Divine Design

I had a lot of fun designing this blog and giving it a makeover. It was fun to learn how to do it and I was really proud of the final result. Yesterday I asked my friend Brooke if she would let me give her blog a makeover and she said yes! Brooke and I went through out master's program together, got engaged in the same month, got married three months apart, and worked at the same school for three years. Now she is about to have her first baby at the end of May (one thing we are not doing at the same time!). I am so excited to meet her little bundle of joy this summer when I go back to Oregon! She and her husband are not finding out if the baby is a boy or a girl until the birth. What a surprise, I could never wait!

Last night I worked a little bit on a new design for her blog. I just used my "play around blog" so the design in on my own blog, but as soon as she gives me the info to log into hers, I can transfer the design over. I made a family theme for now and when the baby is born, I told her I can change it up again to make it more boy or girl appropriate depending on what she has.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

I am not finished yet. I may play around with the text colors and try to get the photo to look more high quality. Blog design is so addicting! There are so many fun things to do, but I am pretty happy with the color scheme and family theme. Seems appropriate for a couple about to have their first baby!

The Mowery Family 

Also, I have talked about making a classroom blog once I get back in the classsrom so I tried out a design for that as well. I am still processing how to make it work because I would definitely want to incude photos and make it a place where parents could look to see what has been happening in the classroom, but in order to do that I feel that it would be important to make it a private blog, which is more difficult for parents. I found that when I made my blog about living in Germany private, I lost some followers (friends and family!) because they never bothered to go through the sign in process. I think a class blog could be so great, but I would not want to make any families who don't use computers feel left out. Perhaps a training session and a tour of where they can access in the info (classroom computers/library computers). Anyway, I was just playing around, but here is the link. Once I get back to OR, I would use my work email instead of the one that links to all my other blogs just so it stayed school related only. That way I can include a different "personal info" description more specific to that blog. 

Here it is

Will you/did you find out the gender of your baby or keep it a surprise?

What do you think is the best gift to give a first time mother?

If you don't have kids, have you already named them?
(We have two boy names and one girl name picked out!)