Would Martha Be Proud?

Throughout my pregnancy as I shared little milestones with my mommy friends I would always here "make sure you put that in your baby book!"  I started to realize I was a bad mommy to be because I had no purchased said "baby book" yet so I figured I better get on that so my kid doesn't end up in therapy because I didn't track every step of my pregnancy for him or her.
They have fancy ones you can buy where you just fill in the info and add pictures, I didn't really want to keep record of how much weight I had gained every month so I decided to just get a blank scrap book and make my own.  I am in no way shape or form a scrapbooker so my intention was not to create some fancy book.  My plan was to just put in some pictures and titles so we have something to look back on.
Now that I look at it this book is the opposite of anything that is crafty.  It's got the ultra sound photos, some other little milestones, pictures of the nursery etc. but it's kind of embarrassing how plain it actually is.  I need a crafty intervention.  But I have never had the desire to do crafts or be crafty, the perfection and preciseness of it all stresses me out.
The bottom line and what I will tell my child is that mommy tried her best and that's all you can ask of anybody.

Pretty Woman

Toddlers & Tiaras on TLC upsets me.  Kids grow up so fast as it is and now parents are rushing it along and throwing them into this pageant world that doesn't seem right.  It's a new low when a mom is dressing her 3 year old like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, and we all know what her "profession" was in that movie.  Sherri Shepherd on "The View" hit the nail on the head.