Now & Then.

Now, October 2015

A lot can change in a year! Pounds lighter, a new mindset, new goals, and a new blog to share #mymamaheart with you.

Then, October 2014

Now

Then

 I plan to set my intention for the rest of November to enjoy my days and moments with Forrest & Hunter that we have together :)

Dear Hunter | 17 months

Dear Hunter,

Out of your  mouth since the last letter has been SO MANY NEW WORDS.  Cracker, cookie, book, milk, and my moms swears you said poop this weekend.  Ha.   We had a good start to the Fall September 2015.  Your blonde hair and blue eyes win you so many compliments and I just can't believe you are mine.  I love capturing your personality through my camera and probably have more pictures than I will ever know what to do with.  (and never end sentences with propositions, I should know better!)  Daddy wants to hang a huge longhorn something or other in our house, and I want to fill it with huge canvases of the photos I've taken or had taken of us, our family.

We have a "day care field trip" coming up soon.  I got your Halloween costume at the consignment store and I love it..   You do too.  This year we will trick or treat, or at least go walk around in your costume.

Your eating has gotten a little pickier but you still like vegetables and applesauce pouches the best.  Every day, you are becoming more and more a little toddler.  And everything fun that goes with it!

Later this month, we have fall pictures scheduled.  Daddy just grumps around a little but will be happy in the years to come that we captured ourselves all together on a yearly basis.

Work for mommy and daddy has been a little busier, but we have lots of patients.  You don't seem to mind and love mornings with daddy playing hide and go seek and cuddling with mama before bedtime.  We love you <3

My Favorite Blogs

Hello, mymamaheart readers.....I wanted to share with everyone my favorite bloggers.  I read most (if not all) of them a few times a week in my "downtime".

It would probably be wise to delete my favorite app "Bloglovin" because it is my new favorite pastime since I had Hunter.  My friend told me about it and it helped me survive night awakenings in those first few months I was on maternity leave.  I get ideas, recipes, advice, etc and enjoy reading/learning from other mamas too!

1. the small things blog

2. Camp Patton

3. Peanut Butter Fingers

4. Itz Linz

5. The Lean Green Bean

Introducing... my mama heart

I have been writing monthly (or when I can!) about Hunter as he grew from a newborn into a toddler.  I figured now is the time to share with others my musings in motherhood, eating healthy, and striving to live a non-toxic life (in many ways - from eating, to cleaning, to living life without pessimism).

My plan is to post once a week give or take and to network either other like minded gentle and kind mamas.   These terms are often used to describe moms that go along the "baby wearing, breastfeeding, against cry it out,  cloth diapering etc etc etc".  I am some of these but not all!  I try my best to exude gentleness and natural ways - but don't fault me if you ever see Hunter and I eating Chik Fil A instead of my usual green banana-avocado-spinach-almond milk green smoothie!