Friday Funnies

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It's time to link-up all of your most hilarious posts.

Isn't that great? A link-up where you'll actually want to click & read all the other posts. No better way to start off the weekend than with some good laughs, right?

If you just aren't funny or haven't ever written a funny post, don't worry! Just make a post on Friday sharing the funniest things you saw/heard that week. You can use photos, youtube videos, jokes, a funny conversation that you recently heard, anything - as long as it's legal! 

Did another blogger post something hilariously funny this week & you really want to share the link? That's fine too! Just let them know that you linked them up. :)

There aren't a lot of "rules" for this link up. The goal is to get people smiling. You can even link-up your old funny posts!

So how does it work?

1. Please Grab the Button or put a link back to the link-up somewhere on your post/blog, so that your readers can enjoy everyone's funny posts.

2. Your Hosts would LOVE for you to follow them. 

3. Please link up to a specific post and not just your blog's main page. 

4. Feel free to share other blogger's funny posts. I'm sure they'll appreciate the love, we'll appreciate reading them, and you'll win extra good karma points. :)

Remember, the goal is to get people smiling.

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5 Ways to Adjust to Having a Baby

I'm definitely not a mothering expert, but these few things have truly helped me adjust to having a baby in our home!

1//enjoy the moment - Any time I think of the future I get really scared for my baby. Scared that I won't be a good mother, scared that I won't be able to take care of more than 1 child at a time, scared that Charlotte will hate me as a teenager. Seriously, you just can't worry about stuff like that. Take the time to just enjoy time with your babe now. I love just sitting with Charlotte and watching her explore the world, watching her grow daily. Her little life is amazing and I don't want to miss a thing (que Aerosmith).

2//get out and about - I was so scared to take Charlotte out, but it has been so beneficial for Andrew and I to continue doing what we did before (reasonably, of course) and including her in some of our dates. Go visit friends and family, take walks, let your baby enjoy a few moments of sunshine each day. If your baby is born in the freezing cold winter (like mine) walk around indoor malls, even just take a drive somewhere. Trust me, it will keep you sane!

3//find joy in the small things - I once heard something that made me think, "Day to day chores are actually service to our family". When times get hard and you are sick of doing the dishes, vacuuming, changing diapers, doing laundry, just remember that you are serving your family, and service always makes me feel better.

4//listen to your instincts - You are this tiny person's mother, no one else is. If you feel something your pediatrician or fellow mothers tell you isn't right, don't do it and don't worry about not doing it. Thankfully Lottie has a wonderful pediatrician, but I remember in the days after she was born being so pressured to breast feed her every 2 hours for 20 minutes on each side (basically giving us 1 hour 20 minutes between each feeding). It was impossible. Charlotte would just want to sleep and it would make her (and me) miserable when I would wake her up and she would fall back asleep in the middle of nursing. It was so distressing. My mom sat me down and asked, "Do you feel she needs to eat every 2 hours?" When I followed my newly kicked in motherly intuition everything was smoothed into place and we were both much happier.

5//pray - I pray daily for patience. Motherhood is a huge adjustment and doesn't always come naturally. I need God's help each and every day to help me be the mother Charlotte needs me to be and the mother and wife I want to be.

What has helped you adjust to a new member in the family? I would love to hear from you!

xoxo

take me out to the ball game

Last week Andrew and I took Charlotte to her first baseball game! We're not really baseball fans (unless loving the movie 42 counts), and I'm sure Lottie could care less, but we are fans of getting out to sporting events, especially if they're free (Pass of All Passes, my friends)!

Most of the time sometimes I don't really watch the actual game, but the people around me. Crowds are seriously entertaining. There wasn't anything spectacular, just your usual people tripping up stairs, crazy hair, crazy facial hair, grown men genuinely upset about the pitcher. Good stuff right there

Yes, those are an ice cream cone, hot dog and pizza racing around the baseball field. I laughed so hard! pizza got winded twice but caught up to hot dog and ice cream. Dying.

xoxo

linking up with lisette | sami

Good Eats Friday - Bombay House

I am always a bit nervous when we go out for Indian food and I'm not sure why. I like most curries and naan bread is just amazing so there isn't much of a reason for me to be hesitant and now that we have visited Bombay House there is even less of a reason.

Andrew ate a lot of Indian food while in England and he was getting excited by just glancing at the menu about some items we haven't seen at other restaurants. We started with some vegetable samosas and naan bread. I knew what to expect with the naan bread, but the samosas were so delicious and served with mint and tamarind chutneys.

For drinks Andrew ordered the mango lassi (mangoes and homemade yogurt blended) and I had the Bombay lime (lime juice blended with spices, sugar and club soda).

that cute baby already knows what's good!

Now the following dishes are the reason Bombay House is one of my new favorite restaurants. I present to you Lamb Coconut Kurma and Bollywood Chicken!

I was seriously blown away by these two dishes, absolutely amazing. Our service was great, the atmosphere is perfect, I can't rave about this place enough.

xoxo

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Find + Follow Friday!

Thanks for joining us! I am so excited to be joining Nicole at Me + The Moon and two others for this week's Find + Follow Friday! So let's get to it:

1. Follow your hosts. 

They will be numbers 1 - 4 on the list. **I try to always follow back, so PLEASE leave a comment letting me know you're new here so I don't miss you! ** Sometimes it takes a little while, but I always get through every comment and follow back. :)

Co-hosts this week are:
Alesha over at Lifeology (that's me!)
Sarah over at Limited Space Organizing +
Nicole over at Sunkissed with a Twist!

2. Link up your blog's main page. **No blog hops, please.**

3. Try to stop by at least 3 blogs and follow ones you love. 

I'm sure they'd love it if you left a comment, as well :)

4. Take a button! 

Sharing is caring :) The more awesome blogs = the more awesome bloggy friends you make.

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but our shenanigans are cheeky and fun...

In college we had an apartment of boys we loved to prank and it was seriously a blast. Sometimes I really miss doing dumb stuff like that, but then I remember I'm married and now a mom and it's probably inappropriate for me to do any of those things.

Some of my favorites included lighting firecrackers outside their living room window, hiding all their toilet paper, finding a bra in the parking lot (weird and probably gross, I know) and saran wrapping it to one of the guy's cars and proceeding to cover the entire car, and filling their sheets with paper and post-it notes. But my all-time favorite was when I came home late from a rough day to this:

I was impressed, they had used something like 7200 post-it notes in the end. I found myself leaving the house with post-its stuck to my body and found some behind my bed when I moved out. 

xoxo

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music is my boyfriend

Music has always played a large part in my life, especially when I was an angsty teenager. It has played on every single emotion I have ever had.

I have gone through just about every music phase in my life. Pop, white trash rock, indie, country, oldies, big band, even screamo. Yep, I could tell the difference between From First to Last, Saosin, Chiodos, Thrice or Underoath. Fun fact, did you know a lot of screamo bands consider themselves Christian? anyway...

In college we would play name that tune, we would put an iPod on shuffle and whoever guessed the name of the song (or artist, whichever rules we were playing by) first would get a point. I'll be honest, I was pretty dang awesome at that game. I thought I was cool until I met a guy who knew the name of the song and artist of any rap/hip hop within seconds.

My intense love of music has faded a bit. I no longer check PureVolume constantly for new artists people have never heard of, I haven't been to a concert since I saw Matisyahu in 2010, I haven't hosted Mixtape Monday on my blog for over a year and there is no way, no how I will ever attend Warped Tour again.

Not to brag or anything, but I'm kind of super hipster. You see, I was a fan of Imagine Dragons and saw them in concert long before they were ever BIG. Also, I listened to The Jakes before they were known as Young the Giant. Wanna be my friend now?

So what do I listen to? The following never fail me:
Brand New // Iron & Wine // Ray LaMontagne // Frank Sinatra // Sigur Ros // Passion Pit // Mumford & Sons // Brad Paisley // Rogue Wave // Bob Marley // The Beatles // Regina Spektor // Imogen Heap // Kings of Leon // Dashboard Confessional // Zac Brown Band

Also, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for:
Backstreet Boys // N*SYNC // Boys II Men // Phil Collins // Tegan and Sara // Say Anything // Mae // Matchbook Romance // Lisa Loeb // Kate Nash // Lil Wayne // Flogging Molly // Dixie Chicks // Dave Matthews Band

Okay, I am done name dropping...for now. Wanna talk music? I'm all ears.

xoxo