Have you heard of StickyGrams? We’ve been growing our collection on the refrigerator ever since moving to Davis—and I love them! Basically, StickyGram transforms your Instagrams into fun little magnets (and, now, IPhone and Ipad Cases). You just log in to StickyGram with your Instagram details, and choose from your own photos.
The quality is great. And because I use Instagram so frequently, it’s easy to grab what feels like a fairly accurate representation of our favorite, informal family moments to display.
They come in sheets—nine photos in a square, and I hadn’t even bothered taking ours apart (but rather have just been adding sheets to a single large grid one-by-one) until it occurred to me to let Hudson rearrange them. He loves looking at them and pointing out specific ones to babysitters!
Fair warning: they’re nearly addictive as Instagram itself. In fact, now that Skyler is here I think I may need to order the next sheet!
By the way, StickyGrams also now offers a new magnet called “The Jigsaw,” wherein one image is displayed over the nine magnets. And they’re having a sale—25% off of all phone cases and iPad covers through the end of the month! Check it out.
This post is sponsored by StickyGram but all opinions expressed are my own. I have been happily making StickyGrams for quite some time now!
This is the introductory piece in a four-piece series entitled “Infancy. Again.” by guest contributor Rachael Ringenberg. Rachael lives in Boston with her husband Joe and their two daughters, 2-1/2-year-old Lux and six-month-old Joan, and writes about having another baby on her blog Erstwhile Dear. I’ve asked her to share four pieces with us here—one each week in the coming month. Rachael’s writing always resonates with me; she has a beautiful, relatable voice that I hope you will enjoy as much as I do.
To begin, her “Ten Thoughts for New Moms” (to which she, generously, agreed to add four more for second-timers like me).
Ten thoughts for new moms
Sleep with a favorite bed companion for your baby before they arrive and infuse it with your scent.
Since this is your first: Relish nursing them to sleep. Relish falling asleep with them. Relish getting stuck under them for their whole nap. It will be the rarest of occurrences with any baby after this one.
Things that are easiest when the baby is smallest: day trips, plane trips, eating at loud restaurants, and evening adventures.
Never post about how well your baby is sleeping on Facebook. Nothing marks a new parent more than this boasting and, unfortunately, it can really hurt some friends’ feelings who’ve had more difficult babies. Stay savvy and avoid this topic.
Last Wednesday marked both my original due date and Skyler’s first week of life. As has come to be expected, time seems to be slipping through my fingers; I wanted to capture and share some thoughts (and a lot of photos) from Skyler’s first week.
Apologies: It’s an indulgently long record of a week, but I know I’ll appreciate having it one day.
