Awkward & Awesome

Last week was a whole lot of awkward, 

so I thought I would follow up this week with a whole lot of awesome.

Awesome

With GG's food allergies, I could not give her the milk I pumped and froze

prior to starting my elimination diet. 

At first I was heartbroken.

As many mama's will tell you,

breast milk is liquid gold.

Liquid GOLD, I tell ya.

A lot of sweat and tears {no blood though, thank goodness!}

goes into pumping and storing milk.

I had been diligent about pumping since GG was 2 weeks old 

to ensure I would have an ample supply for daycare when I returned to work.

Cue the tears when I realized that the majority of my pumped milk 

could not be fed to my baby since it was contaminated with the very foods to which she is allergic.

Don't worry, I know this is kind of a downer so far but

I promise this ends up being awesome.

A friend suggested that I donate my breast milk to a baby in need via Human Milk 4 Human Babies .

I'm not going to lie, at first, I was a little hesitant. 

There is something about breast milk that seems so... well, personal. 

After thinking about it for a few days, 

 I joined the Facebook group for our region, stalked people's posts, 

responded to a mother in my area, set up a time with her to do the hand off, 

and successfully donated my breast milk.

And, I am really glad I did.

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In my attempt to be cool,

I follow a few style bloggers on Instagram.

Stalking their adventurous and extremely well-curated lives via the gram

allows me to live a much, much cooler life vicariously through them.

But my fantasy would came to a screeching halt 

when they all starting using some secret hashtag {#ootd} last week.

For a few days, I tried to figure it out on my own.

But after a while I was tired of being stumped and

just succumbed to my uncoolness and googled #ootd.

This led to an awesome discovery: internetslang.com

Essentially, this is the hashtag guide for dummies.
I quickly found out that #OOTD stands for Outfit Of The Day.

#YSVW.