Reality

The reality of going out to eat at a sit down restaurant these days is that its pretty much a toss up if Jane will behave and make it through or not.

Example: Last Night.

With all the unpacking going on, I have tried my hardest to get dinners ready for everyone when Mr. Hunt gets home, but yesterday it didn't happen. I took out the frozen gumbo my Mom made us in the morning, but it wasnt thawed out enough by the time dinner rolled around and I didn't feel like tending to it.

I felt like getting out of the house anyway, so I shot Mr. Hunt and text message that we should go out to eat and try out a new restaurant in our neighborhood.

Anyway, long story short, we got to the restaurant and within 10 minutes, Jane was DONE. She wanted nothing to do with the highchair. Usually, as long as there is food, she will sit there, but not yesterday. I brought out ALL the food I had, and it wasnt working. Then I quickly remembered that she didn't have a great nap that day and she had a little cough so Im not sure if she felt great.

I tried to eat some of my food with her on my lap, which isn't ideal, but if it prevented her from crying and whining I was willing, but that didn't last long because she wanted to get down and run around. SO, once we started getting "the look" from people at tables next to us, Mr. Hunt took her outside while I got the rest of the food to go.

The reality is that you never really know what toddlers are going to do. They don't know better. They just want to play. They don't know they're supposed to sit still and the table. Until she can understand me 100% that there is no choice but to sit still, we will go through this.

BUT, if we never took the chance, we would never go out to eat and never have some good meals. There are plenty of times where she does great. So, we will keep trying even though every time we fail I say "Its going to be awhile before we can go out with her ever again." But then the next day Im ready to try again.

Oh the joys of being parents. Sometimes we just have to laugh.

Love
Jennifer

Its Been Awhile

Hey y'all!

Ive totally neglected this blog, and I always feel so bad when I do. Especially because it seems like when I neglect it is when there is TONS going on, and thats why I blog, to document our little lives. Then I feel like I need to write a whole three chapters about what Ive missed.

Anyway, we are back in SC for good! Mr. Hunt had 3 whole weeks off of work before he started his new job today. I loved having him home with us and Jane got spoiled. We probably went to the playground at least once a day and sometimes 2 or 3 times. We also ate out a lot and made sure to eat at all the restaurants we loved in Austin before we left.

Then the big move happened of course. There was a lot of flying, driving, packing, unpacking, cleaning, and trying to keep Jane out of everything. Its been stressful for sure. Im the type of person who likes a little bit of spontaneity....but only a little bit. I like my schedule and I like knowing whats going to happen in a day. So, its been tough living everyday by the seat of our pants.

All this is why I haven't had a chance to sit down and blog. I made a promise to myself while starting up my YouTube Channel that I would post a video on there every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I did my best and only missed one day of that through all of this traveling and getting Internet set up in our new home. So sadly, the blog got the back seat.

Now that Mr. Hunt is back to work, Im getting back to work as well. My parents came this past weekend to help unpack. Its incredible how fast unpacking can go when Jane isn't in the mix and there is more than one person. I also loved having my Dad help with a lot of handy work and my Mom's help with interior design. She's always been good at that.

So, of course I have a lot of unpacking left to do, but Im going to try my best to get back to my cleaning schedule (may tweak it here and there) while unpacking as well. Just for my sanity. I won't be too hard on myself if things don't all get done at first, but just talking about having a plan for the day is already making my feel better.

Speaking of that, I already found out that there is a library right down the road and they have story time for Jane on Tuesdays. We might start going tomorrow! Im also going to start finding some more fun activities for us to do....and a pediatrician. Ok, got to go now, I have TONS to do.

Ill do my best to get back to blogging regularly. Check out my YouTube for a tour of our new house. It will probably be up either Wednesday or Friday.

Love y'all!
Jennifer

Big, Happy, Awesome, Exciting, NEWS

Soooooooooo I have some big big big news to share with everyone!

WE ARE MOVING!!!!! Not just moving houses, we are moving back to SC and I couldn't be more happy!

Im not going to go into the long drawn out reason why we are going back, but the main reason is because we miss our family. Are you surprised? You shouldn't be, because I think I type those words "We miss our family" in almost every blog post. Or every other blog post. Either way, its probably pretty clear.

There were a lot of prayers, conversations, decisions, and work that went into this and finally after months and months we are for sure going back. Funny thing is that we were praying for one thing, and we got an even better deal.

See this is how God works. If you pray, He WILL answer. The answer may not be what you want, or even in your timing, but he will eventually answer. We started praying for one thing and we weren't getting anywhere. We knew not to get frustrated and to keep praying, so we did. Obviously since it took months, our prayers weren't answered right away which was hard. BUT, now looking back, thats ok, because like I said before.....God blessed us with an even better situation. WOW!

So, Mr. Hunt is going to be starting a new job in Charleston SC on June 2nd. Lets just say we have been a little busy over here. The good news is that Mr. Hunt already quit his job here in Austin so that he could have a few weeks off. It has been a HUGE help to have him around while packing and making a million phone calls. Jane is also loving both of us home, we've made a million trips to the playground already.

Mr. Hunt is also growing a beard for the fist time EVER. Yeah, 3 whole weeks with no shaving and he's only gone as long as 1 week ever before, so this is fun! Maybe Ill take some pictures and post them here.

If you want to follow along this journey with us you should definitely go subscribe to my YouTube channel. I am going to be putting a lot of moving videos up and a new house tour and everything. I will probably end up putting pictures of our travels and the new house here as well, but video is always better, right?

Also, Im putting up a great video today called "Not my arms challenge." With Chris not being at work, we've been having some fun and we make brownies together and his arms are used for my arms. Does that make sense?

So go check it out.

See y'all soon!

Jennifer

Are overalls coming back?

Are overalls coming back? 

I know kids have been wearing them forever, and how cute are they?

But I have been seeing adults wearing them again lately. Although I do live in Austin TX which is considered a "weird" place so maybe its just the adults here? I don't know.

I think the short overalls are kinda cute for adults if they are worn the correct way. The only other problem is I feel like as a Mom, Im too old now to pull them off. We will see if they catch on more.

Now onto Jane and her cuteness in her overalls. Mr. Hunt likes to make a squishy face at Jane and she makes it back. Its pretty funny!

 

If its not too uncomfratb;e, I may have to let her wear these overalls with no shirt underneath. Of is that just a boy thing....or redneck?

The little yellow ribbon came with the overalls, but its just that...a yellow ribbon. Throughout the day, it ended up falling off, and then got messed up in the washing machine...not sure why I washed it.

Either way, it gave me a good idea that I can just tie a different color ribbon through the belt loops to match the shirt underneath. 

And now for a fun game of peek-a-boo

Love,
Jane's Mom

Mother's Day 2014

Yesterday was a wonderful second Mother's Day for me and I hope all you mothers reading this had the day you imagined as well.

Im not always into the flowers, cards, and gifts on mothers day. Don't get me wrong, flowers and gifts are nice, but I just like to spend quality time with my husband and kid and I like the fact that I get to choose what we do/eat all day. I also didn't change ONE diaper yesterday, that was pretty sweet.

Just like last year (and Im planning on making this a tradition), Jane and I took a Mothers Day picture. Im already excited to see what this picture looks like in a few years, maybe even with another baby!

Here is last year.... Jane was almost 5 months old

and here are some of the pictures from this year....Jane is almost 17 months and not very interested in taking these pictures at all

Jane had to have her baby in the picture since she was celebrating Mothers Day too with her baby.

Then she got down and grabbed this lamb stuffed animal as well.

Once more to drop off baby and lamb and grabbed her gamecock teddy.

Anything for the picture I guess...

Then I got a kiss.....precious!

and a hug

And of course the day didn't go by without me thinking and wishing my Mom and my Mom in Law a Happy Mother's Day as well. Its still so crazy to me the love that a Mother has for their child. Its something that cannot be explained, you just have to experience it yourself. Then once you do, you look at your Mother in a totally different light...at least I did. Of course I loved her and my Mother in Law very very much before I had Jane, but something else happened once I had Jane. I would do ANYTHING for Jane and I know that's exactly how they feel about Mr. Hunt and I. Being a mom is HARD and they've been at it for 28+ years. Props to them :)

Love y'all,
Jennifer

H&M Love

I wanted to share this little gem with you if you haven't already discovered it yourself. 

H&M KIDS!!!!

I'm serious y'all. The best part about this is that H&M just started offering shipping. You used to only be able to shop at their store and if you didn't have a store in your area....well, you were out of luck. 

So before I discovered H&M KIDS, I loved shopping for Jane at Old Navy, Gap, and Target. Old Navy is good and decent prices. Gap is expensive but so so cute, and Target can be good prices and cute stuff, but sometimes the Carters brand can be expensive in my opinion. These are all still great stores that I will still shop for Jane at but most of my shopping will be done at H&M now. 

Super duper cute kid clothes and AMAZING prices!!!

The ONLY drawback is that they don't have a large selection for babies. Its more of the 24 month-10yr clothes. Jane is wearing 18 months right now but Ive bought her some 24 month things there that I just couldn't pass up and she just wears big clothes.

Go look right now...I promise you won't be disappointed. 

Love,

Jennifer

My Little Cook

My brother's girlfriend's Mom (phew) sent Jane some goodies in the mail a few weeks ago. As soon as I saw this apron, chef hat, and mitt, I put it on Jane right away and she LOVED it!

She immediately started running around squealing and hitting the dogs with the mitt. She of course had no idea what she was wearing, but I think my squealing and happiness in my voice got her really excited! Look how precious!

So naturally I got the camera out, well, Mr. Hunt did, and started snapping some pictures. I was sitting on the floor while Jane ran around and Mr. Hunt took pictures. Then I drifted off into my own thoughts.

Soon Jane will probably be playing dress up on her own, with a sibling, or with friends, and I won't always be right there to see how cute she looks.

She will dress herself for the day in something that doesn't match at all and it will be so normal that I won't feel like I need to take a picture.

Or she will just put on something ridiculous like last night when she ran around with a Minni Mouse boookbag and Easter bunny ears. We were skyping with my parents so I didn't get a picture, but I wish I did.

Love this one!

and this one where she is running to her Daddy

then ran right to me too.

I know I take a lot of pictures and of the same thing (Mr. Hunt does too), but this is my blog and I don't care. I know I will look back at these when she is too cool for me and remember our fun times and how cute she was (is) with all the different facial expressions I caught.

and all of these will make up for the many many many moments I will miss and will just have to store in my brain forever.

and now for a round of applause from Jane

Too cute!

Love,

Jen Hunt