I might have said this before, but for most of my life I couldn’t have cared less about holidays. Easter, 4th of July, Thanksgiving and yes even Christmas didn’t get much acknowledgment from me. I would tell people “Happy insert holiday here”, but I didn’t decorate much or really go out of my way to celebrate. When people would ask about my apathy I would tell them that when I had kids I’d care, but for now I just don’t have it in me to give a crap. And you know what? I was right. Now I’m all about making the holidays great for Lil.
We paint eggs and do the whole hide and hunt thing for Easter. We make little turkeys out of toilet paper tubes and say what we’re grateful for on Thanksgiving. And then there’s Christmas. We hang lights and decorate the trees and we put little nick nacks around the house and I take tons and tons of pictures. Some of the pictures are just for fun, but some of them are for our Holiday Card. I love the beautiful colorful picture cards and we’ve done one each year of Lil’s life. Well not the first year when she was only 3 days old on Christmas, but every year since and it’s one of my favorite things. We put our tree up the day after Thanksgiving, it was in my opinion a much better way to spend black Friday, but to each their own. While doing the tree and then after it was complete I took pictures and some of them I just love and may have already found our card picture.
This year I’m loving all the cards from Minted. There are so many to choose from that I don’t know how I’m going to narrow it down, but it’s going to be a fun task.
Traditionally I’ve gone for cards with multiple pictures, I like being able to really show Lily off. This year however I think I’m just going to find a card with one picture and really showcase that one great shot. I guess we’ll see how it goes since in the end it’s really all about the card that speaks most to me.
Some of my current favorites are:
I love that it’s a ornament. It’s just precious.
With this one you can change the edge shape (awesome) and the color combination.
Oh, I just realized that you can change the edge shape on almost all of the cards. What a great feature.
What a cute card for newlyweds. I love it and wish Waldo and I had done something like this when we first got married.
I love this design for multiple pictures.
There’s just something about the light strand that does it for me.
If you get a card from me don’t be surprised if you see one of these designs in your mailbox. Oh and by the way it will probably arrive sometime in January because that’s just how I do things.
*Disclosure: This is a sponsored post for Minted.com; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
3.0. I love the diapers but next time I’ll go for snaps over velcro, the velcro on Lil’s died after a year and a half of use. I also have a few other kinds of cloth diapers including some 
diapers and some other diaper covers.
. I put off buying an Ergo because of the expense. Now that I have it I love it and feel it paid for itself within a month of having it. In all honesty I love my Ergo and can’t live without it, but I also have and love a 
and 
blankets. I loved the Miracle Blanket for when Lil was small. Once she got too long for the MB I started using a Aden and Anais blanket. Don’t tell anyone but I swaddled Lil till she was 17 months old, it worked really well for us and I saw no reason to hurry it to be over.
and a 
. I have never bought a nursing bra better then a Target bra and I wish I would have spent the money on something nicer back when Lil was tiny. My bras wear out really quickly and most of the time aren’t ever super comfortable. Do yourself a favor and buy a good bra. I loved my Boppy and used it all the time when Lil was small. Waldo used it all the time too. The Boppy was also great for propping Lily up. The Boppy was also great for using as a photo prop. I have a ton of pictures of her on the blanket covered Boppy. I have a nursing cover and use it on the occasion that I nurse in public. Lily hated it, but I think that was partly because I only used it occasionally so she never got used to it.
for a couple of reasons. Firstly, she was born in NW Montana in December and no matter how many blankets I put over her I always felt she would be cold. Secondly, she was not a fan of being in her car seat, but she loved being swaddled so I hoped that being swaddled in the car seat would help. It didn’t really but I felt she was warm so that’s something.
. It made all the difference in the world. Oh, she still hated her baths but I felt they were safer. For the record, I started taking a bath with Lil and things drastically improved.
