Home!Posted: August 30, 2009 at 12:01 pm | byFiled under: Company News, About Me We are back! I am relaxed after an amazing trip to Southwest Harbor Maine. We are hitting the ground running - the next few weeks are going to be crazy! I am so glad that we had a fantastic trip because I feel energized and excited about the month ahead and not totally freaked out Lots to Say Baby will be launching TWO new products this month at the ABC Kids Expo Sept 13th. Stay tuned for details that may ‘leak out’ here in the next few weeks! The products look awesome and from the initial reaction by our mom’s panel I KNOW that you are going to go crazy for them too! We are putting the final touches on our website - SO excited! Then, - I am headed to Cambodia at the end of the month. My husband and I will be working at an orphanage called the David Center. With all the chaos going on it has been tough to get my head wrapped around this incredible experience but as it gets closer I can’t help but feel just how important this trip will be in our lives. So, that is it. We are home. Email will be finished up today. Then it’s feet first in show prep! Have a great week! Erin (0)commentsThe last day - MainePosted: August 30, 2009 at 11:53 am | byFiled under: Adventures in Mommahood, About Me
Today is our last full day on Mount Desert Island. We will be back I am sure of it. We wont be coming back to this house though and my heart is starting to feel the cracks of sadness that have been there all week I am over all joyful and thankful for this gift of a week. After 50+ years, the house will sell this summer. It will go to another family who will create new traditions. I believe they will love the house like we always have so I am ok with that part. I mourn not sitting in my space though. So many of the memories I have here are solitary. I lived up here alone or with grandma for that summer before going off to Switzerland. MY room has always been Alice’s room or Daddy’s room so it gets complicated when people start coming here when I am here cause I get a little possesive. The house will sell because it is time for my aunt and uncle to build their dream retirement home up the road. We will come to visit which is how I know we will be back. But it won’t be in my space. It will be –even more than it ever has been – in their house. The ache gets bigger. I want to steal dishes from the cupbard. Enough of the sadness for now. I will let more in when I am down on the Claremont dock – for now I am lettin it simmer under the surface. Because this day is just TOO DIVINE to waste on a moment of forlorn dramatics. The water is so sparkly..I have mentioned that already right? It’s amazing so totally worth a second mention. The day sits ahead of us with so much promise! B (my son) is still sleeping. S (my husband) is still lounging in bed. P (by brother) is snoring in the bedroom above me. It is the kind of quiet that I love the most..family near by but with space. Ok so what to do today? Hair appt at 9:30. What? YOU don’t get your hair done on vacation!? Its kind of a think with my Aunt A. She always has the best hair dresser and loves hers here on the island and made an appointment for me months ago! We may walk into town before that to get coffee and a scone..well I will be getting a blueberry danish because they are SO yummy –and- I can’t really stand a scone. SO DRY! S might ride his bike to Bar Harbor to return it to the rental shop. B and I will meet him and finish the trip with a hike to the top of..hmm..maybe one of the Bubbles. Or amybe we will just drive around the island and soak in the amazing views. Tonight we will probably have broiled haddock cause that sounds good to me right now. Who knows..I still have to pack so the boys will probably be able to talk me into dinner out too. Ok, off to read for a bit. I totally heart my Kindle. It takes a bit to get used to holding but I heart it nonetheless. (0)comments Maine here we come!Posted: August 19, 2009 at 4:15 pm | byFiled under: About Me Our family has been going to Southwest Harbor Maine for oh..for over 50 years. My Dad, Aunt and Uncle spent their summers at the little house overlooking the Atlantic. Then I grew up spending many of my summers there. On vacations with my family and then when I got a bit older I would go and spend the entire summer on the island with my Grandma. Southwest Harbor is in the fabric of our family -a place that for all our differences in personality and ideas..we all truly love. Hiking every day. Lobsters on the dock in our grubbies. Fish chowder and an evening of Scrabble. It was a place where I could sit and think on the rocks of the coastline. I figured out a lot about who I am on those rocks. It is heaven. Now it is time to go back. It has been 10 years since I have driven over the bridge (Thompson Island I think) to get to Mount Desert Island. Last time I visited, I was living in DC on my own in a tiny studio apartment and working at my first job since graduation. Sean and I had just started dating - he wasn’t with me because I wasn’t ready to introduce the new “guy” in my life to the family :). Today, life is much different. The ‘guy’ was a keeper -Sean and I have been married for 8 1/2 years. We live outside Seattle and have an awesome 2 1/2 year old son. They have never been there and I can’t wait to show them a place that means so much to me. This week I will share with them a piece of my heart and soul. It isn’t that we wanted to wait that long until we went back. Life just got crazy and though we always said ’next year’ another trip always came up. We wanted to explore the rest of the world as a couple -Greece, Mexico, Ireland all beckoned us. Maine would always be there. Except now, it will be there for another family soon. Friday I will drive over that bridge and head to WL for the last time. The house will be sold this year. I hope to a family who will make new traditions and memories and loves it as much as we do. Part of my heart breaks for this transition to a new time. Most of me though is just so excited to show Sean and Briggs a bit of me that they have never seen. So in a few days I will be elbow deep in lobster guts and exhausted from hiking Cadillac Mtn. It is going to be a great week. -Erin Chief Momma PS: It wouldn’t be a post without a funny picture of Briggs dressed up like a lobster
Moms need some pretty cool driving skillsPosted: August 15, 2009 at 10:54 am | byFiled under: Articles of Interest, Cool Product Reviews Elizabeth Davies wrote a great article about the driving skills mom all share! This hit my funny bone particularly because I could relate to each “move” she described! http://bit.ly/B3Mxi If you find yourself doing the Arched Back Pacifier Grab too be sure to check out my life saving finds - the PaciGrip and the SippiGrip at www.Booginhead.com. Briggs loved to throw sippi cups and always through a fit when he ‘lost’ the cup..and I didn’t love being in the head with a cup :) The SippiGrip and PaciGrip keeps their necessities right in hands reach - and they can still play the ‘throw’ gam! Available at Babies R Us, Amazon and boutiques around the country! (0)commentsMore Moments by Lots to Say Baby - No Comment!Posted: August 12, 2009 at 7:36 pm | byFiled under: Uncategorized Fav Paci Moment: Mom just asked Dad if he liked her new tofu lasagna. He should learn from me..”No Comment” Check out all of our sayings at www.lotstosaybaby.com and share with us YOUR favorite!
Moments by Lots to Say Baby PacifiersPosted: August 8, 2009 at 6:27 pm | byFiled under: Company News What moments with your baby do Lots to Say Baby Pacifiers bring you back to? Over the next few days we will be sharing ours. If you have one to add please comment or email me at Erin@lotstosaybaby.com! The readers with the the funniest and sweetest moments will win 3 LTSB Pacifiers of their choice! A “short” 3 hour flight. 30,000 miles in the air.You just ran out of Cheddar Fish: Volume Control
Bag the Bag -Just say NO to Plastic BagsPosted: August 7, 2009 at 10:32 am | byFiled under: Nice things happen People For Puget Sound Bag the Plastic! - Pledge to say “no thanks” to plastic bags, and win a whale-watching trip for 2 with San Juan Safaris in September!I loved this reminder to bring my own bags to the store. Even if you are not in the Puget Sound area it is still a great reminder..just without the promise of winning a trip It really isn’t that difficult and frankly..many of the ‘bring your own’ bags out now are WAY cuter than a brown plastic grocerybag! SO what am I waiting for?! NOTHING! I am going to start my BYOB movement in our house today! Are you BYOB too? Do you have a fav bag you love to use? Comment and let me know! -Chief Momma #fb (2)commentsGrippies in the NewsPosted: August 6, 2009 at 7:06 pm | byFiled under: Cool Product Reviews Our friends over at Grippies-the no slip solution to socks and tights- made the news today. Check out the story at http://tinyurl.com/nagwl7 #FB (0)commentsReview us on LilaGuide!Posted: August 2, 2009 at 7:15 pm | byFiled under: Company News Lots to Say Baby is now on LilaGuide. If you love your Lots to Say Baby Pacifier please click on the link and write a review! http://www.lilaguide.com/reviews/lots-to-say-baby-pacifiers-584833.aspx XOXO Chief Momma (0)comments |
