Baby, Baby

Bright and early in the morning I go in and have this baby via C-section. I am very very excited!!!!! I am so ready to have this baby and not be pregnant!!!!! I am still looking forward to the drugs, but I am eager to find out what we are having and what she looks like. = > I think we have decided on Yavippie if it is a girl and Yavipper if it is a girl. I will have Doug post for me tomorrow or Wed. and let you all know.

My Hero

I must admit it - I am a tummy sleeper. Which is very hard to do pregnant. But to deal with that I sleep on an inner tube. Yes, it really works and I sleep SSOOOOOOO good!! But then about 2 weeks ago my tube began to lose its air. I would wake up about 30 min. after I layed down with a flat tube. Do have any idea how hard it is to find an inner tube in Jan.???!!!!!!!! You can't!!!! How could this happen???? I only have 2 weeks left an need sleep desperately!!! Well, I begged my husband to fix the leak if he could. He took a look and as luck would have it the hole is right on the seam and unfixable. I was beside myself. What was I to do???? I tried pillows and cushions but it only offered minor relief. Then one day on his way home from work my hubby went to the toy store and found me a tube. Granted it is for sledding, but it works and I can once again Sleep. What a great man!!!
But wait! His talents don't end there. Tonight I was helping the girls with their last minute details for a school project that is due tomorrow and realized we needed something to stand their posters up on, or against, as they couldn't go on the wall. So my wonderful and smart hubby went out into his lab (AKA garage) and came back in a few moments later with a wonderful and perfect tripod for the posters to stand up against. OUR HERO!!! The girls were so very pleased!!! We have a wonderful and smart daddy!!!
Yes, Doug is kind of handy to have around sometimes. =>

lost posts

So in my mind I have posted several times and they were all good and so insightful, but unfortunately i haven't made it up here to post them. Yes, my computer is upstairs and being at the end of a long pregnancy I don't make it upstairs unless I have to and that is usually to see why my kids are yelling and screaming.
But I finally made it up here just to write. So what is on my mind you ask???? I will tell you. Having this baby!!!!!!!!!! I only have a few days left, as you can see, but it can't happen soon enough for me. I am at that point when I would give anything to have this baby out!!!!! I hurt so much and am so tired. It hurts when I stand, sit, lay down, or go from one to the other. My baby is intent on repositioning my hips and ribs on a regular bases. On top of that I can't sleep for long due to heart burn and my inability to breath while lying down. So I spend most of the night pacing around, reading, laying on the couch until my hips hurt, and eating. That is the other thing, I have to eat, I need to eat, yet food is so unappealing to me right now. I am back to my chocolate milk and cold cereal diet. It is the only two things that I can handle right now. So I go back and forth between the two. I just thought I would share all this with everyone, because I know you all have been there.
The only thing that keeps me hanging on is the knowledge that on Jan. 29th way too early in the morning I will go into the hospital and it will all end. I get to have DRUGS!!!!! Glorious, wonderful, pain-relieving DRUGS!!!!!! It makes it all worth it!!!!! For almost a full 24 hours I will feel nothing!!!!! I can breath and sleep and eat all I want (as long as it is a liquid) and feel no pain!!!! Yes, it will be wonderful!!!! And as a bonus, I won't have to get up to pee because I will have a cathider(?). = > It is my little moment of heaven. Please feel free to come see me if you can. I will be in a most conginual mood. = >
It is my hope that maybe before then I will post some pictures of things I have been doing and our Christmas. It was very nice and most relaxing.

Merry Christmas to me

I just had to show off my new Christmas table setting I got for myself for Christmas.=> Isn't it so lovely!!!! I got two boxes so I would have a setting for 8, but now I wish I had gotten 3 so I would have enough for 12. Oh, well. I had bought a different set a few years ago, (of just 4) telling my husband exactly where he could go to get my another one so I would have 8, but did he listen ??? NO! and then it was gone and I have this fun snowman set of 4 dishes. Really, what can I do with just 4 dishes????? So this time I just got what I wanted, just to make sure. I am especially excited because they match then table cloth and napkins I bought a year ago. It is hand embroidered from Singapore. I brought them home and washed down the table and the girls helped me set up the table all pretty so I could take a picture. => Then I put my table cloth away. We have eaten on the dishes, thought they do not sit out on the table. I am not that stupid!!! I hope you all have such an exciting Christmas!!! I know mine is made!!!!

'Tis the Season

So Christmas is offically on at my house. We finished handing all the lights outside yesterday. Amber and Clara helped me while the weather was nice. And what help they were. Then I also finished all the Christmas dresses and one Christmas tie. => Sew very VERY happy about that. And we got everyone all dressed up after dinner and took a picture and I ordered cards and they should be out very soon. All in all it was a very productive day and the kids are all in the holiday spirit. Now if only we had a tree.

Quilting

On Friday I took my last quilting class. It was so much fun!!!! Thank you Malauna & Tricia for watching my girls. I learned so much!!!!!! Quilting is such a different format of sewing then making clothes. It was so fun to sit there for 3 (yes 3!!!) hours and just learn and sew. I do believe I will be taking another sewing class in the future. (Probably far future because of the baby)
But on to the stuff I learned. I can now make a perfect mittered corner on a quilt. That has always been such a difficult thing for me. I also learned how to bind a quilt. I have always HATED binding a quilt and now that I took this class it all makes sense and it really isn't all that hard. In fact we practiced all this stuff on a practice square and the binding looks sew nice!!!! We also learned how to quilt on our sewing machines. We use this really cool foot called a "walking foot". It makes your quilting come out so smooth and non-bumpy. We also got to do free motion quilting, called "stippling". That was fun. It has always scared me to do that, but it is really fun and cool looking.
So now I learned all this really cool and neat stuff I am very eager to do it. Now I can finish a quilt I am making for Amber for Christmas. It is a crazy quilt with red, yellow, and blue colors. The top has been done for a couple of weeks, I was just waiting for this class so I could bind it. Now I can!!!!! I also want to make a quilt for Sara and Tessa. We will see if I get it done before Christmas or not. I can also finish my wall quilt we made to learn on for this class. It is in browns and blues. I did it to hang in the stair well. We made it in the Ohio Star. It is looking very nice!!!! I am SEW excited for all this stuff I learned!!!!!!!! I will post pictures soon of all the quilts.

Clara did it!!!!

So I am soooooooo happy!!!! I just had to share with everyone. We went to the store and when we got home Clara told me she had to go potty and then she pooped in the toliet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am soooooooooooooooo happy with that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just thought I would share our little success of the day with you all.