Welcome to Waking Up Happy

January 2, 2013 Megan Alton 2 Comments

It’s a new year and time for a make over, blog included! Waking Up Happy is a continuation of the blogging that I’ve been doing at my former blog the Tender Life. Over the past two years I’ve seen the joy that writing has given to me and my family. I would be remiss if I didn’t incorporate other very important parts of my life into the blog-o-sphere.

If you notice, the web address is now www.MeganAlton.com. Please make sure you update your RSS feed and bookmark this page so you can come back everyday. I’ve also set up a Facebook page under the same name, so if you like what you see, go over there and LIKE it. This site is still a work in progress, so the look will change until I finally settle on the right one. Please bare with me.

Why the name? Well, I decided on the name Waking Up Happy as I was going over past entries in my gratitude journal from 2012. One of the things I was grateful for was, “Porter waking up happy from naps.” Who doesn’t love a well rested happy baby? It also sounds good rolling off the tongue, and as a tired mom (night owl with a toddler who wakes early) it’s a pleasant reminder to go to bed earlier so I too can wake up happy.

As always, I welcome feedback from everyone. I’m hoping this new format will be easier than the last for facilitating conversations. Bring your ideas, questions, anecdotes and stories to share. I want to hear them all! And thank you, thank you, thank you for following along on this journey of Waking Up Happy.

New Year’s Eve

2012

A spectacular year.

Watched my child grow out of babyhood.

Kept nursing.

Love my husband, still.

Continued to grow and become more of my authentic self.

So blessed.

So powerful.

So loved.

So grateful.

So thankful.

So excited for the future.

So content with the past.

So giddy for the present.

Love abounds.

2013

Welcome!

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Go To My New Blog!

January 1, 2013 Megan Alton

My new blog Waking Up Happy is now live! Go ahead and add it to your RSS feed and change your bookmarks as I will no longer be posting to this one. If the link above doesn’t work you can always type in the web address, www.MeganAlton.com

See you at Waking Up Happy!

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Last Tender Life Post & Top 6 Posts of 2012

December 31, 2012 Megan Alton

Snow Kitty

Whoo, whoo.

What?! Last post? Yes, you read that correctly. But don’t fret, it only means that better things are to come. Starting tomorrow I will be blogging from my BRAND NEW BLOG! I’ll have a redirecting link tomorrow and it’ll be easier to remember, fo’ sho’.

You see, I started Tender Life a few months before I had Porter with the hopes of keeping up with family and friends once the wee babe came along. And this blog has done that really well. What I didn’t anticipate was how much I would enjoy blogging, which turns out to be a lot. I want to bring my blogging to the next level and open it up to a larger audience, because I have so much more to share.

Don’t worry, it will still include all the wonderful updates and pictures of my sweet family and all my previously written posts. The new blog will have more content about my own personal interests, be easier to use, and hopefully easier to leave comments on. After all, blogging is a form of social media, and if Blogger is going to make it difficult for you to leave comments then it’s not very social at all. New year, new blog. Rest assured, Porter will still be very much a part of it all. He is after all much of the inspiration.

For the final real post of Tender Life and of 2012 I want to share the top 6 posts of the last year, in case you missed out. I hope your 2012 was lovely and wonderful and everything you hoped!

Top 6 Posts of 2012!

#6
Africa: Rock the Casbah
#5
Real Food Just Got More Real
#4
Spain: Rhonda
#3
Spain: Marbella Sick Day
#2
Bucket List #13 Epiphony

AND FOR THE TOTALLY MOST RANDOM AND POPULAR POST FROM 2012:

#1
Bucket List #6

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Photo & Quote #25 Snowman

December 30, 2012 Megan Alton

What do you know? I’m even ticklish. In fact, I’m all livin’!

I am alive! What a neat thing to happen to a nice guy like me.

~Frosty The Snowman

Porter’s first snowman!! Aptly named, Frosty.

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For the last month, Porter has had a minor obsession with snowmen. We finally got enough snow and energy to build a small one in our front yard. He’s oddly shaped because the snow here is really dry and doesn’t stick very well. We ended up making 3 small mounds and letting them “gel” for a little bit and then stacking them. It worked like a charm!

4pm Sky

Got snow spin?

Nobody can see you Olive.

We made our snowman double sided so we can see him from inside the house too.

Science kitty! Using a magnifying glass with lights.

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Photo & Quote #24 Family

December 29, 2012 Megan Alton

As the family goes, so goes the nation

and so goes the whole world in which we live.

~Pope John Paul II

If every person in the world had a family like Porter’s,
it would be a very very happy place to live.

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I believe the exact quote for this pictures is, “Go mama!”

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Photo & Quote #23 Travelling Home

December 29, 2012 Megan Alton

There’s no place like home.

~Wizard of Oz

This is actually a photo from a couple weeks ago, but a bird eating cake is pretty cool.

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Also from a few weeks ago.

Tonight, however, we traveled home from our holiday visit to California. What’s been lacking from these posts is that Porter’s been REALLY sick for the entire last week. It started with fever and culminated with a horrible head cold and cough.

Normally it’s no big deal, but being away from home and massive altitude changes in an airplane caused him serious head pain today. Compounded with a late flight…made for a very long ~~day~~ week. Thankfully we made it home and he’s sleeping tight in his own bed tonight.

It was a wild and wonderful adventure to visit all the grandparents. We love them all and can’t get nearly enough of them. For those of you who have Grandparents who live nearby, give them hugs and tell them you love them. Life with children is always easier when OUR parents are around.

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