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It is early November, and I cannot help but think back to this time last year. I was about a week away from giving birth to my daughter, Lucy. I knew that having another child would change my life.<\/p>\n

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However, something else significant happened around this time last year. I received an Etsy Convo from Etsy asking me to be a featured seller! I was sitting on a park bench watching Nathan chase Violet around a play yard. I checked my email just out of habit. And when I say the message from Etsy, I started celebrating! I texted a close friend to let her know that I had been chosen to be a Featured Seller. Then I saw the date that they wanted to feature me: Literally 5 days after my due date to deliver Lucy.<\/div>\n
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I wasn’t sure how I would manage being a featured seller right after delivering a baby, but I was not going to say no to Etsy!<\/div>\n
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So with a month to go until my due date (for both Lucy and Etsy) I began prepping. Etsy had told me to expect a huge increase in sales, but I had no idea what to expect. And I spent every free moment in between work and sleep sewing pillows, packaging calendars, and buying shipping supplies.<\/div>\n
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I will admit, I thrive under pressure. However, working a full time job, taking care of a 3 year old, and the prep for the Etsy feature was a little more than I could handle! Secretly I had been hoping that Lucy would arrive earlier than expected just so that I would have more time to recover for my Etsy sales.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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My midwife had told me that she thought that the baby would come early, so I clung to that hope.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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It is early November, and I cannot help but think back to this time last year. I was about a week away from giving birth to my daughter, Lucy. I knew that having another child would change my life. However, something else significant happened around this time last year. I received an Etsy Convo from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}