Friday Favorites

It's Friday!! TGIF!!!!

I'm linking up with Erika at A Little Bit of Everything and Andrea over at Momfessionals to share our favorite things from the week!

ONE

 

Hadley' s last nap in her swaddle :)

 

We are finally a completely swaddle free household!!! Hadley has been sleeping unswaddled at night for quite awhile now, but naps....those were a different story. I tried to ease her out of her swaddle slowly by taking one arm out at a time, and this worked  really well, but every time I took both arms out she would roll around, play with her binky, and not sleep. However, we had noticed that over the last couple of weeks she was breaking her arm out of her swaddle anyway, so on Tuesday...I bit the bullet and put her down in her crib with nothing but her binky and a prayer for sleep! Thankfully, she acted like she had been napping unswaddled all along, which made me feel like the silliest mom of all time for dragging the unswaddling process out for so long. But...you live and learn, and we are proudly swaddle free! Boom!

TWO 

I found Sugarplum Lane Boutique through a friend on Instagram, and I'm not quite sure how I haven't discovered this store until now. It's full of pink, glitter, bows, and all things girly!!! Pretty much all things Hadley Kate needs wants...really badly :)! I'm eyeballing the plaid bloomers for our family Christmas card photos!  

THREE

 

 It's the doldrums out here on Kwaj which means it is hot, hot, hot with no wind and the flies are everywhere! Sounds great, right?! Who wants to fly halfway around the world to come visit??!! The trade off for the not so great weather is the sunsets. Because there is no wind the water is so calm, and it really seems like the sun tries to make up for how hot it's making things with beautiful sunsets.

Thanks Sarah for letting me steal more photos :)

 FOUR

I've been reading Out of the Spin Cycle by Jen Hatmaker as a little morning devotional in the mornings, and as a way of starting my day in the right frame of mind. This is my first Jen Hatmaker book, and I really love her. Each chapter is a short story that is both funny and thought provoking, and each story ends with something for you to think about or work on. There is a quote in there that has stuck with me and I re-read it often when I'm having a challenging day with Hadley:

"You will never have this day with your children again.  Tomorrow, they'll be a little older than they were today.  This day is a gift.  Breathe and notice.  Smell and touch them; study their little faces and little feet and pay attention.  Relish the charms of the present.

Enjoy today, mama.  It will be over before you know it." 

-Jen Hatmaker from Out of the Spin Cycle

 

FIVE

 

 

Johnathon and my three year wedding anniversary is coming up next month, and while I know three years isn't exactly a huge milestone, I feel like we have done so much together in the last three years and have had such a great time so far. We got married, got a dog, and moved to a tropical island halfway around the world all in the first eleven months we were married. We found out I was pregnant at two and a half years married. And now we are coming up on three years, we have a 6 month old that has official made us a family of three (+ Sadie) and I keep thinking of all the fun we have still in store. A move back to the states in the not so distant future, God willing more children, new jobs, and all sorts of other adventures I can't even imagine. I'm so fortunate that God picked such a patient, strong, loving partner for me to experience life with!

 

 

 

And that's what's been on my mind this week! Happy Friday friends!