Hopeful that my projected O date being on my birthday might be good luck! Hopeful that if this is the cycle that you could get an awesome Christmas gift~ a BFP! Keep your fingers & toes crossed.

update~ HUGE thanks to Kelly if you’re seeing this for reading & stopping by with beer & ice cream! Jason & I really appreciate that & you as always!! Also much love to other friends, both IRL & internet friends for their comments, email, FB messages etc. They mean more than you know!

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Everything Else

SoftBums Mystery Solved!

I wanted to welcome the brand new SoftBums Onmi to the cloth diaper world! As you read in my earlier post, today was the big day! Now that the Omni has been revealed to the world via youtube, & their blogs, I thought I’d also make sure you were sharing in the fun!

While I haven’t yet used a cloth diaper, look at the awesome features of this one. The first ever multi-purpose pocket: it’s a pocket diaper AND an all-in-two AND a cover!
*Huge pocket opening is easy to stuff
*Larger size means it fits even BIGGER toddlers up to 40 lbs, can be easily overstuffed and fits great over prefolds!
*Compatible with the same Pods as the Echo, as well as almost any other diaper insert!
*Use as an all-in-2 for the most economical diapering system available!
*Use as a pocket for a super absorbent and bulletproof diaper so easy your daycare can use it!
*Use as a cover over flats, prefolds or nearly anything else you already have for a worry-free night!

So what can you win?!
Grand Prize (offered on the Reviewing blogs only): Brand New iPad!!

First Prize (enter to win this & all the below prices here!): Complete birth to Potty package of new Omni SoftBums
Second Prize: $75 gift certificate to softbums.com
Third Prize: $50 Amazon gift card

Plus!! 1 of the new Onmi cloth diapers to winners #5-20


Plus!!! Winners #21-23 will receive Baby Legs


You can choose to enter only one Participating Blog, or bounce around and enter on ALL the BLOGS!
Sound like fun?
To get an early start and extra entries:
Post, blog or Tweet about the SoftBums Mystery Event and comment here to enter your entry.

Plus Extra entries available for:

Leave a comment with a link to your status. You can tweet every day until the giveaway ends.

This giveaway is open to US Residents! Past winners of any SoftBums giveaways please give others a chance, thanks! Entries on Suz’s Treats will be counted towards the first prize level and down, not for the iPAD.Winners will be drawn using random.org. Winner has 48 hours to get back to me after being contacted or a new winner will be drawn. Ends October 18th at 8 pm! 2010

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Everything Else

SoftBums Mystery Event

After participating in a #clothdiaper twitter party a while back, I got on a cloth diaper products kicks. I went to a few different websites but had heard and seen a lot about SoftBums online. I saw a tweet about emailing them to do a possible review or event promotion for their new diaper.

So after a glass {or two!} of wine, I emailed! Awesomely they wrote back. I gave them a little more information about me & this blog. They decided that while only a small number of blogs were able to be the review bloggers {which wouldn’t been hard for me since no baby yet!}, they did chose this blog to be one of their reporting bloggers.

So what does this mean to you? Well if you’re interested in cloth diapers, especially Soft Bums & their new mystery product & if you love to win awesome products {including a ipad!}, then go check out their blog at I Love Cloth Diapers. You can also go to the SoftBums site or their youtube site. They will be making the big announcement on all three places! Go there to enter the giveaways! You can also get links to all the reviewing & other reporting blogs at same time. Good luck!

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Food Travel

Jenny’s Shower

My friend Jenny is having triplets!! ::pause to let that sink in:: Now squeal with excitement & go check out her blog, jennandtonica.

This past Saturday four of her great friends (Beth Anne, Laura, Sarah (aka @gassmama) & Jen (aka speedglenn)) threw her a shower in Charlotte. Alethea & I left Raleigh around 9 am. We arrived in Charlotte around 11:30a. My parents happened to be in Charlotte last weekend so Alethea & I stopped by my grandmother’s nursing home to say hi. I also used that time to put on make-up. 🙂

We met up with Sara, Katherine & her husband Shon, and Alena her husband Cody & their precious little one Sophia at Brixx. The company & artichoke pizza A & I split was awesome. The heat & my resulting sweatiness, not so much! A & I (mostly me) overheated my car while attempting to dry sweat/cool off on the way to the shower. LOL. Sadly I don’t think we took any photos here.

I’m waiting on some photos of people from the shower, but for now I’ve borrowed a few from BA of Jenny & the fabulous food! Jenny looked amazing! It was so wonderful to meet & hang out with her friends. She was showered with fabulous gifts too including crib, stroller, & lots of cloth diapers (remember she’ll be going through around 40/day!).

The hostesses made such yummy food for us. My favorites: Jen’s caramel aka sex bars. Here’s where she orginially got her receipe, but she eliminates the espresso.
I don’t have a photo of these, but Jen’s Pumpkin Gooey Bars were amazing! It’s a Paula Dean recipe, so you’ll have to ignore the fattiness or just eat a little bit. They would be perfect to take to a fall potluck (especially if you have skinny coworkers/friends! ha!).


Jenny & friends have been calling the triplets PB&J. In honor of that, BA made felt PB&J’s for all the guests which is jsut too cute. They were attached to a box filled with her Oreo Truffles. I saved the truffles until dessert Sunday. Jason & I both LOVED them. They will be made soon.

Alethea & I were having so much fun hanging out with all the women after the shower we kind of forgot to leave! It was almost midnight when we realized it! So as the others were off to bed, we got a second wind thanks to diet coke & one of those pumpkin bars and headed back to Raleigh. I got in bed at 3:30a ~ most definitely the latest in years! I slept til 12 and chilled all day Sunday. Saturday was such a great day! Thanks for including me Jenny!

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Everything Else

I was on a roll yesterday!

A blog giveaway win roll!

I got to work & saw I’d received an email from Minimal Mom saying that I’d won her Frilly Butt giveaway. Y’all please look at those pants! I know I’m definitely years away from needing potty training pants, but I couldn’t resist entering when I saw those ruffles & polka dots. I never thought I’d win! I told the Frilly Butts owner I’d love them in a 2T~ I think they’ll be in the future baby stash closet for a while! Have yall seen the other super cute things on their etsy shop (like the owl potty pants?!)?
Then I heard from Lins at I’d won one for the giveaways done in celebration of her daughter Ryann’s 1st birthday. Even more exciting, I’d won one of the famous Coconut Robot’s fabulous Hello My Name is… onesies! You can check out more of them on her esty shop, but here’s the photo I grabbed from Waking Up Williams of REW in hers.
The cool part, you can take off the Hello part (it has snaps) and attach it to bigger onesies as the little ones grow. The super cool part, Kacia ok’d waiting to make mine until we are pregnant & have confirmed baby name!

And those who follow me on twitter & have seen my #clothdiaper tweets both questions about them & giveaway tweets know I’ve been REALLY trying to win some cloth diapers. I’m hoping that a large enough free stash will help put Jason over the fence & agree to (at least part of the time) cloth diaper our future kids. So when my {internet & now irl?!} friend Alena over at Charmingly Chandler posted her first cloth diaper giveaway I was all over it. Doing all the possible entries including daily tweets about the giveaway! Well they paid off when I saw her email telling me to check out this post! I literaly squeeled at my desk!! Check out Itty Bitty Bums etsy page ~ how cute are they! I might just have to get one of the retro owl print ones along with my solid diaper {yall know I can’t resist an owl!}.

My future baby closet is getting fuller!!