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My sweet baby Charlotte is 4 weeks today.  My heart aches as she is growing so fast and yet I yearn with anticipation for the "witching hour" to be out-grown.  This has been a rough week at times.  The evenings are difficult to predict, some nights she is content and sleeps the evening away - only then she is wide awake from 2am-5am.  Oh my heavens, was that a rough night!  Then other evenings she is attention seeking the entire evening and eating nearly every 90 minutes - but then she sleeps better through the night. 
This will be a busy baking week.  My family is doing our traditional almond tart (think banquette into a small tart) baking today.  We adore those little almond delights so much that the whole family gets into the assembly line to help out.   
Then Tuesday and Wednesday bring more baking with friends and family for giving away.  I'm looking forward to all of it, and praying Charlotte is content while I'm baking so I can actually contribute to the end product rather than just holding and feeding Charlotte.
Charlotte has her 1 month appt this week.  The school staff Christmas party is this week, I'm hoping to attend.  Then Friday, I'm going to my class's Christmas party.  It will be my first time away from Charlotte, at least more than 20 minutes.  Which means she needs to practice drinking from a bottle this week! I'm praying she easily accepts the bottle!

50 free Shutterfly cards?!

I love Shutterfly.  No, seriously, I do.  Not only are their items great quality, they also have helpful customer service and there shipping is fast too.
I fell in love with their photo books soon after we had Asa.  We made a "Year 1" book of Asa for the grandparents for Christmas.  They LOVED it.  They carried it around for months to show it off :) 
Then we started making photo calendars.  Now the grandparents expect one every year.  I'm happy to not disappoint them.  The calendars are so easy to make and look fantastic. I love the patterns that give you to choose from. 
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I'm excited to make my free cards too.  We got family photos yesterday so I'm looking forward to choosing a great photo of our family and show off our new baby, Charlotte.
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Shutterfly also has some great personalized gifts.  Maybe Grandpa will get a photo coffee mug this year... http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-gifts
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Hi!

So this will be my new spot to vent.  Having a very busy 3 year old boy, a newborn baby girl, and going back to teaching in a couple weeks - why, yes, I am very overwhelmed!!  I'm hoping the baby does well with daycare, but first I need to see if she will take bottle... yikes.  Asa is a being a great big brother, although I'm noticing a little resentment when he wants me to help him with something, but I'm feeding the baby and can't help!  Stay tuned!