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I had a spa day today! I used my rad gift card from the in-laws…the head to toe package at Jackson Massage and Day Spa. Let me just give you the itinerary for the day:

• Relaxing 1 hour full body massage
• Rejuvenating facial
• Pretty pedicure and manicure
• Brow wax (not included in package)
• Wash, cut and style (not included in the package)

The workers at the spa were all: “Are you comfortable?” “Are you relaxed?” “Can I get you anything?” “It’s all about you today.” (how NICE!) Also, got to listen to beach noises and relaxing music all day long (gladly no new age mumbo jumbo though). They did the massage and facial first and I seriously though I wasn’t going to be able to finish out the rest of the day I was SO freekin’ relaxed (can you really be freekin’ relaxed??? ….anyway). Wanna see the toes?

Sorry if toes gross you out!

On to a card….I’ll post down a little so you can scroll past the toes, but still look at the card in case you’re squeamish (I know feet gross some people out)

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That Happy Birthday image is Stampin’ Up! Everything else is non-SU!. I think I’m enjoying stamping again even though I’m not a SU! demo anymore. I can use other products on my projects and not feel like I “need” to be selling only the stuff I’m using. So I’ll probably get lax about posting recipes for cards, but I think people mostly just look at the pics anywayz….Ok so maybe only I do that. Still reading??? Yes? In that case I’ll ramble on a little more.

Knitting: I’m knitting a Booga Bag. I’m a little late on the bandwagon with this project, but it’s so darn cute I don’t care.I’m about halfway completed. No pic…maybe tomorrow. It’s so bright and colorful and easy to knit! Can’t wait to finish.

Employment: Starting my new job at the hospital Monday…no longer a “lady of leisure” as my grandmother put it…yeah right…a nursing student isn’t “leisure” anything. Wish me luck.

Bye for now.

Halloween Happenings

Here’s how Halloween went down here:

Nathan went to Daycare dressed as an RN.

He’s wearing Thomas scrubs (made by me), a stethescope and a name badge (made in photoshop). Daddy says he’s the cutest male nurse ever!

Wanna Trick or Treat at our house?

A close up of the jack-o-lantern (I totally stole this idea from someone else):

We had several Trick or Treaters at our house. There was several princesses, two dinosaurs, at least two Spidermen (WAY down from last year), only a few “scary” costumes though. I gave out M&Ms, Snickers, Milky Ways and Twix. Some kiddos took more than one piece of candy! And their moms were standing right there….tsk tsk.

Daycare

Nate’s first day of daycare was today. He was asleep when I went to pick him up. The teacher said he’d cried most of the day. *insert quivering bottom lip here* The guilt is just overwhelming for me. *serious frowny face goes here* He cried the entire ride home. *add an inadequate parent smiley character here* To make up for it I let him nap in my lap when we got home. (can we say pushover???) He’s just so little!!! On a good note: he got entirely breastmilk today! I pumped enough for him to actually have one extra bag left over! Neat!

So It was my 1st day back to school today. Lecture is mega boring!!!! but you guessed that. I got set up to pump on my breaks from class. I’m pumping in a small closet, lined with filing cabinets, in the back of the nursing office. It’s near the copy room, so every time I hear the Xerox machine, I cringe that someone is going to bust through the door and see me crouched in a rolling chair with a machine attached to my boob while reading Cook’s Illustrated. How embarrassing!!!! (for both parties!)

And just cuz I like a good blog post to contain pictures, here’s the pump I’ve been using

It’s the Medela Swing Single Electric Pump. I give it 5/5 stars!

Blogging about the Boy

It’s finally settled down enough around here for me to start blogging about the new addition.

First things first – a pic of the little monster:

^Nate in the coolest shirt ever! haha…it’s a gift from Uncle Chris and Aunt Marisel.

Nights are going great. Nathan gets a bath, food, and song right before bed, which is usually around 7:30 – 8. The past few nights he’s been sleeping til about 1. He goes right back to sleep after a feeding, then wakes again around 3-4. Eats and wakes up for the morning around 7. What a good baby…he does still have his moments though.