Double shot espresso makes the world go round

B and I have many things in common

-both married to college basketball coaches, which makes us both basketball widows but of course we would have it no other way.
-we are both mothers of 3 children
-we love realty TV and love to chat about the shows as if we are part of them
-we both live FAR away from family, B an Aussie native lives on the other side of the world from "home"
-we love gourmet veggie pizza
-we are not good at asking for help, we are women we can do ANYTHING
-but the number one thing we have always had in common (except for B for about 2 weeks one time when she decided to let go of her addiction until me the enabler reeled her back in bawhaha...evil laugh) IS we both agree that coffee makes the world go round!

We have worked so hard on our new venture.  Early mornings, late nights and long days, but we got by with a little help from our friend...the Breville espresso machine!  This was a present from my father about 4 Christmas ago, wait four?!  Can it be?! My baby is already 4?!

When you are a WAHM ( for those of you that are as bad as I am figuring out those things, Work At Home Mom) you become master of the circus!  Able to type with one hand, while texting in the other. Nurse a baby while cooking everyone else dinner, drive and find the passy in the back seat (knees are there for a reason) talk on the phone and order drive thru, hold conference calls in the bathroom, respond to emails still wearing pajamas and all the other fun stuff we get to call our daily grind.  Really though, the list goes on because life doesn't stop to give you time to catch up!

These last couple weeks were crunch time.  B and I had given ourselves a date, a looming date that was made to inspire us to push on and do the work.  A date that we wanted our website up and running. Ekkk, it was happening hold on this ride goes FAST!  But we did it!  We got it all done pressed the publish button to the site and raised a mug to cheers.

 B and lil Momma

 ahhh need I say more

 Kids playing out the window from our desk

Drumroll Please!

To all of our friends and family thank you, thank you...for your patience and support.  B and I are so grateful for the incredible people we have in our lives.  The long awaited arrival of mommapia is finally here and we couldn't be more excited!  Our patience and hard work have paid off and the proof in now in the puddin'.

www.mommapia.com is up and running!  Our patent-pending Just for Baby Bib is ready to be shown to the world.  An idea that was born from two Mom's, raising kids and battling everyday in the trenches of dirty diapers and dishes.  Finding ways to handle the daily grind with style, function and class.  Two Mom's whose world got flipped upside down when an idea came to them that they couldn't ignore.

Mommapia's Just for Baby Bib is an innovative modern approach to feeding babies.  In a nutshell it is a bib, burp cloth and modesty cover in one unique design.  Enabling mothers to have everything they need in one bib at their finger tips.  Made from quality designer fabrics the 100% terry cloth backed bibs are sturdy and practical. A must have for all mothers and makes a wonderful unique shower gift. They fit easily into a diaper bag, or look great hanging from a knob in the nursery ready for use at the drop of a hat.

Mommapia Just for Baby, love the bib you're in!!

Before we get snowed in...

I was up this morning running around with my little munchkins before this midwest snow/ice-storm rolls through.  I like to shop early in the morning when no ones else is there.  My kids have free reign to run the isle's without interruption and I can cruise coffee in hand collecting my food items.

This morning however with a winter advisory alert was the exact opposite.  I could tell pulling in the parking lot it was gonna be a fight for the last carton of eggs and the last loaf of bread.  Moms sizing each other up for who would get the last carton of 2% Horizon milk!  People were everywhere in the store loading up for the snowed in days to come.

While I braved the crowd and swerved my way around obstacles I managed to get my storm supplies milk, eggs, bread and of course a fresh deck of cards and Life and Style magazine.  Girls gotta have the necessities!

The grocery store wasn't however the only place I needed to go before this storm.  I received a voicemail last night that made me one happy momma, the new "Just for baby Bibs" arrived finished and ready for pick up!! Woohoo happy dance!!!  Kids in tow we snatched them up before the snow!!!  Hey that's a rhyme?!

Check out the latest fabric options for Mommapia, mark your favorites the website will be ready next week...more happy dancing!!!!!

Here we Gooooooo!!!

mommapia.com website launch coming February 2011!

After months of hard work and TONs I mean tons of planning Bianca and I are finally ready to put our blood, sweat and tears on the world wide web!  We are both so excited to be starting a brand new company from the ground up.  Ideas that were born through lot's of interrupted phone conversations (we both are very busy mothers on the side) thoughts shared and born over morning coffees before the kids needed to be rushed off to school and husbands needed kissed good-bye for the day.

 Ok if we are being real a lot of these phone conversations that birthed these ideas were often done while we were nursing our own babies, cooking family dinners, changing diapers, breaking up sibling fights and as much as both of us hate to admit behind the wheel of our car in the drive thru of Starbucks!

So much time has gone into our newest baby, Mommapia.  First the name came about because Bianca and I both had our third child, little girls one day apart.  She calls her adorable darling Little Momma, and I call mine Sweet Pia.  Put these two amazing girls together and you get Mommapia, the company name. We found this name fitting because the original idea from Bianca came about while we were both whining about being constantly wet while breastfeeding our new rugrats.  Using bibs, burp clothes, breast pads, nursing covers and the occasional random household item, paper towel, tissue etc :) ... we soon found ourselves juggling more than just life with a new baby.

We thought there has to be some sort of way to get everything you need in ONE thing.  I, Suzanne started thinking about the design.  Taking the idea and drawing it out on paper.  I remember the first picture I drew of it that I sent to Bianca via text.  A bib that extends on both ends to allow the mother to use it as a bib, burp cloth and even a modesty cover when needing privacy.  An All-IN-ONE feeding bib.

We are excited to be bringing our idea to the world.  Bringing function and fashion to feeding.  The worlds first ever patent-pending Just for Baby Bib...Mommapia, Love the bib you're in!