Running thru life.... One of my favorite Smells

I was given a gift card by a patient a couple months ago and had been saving it to treat myself with a small something.  At first, I was having a hard time deciding what to use it for. 

Then after finding some lotion in my desk at work- the decision was made. 

Anything from Bath and Body Works in the Eucalyptus Spearmint!

This is my favorite scent in the world.

Just smelling it relaxes me. 

It is truely amazing... but i use it when I am stressed and just the smell of it calms me. 

Not to mention it is one of the few scents that my husband equally loves. 

So I headed to the mall with hubby in tow to go treat myself.

To my suprise I found out the Aromatherapy Candles were buy one get one free.

So I came home with a Eucalyptus Spearmint Candle for the bedroom,

and a Lavendar Candle for the bathroom. 

So every night when I get in bed to do my night time reading I light my candle and relax. 

=0)

Running thru life... Patience my young Grasshopper

This blog today is a reflectional blog for me. 

I hope someone will find soemthing in it that they can use in their life. 

When I was going thru Midwifery school I had an midwife that I worked very closley with that I loved.

She has made me who I am today as a midwife which has offically today been 4 years!!
It is amazing to think I have being doing this for 4 years!!

Last week while doing a delivery with a intern.... thoughts of her came to me. 

Interns are always overly ready- as I was when I was in training. 

To be honest this is why I love interns because I too was there once! 

So while pushing you could tell the intern was getting a little antzie... ready for the baby to come. 
I have been working with this intern for a couple weeks on L/D and we have come to understand and get eachother humor- which is the only way you make it through a day on L/D.

 So I whisper the same thing my midwife that I trained with whispered to me over 4+ years ago....

"Patience my young grasshopper."

This intern and I are have a good rapor and he totally gets my humor.  So he looked at me, nodded, and then went back to the patient.  Over the next couple of pushes the head delivered on it own, restituted, we delivered the shoulders followed by the body.   What I wanted the intern to see was the manuvers a baby makes when it born coming thru the birth canal so they can appreciate and understand the process. 
If you do not understand the process you can not know how to fix it when there is a problem!

Don't get me wrong there is always a time where more active management is neccessary but it makes me appreciate when it is not....

The same came be said for life....

So when things are not going the way you want them to or how fast you want them...

Just remember

"  Patience my young grasshopper.  "

Running thru life..... Urrrr

 After much consideration  we decided on a rug for the hall wall.  

I decided to go with RugsUSA.com because I found that we both liked.  

So I placed my order and it arrived earlier this week.  

Pictured below is the rug we ordered.  

It was described as brown and tan which is perfect!!!

This is not the same rug I opened up. 

Pictured below.  

Try brown and Olive....... 

Seriously!!!

My husband agreed that we both did not like the olive at ALL!!!

So I called RugsUSA.com and it went back yesterday....

This was truely a pain in my ass!  

To get free shipping back (i got free shipping to me) I had to send them pictures and put a complaint in that had to be overseen by a supervision and I had to wait 3 days to hear back from them.

But they agreed that the colors were not the same as in the picture online. 

So it back to the drawling board....

What do you think....

I think I am in love.........

My only concern is I do have to order it online again...

which is pain in my butt if it does not work out.

Also what do you think about this for the Clemson room...

Decisions.....

Running thru life.... Dealing with Decals- A rainy Day Project!

You may recall earlier I blogged about doing a decal in our bathroom.  

After a month to think about it my hubby and I decided against a quote.  

Primarily because ever quote we came up with, he found something about it to ruin putting it in a bathroom.

Men have very sick minds!

So we turned to other options and we kept coming back to Cherry Blossoms.

We thought this would be a good contrast to the red walls.  

So I started to do my internet search.  

We were looking for one that at least was 40-45 inches long so it would hit where we wanted on the wall.    After a couple days of searching I started just looking on Etsy.com because they had the most custom made ones for the money I wanted to spend.  

We finally decided on one and put our order in.

 So last week I came home to find our decal in our mail box.  

I unwrapped it and was immediately in overwhelmed mode.  

It was made of lots of little pieces that had to be placed together.

So I decided this project would be done in steps.

Today being that it was cold and pouring rain, I decided to get this project done!

Step 1: Lay Everything Out

I decided to lay all the pieces out on the table to get an idea of how this needed to be placed on the wall.

Step 2:  Tape on wall as you would like it.

This let us play with the height a little.

Step 3:  Place branches on.  

This was easy enough.

You peeled off the back.

Placed the decal where you wanted it.

Smoothed it to make sure there were no air bubbles ( I ended up using my hand because it was easier then using a ruler like they suggested in the instructions)

Then peeled off the front and the decal stuck.

 

Step 4:  Places flowers on.

 This is where is was good to have two people.  Joe peeled the backs and then I placed them and peeled the fronts off.

Step 5:  Place small specs on

This part took the longest because it was a lot of little dots.  

But I am happy with the results.

We had extra left over flowers and dots so we added where we thought it need it.

With the help of Joe it took us less than 30 minutes to do.  

I am very happy with the results.  

Running thru life..... My favorite Baby Shower Gift

Today I recieved notice of another babyshower!
So I thought this would be the perfect opportunity for a blog!!!

I am a midwife...
which means that I must love baby showers...
Right?  

My favorite part of a baby shower is picking out the gift 

and seeing the mother to be open it.

I heart shopping!!!!

Since I have been alive I have now been to over 8 baby showers and invited to a couple more that were out of state.  I now have a "Fav Gift" as my hubby calls it.

The Bouncer

After my friend and cousin became pregnant and I purchased one of these for each of them.

They loved it and stated it was one of the best gifts they recieved because they used it so much!

They used it a lot when they were on a different level than the crib was for their baby to sleep in, took it on trips because most of them collapse and are easy to pack, etc.  

I love buying gifts that are actually used and appreciated. 

So that being said it has become my staple baby shower gift.

There are many different kinds and I have found that for almost every shower I have gone to, the couple has registered for one.    
If they have not registered for it.... I come up with something that I think is important and meaningful to the couple.  I remember my wedding shower and when I use the items i recieved I think about all the love and thoughtfulness that went into them. 

 

Happy Baby Showering.  

Running thru life... More choices

With the fall coming we just had our carpets cleaned. 

 I decided this year to just have the downstairs carpets cleaned because to be honest they need it!
 The downstairs is Clemson's room so it does get a little dirty. 

We used the same company we used last time because they gave me a good deal for being a repeat customer. 

So as I was getting the rooms ready for this process. 

I started to think about our floor rugs.

We purchased the one for the entry way at Target at 2008 when we moved in the house and there is a lacking of one in the TV room. 

The Target rug has served it purpose (I think it was on sale for less than 50$) but it is starting to fall a part and I am not sure it would make it through a professional rug cleaning. 

I do love the rug though....

However, it is not a heavy duty rug which is really needed for the front entry way now that we have a dog. 

The target rug was purchased pre-Clemson. 

So after talking with my husband and debating whether it would be worth even paying the money to get the rug cleaned since it almost cost as much as the rug. 
I decided that we are going to have to start looking for new rugs. 

So I used a couple of sites a neigbor had used on her search for the perfect rug because I liked how sturdy her rug seems to be.  I knew I wanted to stick with a brown coloring because it does hide the dirt better and the furniture in the entry way is brown. 

So here are some thoughts

Firework Ivy Rug

Symphony Brow Rug

I am still on the hunt for a new rug for the TV room- I am thinking something fun with orange accents to match the pills.  Also we are considering getting a coffee table or something to put down there.

Running thru life... Planning my running season

Now that it is running season. I first motivate myself by signing up for a couple of runs. 

This year I will be turning the big 30 so I want to really push myself! 

So here is my Running Race Itinerary

November 24th- Turkey Trot 5k in Centreville, VA at Virginia Run

I know this is not a big distance but this is a tradition that my hubby and I do together!

December 11th- Jingle All the Way 8k in DC

I have wanted to do this run now for three years and it never seems to workout with out schedule- but this year I am making it happen.

January and February are still up in the air because the race schedules have not truely been released for local races..... This may just be hard core training time...

March 17th  

I am undecided but.....either

Yuengling Shamrock Marathon or  (Virginia Beach)

Rock and Roll Marathon  (Washington DC)

April 1st    Cherry Blossom 10 Miler (hopefully, it is a lottery system)

June 17th  Triathlon with my Hubby in DC

I find that it helps me keep up my motivation....

What helps you?