Doing: Cleaning. Call it early nesting or just an a lack of keeping up on household chores but I feel like I spend most of my time purging and cleaning our house. We have a tiny house and with two kids I feel like we just keep accumulating more things without letting go of things. I recently went through boxes of kids clothes and shoes that I had been holding on to simple out of laziness. Finally I set up a consignment appointment and was able to get rid of a bunch of things and the remainder is being donated along with a massive amount of my old clothes that are either too worn or I just know I won’t be wearing in the near future when considering pregnancy and postpartum time.
I must be doing other things than cleaning though right? I have a really great and FREE Essential Oils for Pregnancy, Postpartum and Babies that starts next week (pssst there is still time to join us) and I am working on a Spring Detox starting the first week of April – I’ll share more when I create the group.
In other ‘doing’ news we went to Seattle for Neil’s birthday at the start of January and then we went to Vermont to visit family at the end of January. As for February the month just flew by and was mostly spent catching up on life after the holidays and all the snow that literally shut down Portland.
Thinking about: I am constantly thinking about all the things I want to get done before this baby arrives. I’m also thinking about what we need for when this baby arrives because after Alder was born we had decided on having no more children so we sold everything and now all we have is a carseat and a few swaddle blankets. I know babies don’t need a lot but for us we would like to get a nice reclining rocking chair, a bassinet, a new stock of cloth diapers and eventually we will need to figure out clothes for this baby. I (of course) want a new wrap and ring sling – what can I say it’s the babywearing educator in me and knowing that I will be wearing this baby most of the time. Comment below if you have suggestions for newborn products.
Watching: Moana. We took the kids to see Moana as their first theater movie when we were in Vermont and since then we have been watching it at home at least every twice per week and when we aren’t we are listening to the soundtrack. I have to say I would watch this movie and listen to the soundtrack even if we didn’t have littles – it is just so good. I also re-watched/finished Haven on Netflix and Neil and I have been watching Top Chef and This is Us on the weekends. What have you been watching? Any suggestions?
Looking forward to: I am looking forward to this weekend. We have no major plans except Edith’s ballet class and doing a big declutter dump, recycle and donation drop off. Otherwise we are just enjoying the weekend and I’m hoping I can get a bit more organizing done and some work. I am also looking forward to having a mama’s night out to see Matilda at Keller Auditorium. Apparently it is “The best musical since The Lion King” according to TIME Magazine. I have seen broadway production of The Lion King and it was pretty amazing so I am hoping that this lives up to TIME Magazines claim. For those of you who are in Portland the show is running 2/28-03/05 if you want to check it out for yourself.
Reading: I have been reading Essential Oils for Pregnancy, Birth & Babies by Stephanie Fritz aka The Essential Midwife. This book has been one of the resources for my upcoming class series and I have been reading it for my own pregnancy since this is my first really using essential oils. Otherwise my reading has been limited to kids books but I am taking suggestions if you have any.
Loving: Hu Chocolate that I buy off Thrive Market because it is the best deal and the best chocolate I have ever had.I could probably do an entire post on my favorite food items right now – would that be of interest to you? Not food related I have been loving my snoogle and eye mask because without them I don’t think I could sleep. Urban Oreganics Baby Balm that Neil got be for Christmas. This baby balm is wonderful for babies but also expecting mamas and really anyone who could use a really wonderful moisturizing balm. I use mine on my stomach post-shower to help with stretch marks and to soothe my itchy belly.
What are you currently doing, thinking about, watching, looking forward to, reading and/or loving?
As always this post is inspired by Sometimes Sweet.
I love EOs! I helped teach a course on this last year. There is so much to learn, and I found people are very grateful for safety information!
I love teaching! I feel like the more we know the more we are able to utilize these amazing little bottles and knowing how to do so safely is so important.
I’ve heard of HU Chocolate; what makes it different? It sounds really good, but it looked kind of pricy? What are your favorite essential oils?
It just tastes amazing – I think largely because it doesn’t contain soy, emulsifiers or other not so great things. It is a bit pricy – I get mine on Thrive Market which sells them for $5.50ish when I believe the regular price is closer to $8.It’s worth it as a nice treat though.
As for my favorite essential oils – I only will use doTERRA- after tons of research they are who I feel most comfortable using. My favorite oils are lavender, wild orange, grapefruit, doTERRA Balance, doTERRA Cheer…my list could go on and on. It really depends on what I am looking to use them for.
I wish I’d discovered essential oils before I had my son – I feel like they would’ve been very useful during pregnancy!
I love having oils during this pregnancy although during my first trimester my sense of smell was so strong that I hardly used them because they just were too much for my stomach but now in my second they have been great.
Darn, I gave away a stack of cloth diapers a few months ago. I could have passed them your way! As far as baby gear, I say if you have someplace for him/her to sleep, a swaddle, a noise machine and a comfortable carrier, you’re set. The rest is frosting! 🙂
That is very true about baby gear and of that we have a carrier. We don’t have a huge list of items that we need but we do have some things that will make life a bit easier that we also enjoyed having with our first two that we would like to get.