Pregnancy Loss Awareness Day.

As some of you may know today 10/15/14 was Pregnancy Loss Awareness day.

This has to be one of the singularly hardest day for a lot of parents to try and remember and make known. Though a pregnancy is lost, that baby will never be forgotten. I have been so incredibly blessed to have had two uncomplicated "normal", and I say that meaning a typical pregnancy with no health issues. With those pregnancies the two greatest gifts God has ever bestowed upon me. I hope I'm not coming off braggy, but humbled. I do however have quite a few friends who have suffered and lived through this travesty and my heart goes out to you wholeheartedly. I read a blog from a woman who had a miscarriage, having a couple ladies I consider myself close with recently going through the same, and I know everyone reacts differently. I really tried to take this woman's advice. She explains how most woman who have recently lost a pregnancy don't wish to talk about it, but to grieve. With their partners and family. They don't want the world to talk about it, like a gossip session. They don't really want you bugging them asking what they need or want, because what they really and want is their precious baby back. I cannot fathom that kind of pain. If you do know someone going through this please, just get on your knees, and pray. Pray for the family, and for the mother and father. Pray they find comfort and peace in their hearts. Pray they know there is a reason, and not to take it out on God. But to take comfort in Him knowing He is there. If she needs a hug, be there. Cook her a meal and silently leave it, if she wants to talk she will. Don't pressure her. And if you are reading this, and have been through a pregnancy loss, know you always ALWAYS have a friend in the Jesus and a friend in me. Even if you don't want Him, he's there. Even if you don't think you're worthy, He's there. Waiting for you with open arms. 

If you need a prayer tonight, tomorrow, or ever PLEASE let me know. I love all of you! Even if I don't know you I'm thinking of your precious babies, especially today.

-Stay Sassy, Stay Blessed.

Casey

P.S. 

I'm super Excited to announce a new friend/blogger buddy Hope will be on my blog sometime next month to talk about epilepsy awareness! I'm so excited to have my first blog visitor! I think it's something VERY important that should be discussed, should you ever find yourself in a situation where someone is having a seizure, so you know how to help that person as much as possible.

More info come :)

Corn Chowder Recipe!

'Ello Loves!

Tonight for dinner we made some super yummy corn chowdah! (We're from Maine) 

I posted a video of the recipe so if you want to see it here's the link.

Now, we don't ever measure anything. Unless absolutely necessary. Which chowder is a great recipe because you can play with it and decide the consistency you like.

In this recipe we had

3-4 Bags of frozen sweet whole kernel corn

1 bag of frozen chopped onions 

3-5 cans of diced canned potatoes

1 lb of bacon

half a stick of REAL butter

 Heavy Whipping cream

Whole Milk,

Salt, Pepper, Garlic Powder to taste.

saute the onions and your seasonings in the bottom of your chowder pot. after lightly golden add half of you bacon to the bottom of the pot. Let that crisp up and really get that grease separated. Thats where a lot of your bacon flavor comes from. While that's cooking, cook the rest of the bacon (we chose to cook it in the oven)  Take your bacon out from the pot when its fully cooked. Set aside. Add your milk to your onion and bacon fat then your heavy whipping cream. Let that get nice and hot. Then add your butter. Make sure all your bacon is chopped/chunky however you prefer, add it to your chowder. Let simmer for a few minutes. Viola! Enjoy!

This is honestly one of the BEST chowders Dale has ever made, and his chowder was famous at the restaurant he used to work at. 

Send me a picture of your chowders! Or just comments on if you liked it. And your recipes!

-Stay Sassy, Stay Blessed!

Casey

Blogging and Vlogging

Hey all you beautiful people out there!

I hope you had a wonderful day today!

I just wanted to drop by on the bloggersphere real quick and let all my wonderful readers know I have started a youtube account. I'm going to be having "semi" daily vlogs, outfit of the day Sundays, and Tag Tuesdays. If you can think of any fun tags to do let me know! Or any other kinds of regular scheduled vlog days!

If you have a youtube account as well, let me know, I will certainly check it out. 

I will still be blogging on here the important stuff so don't worry, this mamma is staying put!

My Youtube Account 

-Stay Sassy, Stay Blessed my dear friends!

Casey

Short and Sweet, where may life take me?

I've now got a computer again so a lot more blogs should be coming your way! 

A lot of the time I spend thinking "What am I going to do with my life?" I never went to college, and I don't really want to go, so my options for a career that will make me happy are limited. I mean don't get me wrong I LOVE being a stay at home mom, but I feel like I need to do something for me. Why not make a little money for something I enjoy doing? I mean I have my "business" but it's not really booming, which I'm sure will pick up since it's fall/winter. But what about the rest of the year? Even with crocheting I'm still at home where my kids are driving me nuts.

So I thought a little bit, I prayed a little bit. Then it hit me. I'm going to try my hand at photography. Come this income tax season I'm going to get myself a nice camera, and some photo edititng software. I figure for the first 6-12 months I'm not going to charge, I just want to get enough experience under my belt, and build a portfolio. Get all kinds of photo shoots in. Infant, kids, birthday, anniversary, wedding, engagement, pregnancy. You name it, I want to capture it on camera. Maybe in a few years do some freelance work.  Ultimately open a studio. Ohhh it's my new dream. I did want to be a doula, but the area I live in I just couldn't make a living. I want to be affordable too, and work with people. It's so hard to find photographers who are AFFORDABLE (not cheap) that don't just give you a run of the mill session and experience. Not knocking my photographer friends AT ALL! You are all fabulous, I even have a friend who has a nice camera that take my kids pictures for free. Sometimes it's just hard to get together though. But this way I get to chose the times for my kids and how many I get. I could get a hundred beautiful pictures of my babies, and it's still not enough to me. (I know selfish right?) 

I don't know, does my new dream sound silly? I feel like this could be a good creative outlet for me.

If any of you photographers out there know of any good cameras to start with please comment below! And photo editing software! 

I know this blog says "Short and Sweet" sorry! 

 

I mean how cute is she! This is my newest creation btw! You can order it here :)

Thanks for reading! 

Stay Sassy, Stay Blessed
                      Casey