Hello Everyone!
Happy Halloween for all of you out there in cyber land.
I am celebrating my carving a pumpkin, working, going trick or treating with Daphne and baking oatmeal raisin cookies for Jared!
Tomorrow, NaBloPoMo starts, which means I will be posting daily on all three of my blogs. Tune in!
My mother died when I was 3 years old. That makes it 20 years ago. Where does the time go?
She died on October 27, 1987 and was buried on October 31, 1987. That is 20 years ago today exactly.
I used to hate to celebrate Halloween because it was the day that she was buried on, but now that I have a daughter, I am trying to make new traditions and find new joy in the holiday. I think that I am being very successful in that.
Though I don’t have many memories of her, I do remember talking about Halloween.
So, today, in honor of my dear late mother, I have 4 stems of snap dragons and a single rose sitting on my dining table in a vase.
Why snap dragons? Because she was the one that taught me how to make them talk.
Though we got such a short time together on this earth, it was lovely, and I know how much work she put into being a mother. It is only now in perspective as I have become a mother and I thank her.
Hello Everyone!
Happy Halloween for all of you out there in cyber land.
I am celebrating my carving a pumpkin, working, going trick or treating with Daphne and baking oatmeal raisin cookies for Jared!
Tomorrow, NaBloPoMo starts, which means I will be posting daily on all three of my blogs. Tune in!
This was a quaint and adorable backyard wedding. Congratulations you two!
Fact: I have taken 9 hours of Video of Daphne since birth.
Fact: I have taken 1,912 Photos of Daphne since birth.
That is an average of 1.125 hours of video per month and 239 photos!
I have become quite the homemaker recently, but the true signs came out this weekend.
I decided to make Daphne some new diapers to take to NY with me. They are easier to launder and carry around, and I am determined to NOT use disposable diapers!
I bought some diapers the other day that looked incredibly easy to make. I got all of the material that I needed to make it ready, and I actually put one together. I am SO proud of myself. I plan to make about 24 of them to take with me, so wish me luck with that.
Additionally, I decided that I am going to start making my own wool covers for Daphne.
I started knitting one of them, and I think I am doing a very good job. Only about 10 more hours of knitting will show if I actually am good or not. I hope that I am because I just got 3 more skeins of wool yarn. Yay!
I also ordered wool fabric so that I can make fabric diaper covers as well. I am sure I will document my progress here!
I bought a gourd the other day and put it on the table for decoration. Daphne thought that it was the greatest toy, and she will not stop playing with it. She likes to chew on it and make me sad by throwing it on the floor when she is done.
Here she is chewing on her gourd in the middle of my photo shoot. Look at how happy she is.
And now I know that a true sign of the harvest season is when your baby can’t stop playing with your gourd.
Daphne’s Grandpa is good with making wood things. He recently went to the trouble to make her a wooden rattle by hand. In thanks, I took photos of her with it and sent them to him. I got some pretty kooky smiles and other looks. She is a cute baby, that is for sure.
In case you thought that Halloween was all fun and games…. Think again!
Here are some photos of Daphne in her costume. OH MAN! Look at how cute she is. It doesn’t get much better than that as a mom!
