Breastfeeding Friendly Fashion: Blouses

This week's BFF is all about my number one frenemy -- blouses. We have such a love hate relationship! I love how a blouse can be dressed up or dressed down, and I especially love all of the fun prints I can find them in these days, but I find it so hard to find a cute blouse that doesn't make me feel like I'm headed to a job interview. So I did some searching and I think it's official -- blouses and I have rekindled our love for one another. I adore all of these choices and it was so hard to narrow them down! I love that I could dress up any of these for a date night or family dinner, but could also throw on a pair of jeans and flats and still feel put together. And of course, most importantly, they're all breastfeeding friendly. Without further adieu, meet my new best friends --

1. Inspired Endeavors 2. Pam Breeze-ly 3. Start from Scratch 4. From Smart to Finish 

5. Comfortably Cool 6. Hosting for the Weekend 7. Girl About Scranton 8. Winsome in the Willows

I can't wait to add these to my wardrobe! I think I'm going to start out with the gorgeous floral Inspired Endeavors blouse and then grab the Pam Breeze-ly tunic, because how could I not with a name like that?!

Day in the Life.

It's easy to get lost in it all. The totally routine yet completely unpredictable days that seem to always be too long and too short at the same time. The days that can drag on and on, though at the end of the day there's always more to do. An ordinary day is cleaning endless messes, kissing endless boo-boos. fulfilling endless needs.

An ordinary day consists of me giving all I can, every bit of myself minute after minute after minute, until those minutes add up into hours and days and weeks of crazy, chaotic, indescribably wild moments. 

An ordinary day is about embracing the imperfection and finding magic in those moments. 

The moments so sacred and secret that no one else even notices them, where life suddenly seems so spectacular for absolutely no particular reason.

The moments that can be so easily missed unless you surrender to the day and all of the beautiful chaos it brings.

  The moments that fill you with unconditional love, make your heart swell, and make you think, "I am so lucky they are mine." Moments like his first smiles. Watching her eyelashes flutter as she drifts off to sleep.  Pulling a blanket over him as he shudders with a happy sigh. 

How she waits at the window for daddy to come home.  Her ceaseless imagination.His smiles at 2 a.m. when he wakes up in my arms. Her contagious giggles. 

The playing that makes the endless messes. 

Fulfilling their endless needs.

The wild running, dancing, jumping girl and her endless boo-boos. 

 These moments are reserved only for those that have spent dusk until dawn rocking a sick child, those who have put any one dream on hold, those who add up all the small, magical moments and see what a wild, crazy, beautiful life we have. We are a brave, loving and giving group, us mothers, and no one can quite experience these imperfectly perfect moments like we can. 

An ordinary day is always extraordinary in our eyes. 

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Breastfeeding Friendly Fashion: Dresses

If you're a breastfeeding mama then you're probably familiar with the struggle that is finding cute breastfeeding clothes. Especially dresses! For me, there's no buttons or zippers, then there's no point in buying it. I've been breastfeeding non-stop for over two years now and it still drives me nuts at how my wardrobe is not very breastfeeding friendly. At home I can get away with wearing anything (usually just a nursing bra and some yoga pants!), but with spring and summer around the corner I am in desperate need of a wardrobe that will let me breastfeed through our many play dates at the park and picnic outings. 

I'm excited to be doing a little mini-series featuring some amazing outfit choices that are perfect for breastfeeding mamas. And I have some fashionista mamas lined up to share their picks as well. Here are some of my own fashion choices for spring and summer. I can't get enough of dresses! So I combed one of my favorite websites to bring you eight choices that are all boob-friendly. And I had to make sure they were all affordable too, so they range in the $50 area. 

1. Bayfront Bliss 2. Take to the Wind 3. Be My Bay 4. T.A. Okay 

5.Make It or Bake It 6. Gazebo Skylight 7. Infinite Iterations 8. Santorini Sweetie

I seriously can't decide which ones will be coming home to me first! It's so much less stress just to throw on a dress before leaving the house and dresses easily last me into fall with some boots and leggings.