Tackle It Tuesday

This is a strange tackle but most of mine usually are. As some of you may know, I own a baby boutique called The Pitter Patter Boutique.

Recently, I was lucky enough to come across some adorable Handmade Crocheted Headbands in 10 different color choices!

Well, Bean doesn't care for things being on her head which made picture taking for my website a royal pain. :-) So my tackle was capturing a decent photo of her that actually showed off the headbands. I bribed her with Cheerios and daddy in the background making silly faces.

Here's the results (shhh...don't tell anyone but I'm giving one two away. Ok, Ok, tell EVERYONE!)...

So after all of that, I decided on one and edited it. What do you think?

They are just the cutest! Oh I forgot the "Before" and "After" stamp. Oh well, you get it right?

GIVEAWAY TIME! Two lucky winners will get their choice of headband from The Pitter Patter Boutique. Check them out HERE and then come back and tell me what color combination you would like it you win (you can change your mind later).

Entries will end Tuesday and I will announce the winner's Wednesday morning.

Good Luck and Happy Tuesday!

Thank God it's Monday

I know people wouldn't usually say that but last week was terrible. One of the worst weeks I've had in a while.

We had personal issue's at home, business issue's, work issue's, stress, Stress and more STRESS!!!

I actually looked like the psycho mom yelling at her child yesterday as I was trying to get "D" off of a jumper so we could get going.

But thankfully, a new day/week has come and I hope this one turns out a million times better then last week.

Reminder Ladies and Gents! Tomorrow is April Fool's

Have any great jokes planned? Please share!

I'm going to stick with an oldie but a goody.

I'm gonna tie a rubberband around the sprayer on the kitchen sink and soak my husband and hopefully not my son.

I was thinking about playing a joke on him about his truck and me backing it into a pole but after yesterday, I don't think that's such a good idea.

His 4th baby (next to me and the 2 children) is his truck. It's lowered and has the rims and tons of work and money put into it. Well, yesterday he was helping me unload at a festival and he jumped the curb to get closer to my spot.

Rewind for a minute...about an hour prior to this I had jumped the curb, unloaded some boxes and as I was pulling off the grass to get back on the street, I got stuck. I got out and one of the tires was in the air just spinning (stupid truck). I called the hubby to ask him what to do and as the phone was ringing a nice gentleman came up to help. I said "My husbands gonna kill me!" and then, I hear silence on the phone and a "What did you do?" LOL! I told him to hold on. The nice guy said all he had to do was push it back onto the grass. Great! So he did and all was well, I got off the grass with no problem after that. The hubby was nervous but was fine once I said, "No babe, your undercarriage wasn't touching the ground. It's a hill so I just went at it at the wrong angle."

So needless to say, when it was time to pull the truck out onto the street again, he was gonna do it. So what does he do? He pulls straight off. IDIOT! Even I know that's a bad idea. LOL! He gets out and say's "That was stupid" "Really?" I said. His front 2 tires were on the street and the undercarriage was on the grass, stuck! It took 6 men, a Hummer and a chain to finally get that stupid truck off.

Love you Babe! It's a great story, I had to share. And hopefully you're reading this after April 1st.

I'll have to keep him away from the computer ;-)

So anyway, that is why I have decided to leave the truck jokes for next year.

Wordless Wednesday

Tackle It Tuesday

I decided to Tackle my hair today (actually Monday but close enough). Ok, ok, not me per say...but someone! BEWARE: This post includes venting at the end so leave after the photo's (but leave a comment :-)) if you're not up to seeing my best sailor imitation.

Before

After

I look MUCH better in the before (not to mention, thinner)!!! I hadn't been to the salon in 6+ months in that photo. I was really looking forward to going, even though I was going to be toting along my 6 year old son and 9 month old daughter. I had my emergency kit all ready to go, juice and Cheerios for Bean and a snack for "D".

When they call my name to go back, once I round the corner to enter "salon" territory the lady stops me and says, "You know, you're really not suppose to have kids here unless they're getting a hair cut too." My thought, "BITCH!" Apparently, she got the message from just the look on my face and then continues to say "it's for the privacy of our other clients. So do you wanna cut her hair (referring to my 9 month old daughter who has beautiful curly hair that is just starting to grow in)?" "No, I said. I don't! But you guys can go ahead and shave my son's head if you feel it's necessary to follow the crap ass salon rules!"

Now let me say, if I wasn't so freakin' desperate for a trim and so... looking forward to having nice flowing hair for maybe 2 days, I would have walked right out of there. So I said, "let's go!" The next 30 minutes included me trying to calm Bean from 5 feet away and telling "D" to just give her more Cheerios, just give her more Cheerios.

When we were nearing the completition of my "so not worth it" trim, the hair cutter lady who I now refer to as "skank" said, "Ya know, you really don't have to get his hair done if you don't want to." So I said, "Ok, so you think it would be better if I just left rather then hung around longer for you to cut his hair?" "Yes, she said." SKANK!

I paid my $35 and got the hell out of there as fast as I could. I felt like I had rabies or something. Geez people!

Now let's just put the icing on the poor customer service/stupidity cake real quick.

When I called last week, the receptionist offered me a 2:45 pm appt. on Monday. My exact words to her were, "That won't work because I need to pick up my SON from school at 3pm." Her response, "Oh, well we can't finish your hair in 15 minutes." No shit sherlock! What I am saying is, can I please get an appt. for after 3pm? She scheduled me for 3:15pm, now why didn't she pass on the "No Children" policy then? She knew that I had never had my hair done there before since she had to add some additional info to the system.

Lucky for you guys and for this company, they're not a franchise.

Thanks for listening, and nothing against stylist, salons, receptionist or natives of this fantabulous state!

Wordless Wednesday

Please ignore the terrible fashion statement we are making with J. Bean's outfit/pj's. We were just hanging around the house all day and mama didn't look much better.

She thought she would get a head start on big brothers "Writing with Phonics K5" book from last year. She has excellent cursive, if I do say so myself.

P.S. I'm having a giveaway below so if you're interested please sign up here.

Introducing Posh - Our Newest Collection

A few of my fav's are pictured below but you can see the complete collection of Posh here.

BabyLegs are at The Pitter Patter Boutique

That's right! We're very excited to add BabyLegs to our growing store of hip and stylish baby gear! Visit The Pitter Patter Boutique to pick up your pair today!