Projects & A Good Book

Lately, I have been busy doing a lot of sewing.

My sewing machine has been busy giving me lots of problems.

If I were the cursing type (which I am not (anymore)) I would have been busy cursing as well.

I fixed it enough to hammer out a couple of projects.

Wanna see?

These are Lilywraps that I chose to make for our next church humanitarian project. We are going to donate them to the hospital to give to preemie and stillborn babies. They are tiny blankets to wrap them up tight and then they can use as a keepsake also. Love this idea!

 

My good friend gave me some fabric awhile back called Halfmoon Ruby. I finally decided to put it to good use by making a pillow for a chair in my living room. I used my silhouette to cut the felt flower. I have another project planned with the leftover fabric as well. I will share when complete.

I added some lace to a couple dresses. I just wanted a little more length.

I think this did the trick.

I am heading out to Pennsylvania in a couple weeks for my niece's baptism.

I thought this towel would be the perfect gift and I used my silhouette once again.

Luke wanted a picture taken too.

He spends most all his days only in his underwear.

I also made this  treat stand from plates I found at the Goodwill.

I am in love and I can’t wait to use it for a party.

I might have to throw a party just so I can use it.

I try to get all my projects done during Luke’s naptime, but the last two days he has decided that naptime is no longer.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well this mama ain’t going down without a fight.

Even though he played in his room his whole naptime yesterday and only slept for an hour today (and played the rest of the time), I am still not giving up.

I am considering it a phase and we will get back on our lovely (and needed) naptime schedule.

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Yesterday marked 1 year since Jared started his job here in Vegas.

What a crazy, crazy year it has been.

I am SO proud of Jared for working so hard this year and making it through.

I know it hasn’t been easy for him to start a new job, in a new industry, in a new state.

I am proud of him for being willing to take a chance on this job.

Even though we know it isn’t the right fit for us long term, I am still proud of him for being willing to make it work.

We went out last night to celebrate. I think it deserved a proper celebration for a big accomplishment in our book.
(Luke put on clothes for the occasion)

It definitely hasn’t been easy.

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Yesterday my phone had quite the run in with the toilet.

YIKES and GROSS!

I know.

After I had used the bathroom I turned around and flushed the toilet.

As I started to pull my pants up my phone, which was in my pocket, pushed it’s way out, hit both sides of the toilet seat and swirled down the toilet with the water.

I grabbed it just in time before it went into no-man’s land.

YIKES and GROSS!

I know.

This lead me to realize one thing:

My pants were way too tight.

I took out the battery and put it in rice, but I am also a very impatient person so after a couple hours I tried to make it work.

It turned on and I saw I had a couple messages but I couldn’t read them.

Those dang messages would haunt me all day.

Who were they from? Do they think I am ignoring them? Am I missing something important?

Anyhow, after a night in a bowl full of rice still no luck.

I have been without a phone for 2 days and I have felt completely isolated from the world.

And I still don’t know who messaged me!

First world problems right there.

Hopefully I will be back in action tomorrow.

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For the last couple of days I haven’t felt like myself.

I have just felt off.

There are a lot of things that I think have added to feeling like this, but tonight I just needed to have a time out for myself.

After dinner I headed to the library.

I needed to just unwind and clear my mind by reading.

The book I am currently reading is called, Bloom by Kelle Hampton.

I am only about half way through, but I am really liking it.

It is about a woman who when she delivers her second child she is told she has Down Syndrome.

She was devastated at first , but she documents her journey of finding beauty in the unexpected.

She has wrote things that I needed to hear.

Maybe you need to hear them too:

“The older I get, the more I embrace change as an opportunity to learn just what I am capable of.
I am capable of so much.
…and I am excited at the opportunity of new challenges, more love…Perhaps I had been planted for too long and this little bit  of discomfort will challenge me, in my thirty-first year , to push myself more toward new chapters in the story of life.
They will be good chapters.”

Referring to motherhood: “You stretch yourself, learn about yourself, and reach your breaking point, only to come back to that bond-that love that ties you to your little. Watching the culmination of your cells, your soul, your personality bloom before you, it’s just amazing to witness.”

“ When I lost sleep because of the frequent feedings or midnight fevers, there was still the reward of hearing “I love you” for the first time from the little soul who calls me Mama. Life is like that though. Every bad thing is tempered by the good, and every good with the bad. We learn to embrace it all and use our strengths to carry us through the darker days. I did my best to embrace it all-even the dark times-because I knew they would get better.”

Good stuff, huh?

I have cried off and on throughout the book as I read about her finding out about her precious girl.

Maybe because it hits close to home.

I definitely recommend this book (so far anyway).

I am feeling a little better after having a night out.

I am sure tomorrow will be better.