Domestic Randomness: March 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Blast from the Past 29 - How to ask a guy to prom

This series consists of notes that I wrote on facebook in the past. Enjoy reading my thoughts during my college years. Please comment but please be nice! Also please feel free to check out my other Blast from the Past Posts.

From April 2007

How to ask a guy to prom

How to ask a guy to Prom

To ask a guy to Prom is not an easy thing.
It is much different than what you guys do.
It is not as easy as you might think.

Overcome the desire to be accepted, that’s the first thing,
because society still looks down on girls who do.
To ask a guy to Prom is not an easy thing.

Then pick a guy, he must be interesting enough to bring,
but for her dad, he’ll be innocent as the morning dew.
It is not as easy as you might think.

Find a time when his friends are not nearing
because you do not want to cause hullabaloo.
Asking a guy to Prom is not an easy thing.

Set up a talk with dad, for him, it’s like preparing for a hanging,
because Dad must know the guy before he bids them adieu.
It is not as easy as you might think.

Seeing all the trouble that asking would bring,
is it any wonder that we leave the asking to you?
To ask a guy to prom is not an easy thing.
It is not as easy as you might think.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Friday Fascinations 9 Features

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Friday Fascinations 9 Features

I realized that I haven't posted features from Friday Fascinations 9 or 10, if I try to do them both at once it will be too long. So I will post FF9 Features here, and FF10 features with Friday Fascinations 12. Enjoy all these great posts! In the meantime if you have anything to link up, please feel free to link it up at Friday Fascinations 11.

For those who are featured get yourself a button!

Favorite Food Related Post

One Creative Mommy linked up I {Heart} You Pancakes - Easy Valentines Day Pancake Tutorial. I know it's not Valentines time any more but this is a great tutorial on how to make shaped pancakes!

Favorite Blog Related Post

Designed Decor linked up How to Make Your Own Blog Planner and Free Blog Printables. Great resource for us bloggers!

Favorite Random Post

Bekah's Bits linked up A Pinteresting January. This is a cool collection of her adventures exploring pins. A fun read :)

Favorite Children Related Post

We Made That linked up an Indoor Snowball Toss Game. I am totally done with winter, but it seems to be hanging on, so if you are still stuck inside here is a good game for you. Or maybe you can tweak it to be for spring, flower toss anyone?

Toddlers Through Preschool linked up Black and White Week. She offers all sorts of ideas to incllude Black and White in your play centers.

Favorite Inspirational Post

31 Cups linked up Opening That Can of Worms. She shares how she ignored a prompting from God and feels guilty about it. She prays that God will give her another chance to do as he asked. I pray that you will get that opportunity too!

Well go on over and check them out!

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Blast from the Past 28 - limerick

limerick

There once was a girl named Mandie
Who loved a bear called pandy
They played all the days
Outside in the rays
And oh how they loved cotton candy

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Let's Talk - A fun little Mommy Quiz

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Let's Talk - A fun Little Mommy Quiz

I found this mommy quiz and thought it looked like too much fun so I thought that I would share it with you guys (along with my answers of course :) I would love to hear your answers to any or all of the questions!

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? We didn't have a specific plan, but we were very happy.

2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME? Yes

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? Excitement!

4. WAS ABORTION AN OPTION FOR YOU? Not even remotely

5. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 23

6. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I had a feeling that that month was different, then tried to calculate dates (I am horrible at keeping track) and became pretty sure, then went in for a pregnancy test and knew for sure

7. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? Mr Random

8. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? Yes

9. DUE DATE? December 4

10. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? Yes, but it wasn’t too horrible

11. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? Fruit, fruit, and more fruit (little man still loves fruit). Also had to stop stocking pickles because I was having trouble keeping myself to just 3 pickles, and when I wasn’t eating the pickles I was daydreaming about eating the pickles. Other than that it was just small random blips, something would be mentioned on tv and it would sound good, most of the time if we didn’t have it, or it would have been too much work to get I just lived without.

13. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? Boy

14. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX OF WHAT YOU WERE GETTING? I did originally wish for it, and I do still hope for a girl someday, but little man is the sweetest, most wonderful child I could ever imagine and I would not trade him for anything in the world.

15. HOW MANY POUNDS DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? Way too many, sorry that's all you get :)

16. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? Yup, three of them, one with Mr. Random’s side of the family, one at church, one with my side of the family.

17. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? I knew for all three

18. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? I had gestational hypertension (high blood pressure in pregnancy, I heard it so many times that I learned the dr words :), and they tested me twice for preeclampsia. The first time I didn’t have it. The second time we never found out because my water broke the night that they were doing the test. I also had horrible pain in my hips that I couldn’t sleep directly on my side or walk very far (which unfortunately did not go away completely after giving birth). I also was sick or had an infection almost constantly. Pregnancy is super fun (not :) but totally worth it.

19. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? An awesome local hospital

20. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? A little under 12 from when my water broke to when little man was born. Labor itself from when I was induced was closer to 9 or 10 hours I think.

21. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? Mr Random

22. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? Mr Random, my mom, a couple nurses, and the dr.

23. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? Natural

24. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? I had an epidural, it kinda started wearing off towards the end though

25. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 7 lbs 15 oz

26. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN? November 18

27. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Sorry, all you get to know is Little Man

28. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? 16 mo

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Blast from the Past 30 - A fishy princess

A fishy princess, probably not my best poem, any sugestions?

A Fishy Princess

A fish out water
She wanted to be
She couldn’t stand
To be under the sea
But once she got out
It wasn’t so great

She couldn’t speak
With the man of her dreams
‘Cause the witch stole her voice
So she finds other ways
To say what she means

To know that he loves her
Is all that she needed
For now and forever
If only he knew

But what if she could talk?
What would she say?
Would she blurt out “I love you”?
That might freak him out.

So she’d still have to find
another way
to make him love her
to make him stay.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Friday Fascinations 11 - Everything Linky Party - Party Time! Linky Party Features

Hi all! I was hoping to post these features earlier in the week, but I have been too busy keeping up with the giveaways, and totally forgot about this, also an unfortunate side affect of the busyness is that I forgot to post the Friday Fascinations party last week so there was a week with no linky party available. So sorry to anyone who came looking for the party. I hope that you were not disappointed when you found 15 giveaways instead :). There are still several giveaways running right now so take some time to look around and see if you want to enter! The last giveaway will end the 23rd, so unless you are visiting on the 24th there is at least one giveaway running right now! (I am not going to link to all of them right here because there are too many. Just go to the homepage and below this post you will find 15 giveaway posts). There were many other great posts linked up to Party Time! be sure to go and look around.

For those who are featured get yourself a button!

Party Time! Linky Party Features

Most Visited Posts

The Tao of Poop linked up Table Manners of Lesser Primates. I think the name was probably what caught attention :) She writes about rules she wishes she could give to restaurant employees for helping families who are eating out with toddlers.

What Happens at Grandma's linked up More Snakes! More Festival! She is doing a snake festival with her grandkids and this post talks about snake breadsticks (in the picture) and snake paintings.

Favorite Money Saving Post

Your Modern Family linked up How to Become a Stay at Home Mom on One Income. She has lots of great tips that work not only for those wanting to transition to one income but also for anyone who wants to save money.

Favorite Blog Related Post

Family Home and Life linked up Celebrating What I've Learned. In honor of her 2 year blogiversary she offers several tips for blogging that she has found useful in the past couple years.

Favorite Cleaning Post

Krysta Steen linked up Cleaning Tips to Make Your Life Easier. There are some great tips in there that I've never heard of!

Favorite Children's Post

Life With Moore Babies linked up Fake Snow (from Diapers). This looks super fun, and pretty easy, we have tons of diapers :) She even shows how to "melt" the fake snow, super fun!

Favorite Recipe Post

Prudent Pantry linked up Making Almond Milk is Easy. She shows us how to make almond milk, and it does look pretty easy! Almond milk is expensive, so if you know anyone who drinks almond milk regularly you may want to pass this on.

On to the Linky Party!

This week we are going to do an everything linky party. You can link up anything that you have been working on, thinking about, writing about, whatever. Literally any post of yours that you would like to share with my readers link it up!

Oh and if you have a linky party that you would like me to visit please link it up in the Link Up Your Party Here tab above. I love visiting parties and when I have time I go to that tab and visit all the parties that are open at that time.

The rules:

You may link up anything that you have been working on - crafts, recipes, random musings, etc. And you may link up as many posts as you like.
Please follow me in some way. There are several options in the right side bar.
Link up directly to the post, not your home page.
By linking up you are giving me permission to feature your post including but not limited to pictures and quotes from your post, and also to feature your post in our various social media outlets.
This is a family friendly, Christ following blog. I reserve the right to remove a link to any content that I find offensive or not compatible with this blog, with or without notice.
Please add a back link or my button to your blog or post somewhere.
Please check out some of the other links and leave some love in some way (comment, pin, follow, etc.)
The links are inserted in random order so if you don't see your link it may have entered somewhere in the middle. Please check to be sure that it is not already inserted before you link it up again.

Oh and I'd love it if you would take a button!

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Party Time! 15th Giveaway - 4 8x10 or 4 8x12 prints from Ana Pontes Photography

Our 15th giveaway is 4 8x10 or 4 8x12 prints from Ana Pontes Photography.

Ana is providing me 4 prints to review. My husband and I went through all of Ana's pictures and let me tell you it was tough to pick just 4. She has so many beautiful pictures it took us a long time to narrow it down.

Packaging
Ana packages her photos very well. It came in a package sturdied (is that a word?) by cardboard so that the pictures wouldn't bend. The package was also very cute (well the outside package was just brown paper but there was other packaging inside of it) She wrapped the pictures in purple tittue paper and then again in purple crinkly paper with a ribbon and a business card as a tag. That would make it very easy to gift it to someone. Here is a picture of the packaging:

Pictures
The pictures are beautiful. We picked out 4 that would go together so we could hang them together if we wanted. We have our house decorated in a beach house style so we picked 4 of her beach pictures and they match our house well! Here are some pictures of our pictures:

Mr. Random's Review
I asked Mr. Random how he would review the photographs and here is what he said: The pictures were crisp, clear and exactly what we ordered. The paper was good quality photo paper, not cheap. The shipping time was reasonable given that they were shipped from another country and had to go through customs. The packaging was good, a good presentation. They arrived safely here which is impressive given that they were coming from another country. I am looking forward to finding a place and putting them up!

Even Little Man likes them, it was tough to keep his hands off them long enough to take pictures :)

Conclusion
Beautiful pictures, great presentation! I would definitely recommend buying pictures from Ana!

Here is a little information that Ana provided:

Color is my main inspiration. My favorite themes are Vintage inspired, Nature and Floral, Beach and Coastal Art, Still Life and Abstract Photography.

I sell also large size prints, calendars, postcard and notecard sets and printable files.

I'd love it if you'd take a button!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Party Time! 14th Giveaway - 2 months of Advertising on Airplanes and Dragonflies

Our 14th giveaway is 2 months of Ad Space on Airplanes and Dragonflies in the form of a 125x125 button.

Airplanes and Dragonflies is an interesting blog devoted to giveaways and reviews. Every day she posts low entry giveaways ending that day. She also does several reviews and giveaways hosted on her blog. If you like to enter giveaways, and especially if you like to win (low entry giveaways are easier to win!) her blog is definitely the place to be.

This prize is only open to residents of the US and Canada. Also no ads featuring anything inappropriate for children will be approved to be posted. So only enter if you have something PG friendly to advertise.

I'd love it if you'd take a button!

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Party Time! 13th Giveaway - February Printed Illustration

Our thirteenth giveaway is a Printed Illustration from Valerydesignwrks. The print is of the picture above.

This giveaway is sponsored by Valerydesignwrks. Here is some info about Valerydesignwrks:

Valérydesignwrks' illustrative products for green homes. Since awareness starts with education, Valérydesignwrks is pleased to provide the following environmental information about its illustrative products.

Valérydesignwkrs uses recycled materials to make its illustrative products. When they are not available or not affordable for a project, we use recyclable materials.

At Valérydesignwrks, there is no waste. Since we produce on demand, we only produce what’s strictly necessary.

We have no stock to manage, because we don’t produce things that nobody ever asked for. This way, no energy nor electricity is spoiled. Valérydesignwrks’ products are only made when someone wants them to be made.

We design our products using the least amount of packaging material possible, while still protecting the product. With love and reverence for the earth, we commit to treading lightly upon it.

Browse through the items below to find the ones you want! And if you have a special request, don't hesitate to contact us at info[at]valerydesignwrks.ca

Do not forget to also visit www.valerydesignwrks.ca for more exciting illustrative projects!

I'd love it if you'd take a button!

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Party Time! 12th Giveaway - Super Sponsor Ad Space on Domestic Randomness

Our twelfth giveaway is One Month of Super Sponsor Ad Space on Domestic Randomness.

This is another one of the giveaways that I am sponsoring. I love promoting my wonderful sponsors and I would love to have you join the Domestic Randomness sponsorship family!

In honor of this wonderful party I would like to offer half off any ad spot on my blog. Simply visit my advertise page and use the code HalfOffAd when you are checking out.

I'd love it if you'd take a button!

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