Big Preggo Belly in the Way?

Tired of ruining your maternity shirts and outfits when you sit down to eat a meal?
Keep your clothes free of the inevitable spills and drips that somehow end up on your expanding belly! The Belly Bib is perfect to keep in your purse to cover that glorious belly during lunch, dinner, or anytime!

Belly Bib will pay for itself by saving you in dry cleaning bills in just a few short uses. Assorted colors and fabrics, fun styles for great mommies-to be! No more embarrassing stains on your belly after your lunch break!
One size fits all! Made in the USA

Meet the Mom Behind the Product!

The Big Belly Bib was created by Suzy Prenovost after finding a real need to protect her clothing during her third trimester. Suzy lives in Seattle and is a wife and working mother of two boys with a third on the way. She was frustrated after dripping and spilling practically everything she ate on herself, whether it was the klutzy stage of pregnancy, or just the fact that her projecting belly was a prime target for spills! She solicited the help of Kristen Lemoine, a good friend of Suzy’s sister, and together they designed the Belly Bib! Kristen is an awesome designer and uses such quality fabrics, she sent Suzy the first Belly Bib which she used every day and got great feedback from other Moms who had the same problem when they were pregnant ! So they decided to form a partnership and launch the Big Belly Bib. Suzy and Kristen hope you love the Belly Bib much as they do and your expensive maternity clothes will thank you!!

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OK Mommas

Listen up Mamas! The New Year will be here before we know it! Are you planning on getting more organized this coming year? If not you should be and I have a few great products to help you do just that. We all need more time so getting organized can really save us tons of time to do more of the things we like and spend more time with the people we love.


Here are some great suggestions that will help you get and stay organized:


THE BUSY BODY BOOK

This one little Calendar Organizer comes in two different cover choices Zig Zag (shown) and Brown. This 2008 Calendar Organizer's gretest feature is the Weekly Grid Format. It is the easy and efficient solution to every Mom's scheduling chaos! Each family member, with their own personal column, can plan and track their activities while they organize and coordinate with one another "side by side". BusyBodyBook Personal & Family Organizer, now available in two calendar editions for the 2008 calendar year.

"You'll never schedule two things at once with BusyBodyBook." Parenting magazine

Get Yours Now at the A.B. Baby Boutique

MAGNETIC FRIDGE GRID PAD is a great companion to the BusyBody Calendar Organizer.

MORE SPACE TO PLAN, COORDINATE & MANAGE YOUR VERY HECTIC LIFE, SIDE BY SIDE

Larger family? More commitments?
The 7 column UNdated BBB Fridge Grid Pad, conveniently posted on the fridge, provides you and everyone in your family with even more space for side by side planning. You'll easily organize, view and coordinate everyone's comings and goings! Create a family chore chart, weekly meal plan or assign columns for personal goal management of your daily diet and fitness routines.

Multiple projects, clients to track?

For your office, assign BBB columns as projects that require planning and you'll easily manage their progress. Or, head columns with the names of your clients to insure better follow-up and communication.

• The Undated 7 Colum Weekly Grid Pad comes with 52 weekly pages.
• Useful Ways to Use the Fridge Grid Pad
• Family Member's Routines & Activities
• Home Projects
• Meals
• Personal Goals
• Work Projects
• Clients
• Personnel
• Lesson Planning
• Family Chores

Mommy Brain

MOMMY BRAIN
If you've left the crayons to melt in the car,

And forgotten just where the car keys are,

There's a perfectly good way to explain:

You see, you've come down with "Mommy Brain.

When you're not sure where the past 8 hours went, or whether the phone bill check's been sent,

If you've left the laundry drying in the rain,

It's just---you guessed it---Mommy Brain.

If you find yourself chatting for hours on end

About diaper prices with your cyberfriends,

You've just caught a particularly virulent strain

Of that affliction known as Mommy Brain.

If you left your bags at the grocery store

Or completely forgot what you went there for,

If you called the cat by your baby's name,

You can bet that Mommy Brain's to blame.

And if you know the words to "Goodnight Moon" by heart,

Or you study your sleeping babe like a work of art,

If you're always surprised by how time is flying,

And the thought of that first birthday starts you crying...

It's unavoidable girls, and I feel your pain

For I, too, suffer from Mommy Brain.

But I'll admit one thing---of this I'm sure

I hope they never find a cure.

- Carlotta Eike Stankiewicz

Great Resource for Work at Home Moms

If you are a work at home mom or a mom with her own business I have an amazing group for you. A few months after I opened my boutique online I somehow came across a yahoo group called The Mompack. What a fantastic group of women! This group is 100% about helping out one another, providing support and working as a team. Being a member of this group has been nothing but rewarding for me. Everyone is there to support one another.

Online businesses are everything but easy! You cannot go it alone! We all learn from our mistakes and successess so why not share them with others who are just starting out? If you are a Mom or a woman with a business whether it be online or offline. I really suggest checking them out! It's free and guaranteed to be of help in just about any situation! http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/themompack/

Have a great weekend!

Entertaining Toddlers: A WAHM’s Guide

When you work from home, keeping your toddlers entertained when business matters arise can be a challenge. One of the reasons you chose to work from home was to be with your children, but there are times that you need a few moments to concentrate on work. While we do have a wide array of educational programming available to us today, TV isn’t always the answer to keeping young ones occupied. This list of suggestions might help and if it doesn’t fit your situation exactly, they will spark your creativity into tweaking it to suit your needs.

1. Set up a child-sized desk next to your own. By equipping it with some paper, crayons and perhaps a toy telephone, this set-up will allow your daughter to work right by your side.
2. Bring your laptop to one end of the dining room table while creating a Play-doh station at the other end. Your son will enjoy creating works to rival Michelangelo while you are able to catch up on email.
3. Set up your shipping area in the kitchen. Serving up a healthy mid-morning snack to your child will allow your hands to be free to package up your orders and get them ready for the post office.
4. Grab your legal pad and head on out to the back yard. You can enjoy the outdoors, feel your children’s joy as they explore nature and jot down your list of things to do for after they have gone to bed for the evening.
5. When they are very young, you can read anything to your child. It doesn’t matter if it is the phone book, because it is the tone of your voice that is important. So, print out that marketing eBook you have been waiting to review and read it out loud while they snuggle on your lap.

Multi-tasking is a key component to work from home success. You want your business to succeed and that takes a lot of work. You also want to be there with your children, enjoying their laughter and spending quality time with them. You can combine work with parenting when you take a moment to apply creative solutions to your day to day challenges.