Mac & Mia Review

If you read my 5 Friday Faves last week, you will remember seeing this picture with the promise that I would be talking all about it soon!  That day is today!  I was approached earlier this month to try out Mac & Mia, which is a clothing subscription box service for kids sizes newborn - 10 years old!

I, of course, was all in because everyone knows my love of new clothes for my kids.  Since Kenna is getting ready to start preschool, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to kickstart a new back-to-school wardrobe and I was not disappointed.

5 Friday Faves

Happy Friday!  Even though every single day in the summer is like a weekend to me, there is just something about Friday that will always be my favorite.  It has been foreverrrr since I've done a Friday Faves and I'm so excited about this one.  So many good things that you all need to check out below! 

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Water Beads (here) + Water Table (here) + Hair Bows (here)


I've been seeing multiple posts about these in the last couple of weeks and I thought it was finally time for the girls to try them out.  Amazon Prime to the rescue and I ordered them on Monday and they were on our doorstep yesterday afternoon (how did people survive before this service?). I promised Kenna and Teagen that we could get them out after their nap and they went down without any crying (insert praise hands here).  I decided to put them in their water table because I thought that would be the easiest way to keep them contained.  VERY IMPORTANT NOTE - make sure you put the beads in water prior to your children waking up from their nap.  I did not know that the beads took some time to fill up and after I read the instructions and it said to let it soak for 6ish hours, I was concerned.  We still decided to fill up the water table with them and they were playable within 15 minutes I would say.  Kenna has an attention span of a nat and she played with them for maybe 12 seconds but Teagen loved them and I had to end up dragging her inside because she didn't want to put them down.  I would say they were definitely work the $11 and the best part is that they are reusable.

What I'm Reading (April 2018 - June 2018)

Soooo while I've been absent from the blogging world, I haven't taken a break from reading.  Since I did my last review at the end of March, I've read 24 more books.  Check out what I've been reading below and stock up on some books for the summer!  Enjoy!

Outdoor Summer Fun

I'm not sure where you live, but it can get stinkin' hot here in Indiana during the summer.  I'll be honest, I love summer because I get to spend more than 2 months straight with my girls AND the lake is my favorite place in the entire world; however, I hate being sweaty and that definitely is a problem when temps are 90+.  My girls love to play outside and when I know it is going to be super humid and warm that day, we try to get out early and run around.  Most days though they beg to go outside and play after their nap, so I've been trying to find ways to stay cool, while enjoying time outdoors.  I'm sharing some of our can't live withouts this summer!

Moving Forward

Hi, Friends!  In case you haven't noticed, it has been a little quiet on the blog for the past few months.  I have tried to get back into blogging, but I honestly didn't feel right without explaining where I've been/what has been happening.  I've probably written this post in my head 100+ times in the last month and I don't think I still have the right words so forgive me if it is a hot mess.

Tommy and I found out at the end of April that we were expecting another baby!  We were so excited but also cautious because of our previous miscarriage before having Teagen.  We told our families on Mother's Day after I had my HCG levels taken and they were looking great.  I was always a little nervous to get too excited, but every week that went by, I started to feel a little more confident that this pregnancy would be alright.  We even shared the news with Kenna, who was beyond ecstatic, and promptly requested a baby brother.  She even named her new baby sibling "Pudding Head."  It was so fun to watch her ask about the baby and talk about the baby and I loved every single second of it.  I had no issues during the first 10 weeks, except for extreme tiredness, which explains my lack of blogging.  I was in bed by 8 most nights, and typing up a blog post was about the last thing I wanted to do.  I was hopeful that we would be cuddling a precious baby after Christmas but I was still very uneasy until we had that first ultrasound.