When I was pregnant with Ava, a cousin of my husband, suggested that I read this book. It made sense and I decided to follow the things they suggested. After implementing their ideas, little Ava was sleeping through the night at 11-12 weeks. And when we'd put her down to take a nap she'd just go to sleep, usually, without crying. I was amazed! So with Reese I knew I'd be doing it again. I was a little bit more frustrated this time around cause it didn't seem like she was catching on as quickly. And during her second month, she was a needy little one. Always wanting to be held and crying if we didn't. But at 12 weeks she is now sleeping through the night and we're loving it.
Is there a book that you read that helped you prepare for your little one? Would love to hear about your experience!
{Now, I know, I know, I know. I've heard it many times. There are a lot of people who don't like this book. But this has worked for our little family and we love it!}
Last Friday I finally received them!! My husband told me I had something at the door. And, yes, I ran to the door and screamed as I opened it. {Exactly what a teenage girl would have done.} I finally received my blog books! Woohoo! I was so excited.
I had worked on 3 of them. The first was from my family blog from 2010 - 200 pages long. For the two others, I'd decided to make a book for each of the girls about my pregnancy. I usually tried to take a picture of my growing belly about every 2 weeks and so that's some of what it contained.
I'm telling ya. Blurb is where it's at. {and they should totally be paying me for all the advertising I've done for them. but that's okay.}
So, in November, I'd posted this groupon deal here. I've used blurb before and absolutely love it. Every year I make a book from my family blog. I used to scrapbook, but for now this just works for me and doesn't stress me out as much. Well, this deal came and I couldn't pass it up. $20 for a $60 book! Of course. Silly me bought 3 of them. Yep, you heard right. 3!!! Crazy. I know. My goal was to have most of them finished before Reese came. Ha! That didn't happen. Then Christmas came and we were gone for a few weeks and, yep, the blog books hadn't been started.
So, the past month that's pretty much all I'd been working on in the evenings and while the girls were napping. But I finally finished them last week (it's good they had an expiration date or they'd definitely not have been done by now - - although I did just hear that they had extended the date until March. Ugghhh. . . maybe it's better that I didn't know.)
So, they should be coming pretty soon and I can't wait to show you! I love blurb. Check them out here. Oh, and here's the post of my previous blog book here.
Remember this post about our blog book here? Well, I absolutely love using blurb. They slurp up everything from your blog and then you can design your book. I've been doing one every year for the past 3 years.
Well, my sister just called me up and told me that the Groupon in Pittsburgh, here, has a deal right now (for the next 4 hours) to get a $60 book for only $20. That's a great deal! You do have to finish them by sometime in February, but still. Awesome.
So, check it out now before it's gone!
I just received the one I made for the past year and I love it! So does my little munchkin.
For some reason, I skipped 2008 so now I'm in the middle of working on that book (might be because there are a million trillion pictures due to the munchkin being born).
Do you put your blog in a book? What program do you use?
