Baby J and Little A was built from love, I wanted to be able to share motherhood with someone while being a SAHM (Stay at home mom) It’s really provided an out for me & it has become a form of happiness,relaxation. I am so happy I chose this one thing for me! Join my family and I as we make our way through the many ups and downs of life.
Are you running out of Elf on the Shelf ideas already?
It’s basically bound to happen
There are 25 days to fill if you start on December 1st, and even more if you start shortly after Thanksgiving.
That’s why I am here! To scour Pinterest for the BEST Elf on the Shelf Ideas.
In today’s post I give you my favorites, of the two sites I am sharing with you guys today. They have Easy and Creative Elf on the Shelf ideas for my fellow parents out there. Please Follow their blogs as they are all credits to them. Happy Holidays!
It’s the holidays and I am just over trying to complete it!! If there were any days that you guys REALLY wanted to hear, I will absolutely answer!
As parents I feel like we’re always searching for other ways to get our kids to listen. I don’t know what is so different about when I was little to now,-but kids seem to have a harder time just doing what they are supposed to do.
Which I think is why Elf on the shelf was created. It gives children an extra incentive to do better at home.
I have never done it for Little A, Baby J is still young of course, but I am watching my niece do it this year and it looks SO fun. I love coming up with different ideas on where to put the elf.
Until I feel like your four days in… and then you’ve run out of ideas and still many days to go! Since I am taking a hiatus on the 31 Day Blog Challenge, I’ve decided to post a few different sites each day with Elf on the Shelf Ideas!
A cotton ball igloo hut (seriously so cute)
a cotton ball bathtub in the crock pot, complete with a rubber ducky and a towel (Elf hair care is important too)https://www.smartschoolhouse.com/diy-crafts/the-best-elf-on-the-shelf-ideas-ever
next to the creamer bottle in the fridge-wrapped in a wash cloth blanket. (brrr , thanks for the ‘morning jo’ help, Elf.)
Holidays are the best! Such a bright time, so easy to find affordable and free events around town. With lighting ceremonies and holiday concerts, so cheery.
Rock climbing up the wall with Gift Bows, SO cute and simple.
A puzzle, that way you can put it together later. I love a reason to do things as a family!http://yourbump.com/elf-on-the-shelf-ideas/1/
A melted snowman, simple but I am sure it will get the little ones talking!
Are you doing elf on the shelf with your kids? What are some of your ideas? Share in the comments!
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Between Christmas shopping, J’s 1st Birthday quickly approaching, and my lack of sleep. I am getting nowhere fast guys! I am so sorry I have been ‘MIA’ and I will try to get a few of these out as soon as I can. Day 20 of the
I haven’t posted the whole challenge in awhile. If you’d like to join it with me, please do!
Do you ever feel like you get the blues from never being satisfied? I think as a Mom I really try to strive to make everything “perfect”. I want the best memories, the best photos, I want things exactly how I’ve envisioned them.
Since I am not rich, I have to really come to terms with the fact that not everything will be that way and to not forget that there were many days I just wanted children of my own or a family of my own, it isn’t the worst if I don’t have everything else exactly how I want.
I really would love to have a home of our own that we are happy. For us to be able to do more things as a family, it’s been a really hard year or so with everything we’ve had going on and I would love to just enjoy life.
As for my blog Baby J and Little A I would love to see growth! I feel like I’ve grown a lot even just since the beginning of my blog. Here is my first post, I’ve grown since then
Where do you want to be in 10 years? So sorry I have been MIA guys! Let me know what you want to see in the comments.
Missed other days?
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This is a day late,
I am so sorry. I have had a really hard time with Baby J’s sleep. Thanksgiving week he didn’t have his schedule and as of today I am wondering if we aren’t just dropping a nap. SO I have had a rough couple weeks and I fell asleep before I could finish yesterday’s post so I quickly posted this morning because J wanted no part in his usual first nap.v
So, I was diagnosed about 7 months or so after J was born with, Anxiety. I have known for about 6 years (maybe more) that I have anxiety. When I finally addressed it, I started to really notice all the times it has hindered me in the past.
I think my troubles tend to stem from that. Up until pretty recently I thought everyone felt the way I did. It was a huge eye opener for me to find out the exact opposite. Although it is a common thing [anxiety] everyone doesn’t feel that way. Which brings us to Day 19 of the
Closer to the end rather then the beginning and I just can’t believe it. What will this blog be once it’s over ya’ll! Just kidding, but I have had a lot of fun so far so let’s keep it moving.
Anxiety is unavoidable for many, if I can recommend anything to those struggling with anxiety it would be that you can’t get rid of it. You can only manage it. Don’t let it take over your life. Look for triggers, I have just started this ‘self-work’ it’s such a hard lesson! We’re only human though.
I would LOVE to hear someone else’s take on this subject. Good or bad please share in the comments. I tend to ‘mold’ into older people when I’m around them for the sake of being uncomfortable. I have realized it more as I’ve become older especially, since Baby J and Little A.
I don’t mean to be someone else. I have caught myself many of times saying oh I loved that, thinking later did I? I have been working hard to know the difference.
Are you coming up with ways to overcome them with the new year closely ahead!
Let me know in the comments!!
Missed a day?
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I’m terrified to even write this post guys! I have read The Secret and I’m a firm believer in it. Simply put, ask & you shall receive. Which is great for good fortune things, not bad ones. Seriously where has this year gone. I can’t believe how quickly it went! Today’s challenge is not my favorite at all.
It’s day 18 of the 31 Day Blog Challenge
Even as a little one I have had this very fear. There I am fast asleep in bed and all of a sudden I heard chewing and paper rustling. It was so ear piercing(sound not volume) that I woke up from my sleep.
I screamed for my parents! My dad rushes in, heroically carries me out of my room. My parents even let me stay at my grandparents a couple blocks over. I don’t know if you’ve guessed what it is yet, it was a tiny creepy mouse!
I have a serious fear. Even writing this post will cause me to see one in my near future and have a small breakdown. Even Little A knows my real fear, I think she comforts me more, than the other way around. Hopefully Baby J doesn’t get this fear.
What is your biggest fear? I am so interested to hear!
Missed any days so far?
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Baby J has a few books he really likes. I’m not sponsored or anything but I will share the link to a spot you can buy the books I list.
When I asked Marc this, he thought more advanced books, I immediately thought childrens. Especially since I’ve started a bed time routine with J. We read a few (okay like five or six) books and calm down so that he knows it’s time to sleep.
So Big!Is one of J’s Favorites for sure, I’ve been reading it to him since he was six months old. I feel like it really helped with Mama and Dada, it’s also helping still, he smiles so big when we read it! Such a happy guy.
I really wish I had this set of books but baby J has two favorites in here! Bubbles Bubbles I think is his second fav, next to So Big! He is trying to say bubbles right now, he will boycott sleep some nights and you hear him saying mama ‘bubbles bubbles’ in J talk.
The other book in this set that J adores is Nighty Nite, he LOVES elmo. Little A passed down many elmo things to J and he always smiles at Elmo. This book says comforting words and is perfect for building a routine. I usually read it last.
Another one that I think he’s beginning to enjoy is Find the Teddy It has you look for teddy, hide and go seek style. It’s a good ‘mood booster’ when he has the bedtime blues. We all should know by now J hates bedtime.
Need to catch up on the past 31 Day Blog Challenges?
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to do anything what would it be? Getting paid to sleep would be pretty amazing. Or maybe a paycheck for eating, yeah I like that idea.
Maybe you would choose to deep sea fish, or travel around the world. We’re talking school or money aside.
Brings me right on to Day SIXTEEN of the
Growing up I always wanted to be a Mom, I watched my mom stay home and it was everything I thought I wanted.
but I can’t say I don’t daydream about excelling in a career. Like I did pre- baby J and little A. I wouldn’t change my current job for anything, but I do miss adult interaction!
So dream job eh?
would be really fun, Fixer Upper style. Where you would do all of it, including staging and interior decorating.
What would be your dream job? Let me know in the comments! Did you miss out on the other days of the 31 Day Blog Challenge
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My day is made up of the same events, just at different times. WOMP WOMP how boring that sounds… Being a SAHM over the last few years has drastically changed. I went from pre-school and pregnancy to Kindergarten and a BABY it’s crazy how quickly things progress.
Now I will have a toddler anytime, baby J will have to become Toddler J OH I don’t know guys. Anyway it’s that time of day again for the
I realized I’m missing Finding your Happiness Friday. If you guys didn’t see any of those or don’t know what that is here are a few to check out, FHFWeek 1 FHF Week 2
Getting back to the challenge it is day 15 folks and We’re almost halfway through…
J usually gets up anywhere from 6 A.M. to 9 A.M. , one day I found a lifesaving schedule where you could put in the wake up time and it would give you an idea of what time for naps and how long. It helped so much ya’ll I wish I could find it. If I do I will add it to the post. Helped so much with baby J getting night and day mixed up!
We get up and play for a little while and then have breakfast, usually fruit and yogurt, or scrambled eggs, he likes french toast (without syrup and vanilla flavoring), Toast with some peanut butter. I am still working on ideas. I am so up to suggestions guys!
He loves almost everything he’s tried. If I have A she usually wakes up later, has cereal or if I make breakfast whatever that is (pancakes, cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs)
Then we play throughout the day and literally eat all day, because Baby J thinks he has to. (baby gold fish, Puffs, round cereal). Then J takes a morning nap about two hours after he wakes up. I give out ideas for A to play if she’s here and we enjoy the shorter times we have together right now.
I have to really wake him up. This is a trick I learned from the site to wake him up ONE hour after the start of this nap. Then we play some more.
whatever random things we have, pizza, quesadillas, applesauce. I have been trying to incorporate healthy items. I was doing better before everything turned upside down. Then about 2.5 hours later he takes another nap. He does fight this some but when we stick to the schedule it gets easier. We read books Bubbles Bubbles is his fav and cuddle with a giraffe before bed. White noise and hopefully nap.
After nap more playing and figuring out dinner which I forget we need every night, dinner (really slacking currently here) then I try to get a little more energy out of the kids and wind down time;Brush teeth and off to sleep. J is not sleeping through the night, not even close most nights. So I get a little while to myself and then I go to bed for the night with J.
Hope that didn’t put you to sleep, I feel pretty tired.
What do you guys like about your day the most? Let me know in the comments? Did you miss other weeks in the 31 Day Blog Challenge?
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