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Harrison’s First Easter

Happy Monday!!!

Yesterday was a dream–celebrating Harrison’s first Easter was everything I had imagined it would be!  I loved putting together his Easter basket and dressing him up for church yesterday morning.  I just can’t get over how much I love him and what he’s added to our family!

 Showing Harrison his Easter basket when he woke up Sunday morning

 And lounging by it after church haha!


 Our friends snapped some family pictures for us after church service and Harrison was not feeling it haha!
 Cutest baby in the entire world


 We opened his Easter basket together 😂


And then had to take a picture in it!

Motherhood Expectations vs Reality

I had so many thoughts about how motherhood would be before I became a mother, and I know I’m not the only woman who did that, too.  Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE being Harrison’s momma.  There’s nothing like looking at his sweet face and having him stare back at me or being able to calm Harrison when he’s upset.  But there are some things that are different than what I expected them to be…




Expectation: Harrison would be on a schedule.
Reality:  NOPE!  I read Moms on Call a long time ago with the plan of putting whatever baby we had on a schedule.  Except Harrison was born premature and put into the NICU for 11 days on the NICU’s schedule.  Then with his reflux problems and trying different formulas, there was no way I could try to get him on a schedule.  Now that’s he’s 7 weeks, I think we’re ready to try the MOC schedule–just about 6 weeks later than I had thought haha!  He’s finally going a little longer than 3 hours between feedings at night, so I think he’s ready to try!


Expectation: I would have plenty of time to get done what I need to (cleaning, reading, working out, etc) since babies sleep most of the time.
Reality:  I still am not sure how it’s been so tough for me to get anything accomplished???  I feel like I’m barely able to get the dishwasher loaded and unloaded every day, so there’s no way I even have time to think about working out.  And sometimes I try to nap once a day when he’s napping–especially if he didn’t sleep much the night before.


Expectation:  Feeding would be a breeze.
Reality:  I feel enslaved to bottle feeding haha!  Harrison is such a slow eater so it takes him 30-40 minutes to drink his bottle.  Then we have to keep him on our shoulder for about 10 minutes after because of his reflux.  Then we change his diaper.  Sometimes I feel like I’ve spent an hour doing all of that and then he eats again 2 hours later.  This is definitely way different than I thought it would be!


If you’re a mom, is there anything I left off of this list that applied to you?  I’d love to hear!

Favorites on a Tuesday!!!

Happy Tuesday!

It’s so funny how I thought during my maternity leave that I would have all the time to blog and read books and watch Netflix series, and now I’m laughing at myself.  If Harrison’s asleep then I’m either trying to sleep or I’m trying to keep up with laundry and washing 500 million bottles.  

I wouldn’t trade my current life situation for anything though!

So without rambling further, let me share my FAVORITES with you!

ONE
I love wearing lipstick.  I can be having a bad day and pick up a new tube of lipstick and forget all my troubles for a while.  It may sound shallow but it makes me happy!  I recently went to the Mac counter at Belk and asked for a pink lipstick that I could wear every day that would also look good with my skin tone.  The girl pulled a tube from the “frosty” section and I immediately flashed back to junior high make up.  But I trusted her and bought it–and it’s been a spring favorite!  It does NOT go on frosted and the color lasts!  The color is called Fabby.


TWO
 One of my friends (and coworker) had a baby boy three weeks before Harrison was born and we’ve been on maternity leave at the same time.  We’ve been able to meet for lunch a few times and it’s been so fun pretending to be a stay at home mom together haha!!!  Last week was her last week off before going back to school so we met for lunch and I had to snap this of these future besties.  They will be at the same preschool when Harrison starts in August!


THREE
 And another Harrison picture BECAUSE I AM SO OBSESSED.  Isn’t he the most perfect baby?!  I kiss him so much and I know if he could talk he would tell me it’s enough haha!


FOUR
Sunday was the conclusion of all of Harrison’s baby showers with a Sip and See at my house.  (I chose not to do showers before because I was scared of a failed adoption–and now I’m glad I waited.)  We had the best time and Harrison slept the entire time just like that haha!  I will do a post on the Sip and See (hopefully) tomorrow because it was so cute!  And you can find my dress here!  Harrison is wearing Auraluz.