swiss miss and her mammals

It has been a long time since I took time to write a new post. A lot has changed. We no longer live in Juneau. Things weren't working out for us as a family there and we are back in WA now living with my mother-in-law for the time being. I thought about writing a lot of times but kept on pushing it back making up excuses. Truth is I'm human. I'm more than happy to share when things are going well and I feel like I'm moving forward. It's a lot harder to do that when life throws me a curveball and things aren't going the way I planned them to. It's a lot harder to be vulnerable. When we moved to Juneau we took a big risk as a family and it never crossed our minds that it might not pay off. Even though Juneau gave us many challenges we still felt in control. When it turned out that we would be leaving Juneau I started feeling so lost and still do on many days. Out of all the moves we have had so far this move back to WA has been the toughest on me emotiona...

Well it has been a while folks! But you will have to forgive me because this post isn't going to be just about my adorable family because frankly not much has been happening around here. The last two days I have stumbled across two to me kind of ridiculous articles:   The first one is this one about not calling your pets babies: http://www.yourtango.com/2015275999/your-dog-is-not-one-of-your-kids-insult-to-moms And this one about covering up while nursing: http://shejustglows.com/2015/06/dear-breastfeeding-moms-really-hard-cover/ Both of these articles made me chuckle because they are absolutely absurd to me. I love our balou and I do call him my fur baby and guess what it is not meant as an insult to mom's! and yes I have given birth too ( except that I had a c-section which some other article said that that is not really giving birth- even though I dilated to a 10 and pushed for 2 hours but what do I know). And I'm sorry but if you are offended by ...

Today I had my usual wake up. At least somewhat usual I woke up to ezra snuggling next to me nudging to get out of bed and getting our day started. I stumbled over the toys that were scattered all over the living room floor as I was caring ezra to his room to get him changed. My feet were sticking a little bit to my way too dirty kitchen floor as I sat ezra on his just as dirty highchair looking for a knife in between all the dirty dishes to get him some breakfast ready. Bottom line is my whole family including me make a mess faster than I can clean it up and that is exhausting and frustrating sometime. But than a thought passed through my mind that made me so sad that I cheered up immediately. One day I will wake up to a laundry basket that is only half full instead of overflowing since it is only me and Tj. One day I won't have tiny sticky fingerprints to wipe of my cabinets or at least not as much on a regular basis as now. One day I won't have a hungry baby wake me up anymo...

Hey there. I have started work at the gallery I interviewed for and it is actually a lot of fun. I only work every other evening from 4-6 right now and every other saturday till summer will start and I will work longer hours. It is a lot of fun getting to know my co-workers, talking to costumers and learning the ropes of working in a retail store. Ezra cried pretty hard the first time I left him with his new babysitter. It made me sad since I had fun going to work and getting some me time. Last Monday I left him with my friend kristen who has a 10 month and 4 year old and he was happy there. I'm sure it just takes him some time to get adjusted and I know it is so good for him to play with those other kiddos. Yesterday was a super fun family day for us. Tj was off work so we went to the pool for the first time with Ezra and he had an absolute blast. Pool trips are definitely on our monthly activity list now. We had the missionaries from our church over for lunch and at 4 I had to l...

First of all can I say that I can't believe Ezra is 8 months today?? Time has flown by This was him in february (I took this one for valentines but never got around to upload it) He is such a little stud muffin. This post will be super picture heavy courtesy of my dad! It was so good to have him here for almost 4 weeks and he took a ton of pictures! I need to get that good at taking pictures! Back to Ezra and his 8 month stats: He still loves bathtime (can you tell?) (seriously look at the happy face!!) and yes I do bath him in the kitchen sink since our apartment only has a shower stall. He loves the swings: again happy, happy baby...I can't get enough of his smiles and giggles! He likes hanging out in the ergo baby on walks and the backpack on hikes He loves daddy time:  So glad for these two! How did I get so lucky??? Tj is such an awesome daddy and Ezra adores him. What Ezra doesn't like: That one waitress at a loca...

Well it has been a busy couple weeks here in the northcraft residence and already a whole month has passed since my last post. I have a couple ones in the works right now that will update you on the things that have been going on this blog will be dedicated to my first stitchfix experience. I have been on a mission to update my frumpy mom wardrobe and decided to give stitchfix a try. It is a personal styling website. You fill out a styling profile with your measurements preferences and such pay a 20$ styling fee (that can be used towards your first purchase), create a pinterest board to inspire your personal stylist and within a few weeks you get a package with 5 personalized items picked just for you. You keep the ones that you like and put the rest into the prepaid envelope to send back. I was super critical about this whole thing. I knew that there clothing items averaged at 50$ a piece which is pretty steep for my budget but I have read so many good reviews about and how it...

First of all thanks for all the positive feedback on my mommy guilt post- It is so nice to know we are all in this together and that I'm not the only one who feels that way. It's been super busy the last couple weeks in between diaper changing, running errands, feeding the little monster, doing laundry and dishes and and and and... it's been hard finding time for myself. Ezra has been skipping his afternoon naps since he has started teething bad again so that leaves this exhausted momma with a 1 hour period to really get stuff done. Which means I had to set priorities which I hate doing because I love to do everything and all at the same time and I just pretty much want to be super woman and sometimes I feel like I am exactly that and most of the time I feel like I'm closer to the opposite.  But on a positive note We have been having so much fun exploring juneau! I can't believe that we will have been here already 4 months the middle of this month. Time is flying...