Here we go again

Last year, I kind of dropped this project, but I'm really hoping to pick it back up again now.

So much has changed in the past year (since it has been almost a year since I last posted). I did attend BlogHer in August, and I had a great time. I learned a lot, but I wasn't as prepared as I would have liked. I wasn't as social as I had hoped either, mostly because I was pregnant, and early enough to not really want to share the news and tired enough that I just wanted to be napping. I didn't stay for any of the parties, and I was not good at keeping in touch with the very nice people I met. I would love to attend again next year, especially since it is in Chicago, but I don't see that working with such a young baby. Maybe 2014.

There is a lot I have to figure out, like where I want to take this blog. How much do I actually want to share. So basically, there are major changes to come. Hopefully it won't be months before they arrive.

So now I have plans for August

I'm going to BlogHer.

I'm shocked that I was able to convince my husband that I should go. Obviously, I have a lot of work to do here, and I don't just mean in the design. But he agreed that it would be a good idea, and the fact that it is local enough that I didn't need a hotel room was definitely a perk.

I'm still working on Bloggy Boot Camp, but that is really just a matter of if I am going to be staying (and if they want to come to Philadelphia with me).

Change is hard

Why was I having such a hard time pulling the trigger on changing my twitter name? I was never that attached to my original name, so what gives? It's because change is hard. And scary.

What is even scarier is when change happens around you. I've been away for too long, just about completely out of the loop. While going through my rss reader and twitter list, I saw how much everyone else changed. People had babies, people are pregnant, people are no longer blogging.

Just as other people have changed, I have to as well. As of tonight, I can be found on twitter at @iamjustkaybee. And soon, my domain will be updated too. This is no longer the new baby adventures, since the baby isn't new, and can hardly even be called a baby anymore. I'm not a new mommy, I'm just kaybee.

Happy New Year!

Photo by Creativity103

So much for getting the redesign completed for the new year.

I still have a ton to do, but I am going to take another pass at the #SITS31DBBB challenge. Hopefully that will help me finish the redesign that I've been working on for what seems like forever.

By tonight, I'm hoping that I'll have the new domain and twitter name set up.

Things aren't working for me the way that they are at the moment, as evidenced by the fact that I haven't posted in two months. I'm hoping that participating in this challenge will help me to refocus so that this blog works for me instead of just being work.

Here's to an exciting new year!

Writer's Workshop a few days late

While I'm busy working on the behind the scenes work here, I thought that I would get another post up this week. Of course, I had every intention on getting it up on Thursday, but life got in the way.

3.) Married? Tell us the story of how the question was popped.

It was the holiday party time of year, and on Tuesday I decided that I had nothing to wear to my boyfriend's office party that Friday. So off to the mall we went.

But I was not having a good night, it felt like the fates were conspiring against me. First, my boyfriend was late coming home from work so we got a very late start, then I couldn't find anything that I liked. It felt like everything I tried on just made me look awful. So when we returned home empty handed, I was in full pout mode.

That was when my boyfriend said to me "I'm sorry you couldn't find anything, but I hope that you'll wear this," and he knelt next to me with a closed box in his hand.

I was not sure what to think, after six years I had convinced myself that since he wouldn't open the box it had to be earrings.

That was when he asked me to marry him. Turns out he was late because he was meeting with my dad.

I may have worn an old outfit to the party, but I was busy showing off my new ring all night long.

Linking up with Mama Kat

And it just kept coming...

A bit over a year ago, while I was still a blissfully sleep deprived new mother, there was an "incident". I had never had to deal with a blow-out diaper, but there is always a first time for everything. Luckily, I was at home. Unluckily, it was a work day, so it was just me and the baby.

I was shocked when I discovered that "stuff" had come out of the diaper, up the back and even at the legs. I believe that there was a bit of yelling on my part as I pulled off the diaper. The baby found this wildly entertaining, which caused him to laugh. And pee. Which made me yell even more. Which lead to more laughter.

Cue the pooping. Across the changing table. I don't think that I ever knew how forcefully that could happen. At this point, the baby as stopped laughing and started to cry, probably because of how much louder I was now yelling. I'm standing there, cleaning up the messy (again) baby, as well as the poopy changing table cover, and trying to stop the baby from putting his feet in it. All the while, swearing that my husband will be changing every diaper from here on out.

It was not long after the "incident" that we started to use disposable changing pad covers.

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I promise I wasn't lying (exactly)

I know that I said that I would be back soon, writing regularly. That was months ago.

This week I am planing on working on the changes and at least get them started. It's my goal to get the redesign finished in time for the new year.

But first, there will be new posts. Starting this week. So stay tuned.