FREE Pancake Crinkle Bear for Babies - Baby Stuff Gifts

Girls, there is a deal going on right now at Baby Stuff Gifts to get a FREE Pancake Crinkle Bear with all orders over $30.00 until August 15th for all orders shipping to the same address.  The Pancake Crinkle Bear is from North American Bear Company.  They crinkle when they are hugged - great feedback for babies! 

This is a great company for personalized baby gifts for your own children or somebody else's.  I know the personalized gifts my kids have been given get stored away when they outgrow them to give back to them as adults.  Regular toys in our home get given away or thrown out.  They're keepsakes when they are personalized.  I could never bear to throw them out.

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Too Chicken to Buy Pregnancy Test

Yikes, I still don't know if I'm pregnant or not.  I figured if I still didn't know by today, that I would buy a test.  I haven't bought one yet.  I'm a chicken.

If I am and when it is all said and done, I'd be thrilled and love a new little one into the family.  However, right now, I am worried (because of the medication I was on) and thinking about the possibility of starting all over with diapers, high chairs, breastfeeding, personalized baby gifts, and not sleeping for the first few months with a baby. 

Hubby is afraid of vasectomies.  He doesn't want anything sharp "down there" - ugh.  I've given birth to four of his children and have had "sharp" down there, among other things.  I think, in cases like this, the man should be the one stepping up to get the snip snip.

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Congrats to all the stepmoms who are pregnant!

Several of my stepmommy friends are pregnant, ready to add onto their blended family with another little one to love. I think babies are wonderful and should be celebrated. I hope their family (and other outside influences) allow them all the joy of that without trying to interfere or ruin it for them. After the recent loss a family I know experienced when their pre-teen child drowned, life is too short not to appreciate and love all that you have without making others miserable. Life is hard enough as it is.

I don't expect an ex to show up bearing baby gift baskets or anything. I think that would be asking too much. I do hope the ex's are considerate or if they can't be, that they go by the rule - "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all" and make Emily Post proud.

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