So I’ve found a new hobby. SEWING!!! My mother gave me her sewing machine and now I want to sew everything!!! I can’t stop looking for patterns whenever I go to walmart and don’t get me started on the ALL DAY search I did today for patterns and fabric on ebay. Its like I’m obsessed and I haven’t even sewn anything yet. LOL.

A friend of mine introduced me to Amy Butler and Oh my goodness she is a total genius. All of her designs and fabrics are absolutely gorgeous. I went on a splurge and bought her new book Amy Butler’s In Stitches: More Than 25 Simple and Stylish Sewing Projects because of an apron I saw that my friend had made that was too cute to pass up. And the best part is that on Amy Butler’s website she has some free patterns!!! Woo-hoo! There is a stuffed cat that I’m just dying to make for the new baby and a matching one for the pnut as well as turning the Cafe’ Apron into a skirt. BTW, I bought the Cafe’ Apron and Nappy Bag patterns off of Ebay earlier this week. They both came in the mail yesterday which has me even more excited. I’m now on the hunt for some really great fabric to make all of these little projects.

Help me I think I’m obsessed!!!!

My mother and I have several projects lined up, here are just a few:

Make a mai tei wrap

purse

Make a BABY wrap

nappy bag

curtains for the laundry room and the babies room

aprons

skirts

pot holders

two cats

fleece blanket for bedroom

The baby related stuff is of course the first to be made, just simply because I’m going to pop a baby out in a matter of weeks. But first before I can indulge in my new sewing hobby, I must get the house clean, housework for the day done, my “work” done on the computer [which is writing my paid posts], and last but not least a shower taken.

Oh and my mother and I are going to teach ourselves to knit. I’ve always wanted to knit so we bought some easy to do kits at the craft store that were on sale. Whenever she comes over for the weekend we are going to teach each other how to knit. She knows some of the techniques already that my grandmother had taught her so hopefully she can remember and teach me. I’d love to add knitting and sewing to my list of things that I can do. Its hard trying to be the well-rounded stay at home mom.

The afternoon was spent by gardening. I had the green thumb itch a couple days ago and went to good ol’ wally world and bought some plants to try to make my new home a little more “home-ier”. Pnut of course had to help as much as he could. Throwing dirt out of my pots, watering everything he could find, and pestering the dog with the broom while he was chained to the porch [the dog, not the pnut]. Ah, it was a nice afternoon. I think the plants turned out great. I especially love my hanging herb garden and the 3 pots of flowers down the front steps. I think they both add a nice touch to the house. I am very limited in what I can and cannot do as far as gardening goes. I can plant a pot garden but can’t actually plant stuff in the garden-garden because it is too much work for this ol’ pregnant body to try to take on. That is all fine with me as in a couple of months I’m not going to be too concerned about taking care of a garden when I’ll have a newborn on my hands.

Please Note: Recipe Rush has been updated with a new recipe and some photos of my kitchen in my new house. Also, Belly Bean has been updated. I went to the doctor yesterday and lets just say we had our second ultrasound done. Go found out the sex of the baby!

So I know I promised you guys that I would show you some pictures of my new house. Well some things came up. Literally, lots of things have come up in the past 2 days. In other words I’m sick. Yeah, I know. Bummer. You know that nasty stomach flu bug that the pnut had last week. The same flu bug we had to take him to the hospital so he could get an IV bag of fluids because he had been throwing up continuously for 3 days. Yeah that same bug has now made me sick. Sick as a dog. 101°F fever, cold sweats, nausea, diarrhea, and the inevitable throwing up. Add all of that to a person that is 30 weeks pregnant and it isn’t pretty, trust me.

So, whenever I am able to stand more than 5 minutes I will take some pictures of the house and post them for you guys.

Well we’ve been in our new home approximately 3 weeks now. I’ve pretty much adjusted to the time change [from central to eastern again] and have pretty much gotten the majority of the boxes put away. Now all that is left to do is to get back into our normal, everyday routine. I need to start getting back into my blogging and “online work”, as well as the pnut getting back into his daily routine. With all the moving and changes that have happened in the past month with granny’s death, the move, and pnut becoming so ill we’ve kinda stepped back a few steps in the potty training department. I mean it really sucks because just when I think we are doing so good and he is making such great progress. We have to take two steps backwards again because of some life altering tragedy. I know we will get it accomplished eventually but it can really wear on your nerves.

In other news…Yesterday, I got a new toy. Hubby got me a chest freezer. Which is what I’ve wanted for THE longest time and now I’ve finally got it. So with our new freezer we of course had to go grocery shopping to fill the bad boy up. And fill it we did. We have frozen food to last at least a month if not two, I’m sure. So I need to get back into the habit of making my weekly menu now that we actually have food in the house. We’ve basically been living off of take out since we moved due to visitors and lack of time to go grocery shopping. Frankly, I’m sick of eating burgers and fries and welcome our first home cooked meal tomorrow night. If you are curious we will be dining Italian style…spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic french loaf bread.

Tomorrow I’m designating it a “work on the computer day”. Since I’ve neglected my blog since we’ve moved, I have a ton of work to catch up on and tons of pictures to show you guys of the new house. Have I mentioned how much I love this house? I absolutely love it. The layout and space is just perfect for us. Everytime I hear hubby mention that we aren’t going to be here for long either just makes me sad because this is a place I could actually see myself calling home. But anyways, you move on, right? Yeah, so I’m hoping that I’ll take some good pics of the house tomorrow to post to you guys so you can oooh and ahhh over its beautifulness.

Well we are pretty much moved into our new home. I’m still in shock over all the room that we have. 1900 square feet!!! That is a ton of space. All that is left to unpack are some random junk boxes. These boxes are filled with random nick-nacks. I hate going through boxes that are just a bunch of random stuff. It always seems like it takes so much longer to unpack them.

Anyways, the empty house is now becoming more and more like a home. We still do not have the internet hook up at our new house so I can’t show ya’ll pictures yet. But they will be coming soon. Promise.

I’m currently at my folks house till Wednesday. I came over here today to stay a couple of days to help my mother clean out my grandmother’s house. We have to go through all of her old things and keep what we want to keep then decide if we will give the other stuff away or sell it in the estate sale [yard sale]. Its going to really suck seeing someone else live in my grandmother’s house. She has lived in that house for what seems like forever. I’ve never known her in another house. To see someone else there will just be really weird. We start the cleaning tomorrow. I’m sure it is going to be extremely hard on my mother. I’m just glad that I will be the one to be there for her.

I took my grandmother’s death pretty hard. Harder than I even imagined I would. It will be nice to have some of her old furniture and stuff in my house to remember her by. I’m so blessed to have a larger house now to be able to take in some of her old things. I’m pretty much cried out at this point and have reached the numb stage of grieving.

If this post seems off centered and not very focused it is because my brain has kinda stopped working between the death and moving. I’m extremely tired and just completely drained.

I arrived in my hometown this morning and immediately went to my grandmother’s house. My mother and uncles were there cleaning the place up. As soon as I saw my mother I started to bawl. Being in that house and not seeing my grandmother is hard. You see all of her stuff, all the things and people she once loved but she isn’t there to experience it.

Tonight we had the wake for my grandmother. Let’s just say, she doesn’t really look like herself. She had all of her wrinkles filled in/smoothed out and had this little smirk on her face. It seriously looked as if she had a face lift or worse, one of those wax figures in a museum. It just doesn’t seem to be her to me. It doesn’t seem real. When I first saw her lying there in the casket, I was shocked and immediately broke down. After a few good tears rolled down my face, I was ok and the “moment of grief” had passed.

It still doesn’t seem real to me. I mean, you know that granny is old and you know that granny’s have to die eventually but you never think that that day is ever going to come. It makes me sad to think of not seeing my grandmother when my second child is born. Not having her come over to my new home and see how awesome it is.

My father says that we have just moved up a generation. In the last six months my father’s father died, then my husband’s dad died, now my mother’s mother passes away. There are no more grandparents left. Meaning that now my parents are the grandparents, me and my husband are the parents and the kids are the kids. Get what I’m saying?

Tomorrow morning is the funeral. I’m sure it will be a very sad and hard thing to try to get through. We are having a graveside funeral with the possibility for rain. I really hope it doesn’t rain, that would be terrible.

My mother feels as if granny isn’t with us anymore. Which is true. I think she is numb about the whole situation right now. I haven’t seen her cry yet. Perhaps because she is all cried out. I haven’t cried alot either, perhaps I’m in shock as well. I feel like this is a dream and we will all awake from it eventually.