Even though I should be in bed, I’m awake watching one of my fav. shows…Ace of Cakes. Along with the constant twitter of my brain to figure out something creative that I can do in my house that doesn’t take much space, that can be picked up when I have a spare min. or two, that doesn’t require Micah to watch the kids, & lastly that I can do for at least enough profit to pay for itself…got any ideas???
Let me just tell you what doesn’t work
cakes…10hrs (at least) per cake with no possibility of stopping once I’ve started
jewelry…love it but again good beads are super expensive, and I lack the knowledge of fine design
quilts…lots of fun,but good fabric is between $8-$16/yd. plus lots of time
painting…very messy, horribly hard to do with sticky fingers running around, and again hours upon hours of work
clothing…love it, but hell can’t follow a patter for crud.
pottery…don’t have a wheel, sold my kiln, no place to throw
So there you have it, I leave this delima to you…for my mental health, I need something to do.
I had no idea how difficult it would be to hand stitch the little boy on the back of this quilt. I have a new found respect for the quilt my mom made me in high school (it had about 20 hand-stitched fairies). I’m still planning to put some shorts and hair on the little guy but here’s what I’ve done so far…
Keaton came over yesterday to spend the night for Grey’s birthday. We all had a great time telling knock knock jokes and racing trucks. The boys even formed a “scooter gang”. (and somehow Keaton always knew when I had the camera b/c he is looking at me in every picture)
As promised, it’s tuesday, and I’m back…I can tell your excited to see me
The weekend was great but extremely busy. We started by having a lunch cookout with Tom, Dana, and Adeline on Saturday.
Then we headed to Louisville to see Wes and Abby’s new baby, Austin John, he was born last Sunday. He was SOOO cute! I love me some babies.
Then we headed to the Charasika compound to stay the night with Tendai. We walked over to his parents and visited with his mom for awhile (she was already in her pj’s and had rollers in her hair . We showed Grey their “oreo cows” (belted galloway’s) and their water “mountain”, and Grey developed a huge crush on Callie and insited on holding her hand everywhere they went.
Then early Sunday morning we went to Grandpa’s house to wait the arrival of Micah’s dad. We had a nice relaxing time with him all Sun & Mon. His business partner and wife (Mike & Helen) also had dinner with us. Then they guys and Ros played uker on the back porch. Mon. we had lunch at Lynn’s, it was a perfect place for Grey, he could be as loud as he wanted without anyone even looking.
Today I gave Gentry egg for the first time, that was a big mistake. Before he had even finished it he had broken out in hives on his mouth and forarms (where he had beentouching the tray), it then spread over his belly and neck. It looked like he had been attacked by a thousand mosquitoes. Luckily I dosed him with benadryl immediately and put hydro-cortisone and benadryl gel on his skin, so he just cried for 30 min. It’s such a bad feeling to see him have an allergic reaction like that, I get sooooo scared and if makes me feel horrible because I know they inherited it from me (Micah’s not allergic to anything!). I took some pics for the doctor…
Okay, big news in the house of Needham. Grey went to his first day of school today. He was really excited about going until we walked up to the building at which point he said “I don’t want to make new friends” That was quickly forgoten though when he walked through the doors and saw all the little kids. He didn’t even say goodbye to us I was sad but no tears, it would have been much harder if he had cried. We’ll see if he still wants to go come Thursday. His teacher gave me a huge stack of papers to deal with when I dropped him off, we already got our first fundraiser crap! Obviously they know that he’s not going door to door to approach people about it so I’m sure they just assume that we will do our parts to help raise money for his school (even though we already PAY for him to go there…seriously?) By the way they expect us to sell at least ten. So read below for shameless plug.
After coming home though I realized that I’m gonna have so much time on my hands. I put Gentry down at 9:30 and I’ve been able to eat sweets out in the open without fear of little ones begging for some. I found an R rated movie to watch on tv so there are curse words and kissing in the background as I type this. I feel kinda like a grown up…cool huh!?
Also we turned Gentry’s car seat around. He’s a couple weeks shy of the one year mark but have you seen my kid? He’s a hos…he met the weight requirement 6 months ago so I think he’ll be okay.
SHAMELESS PLUG: We are selling Little Lambs Gormet Cookie Dough for $14/tub (it will make 48 cookies). We’ve actually had some before and it is really good. We just kept the tub in the fridge and ate it with a spoon, or you can freeze it in little balls and put it in home made ice cream. It comes in the following flavors; chocolate chunk, peanut butter crunch, oatmeal raisin, simply sugar cookie, white choc. macadamia nut, choc. chip, double chocolate brownie, M&M, snickerdoodle, heath toffee crunch, choc. chunk pecan, choc. mint chip, lemon cooler, peanut butter cup.
I pretty much only listen to Christian radio anymore, not because I don’t love other kinds of music, but because Grey can pick up the words now. So what little I’ve heard of the Umbrella song has mainly been the chorus over the grocery store speakers or the like, I found Mandy Moore doing a cover of it and it’s pretty awesome. Maybe I’m biased because I love her voice but when she sang it it sounded like so much more than a corny pop-ish song…I actually got the meaning.
Well, we are back from another vacation at Natural Bridge, this time with Micah’s family. We stayed at a lovely place that had a private pond/lake for us to play in and though there are other things to do around the park I never left the water except to eat and sleep. I must say that it would have been much more stressful than it was if it wasn’t for the phone conversation I had with Amy the night before we left. I was in such shock to find out about Natalie’s death, having just seen them the weekend before. After finding out Micah and I both went and laid down with the boys and just counted our overwhelming blessings, we even let Grey sleep with us.
I don’t know Bryan and Erika that well, we have mutual friends and seem to end up at the same places, but we’ve never really hung out. But even from this distance it was extremely painful to know what they were going through. I desperately wanted to do something for them, without imposing on them…and well I’m still waiting for that opportunity. So for now I’m just praying a lot and trying to encourage those of my friends who are actually close enough to visit them.
Today was actually Grey’s 3rd birthday and since we’ve had several parties with different sides of the family we just kept it very low key. We woke up and had pancakes (his fav.), then we watched Cars, Micah and Grey we to church, and then we had speghetti for dinner (upon his request). We gave him a train set and he and Micah had a blast putting it together (I think Micah was as excited as he was about it). I even let him eat ice cream in the floor.
I finally finished the last Harry Potter and I loved all of the plot twists and the fact that the all lived happily ever after. I know a lot of people think these books are silly, but anytime someone can create a whole world I’m a fan. I’m so impressed with he use of names and “spells”, you really get the full experience…super cool!
I was sad but no tears, it would have been much harder if he had cried. We’ll see if he still wants to go come Thursday. His teacher gave me a huge stack of papers to deal with when I dropped him off, we already got our first fundraiser crap! Obviously they know that he’s not going door to door to approach people about it so I’m sure they just assume that we will do our parts to help raise money for his school (even though we already PAY for him to go there…seriously?) By the way they expect us to sell at least ten. So read below for shameless plug.
