Little Sauce {1 year life via instagram}

I can't believe that her 1st Birthday is just a few weeks away! This past year has just flown by. I don't even understand how time went by so fast. I remember back in the day when we were kids and time seemed so... Still. Having to wait a whole year felt like an eternity. An hour felt like a day, and a day felt like a week and so on. Now a days, I think it is a Tuesday and oh wait it's a Wednesday. Like when did time start skipping? I feel like I am all of a sudden an adult with a husband and little kids. It feel like yesterday I was lounging on the couch reading thick novels and waiting for the other kids to get out of elementary school so we could play.

I hope my childrens future is filled with lounging and play time and silly moments and feeling free. Just look at how happy she is already in life and she's barely been here a year....

  

Thoughts on life.

As of lately I have been thinking a lot about what life is all about and how being stressed and angry because I am stressed is unnecessary. We all have stressed, and things in life we would want to change but in the bigger picture, in the scope of life it just doesn't really matter. Little things that matter to me really shouldn't.

Example: I get so mad about cleaning up after everyone all the time. My husband doesn't put anything away once he has used them, and it drives me mad. Or my daughter is in the habit of spitting out every piece of food I give her... These are small things and getting mad every time they happen is useless and unnecessary. When I am old, I don't want to be remembered as the ____-retentive mother who couldn't let the little things go. If what we are remembered for in the end by how we made others feel, I want to be remembered as the kind and soft spoken mother. I want to be remembered as feared, but in a good way. I want to be remembered as connected and in the moment, not always trying to figure out what needs to be taken care of next. I want to be remembered as a good feeling, not as what I acted like this morning. 

I ought to try yoga and meditation again. I think that as this juncture in my life, little moments of relaxation are all I am going to get and in order to love life and not just deal with it, a little "Hoo's Fra Ba's" might be good for me and everyone in the house currently "dealing" with me. 

For I am no where near perfect, but I do want to be the best version of me. 

Baby Fashion + Shop Shout out

Recently I won an awesome giveaway over at {A Bit of Lovely} from {Favorite Moments}. I am so in love with these shoes and was so impressed with the wrapping and bag that came with them. Today I am giving a shout out to the owner of this amazing baby show company.

I chose {these} shoe and {these} shoes. They are so so cute and very versatile. I love how they go with most all of her outfits and keep her toes warm in our air conditioned home. They stay on and the yarn used screams high quality.

I am very picky about promoting shops and once I find companies I love. I stick to that "brand". I've been a burts bees fan for probably a century and I love love love anthropology nearly every season. 

Check out how cute my little Carli looks in them! 

Oh and just check out how cute they are in the bags they come in!