Runaway October

I have been tagged by Tamara of 1/4 of an inch. Yay!

With­out fur­ther ado:

1.) I absolutely abhor clowns in any shape and form. *twitch* They really make me get creepy crawlies and I have to look away. I’m always afraid that I may go bal­is­tic if one ever approaches me in per­son.

2.) My hus­band pesters me to stop drink­ing soda, and I know I should. But I fear the caffiene with­drawls I get . I also fear try­ing to get through the day with­out caffiene.

3.) I des­per­ately want a lit­tle girl, but I need to drop a lot of weight (I’d be happy with 80 pounds) and I’d like to have the 3k for my home­birth mid­wife saved up already.

4.) I have a prob­lem fol­low­ing through and fin­ish­ing projects. I have 4 sewing projects that need fin­ish­ing and a ton of stuff that needs doing for Hal­loween.

5.) Speak­ing of Hal­loween, it is by far my favorite hol­i­day — fol­lowed by Christ­mas and St Patrick’s Day.

6.) I spend mas­sive amounts of time scour­ing blogs for tuto­ri­als. Much more time that I actu­ally spend doing the tuto­ri­als. Sad.

7.) Matt and I are try­ing to get into Real Estate invest­ing, but we’re hav­ing a hard time get­ting the money together for the tuition. I’m really scared about some of the cre­ative financ­ing ideas he is com­ing up with. I don’t want to ruin the lit­tle credit we have.

Wow. That felt like a mini ver­sion of Post­Se­cret!

As far as tag­ging peo­ple, well that never works. If you feel like play­ing please join me. Leave me a com­ment if you decide to play along.

Oh! I will tag Tina of Miz­zTin­aBam­Bina. Go check out her blog!

Today the big D-Meister turns 3. As a mat­ter of fact it wlll be exactly 3 years to the minute as I write this post. Man, how things have changed since his birth.

It’s been a long haul so far. So much to learn, so much to change, so much to cel­e­brate. Before I had chil­dren I would always tell Matt that I wanted 17 kids. I would think of my mother and how she had 6 kids and thought I could do that too, no prob­lem. Now that I have two lit­tle boys my want for 17 kids has dropped a lit­tle to a more man­age­able num­ber. I still think of my mother and how things make more sense, yet I don’t know how she managed.

While child­less it never occurred to me just how much work it took to do your best. How often you fall short of ideal. How self­less you have to become. In all hon­esty, it has been hard. When I crack my eye­lids in the morn­ing, before the sun, because Rowan is gig­gling and try­ing to stuff Legos in my ears I long for the days that I could sleep until 2 o’clock in the after­noon. After spend­ing a full day clean­ing, cook­ing three meals and nurs­ing non-stop all I want is a long hot bath, by myself. But Declan doesn’t like the water too hot and Rowan can’t stay in too long or he gets too prune-y.

But there are so many price­less moments that I would never want to miss. The feel­ing of pure eupho­ria when your baby finally comes home from the NICU. The first steps. The first time you hear Mama. When he runs past other peo­ple cry­ing because he wants com­fort from you. The lit­tle feel­ing of dread­ful but­ter­flies when he does some­thing so amaz­ingly grown up and the thought of how big he’s really get­ting. Being awestruck by how large his men­tal capac­i­ties have become in 3 short years.

There is so much grow­ing that goes on with chil­dren about, not their growth but mine as well (and not just the size of my butt). My heart has truly grown.

Happy Birth­day Declan Pierce. I love you so much, baby. (This is where he would say “I’m not baby. Declan is big boy. Rowan is lit­tle baby!”  )

Still try­ing to decide if all 3 of these would work well together. Flow­ers and Stripes is City GIrl by Berna­tex and Giraffe print is Happy Trails by Bernatex.

We’d love to have you join the fun. Check out Tamara’s blog 1/4 of an inch for info!

It seems alot of peo­ple are really get­ting into the spirit of the giv­ing sea­son early this year. There are some really spec­tac­u­lar con­tests and give­aways going on right now.

First off there is this lovely beauty:

Just head on over to Pig­tails and Snail’s Quilt Give­away and leave a com­ment. There are more chances to win listed also.

The sec­ond give­away is over at Indie Fixx. She’s giv­ing away more than $750 worth of hand­made good­ness. I totally love the bag by Faite Designs in the sec­ond prize pack­age shown below. Be sure to tell her I sent you!

The third give­away going on cur­rently is The Sew Sweet Give­away hosted by Fabric.com.

Here’s the Scoop:

Who says sweet things are only for kids?!  Enter the Fabric.com “Sew” Sweet Give­away for your own grown-up treat pack­age cus­tom tai­lored for a sewing fanatic.  We have 2 grand prize pack­ages that were designed with apparel design­ers and quil­ters in mind.  Both prizes come with a selec­tion of items spe­cific to your sewing “fla­vor” as well as a $300 gift cer­tifi­cate to Fabric.com and 1 year of free ship­ping.  You can even enter once a day, every day — so come back often!

You can enter every­day until Halloween.

And last but not least is the Sew Like a Pro Sweep­stakes from SeamsToMe.com and Anna Maria Horner

Enter now and you could win every­thing you need to sew like a pro! One grand prize win­ner will receive a Singer® Con­fi­dence™ Quil­ter sewing machine, a signed copy of Anna’s book, 20 yards of Anna’s fab­ric from West­min­ster Fibers, and the Dual Duty XP Thread Sam­pler pack from Coats & Clark. Thir­teen (13) oth­ers will win prize pack­ages con­tain­ing a signed book, fab­ric and thread sampler.

 

Of course if none of these catch your inter­est you can enter any­way and give my your win­nings. Yay!