Olive The Things: 5 Little Confessions

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Five Little Confessions: Mom Edition

I have been awful about reminding you guys, but it's the first Wednesday of the month which means: Five Little Confessions!! This month Jacq and I are hosting, and I hope you guys link up too!!

My kids just LOVE their vegetables. They hate watching TV and both learned sign language at 8 months. NOT.

Being a mom is hard and it's even harder when we think everyone else is perfect. So I wanted to do my five little confessions about my parenting.

1. I think ignoring my children occasionally helps foster their independence and creativity. When I'm around they don't play as well, they climb on me and they whine. When I'm ignoring them (maybe doing laundry, maybe playing a game on the iPad) they interact well, they make up their own songs and they play independently!

Playing together, making a mess, while I ignore them to make dinner. Don't worry, I kept them away from the cleaners.

2. Today I bought Olivia bubble gum even though I knew she would swallow it.

3. We have watched Frozen every day for a week.

4. I have a favorite child. It's just not the same one every day ;)

5. I know I need to put lotion on my babies but I worry that they will be cold if I do it before bed and I never remember to do it in the morning. So dry skin all around (because when do I have time for that? I get less than five minutes for a shower!)

I know there are worse things I do, but I can't remember right now and I haven't been writing them down all month like I should have!! So I'm going to commit to next months theme right now so I can start jotting down ideas when I have them. Next month I'm going to confess to you about my make up and beauty routine. Or lack there of. . .

I hope you wrote your confessions to link up!!!

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

5 Little Confessions, March

So a few blogger friends and I are starting a new monthly link up called "Five Little Confessions" where you tell five things about yourself that others might not know, that you might not want others to know. Just for fun. No murder confessions please.

This is our first month, and since I've not been great with blogging lately I haven't been announcing it like I should. . . Oops! So now you know, chop chop! Just kidding. But for future reference, we'll be hosting the link up on the first Wednesday of the month.

I'm not technically hosting this month, Carrie and Jacq are hosting, but Aubrey (hi Aubrey! Sorry I never emailed you back!) had the great idea for me to use this month to tell you all about my etsy shop (the re-opening, since the opening didn't do so great thanks to many mistakes on my part!)

I don't know if they're confessions, per say, so like the Mormon woman blogging that Frozen is gay propaganda, this post is a bit of a stretch. Let's call them "Five Little Teasers"

1. My etsy shop is the reason (one of them any way) that I haven't been blogging as much. Drafting patterns for leggings, jammies and sweatshirts is a lot of work!

2. Aubrey inspired one of my shop items when she picked our "What Would You Do" theme for March, 1 yard of fabric. She bought my fabric and I bought hers. One word: Aztec.

3. I will be giving away one of my shop items on next weeks "What Would You Do" post on Wednesday! So if you have a toddler girl, or know a toddler girl, you're going to want to check it out!!

4. I am in love with my baby girl leggings. Two words: Metallic gold.

5. I draft my patterns with brown paper and sharpie. I recently grabbed a red sharpie and kept thinking I was bleeding every five seconds before remembering it was just marker on my hand. (Okay that one is kind of a blonde moment confession)

And just FYI, here are the awesome women I'm teaming up with for this link up.

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