Update

Well, here is a little update on my fall yesterday. After it happened, pretty much my whole body hurt. I hit just about every appendage I had. Today I am not as sore as I thought I would be, but my neck hurts a lot. When I fell my head flew back, and I hit the back of my head on a stair. My bum hurts a lot too. The most annoying part was that I woke up this morning with vertigo. It's much better this afternoon though. Anyway, I guess that's it. I'm just in a bit of pain today.
On a completely different subject. Lizzie is not a cat to come and sit on your lap. In fact, she has not done that in over a year. Right now, as I have a computer on my lap, she decided that it would be a good time to come and start being a lap cat. Silly cat. Oh well, you get what you pay for. (And we didn't pay for her.)

Am I a Freak?

Ok, so the obvious answer to that question is, yes, I am. However, I will tell you the reason of the day.

So I was lying on the floor with Graham one day, and he was lying on one of his quilts. As I get down to take some pictures of him I see this stray thread on his quilt, and my first thought was- how cool, that thread is a perfect ampersand. My second thought was- if I take a picture of that, I can write about it in my blog. So there you have it. You probably have to click on the photo in order to see it big enough to actually see the thread, but well, what can I say, the ampersand is my favorite symbol. So I know, it's a bit random, but you get what you pay for.

Oops, I did it again

Well, today I fell down the stairs again. This is the 3rd time in about 4 months. This is also by far the worst fall of them all. Thankfully none of the falls have been that bad. Just leave me quite sore. I'm also glad that I am no longer pregnant, so that is not a danger.
The last two falls have occured on my basement steps. I believe they may steeper than a normal flight of steps, but for sure the carpet on them is slippery. My foot slips while walking down them on a regular basis. I am quite excited that we finally got a railing installed, but all the same, when I am carring the laundry basket downstairs, a railing does me no good.
Anyway, I just a little battered today, and I hope it doesn't hang around. I took some of my left over post-partum pain meds, so we'll see how well those work. So that's it, it's not world hunger, but you get what you pay for.

My Christmas Projects

Ok, so I have officially started a new family blog, so this one will have fewer family stories, and will be more my random thoughts. I will also share some of my projects that I have worked on, you know, on account of it being called losing my needles.

This Christmas I found a pattern by Art to Heart called Glad Tidings I think. Anyway, I was attracted to it because it had a pattern for an Advent calendar. I didn't have an advent calendar, and I really wanted one. This one was really cute, and it was a nativity scene to boot. So I was pretty happy about that. I think it turned out pretty cute.

In this pattern book there was also a pattern for a wall hanging called a button up quilt. Obviously because there were buttons and stuff. Anyway, I was totally ambitious this winter, and in addition to having a baby at the start of December, I decided that I was going to make this for myself, and as a Christmas present to my sister in law Heather, since we had her family for Christmas this year, and also one for my mom. I think that they turned out pretty good. (Of course I am going to say that though, since I will probably not post the results of something that I totally messed up on.)


The last thing that I made was a little tiny quilt. I put it on the table, and it was just a tiny nativity quilt.
Anyway, they were actually pretty easy to make, it was all iron-on transfer stuff, so that was nice. Plus, when you make a bunch at once, it really is not that much more effort than making one. So there is my latest project that I have worked on. I think that I may start working on a stocking for Graham. I need to order 2 more so that I can make new ones for Jesse and I so that we can all have matching stockings. I could easily do that by next Christmas. Anyway, when I finish that, I'll let you know. So that's it. My blog has officially taken a turn, and is perhaps more of what I intended it to be, and as always you get what you pay for.

A Memorial Quilt

So, as you can guess from the name of the blog, I like to sew. Most specifically, I like to quilt. It is one of my favorite things to do, and I really wish that I could make a living by doing it. Unfortunately, people are not all that willing to pay what a quilt would be worth.
So in my quilting group, we started to make quilts for everyone who is having a baby. It started a year ago, when Debbie had her baby. That one was a surprise. She didn't know we were doing it. Since then most of the rest of us have had babies (all of us in the quilting group) and we have made quilts for each one.
So about 2 months ago tragedy hit our little play group. Our friend Rebecca delivered a still born at 37 weeks. We had already started a quilt for her, and we didn't know quite what to do with it. We didn't know if she would want to have the reminder or if it would be like a slap in the face: here is a quilt for the baby you will not have. But we thought about her and how she was handeling things, and we decided that she would like to have the quilt. So we finished it, and today we were able to give it to her.
When she hugged me when we gave her the quilt, I don't remember a time when I have been hugged so tightly. I'm just really glad that we gave her this quilt. I think that it is something nice to help her remember how much she loved this little girl that she was never able to have. I feel like I was able to do something extra nice for a friend today, and that made it a really good day. It was sad, yes, but at the same time, it was a moment that I am glad happened.

My new stroller

So now that Graham has come along, I need a double stroller. I have thought a lot about it, and I decided that I wanted the Phil and Ted double stroller. Unfortunately it is $500. So I decided that I needed to think of something else. I just didn't want a full tandem because they are so long, and I didn't want a side by side, because I have heard they can be tricky to get through some doors. So I saw this sit and stand stroller, and i thought I'd try it out. Nate is a little older now, and he is a pretty good little kid. He isn't so much of a flight risk unlike some of my friend's kids who have tried this kind of stroller and not had it work.
So I got a gift card from Target, and I found one that they had. I had to drive all the way out to Hagerstown to get it since the Target in town didn't have it in stock. But, I went and it was on sale, so I ended up only paying about $45 for this double stroller. It is small when it folds up, so it fits into my small car, and basically I love it. I mean, it's a double stroller, so it's big, but I took it for a test run around the block before naps today, and it worked out just fine.
So there is the latest addition to my family. I'm pretty excited that I got it on such a great deal. So it's not much, but this time I got way more than I payed for.

"I'm busy!"

So today I was feeding Graham and Jesse was in charge of Nate, but Jesse wanted to go downstairs. That shouldn't be a big deal since that is where most of Nate's toys are, including the new train table which he loves to play with. But Nate didn't want to go downstairs, he wanted to watch "Cars." So Jesse kept on telling him to come downstairs, finally resorting to his own language and repeating "Nate come!" So Nate gets fed up and yells, "I'm busy!" back in a very exasperated voice.
So then Jesse tried to get him to repeat this feat on video and as soon as the video was rolling when told to come, Nate came. When the video was off and Jesse told him what to say, he would say it. Then the camera ran out of battery life, and Jesse walks downstairs and one last time tells Nate to come, and once again the "I'm busy!" comes out. So it was pretty funny. Our little 2 year old is growing up more every day.
In other news, we had Macaroni Grill for dinner. Yum!! I will be killing myself for getting the cheese stuffed pasta and eating ice cream in a few hours when Graham is up screaming with gas all night, but it sure was good while it lasted. So that's it. It's not brain surgery, (It's not even cross stitch) but you get what you pay for.

Happy New Year

Well, it's been a while, and we did have a good holiday dispite the fact that my presents were not pretty. Let's be honest, it's what's inside that counts. I got many cool new kitchen things. I'm on a silicone kick lately. I got some muffin pans, as well as many kitchen utensils with silicone tips. I am excited to use them. I do have to say that I don't have to do much cooking these days. First the church brought by meals for almost 2 weeks after Graham was born, then my friends brought meals, and then we had the holidays. We got together with the Markhams several times due to family being in town. I even had a friend bring a meal by today. I believe that it is coming to an end though. Unless everyone wants to go on round two. Anyone...?
So yeah, in the next week I'll start cooking again. Since we will be on diets, we will be having a lot of chicken and rice, so I'll get to use my new tongs on the grill pan that I have. Yea!
Graham has decided that he will be awake a bit more, and he really prefers to be held while he is awake. Can you blame him? It is his survival mechinism to make sure he is not forgotten or left behind. He also has decided that he would like to cry most of the evening. So blog time will be a bit more sparce these days.
I do have plans to start a family blog. It will not be searchable from the public, so I will post photos and have more personal stuff on it. So look for that in the next month. If I have your email address, then you should get an email about it when I finally set it up.
Anyway, wanted to let all of my fans know that I am still here and surviving being a mommy to 2. Not much going on here, but you get what you pay for.