A Touch of Sassafras: September 2010        
 
           
         
     
     
       
     
     
       

Monday, September 20, 2010

10 pounds & a hair cut

baby girl #2 has made it to ten pounds! i am so proud of her sassy little self :) she's got chunky fat rolls now & just as yummy & squishy as a 3 month old baby should be! here she is wearing a hair bow her big sister made her:

not sure why this photo won't position properly, sooooo just turn your head to the right.

speaking of her big sister...she BEGGED me to cut her hair. short in the back, longer in the front. oh lawd, i think my heart stopped 17 times while i was cutting those long waves. but she's so stinkin cute. all the time. even with her chiclet teeth coming in. wanna see?


i did a pretty good job if i say so myself...which i just did. i'm a dork.

xoxo,
carrie

Saturday, September 18, 2010

a touch of my story

like i said in my last post, i have been so bad about blogging...mainly because i don't want to offend people with some of things i'm thinking (which is what i think a blog is kinda for, ya know a journal of sorts) BUUUUUUUUUUUT, now i just don't really care :) so here's me


my name is carrie...i would just call myself something cutesy & unidentifiable like "C" but everyone in my little family has the exact same initials so that would be pointless. so i'll just perform my first internet no-no & tell you my IRL name. like that? i used IRL...it stands for In Real Life. yeah, i'm totally blog savvy ;o)

so here's a touch of my story. i promise to make a long story not too terribly long...i hope. born in ohio, moved to georgia @ 7 years old...now, why did i just use the "@" when i could have typed another at? because i'm a total goofball, that's why. RABBIT TRAIL! i 'pologize. so i grew up here in good o' georgia. i was invited to church by a friend & attended from VBS through youth group. that's where i met my husband, well ya know the boy who would become my husband, at a youth group lock in right after we had both graduated from our respective high schools (his being in TX, by the way). aw shoot. am i going to have to back track to why he was here from TX? NAH. that'll be another post for another day. dang, 2 rabbit trails in one paragraph. we went on our first date 3 days later & we have been together ever since. no, i won't tell you how long that's been. because i don't have to, it's my blog & i'll cry if i want to. can you tell i'm feeling touchy about my age lately? ANYWAY. geez, i hope we get to the end of this post before you all fall asleep. we were married 3 years after that, bought a house 6 months later & somehow decided we were ready to try for babies. what we didn't know was what a difficult road that would be. 3 years after that, a miscarriage & a diagnosis of PCOS later...baby girl #1 made her appearance! chrislenn leigh weighed in at a whopping 4 pounds coming 5 weeks early & very nearly scared us to death. thankfully she was perfectly healthy & never even had to be on oxygen much less be in the NICU. so smart. so sweet. so loving. perfection. then, she wanted a baby sister. 5 years, more PCOS & another miscarriage (tubal pregnancy to be accurate), foster to adopt parent classes & a TON of paperwork later...baby girl # 2 arrived in a whirlwind in our home at 2 weeks old & a whopping 5 1/2 pounds!

can you tell we're really good at tiny miracles???

i think i'll leave you there...hanging... :)

xoxo,
carrie

Friday, September 17, 2010

i heart fridays

i've been so bad about blogging on a regular basis...besides the yay free fridays of course! please go visit these sweet ladies at baby be blessed, i promised YOU will be blessed!!!

maybe i'll not be so afraid to post blogs about how i'm really feeling. i just never know who reads this thing & i am terrified to offend people. i don't intend to be offensive so i guess i can just put it out there & if they get offended, then it's between them & God. because, honestly, sometimes what i'm feeling is pretty stinkin hilarious...at least, i crack my ownself up ;o)