Runaway October

I received some amaz­ing news yesterday!

Unfor­tu­nately I can’t really say yet, but I can say that it means I’ll have more rea­sons to blog soon. Not that I don’t now.

It’s been so beau­ti­ful in lit­tle Queen Creek lately. Just warm enough to stay out­side, but cool enough to debate a jacket. For Pete’s Sake, I even cleaned my exte­rior porch and garage lights today because I wanted to stay out­side so bad. AND! We cleaned the garage yes­ter­day. Go me! (And thanks bunches Dad. He’s a great packer.)

The boys have redis­cov­ered side­walk chalk. I would have taken a pic­ture of my chalk cov­ered kids and dog, but D’s in the potty. He told me he’d be out in 3 hours. I’m not wait­ing on that, because, well, he’s prob­a­bly right.

Stay tuned for the great news, which is about 3 weeks off. But you can pre­tend that it could be any minute and keep check­ing back obses­sively. Or you can guess what it is in the com­ments. No fair giv­ing it away if you already know though.

And no, there’s no need to start cro­chet­ing, as my Grandma asked. I’m not preg­nant. As far as I know. And I should know. Hopefully.

My gor­geous boys

MOTHERS

Real Moth­ers don’t eat quiche;
They don’t have time to make it.

Real Moth­ers know that their kitchen uten­sils
Are prob­a­bly in the sandbox.

Real Moth­ers often have sticky floors,
Filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Moth­ers know that dried play dough
Doesn’t come out of carpets.

Real Moth­ers don’t want to know what
The vac­uum just sucked up.

Real Moth­ers some­times ask ‘Why me?‘
And get their answer when a lit­tle
Voice says, ‘Because I love you best.’

Real Moth­ers know that a child’s growth
Is not mea­sured by height or years or grade…
It is marked by the pro­gres­sion of Mummy to Mum to Mother…

…

My grandma sent this to me today, and I thought it was short, sweet and com­pletely on point. I just wanted to share with the rest of you who might need a lit­tle poem about now.

While Matt and I are work­ing on another project or two, I got a wild hair to change my blog theme.

I think maybe I have set­tled for this one, what do you think? Grandma approves and I think she’s right!:-D

O, some of you have asked — The house hunt­ing is going slowly… oh so slowly. You’d think it’d be a great time to shop right now. Unfor­tu­nately for us, not only have a major­ity of the pre­vi­ous house own­ers let their mort­gages go into fore­clo­sure but they’ve also decided to trash every­thing pos­si­ble. Clean­ing is one thing, seri­ous repairs are another. And appli­ances. Buy­ing a house is so much work!

Yeah, I seem to be in a blog­ging slump lately. It seems like every­thing I see that’s cool is not new or has been blogged a bazil­lion times before. Not much is going on in our lives, not much craft­ing because I’m too lazy to clean the kitchen table off, same ol’ same ol’, ya know?

I orig­i­nally started this blog with intents to post things that I had sewn or cooked, but I don’t do nearly enough of it to post often enough. I want to warn my read­ers that my Grandma yells at me if I don’t post enough. (Love you grandma! ) Now I’m think­ing that maybe I’ll just post the stuff that I think is cool?

What do you guys think? Should I stick with crafts and kids, or expand to include extra stuff?

And here’s a lit­tle eye candy for those of us who can’t go out­side with­out fac­ing 3^rd degree burns.

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• Hip­pos! Yay! My Grandma sent me this adorable fam­ily of hip­pos as a Mother’s Day present. Aren’t they cute? Now I just need to find a home for the rest of my hippos.

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• My abil­ity to suc­cess­fully com­plete a dou­ble welt pocket, as demon­strated here:

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• I received my Spoon­flower Beta invi­ta­tion! I am so excited to try and get some­thing of my own printed. I am think­ing I’d like to do some logos and what not to stitch onto my com­pleted projects. Heaven for­bid some­one come across one of my aprons when I’m dead and gone and not know who made it. That would be a shame. Plus, I’m really get­ting to the point where I’d like to start get­ting some stuff done for my Etsy shop. I really like to have things tagged and labeled. It seems to up the pro­fes­sion­al­ity, ya know?  My biggest con­cern with pre­mak­ing things to put in a shop is what if it doesn’t sell and it just sits there? Espe­cially if it’s girl clothes — I have no use for those unfortunately.
• I also got my Rav­elry invite, but it’ll be awhile before I actu­ally get any­thing going in there.
• I’m excited to get started on the Mar­ket Tote Swap. No last min­utes for me this time. I’m get­ting it done and out of here. I need to make some stuff for myself for a change.
• I thought I had more than that but I guess not. I’ve got a big post in the works on sewing FAQS and another on ‘Pretty vs Func­tional’. Maybe you guys can weigh in with me and con­vince Matt that I need to have free dec­o­rat­ing reign on the ENTIRE house.

Stay tuned my won­der­ful read­ers. Same blog time, Same blog channel.