12/29/2023 0 Comments Artifact uprising![]() Not even kissing your ass for the purpose of winning, but your posts of Arlo on instagram have helped restore the excitement I wanted so much for the birth of my first son! Both your attitude and Arlo’s ridiculously adorable and infectious personality, I found myself saying “Yeah! Lets do this!” so much more, and now I CANNOT wait to start making memories to share with Ezra. So aside from Ezra’s (baby’s name) ultrasound images, and the sticks I peed on telling us of his impending arrival we don’t really have much in the way of documented memories of the very beginning of his life. I think the mainstream horror stories just really got to my head and I just became riddled with fear and anxiety over it. I thought, maybe just a picture book… But then i wont be as prompted to write down the memories with those pictures – lackluster feels.Ģ.) For some reason, I have struggled with documenting and sharing this pregnancy. I have tried so many times to just start a journal for him, but that ends up feeling like its more about me, so I don’t. Now that I am staring down the birth of my first son, I’ve been on the hunt for the best way to put together a book for him. So, 2 reasons I want to do one of these for my son:ġ.) I don’t really have much stuff like this from my own family, so it is something of sentiment I have always wanted to do for my children. THIS POST WAS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ARTIFACT UPRISING The winner will be chosen 8am PST on october 2nd if you wanna win it, just tell me in the comments why and then you totally might! ** GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED **īut please use code MOLLY10 for 10% off your baby book til 10/14/17! it’s perfect for any of you expecting or new mamas, or a really special baby shower gift. i’ve been doing quick entries during nap times and while i pump and i am going to force myself to keep up with it! (it goes until his first birthday but you can add more pages too)Īnyway i’m v obsessed with mine. because lets face it, arlo will not care about this for many years so for now it’s all mine. and while this is still technically not something for yourself, it totally also is. It also feels actually creative to work on, which is kind of crucial when you’re home with your newborn - i think a lot of new moms sitting home all day with their babies can agree, you need something to do besides just watching tv and doing constant laundry and inhaling food during naps. my poor second child huh? the book also comes with a credit for a set of prints (whatever size you want), a pen + adhesive. because i clearly feel the need to document. i’ve been using the extra prints all over the house, hanging some on the fridge and framing others for the grandparents - i’m also thinking of doing photo books for him every so often too. The book is so gorgeous - it’s designed so beautifully and thoughtfully and has all these little fun prompts and details, like envelopes for cards we got from our loved ones and fill in the blanks i love. so i am so happy to have teamed up with artifact uprising today to give away one of these! It’s exactly what i wanted, a perfect balance of wordy and photo-based, so i wouldn’t feel like writing entries was this big daunting task every month, and it’s a really good excuse to print photos regularly so that i can make sure all these photos i take of arlo daily aren’t just getting lost into oblivion. ![]() then i discovered artifact uprising’s “the story of you”. well i spent about an hour with my book until i realized that was a stupid idea and completely unrealistic and if we have free time like that, we should probably be doing something more fun than silently filling out our own baby books. so then i decided gid would have one book and i would have another and arlo was so lucky he’d have a baby book documented by both his mom and his dad. i got three different books because i couldn’t decide and i liked them all for different reasons - and i actually thought i’d be able to mildly keep up with each of them too. While my mom didn’t really “finish” my baby book, i cherish the entries she did put in there - about our first outing to “the bagel” and my first visitors and words and tooth, so i was for sure going to do one for arlo.
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