That is the title of the email I received.

I receive a lot of emails.

A lot

I’m not complaining. I truly do read each and every one.  I love to hear from you.  I’m just not always able to answer them all, but I try to help as much as I can.

This email came last week and it tugged at my heart strings.  With the permission of its sender, I’m posting for you all to read:

“Hey Shanna!  I wrote to you a while back about having 2 kids…

Where to begin with this particular goodness…hmmmm.

Simply put, PHYTO hair products have saved my life.

Yes, I know that sounds dramatic, but in all honesty, with 3 pregnancies in 3 years, this is the FIRST TIME I have not lost half a head of hair!!!  You would think just HAVING 3 kids, 2 years old and younger, would make me lose ALL of my hair.  Somehow, these 3 miracle bottles have given me a whole new outlook on product…

Quite a few people emailed me after seeing Piper’s photo in Saturday’s post, for the bouncer chair and blanket info in the photo.  I LOVE both if these!!

The chair is the BABYBJÖRN BabySitter Balance. I’ve had a number of bouncy chairs and this is BY FAR my favorite! A good friend passed it down to us and I couldn’t be more thankful!

The blanket is a Aden & Anais Muslin Swaddling Blanket I really, really love these!  They are HUGE and…

People ask me all the time about what I can’t live without for the babies.  And I’m not really sure that there are just a couple…that’s why I have the Baby Favorites Gallery.  But there are definitely a few things that my sleep deprived brain is so thankful for!

Gina Ford is my hero.  She wrote a series of books starting with The Contented Little Baby: The Simple Secrets of Calm, Confident Parenting.  When we had our first baby, I thought I knew it all.  I…

I’m not sure I can really call this a Wordless Wednesday, how about WORDY Wednesday….I mean I didn’t EXACTLY take this photograph (does scanning into one’s computer count???) But I just had to share it!  This was inside of the recent Spanx package I opened…is this not HYSTERICAL!  Can you imagine doing ANY of those things in Spanx???  Not thinking I’m jumping from a burning building anytime soon, but I do love the message that we can do anything!

So shhhhhh, don’t tell anyone, but these are the BEST KEPT…

My youngest sister is brilliant.

Beautiful, creative, talented…..BRILLIANT!

And she can give a good gift card gift!  So often we struggle with what to buy someone for their birthday, Christmas, anniversary, you name the occasion and we have all scratched our heads endlessly trying to think of the perfect gift….and panicked when we get to the night before with still nothing.  (OK – maybe some of you perfect folks have not, but I for one have been there MANY times!)

So I love seeing what both…

Our family was given an AMAZING gift from so many of our friends!  One Fab Friend in particular offered to organize a few dinners for us for after Piper was born.  I loved the idea, but didn’t really think we would need THAT many dinners!  Maybe a couple weeks worth at the most.

HAAAAAA, HAAAAAA, HAAAAAAAAAAA! I was sooo clueless!  As my sweet Fab Friend’s email to everyone said,

“Baby Coady #3 is only a month away and as many of you know 2 babies = HARD….3 babies = CRAZY MIND…

Even when life is crazy, and you’re not sure how you will survive, for me I look at my Littles and am so thankful for each of them.  That’s not to say that they are perfect and that every minute is easy, but it is to say that they make my heart smile!

For my birthday last year, Addie (and Dada) gave me a sweet little necklace with Addie’s name.  Then when Hayden was born a couple of weeks later, they gave me a tag with Hayden’s name on it.  Now I know there…

OK, baby is here, I’m still at the hospital, but I can assure you that I’m DREAMING of, (longing, salivating, DYING) to get my pre-3-year-pregnant body back!!!  I’m no fool, I know it will take some time (even if hubby is hoping it will be back by Monday…), but get it back I will!

But I have a secret, (though not so secret when you publish it in a blog read by thousands…)

I am IN LOVE WITH YUMMIE TUMMIE shapewear!

I found this amazing…

We welcome with love

Piper Danielle

Thank you for all the support, encouragement, emails, tweets, posts!

Your friendship, thoughts and prayers mean the world to us!

So it’s here.

The day we finally meet #3…who as I write this still does not have a name waiting for her…but hopefully by the time you read this, she will!

As I write this post one week before you actually read it, I’m flooded with memories from last year.  So I’ll warn you now…

this will not be my typical post

it will be more personal

and it will be long.

But it is…

Sunday I finally sat down to pack my hospital bag.  Can’t believe I waited until now, but it’s finally done!

I tend to keep things simple when I pack my bag for the hospital. If you have a regular delivery, your stay will be short.  But you will still be DYING for that first shower, and  you will still want some cute and cozy things to wear (and to be in all your pictures!)  But since you also have no idea what will happen when…

Melissa Heuser is a hero to me!  She saved my backside, quite literally, when I was pregnant with my first baby, Addie.  I was still working full time in an office and she came to my house 2 mornings a week and whipped my booty into gear.  I wore my pre-prego jeans until I was 5 mos pregnant and then switched to maternity clothes.  I loved that people would tell me they couldn’t tell I was pregnant until I turned around (I’m sure they were only humoring me, but I loved it anyway!).  This…

This is last summer at the Orange County Fair.

It’s about the time we found out we would have 3 Littles…

The expression on the girls’ faces in the second frame

is how we felt when we heard the news…

But now we are feeling like frame #4

Can’t wait to meet her!

Gotcha with that one, huh!!?

Well, I’m sure that I’m not telling you something you don’t already know, but seriously, Hanky Panky’s Original Signature Lace Thong are by far my favorite girlie undergarment (that sounds like I’m from “Little House and the Praire” days….) OK, I”ll say it, Favorite THONG! (Seriously, that was hard to type and not feel a little flush in the face…..).

They are listed in the Favorites Gallery both under Fashion as well as Expecting, reason being they are AWESOME for…

First off I just have to let RAC’s husband know that if he wants any tips on next weeks games, I’m happy to help!  I mean seeing as how all 5 of my predictions ALL CAME TRUE yesterday!  The Raiders are most certainly NOT “America’s Team”!

OK, back to the regular post!

So sorry to not have this ready for this mornings subscription email, hopefully you will all still see it and be able to take advantage.

I’ve never been a big Black Friday shopper.  I’m sure I’m missing lots of great deals and…

This is not what I was planning on posting today, but when I received the email with the 30% off for 3 days, I decided it was only fair to share with you all (I have no affiliation with this company at all – I just love the products and wanted to pass  along a promotion)…so I moved this entry up on the post list.

Now I definitely need to start off by saying that I’m not making any claims to the fact that air brushed perfection can be reached…