On Being Mom

My early Mother's Day present:

I love this kid!

Now, the one who seems to have taken up permanent residence in my uterus...I'd promise her a pony if I thought it would do any good!

Still Here

I'm still here. With a baby in my belly.


I tried to figure out why she wasn't coming out. Last night I packed my hospital bag, started the marathon that is my laundry pile, and watched hubby catch up with the dishes.


Today, the kids will get bathed, put away all of the laundry, and help me with cleaning the house.


Then, tonight, there will be no reason this baby can't come out.


Unless she's waiting for me to finish her blanket. Then I'm screwed!

A Burst of Creativity

While ignoring all the things I still have to do, I remade an old T shirt into a dress for Munchkin.

I think it's adorable--now if it would just stop snowing, maybe she could wear it.

I am trying to make some simple dresses with sleeves for Thumbelina this summer. She is all about skirts but if I can get her into dresses, that's one less thing to wash! Luckily there are a bunch of tutorials for easy ones floating around the internet.

Up next, I am going to try this skirt from Made.

I think it would make a cute birthday outfit for Thumbelina.

Super Sale!

I am nesting. There I said it. Slowly but surely, I am cleaning everything out, reorganizing and purging. Last week, we moved all of our storage stuff plus all of my craft stuff into the dining room. As I have been going through it all, I feel like I am making huge progress...until I look at how thrashed and crowded my dining room still is!

So in an effort to get things moving, I am having a super sale in my Etsy Shop. All of the sale items are already made and packaged, ready to ship. Most of the items in my shop are marked down from $15 to only $8. That's nearly 50% off! These make great baby shower gifts, or even first birthday presents. Munchkin still plays with hers.

This whole nesting thing would be a lot easier if I could lift the boxes myself!

Come On Out, Baby!

I had an uneventful trip to the doctor yesterday. I saw a NP, who checked me and told me I was still at "a tight one."

DANG IT!

Then she continued, "I'm trying to stretch it bigger but it's not working!"

AWESOME!

This is the second appointment where I haven't gained any weight. My diet of cake, brownies and ice cream is so working. Hopefully that continues after the baby is born.

But next week I see Dr. Buick Hands, and hubby will be done with classes and finals. That means a green light to have this baby. I am going to try to talk the doctor into inducing me Friday if I don't go on my own.

May 1st would be a good day to have a baby, don't you think?

What Do You Get...?

When you let a 6-year-old's imagination and creativity run wild?


A suit of armor made out of track pieces, which he later muscled out of Hulk style:

And a cake. He had treat for FHE and decided he wanted to decorate a cake. Why yes, those are lemonheads on top. And a full bottle of sprinkles (he thought it had a shaker lid.) And enough frosting to induce a diabetic coma if you come within 10 feet. But he was proud of it.

And it wasn't too bad...if you scraped off all the frosting.

Check

I have a list of things to do before the baby comes. Some of the things are rational and totally doable, like washing her clothes and setting up her crib. (Both done, by the way.) Other things are too far out there, like scrubbing my kitchen ceiling and washing all my baseboards. But I am slowly crossing everything off my list.

Yesterday, to the sounds of Cinderella that my sick kids were watching, I finished the curtain for her room. Quilting has always daunted me. Especially after the blanket I made for her has anything but square pieces:

But then I finally bought a ruler to go with my rotary cutter and mat. Straight lines are EASY--if you have the right tools! So I was able to start and finish the curtain in under three hours! I know that seems like a long time but I had to sew a little, then unplug my machine, plug in the iron, iron the seams, and then unplug the iron and plug in the sewing machine so I could sew the next part. (The circuits in our house are a bit tempermental, to say the least!) But I am proud of how it turned out--but mostly at how easy it was!

Now if I could just remember how I did that dumb blanket stitch on her other blanket, we'd be set!