Apr
09
2012“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
― G.K. Chesterton
Oh, all these beautiful graces too numerous to count. But I’ll keep trying.
#3131- 3165 of the innumerable graces I count
- Re-listening to the Total Marriage Fitness Series
- Date night with Derek
- Finishing this Top
- MOPS play date fun
- Mom arriving just as I got very sick from a meal
- Little girls trying on shoes with grandma for 45 minutes
- Lots of fun new play dough toys
- B keeping up with all the 7+ year old kids at the farm
- Gratitude journal flapping in the breeze
- Sunday coming!
- First real leaves on seedlings
- Hollyhocks transplanting well
- Perfect farm weather
- Toddler girls bringing eggs from the hen house for the first time
- Mandy holding a dog for Bronwyn while she tells the do “NO EAT ME!!!”
- Aeralind running in barefoot and screaming about her feet and us treating her for ant bites
- The kids telling us that she actually walked over a live electric fence wire
- Little girl not hurt badly at all
- Bronwyn snuggling with Grandma
- Aeralind sitting on Jonathon’s lap
- Laughter over Larry dumping the hayride trailer
- No one hurt
- Rest
- Being able to serve
- Jo’s Banana pudding! YUM YUM!
- Mom enjoying the farm
- Exhausted girls falling asleep before we even got off Carol’s street
- Finding Aeralind’s tick first thing in the morning
- Her being still as I gently tugged him loose
- Baby boy playing with his pacifier
- First taste of puffs
- Cheeks full of food
- Weary bodies
- Derek taking the girls to a park while I rest and heal up a bit
- Nursling playing with my hair
Apr
08
2012Somehow one day I stumbled on the Fly Away Blouse from Anthropologie.
I thought it was lovely…. and expensive. Then I thought: I could make that!
I grabbed Collette patterns Free Sorbetto pattern and I got to work with a lovely piece of Radiance Silk/Cotton blend.
But try as I might… I could not get this silk cotton to pleat like that! It just didn’t want to do it; the fabric didn’t drape right and stuck out in weird places. So after an hour of trying my hardest, I just slapped an inverted pleat on there and finished it!
Ta-da!
I think it’ll look a little sharper (and fit across the bust better) when I wean the boy… but I love how soft and airy it is and the fit of this pattern is lovely!
I added a 5 strand flat braid to the neckline.
Then rather than seaming up the braid I made a little loop in the back and covered it with bias tape.
I love it! I think I’d like to make a dozen more.
And for those of you seamstresses who stop by here and are much better than me: Did I need to make a full bust adjustment or add length before the darts? I have an extremely low bustline b/c my torso is over half my height. I added 3.5 inches to the length of the top to get it to hit at the hips, but I added at the hem.
Apr
06
2012I have this huge dug out circle of turf in my backyard.
It looks a little crazy.
I dug it out to make this:
I’m so excited to play in a huge circle of sunflowers.
Oh, but my quirky girls think the ditch itself is a heap of fun! We stayed out there for quite a while doing this sort of thing after I dug it.
Apr
05
2012We’re having a language explosion over here.
One day I left the girls with my friend Mandy and Aeralind gave Mandy her cup and said (apparently plain as day) “Will you hold this please?” I was floored!
Things like “Self-control” and “Patience” and “Nonsense” and “Wait please” are coming out of their mouths on a regular basis.
Bronwyn told daddy that her “Noggin hurts” after she bumped it. Derek and I never use the word noggin! They’re like little language sponges!
However… lots of words are still an still undecipherable for a week or longer. Here’s a little toddler language pop quiz. I’ll post the answers in a the comments next Monday. In the meantime: you take a stab at the answers. If someone (besides my husband :-p) can get all 5, I’ll try to figure out a little prize 🙂
Updated: Answers are in the comments section!
- “Curl!!!!”
Context: Toddler who is supposed to be getting in the car takes off running toward a tree while screaming. “Hey, curl! Hi! Hi! Hi!” - “Cootie”
Context: Sweet smiling little girl pointing at herself saying “I a cootie!” - “Kinger”
Context: Hand outstretched. “I touch it? One kinger?” - “Looogick!”
Context: Sitting in a car. I’m on the phone. Quiet. Toddlers pointing at the back window. - Bonus Toddler Sentence-Word: “Whadasee?”
Context: It might just be a key phrase in a series of children’s books.
