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100 posts!

Just realized that I've been blogging for exactly 100 posts, {7 months}

I started as a skeptic and now I'm in LOVE. Blogs/Blogging = my new diary, newspaper, magazine subscription, cookbook, additional sphere of friends & people I admire, and scrapbook. All of those things are found in the blogs I follow and in writing my own. I LOVE IT.

Some new blogs I suggest:

1. {Our Nest In The City} - my post-bump-and-sometimes-now-blog (button @ side)
   
2. Le Blab - a Pastor/Church-Planter's wife and full-time mom in Quebec City
3. Homemade by Jill - an adorable DIY site
4. From an Igloo - another adorable DIY blog based in Alaska
5. Cheeky Kitchen - a great recipe blog especially for cooking for kids
6. Things of Beauty - a DIY blog by a very creative woman
   

blog for later:

{our nest in the city}

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the post-bump blog is up, but will be rarely updated since my life revolves around this bump and I don't have enough spare time to host TWO blogs. But I'll keep this one even after MM is born for MM2, 3, 4 (God-willing).

To be honest, I always thought blogging was kind of ridiculous, but once I actually started READING them (yes my judgment was based on no experience whatsoever) and writing one for myself, I began to love it. I love that my community from back in Ontario can read here and know what's going on. I love that I have it recorded so I won't forget. I love that I can have a place to write my thoughts instead of them crowding up my packed head.

So, a blog for later has begun :) A blog about my relatively new life in the city, Brad and my journey as new parents, new home owners (hopefully soon!), new full-time job (on maternity leave), new LIFE period.
Hope you'll read it :)

shout outs

Since you're reading this, you obviously like blogs. I love them. Love. I have no desire to watch TV (other than Heroes, and the occasional Grey's episode) and lately I'm not so into movies (since our DVD player is in getting fixed we've grown apart...) but Blogs I love. They are my entertainment, education (mostly in things design and parenting related), sure highlights of the day.

I started reading Eddy's Blog, Life In Grace and she's great. Shes definitely different than my normal influences (she's from the Southern US for starters!!) but she's got great design ideas, has a huge family, and is a Christian who's been through a lot along the way (read: shes not your squeaky clean saint with no back story). Which is partly why I love her. She's not someone who you feel like you can't touch. Sure she's a doctor who chose to stay home and raise her 6 kids which I admire, but she's humble and not intimidating.

All this to say, Eddy posted some blogs she likes and I thus found some new favourites:

Ashley Ann

- check out the DIY bird wall art! Can't wait to do this in our nursery!

Pink Polka Dot

- everything on here is just so pretty. Love Love Love it all. Love her salvaging of old wooden furniture into beautiful useful things, love her photography, etc.

Pleated Poppy

- love the headboard she made, that she likes Country Living (my next magazine to subscribe to!), and what she did what that old door - brilliant!

Whatever

- her kitchen remodel....drool. love it. And another woman with lots on her plate (not to mention a bundle of kids!) who seems to be juggling fairly well :)

ENJOY!