My daughters are baptized

Religion is not a major part of my life, however it did form my ideas about life and how I see religious figures. For me religion is something that can be talked about for ever and some one has a disagreement with any point. I don't throw my values in any one's face and usually I keep it pretty under the radar with religious mobojumbo because its not my place to say one religion is higher than the other.

I was baptized when I was seven or eight as a Lutheran. My husband was never baptized. We were married at Grace Cathedral in 2008 because I was baptized. That meant to me that if my children were to get married in the future, they too would have to be baptized. Even in today's world no matter if you are one religion or another, being baptized is still regarded in some form as currency and sociably accepted. Entrance in a school, marriage, some organizations and even in death, being baptized is a requirement.

So for me baptizing my kids was something important to them instead of having a bath tub baptism and preform it ourselves (we are universal life church persons) we chose to have the baptism at the place we were married. Grace Cathedral. 

They only do baptisms 4 times a year. We were lucky that the baptism was in June. Bella turns three in a less than two weeks and Grace will be 6 months old next Saturday. The next one would have been in November. Not the best time for the family (Thanksgiving and all.).

Here are some pictures that I took before the ceremony. I got more of Bella than of Grace, however I am planing on when Grace is older have her do almost the same pictures as these. I don't think I can recreate them however I can try and get them close.

 The above pictures I am going to save for Bella's wedding day it seems the perfect picture to give her when she's just married. Maybe have the one with her and her dad and a picture of them walking down the isle when she's about to get married. The only thing I wish is that darn back pack wasn't there.

 The lone picture of Grace as she looks at the alter. Also another picture of Bella however she looks like she's 5 or 6 in this picture. Well enough of my religious pictures and cuteness.

Tomorrow is the first installment of #MLBMobyWrap! Stay tuned!

Vlog 2

Being up at 2 am does have its benefits here is why:

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For my Blog Birthday - An MLB Moby Wrap! - UPDATED

San Francisco Giants Black (Mobywrap.com)

I have been thinking about what to give readers for my blog birthday and now I know what to give one lucky reader. An MLB Moby Wrap of their chosen team!

This fits perfectly with my Blog Anniversary because the Major League Baseball All Star Break happens to be the same week!

***Details - Moby Wrap WILL BE sponsoring this giveaway!! Though Major League Baseball will not be sponsoring this giveaway!***

I am doing this because I love two things - BASEBALL and WRAPS!

I will be posting a few stories about my past visits baby wearing at AT&T Park with my oldest Bella and how my experience has changed with my youngest Grace.

Each post will have something to do with Baseball and Wraps whether it be the Moby Wrap or other ones I have used in the past. I will be placing a key word in each post and it will be used in the giveaway as well.

During the week of the All Star Break, July 9-13, I will post my final "Wrap" up posts for my love of Baseball and baby wearing. On my Blog "birthday" Friday, July 13, 2012; I will be posting a Rafflecoptter giveaway for that weekend for one of the awesome MLB wrap of your choice!

Thank you to the fine people at Moby Wrap for giving one away for this Blog-a-bration! And I have worn both of the SF Giants Wraps and just love them!

FAQs -

1.  What if I don't live in the USA? Its fine! Just make sure you are in an area where Moby can ship to!
2. What if I don't like baseball? WHAT?? This is also fine, if you love the Moby Wrap show your city pride, every one will think you love baseball!
3. What if I win, however I have a friend that I won it for? Fine by me, when you get the winning email just let me know a name and address to ship the wrap to!
4. What if I won and they don't have my favorite team? That is an issue! Right now Moby Wrap has 8 teams on the website. I hope that by the time the All Star Break Week comes around they will have more to chose from. If not, you can always go with the MLB team that is closest to your city. 
5. Are you, Amanda going to get another MLB Wrap or another item for blogging about this giveaway and Moby Wrap? I am not nor will not receive any prize other than the joy of sending one lucky person their own MLB Moby Wrap. Its my present to you! 

Why I Pink Puffy Heart #Twitter

Wee babe G

This is not an advertisement for twitter; however if you know me, I tweet more to my online friends then I talk to my real life friends. Why? Because I don't have 10 real life friends. Before you feel sorry, its not that I don't want real life friends, I actually do, however the few I do have are long term friends.

With my depression (and my luck) all the people whom I seem to have a lot in common in the flesh, run away from me when I have a low period or when I change my moods really fast. Because they don't know what or how to deal with me. I feel trapped some how that its a cycle. Girl meets friend, girl gets depression/mania, Girl loses friend.

Impressed!

That I think is why Twitter for me is great. If I need to vent I can and people will want to gather and support me, not run away from me. If they "UNFOLLOW" me because of it, its not like a slap in the face to me as a co-worker subbing and telling other co-workers my issues because I let down my guard. I only share what I need to share nothing more.

I was surprised when Twitter stated I was similar to the women you see on the right. They are women who I'd like to be. They are part of who I "FOLLOW" and chatted with a few times heck I am even starting a business with @mama2_3penguins! For the people who say its a dumb idea to go into business with some one whom I have never met in reality, I wouldn't go as far as saying its a dumb idea, however I would say its a high risk that it could back fire on me!

If I had the money I would get a convention center in the middle of the country and invite all 600+ people to come and meet me and the rest of the folks that are on twitter. I know Blog conventions do that however this would just be for twitter people who I call my friends.

Safety First with SafetyBook - Review and Giveaway!

Being a second time mom, you would think I would have the folder with all the manuals and have all of the product cards filled out and sent to the manufacture for the recall notices all completed? Confession, I have with a few products but not all! I know I am a bad mom for not doing this. However, as easy as surfing the Net; Safety Books makes it even easier to have the information at your finger tips.

I plunged in and registered for Safety Book I registered two items at first to check out the site. If you look below here is just an example of what I found out:

There was a re-call notice last year for my car and I didn't get anything from the car company!

This notice is very detailed and a lot of information about the recall

This prompted me to call the dealership and see if my car was effected since I have to drive my kids around town every day and guess what? I took my car into the dealership and they fixed the problem. Now I am a SafetyBook fan for life!

This Memorial Day weekend please stay safe and along with this giveaway of 4 (Four) free lifetime memberships; Safety Book has also generously giving to you a 50% off code to use by May 31st SAFEHOME50 and if you want to try it with out opening your wallet you can register 3 items for free!



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**I am writing this as sponsored post from the company. I was given one of the $18 lifetime membership to review the product, however my review along with my words are my own and I would sate just the facts**

Thinking about my world

In recent days I have been taking a hard look at who and what I do and am. Am I strong enough for being a power player? Both at work and at home?

Fighting self doubt

I have been unemployed now for two months and its getting easier to live without waking up at 4 in the morning to go to a job that made me wonder if I would have a job the next day. Yup, along story short that happened with me.

Its been hard on me because it makes every penny count twice as much as when we had a second income. I am working on my home spun idea and its getting closer to reality. I got a loan approval for my education. Though I had to ask my dad to be a co-signer. Its hard when you are almost 33 years old and still have to rely on your parents to get a loan. So I better get an A+ for the courses right?

I think myself doubt is coming in when I see my husband have to make a decision whether to pay his car loan or the house bills for the month. Both are equality important, however with me not working its going to get tougher on him. He can't afford to not have his car taken away, his job is an hour away, he needs gas, and food for lunch.

To add on top of that I am highly thinking about pulling B out of daycare. Yes, I am still keeping her in daycare. I haven't decided to pull her out because I think she likes it and I am hoping a to have a job in the next few weeks and I don't want to pull her out just to put her back in and G at the same time. I want to home school them so its better to get her out now right?

Why the self doubt? Because of the lack of a second income, is my will power strong enough for two kids 24 hours a day 7 days a week? Can I home school and hold down a job and bring in a second income all at the same time? Am I insane for wanting it all?