Come on . . .

Have you ever seen a product and thought, "Wow, why didn't I think of that?!"

Well, I just came across a list of products that are making me think, "Why would anyone think of that?!"

Parenting.com has just put out a list of 22 Totally Weird Baby Products

The title says it all - cologne that smells like Play-Doh? Baby toupees?

Come on . . . (but check it out, it's worth a chuckle)

Never a dull moment

I love my life, but it's never boring.

It seems that I can go a while without anything really significant or interesting happening to me; but once something DOES happen, it doesn't take long before it's followed by something else, and then something else.

I'm feeling like I'm right in the midst of one of those times when there are lots of significant/interesting things going on:

 - I'm pregnant. And along with being pregnant comes the planning for baby, the aches and pains, and the stress of trying to wrap up numerous projects at work before I go on maternity leave . . . 

 - I am currently part of an organizing committee for a ladies' night we are putting on in Warman. It's the first time we are putting this event on, and it's a lot of work. Especially since we didn't decide to go ahead with it until January, and the event itself is in April. It's going to be AMAZING - it's just a lot of work to get there.


 - We have decided to build a new house. Since we built the house we're currently living in, we always knew we'd build again, just didn't know when, exactly. But when "the perfect lot" came available in town, we jumped on it. We'll sell this house first, which should be interesting with a 3-year-old and a newborn around. I can't wait to start building. I love the process. It's extremely stressful, but satisfying.

 - I just got diagnosed with gestational diabetes. This is the only development in my life right now that I don't see as largely positive. But I am trying to see the silver lining - it's a good opportunity to improve my lifestyle, my eating and exercise habits, and start living healthier. A diabetic's diet is a good diet for anyone. And I'll have lots of help from my doctor and the diabetes educator and nutritionist I'll see next week. And luckily for me I work with many health care professionals who can help me out too.

So, needless to say, there is enough going on that I am sure I will have lots to say on this blog for a while.

I love my life. BECAUSE it's never boring.

Look at me

Starting this blog has been challenging. I started this blog months ago (at least, I registered it months ago) – and when I recently came back to start posting, I realized that I didn’t like the title. It didn’t capture what I thought I would be posting. (FYI, the old title was "Cre8ing" - something I do, but not who I am)

So I tried again. Finding a blog address and title that wasn’t already taken took some effort. I wanted something based on my name because I envision this blog being an eclectic mix of everything in my life, not just one particular aspect, like mommyhood, or marketing, or living in small town Saskatchewan.

I checked out options like “jade”, “jaded”, “jadeg” – all taken. “madebyjade” – also taken. Finally, I came up with the ingenius solution of inserting punctuation – and “made-by-jade.blogspot.com” was born.Voila!

After successfully setting up my blog, I thought it would be interesting to check out those blogs that had ‘stolen’ my potential monikers . . . 

http://jade.blogspot.com/

http://jadeg.blogspot.com/

http://madebyjade.blogspot.com/

http://jade-g.blogspot.com/

I take an odd bit of comfort in the fact that anyone accidentally coming across these blogs would not mistake them as mine - their authors are obviously completely different people. People I may follow for a little while, out of curiosity. 

I feel a bit like a Peeping Tom or an eavesdropper. But I think I'll get over it.