Pretty soon after we got married, Philip got on a country kick and started listening to the country station to and from work every day. One day he came home and told me there was a song he’d heard that made him laugh, cry, smile, and cry some more all the way home.

When Landen, my mom and I went to The Wood Connection over Thanksgiving, I saw this board and knew I had to get it.

But it was $7, and their plain boards inside were on sale for $0.99. So with the same process as these boards, I made my own. And I decided to omit the sparkly white letters that they had chosen. A nice off-white was a little more appropriate for our little dude.

For now it sits on the windowsill in our home office, but in a few months when our little buckaroo arrives, it’ll hang on the wall in his nursery. Can’t wait.