My Favorite Things {2022 Christmas Gift Guide}

I blinked and it's Christmas! Anyone else feel like this? 

Seems like we were just celebrating the New Year and now we are ending it! 

With Christmas just a few days away and the procrastination is has fully set in, let's chat about gifts that you can get to your front door in time for Christmas. 

Potty Training

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HOLY MOLY we have a potty trained 2.5 year old!

There's something about the second you hear that a child is 2 years old you automatically start thinking about potty training.  I can not even begin to tell you how many times we "tried" to potty train and just completely failed until now!

2021 Let's Do This { Trusting the Lord}

It's the first full week of 2021! How are your new year's resolutions going? So far so good here! One of my goals for 2021 was to feel more connected to myself. Part of that is working on my relationship with God. 2020 for the most part was pretty good to us....until Dec. 30th (talk about going out with a bang!). We received heartbreaking news that one of my family members has cancer. Talk about a punch in the gut. When times get hard or difficult, I (like many of us) go running to the Lord, begging and praying. So here I am..I know I don't deserve his mercy, but he is always faithful. 

Blogger Identity Crisis- Hi, it's me again!

 // Beanie // Buffalo Check // 

 Here we go again...A new blog name...

Just like this title says, I am going through an identity crisis. You may or may not know this, but I've been blogging for over 4 years now.. not consistently by any means but my first post was over 4 years ago. At that time, girls were creating these cute blogs, with cute names likes, and pretty photos..and I was like yeah, I can do that too! So, I did. That's when this all started for me. My blog was originally Mrs. Southern Style, and I told NO ONE, other than my mom and my husband about it. I was so embarrassed to share with anyone that I was blogging. I cringed every time I hit "post" on an Instagram selfie or a outfit photo. Deep down, I loved it, but was so worried about what my friends and family (and the world) would think. So, I just did a post here and there...

{Gingerbread Play Dough} Christmas Toddler Activity & Homemade Gift (+ Free printable)

 If you are like me, you are always looking for ideas on how to keep your toddler occupied while doing something that's 1. limited in mess 2. educational.  My son (who is 2) loves to "help" while we are cooking, so I went down the Pinterest rabbit hole and found this DIY Gingerbread Playdough recipe! My mind started spinning on the cute things we could do with this! Being a former elementary school teacher I love a good DIY and a craft especially when it comes to cuties things for my kid. I decided that for goodie bags this Christmas for his class, we are going to make our own Make a Gingerbread Friend kits! Ambious right?!😜

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Wilson's Favorite Things {1-2 Year Old Boy Gift Guide}

It's that time!! Christmas is right around the corner! I'm so excited! I absolutely love Christmas! Tree is up! And now it's time to get gifts and get to wrapping. I made a Wilson's (Wilson is my 2 year old son if you are new here! Welcome!) Fav collage a few years ago and y'all loved it! So, I'm bringing it back! 

Fall Outfits + Thanksgiving Inspiration

 Well here we are...almost the end of November...HOW? Is it just me or did this year creep and fly by at the same time?!? Since we are 2 weeks out from Thanksgiving, I've dug through my closet and picked out a few items that would be great for walking around the living room and kitchen on Turkey Day 😜 all links are commissioned links :) 

I'm Such a Bad Blogger {Recent Looks from Insta}

Hi friends...It's you favorite inconsistent blogger here :)

I've got to do better! I truly do love blogging and the content creation process, but man am I bad with my time management! Maybe it's just mom life problems, but I feel like there is just not enough time in the day to get anything accomplished. Anyone else? 

Anyways.. 

I wanted to share a few looks from Instagram that I have posted in the last few weeks as well as some other favorite items that I have gotten in the mail. Let's just call this the "Bad Blogger Everything Haul" 😃

Santa's Helper

 

Can you believe that we are less than 2 months away from Christmas?! It seemed like during the first part of when Covid hit us all, time stood still. But now, it's like it's flying by! 

I'm so excited about to announce that we are going to be launching our first ever Santa's Helper! You might be thinking...what's that? Basically, we at Buy It, Babe! are going to help making shopping a little bit easier for your loved ones. You will fill out the form, linked below, with information on what you would like to receive for Christmas this year. We will do all of the work and send your wish list out to whomever you'd like us to with easy shoppable links. Theses links will take them straight to the product of your choice. We will even include size and color if applicable, so no more guessing and hoping that the gift will fit. In full disclosure, the links we will provide will be commissioned links. This simply means that if a purchase is made after clicking on a link, then we will get a small commission on the sale at NO EXTRA COST to you. Let us take the stress of shopping for you!

Easy Fall Looks + Budget Friendly

 The moment Sept. 1st happens I go from Summer mode to Fall mode! I'm one of those people :) I don't know what it is about the changing of the seasons and upcoming holidays that give me the urge to celebrate early! Anyone else like that?

Nordstrom Anniversary Sale #NSale

Hey Babes! Aug. 4th marks the first day for certain Nordstrom cardholders to be able to shop the #NSale. Well, if you don't know, your status is based on your spending at Nordstrom using your Nordstrom Credit Card. So, this group DOES NOT apply to me. Unfortunately, the way the sale is set up with allowing access on certain days, really makes it hard for everyone to shop before things sell out. There are some restocks, but catching them can be hard. 

Gift Guide: Wilson's Favorite Things!

I've really been a bad mama and haven't updated y'all on Wilson! Y'all seem to have loved my birth story and 1 month update post so I thought it would be a good time to finally share what's been going on with my little man!

New Name, Who this?

Hi Y'all! We are changing things up over here! So, here's the deal...I'm re-branding :)

This is no longer Mrs. Southern Style (sigh).

Baby Proofing made EASY!

If you are like me, the second I found out I was  pregnant I started noticing how many electrical outlets that we have in our house, the wobbly shelves in my living room and the number of kitchen cabinets we have. Why? Because I would soon need to baby proof my house!

Wilson is 11 months old and really hasn't tried *much* to mess with things in our house. Recently, he has shown a lot of interest in the toilet,. Then a few days later he started opening the kitchen cabinets (UGH). So, we knew we had to do something FAST!

Amazon Prime to the rescue! Ha!

I had no idea what I was looking for, what brand would be best, etc.. So, I just did what I normally do with Amazon..check the reviews. Well, good thing I did because I found some GOOD stuff!

I'm all about easy. I barely have time to do anything at this point and the last thing I need is to spend hours trying to figure out how to attach a baby proofing device to my cabinets. Y'all it literally took us MINUTES to completely baby proof our house (minus moving furniture).

OK first, is the obvious. Plugs for your electrical outlets. This is pretty much the same no matter what brand you get, but just in case you want to pick up some from Amazon, these are the ones I purchased.

My favorite baby proofing item has been these for our kitchen cabinets. I had no idea what I was getting myself into when it came to installing baby proofing for your cabinets. I honestly thought it was going to take at least 5 or 6 power tools! Ha!  N.O.P.E. since our cabinets have a "lip" all we had to was to take the backing off of the back and stick it on to the back of the cabinet. DONE! Simple Simple.

Another easy baby proofing device I purchased was these for keeping our toilet seat closed. Wilson loves to crawl into the bathroom and lift up the seat. I can just imagine what all we'd find in the toilet bowl if we didn't lock it up! All you have to do is take the backing off the sticker and apply to the top lid and the toilet, snap the lock closed and viola!


I hope this helps all you busy mama's out there!

Bye Mom Guilt

//Apple Watch Band//Dress//

This week I have been struggling so much with Mom guilt and the unnecessary stress that I have been putting on myself. It sounds so ridiculous that I am even working myself up over planning my soon to be one year old's first birthday party, but I AM! I've been searching Pinterest and Instagram for inspiration and I've seen these AMAZING photos of birthday parties that look like they've spent $1K on in decorations....so here I am trying to compete...WHY?

Super Easy Snack for Your Little + Update!

Dishwasher Friendly Labels

Hiiiiiiiiii!! It's been a while :)

Y'all, my baby is growing like a weed! I can not get over the fact that Wilson will be 1 years old in just a few weeks! Here' a short recap of what this cutie pie has been up to the last few months...

Trendy Business Cards + Stationery for the Busy

As you look at this photo above you're probably thinking that I'm on Instagram or Amazon, right?! Chances are that you'd be right any other time but this time (and no it's due to the great Instagram shutdown of March 13, 2019 😜). I'm actually using my phone to create a customized business cards online!

Babydate: 1 Month + Wilson's Favorite Things

While I was pregnant, I posted a few Bumpdates where I would tell a few things about what was going on with me and the baby during that particular week of pregnancy. Well, now that our little dude is here I thought I share some Babydates!

Birth Story: Wilson Allen Grundy

This post has been a dream of mine for so long. As some of you might know, I have struggled with unexplained infertility which has led my husband and I down a long journey of fertility. So, this post is very special to me since it is all about the birth of our son, Wilson Allen Grundy.

Fall Shopping for My New Mom Body

I'm hoping that by the time I click publish on this blog post that I am officially a mom! As I write this post, I am 39 weeks pregnant and oh so very ready to have this baby! One of the things that I am looking forward to once I am no longer pregnant (besides loving on my baby) is to finally wear normal clothes again!