Little Car Blanket

I made this little flannel blanket this morning.



More pics later.

First Boy Purchase

I found this cute blanket at Target. Had to get it! It has cars on it too, although the picture doesn't really show that part of the blanket. Jason likes that I'm going with a car theme.



I also bought some flannel the other day to make a little blanket. I'll post pics of that when it's done. It's just an easy little thing, but you know my sewing skills...novice at best.

Samantha's Summer Reading

Since my hip is hurting so much, I seem to be spending a lot of time lying down lately. I thought this would be a good time to read to Samantha. So I've made a little summer reading chart for her to fill out. She loves charts and lists. Everytime we read a book, I'll have her write the name of it on her list. I think she'll like keeping track of all the stories we read.

Shirt-Hats

There's just something fun about wearing a shirt on your head. At least kids certainly think there is!

This Cartoon is Soooo Me Right Now!!

Oh the pain....

My right hip is hurting so much! But even more than that, I'm having severe pelvic floor pain! Especially if I'm standing up and take a sideway-motion step. What am I supposed to do? It hurts to do anything and everything.

This evening I fell apart. I've just kind of been barely keeping it together all day long, but by this evening I was done. I just kind of snapped, yelled at the kids, got sick of the mess, tired of feeling like the only person who cares that it's a mess, just plain tired, and then I fell apart...started crying, and couldn't stop for quite a while. Sometimes I just don't feel like myself. And I hate it! I was good for a few hours today, but that's about it. I just hate this feeling.

Swimming Fun

We spent three days doing fun things together as a family. On Day 3, instead of going somewhere, we stayed in town and had a little "stay-cation". Here we are swimming at the club.

 

 

The Sounds of the Night

It's a quarter after 3:00 on Wednsday morning and I've already been up for about an hour. So lame!!! I'm really tired, but my mind just won't shut up! I keep thinking of things I need to do, conversations I've had, conversations I need to have, etc, etc, etc! Then Alison woke up...like as in, WIDE awake like me. I'm not letting her out of bed, but she's just in there gabber'n away. And Sam was having a weird dream just a minute ago and was yelling something. I wonder what Alison thought of that? When the police pull people over on the freeway behind my house, they use their loudspeaker to tell them to keep driving all the way off the offramp and go to the Chevron station....yeah, I can hear all of that. And now there's a siren somewhere....oh, the sounds of the night. And birds...what the heck are they already chirping for?! And I have some neighbors who are a roofing tear-off company. (That's what you get for living on a street that was once zoned as light-industrial and residential, but then recently changed to commercial.) Their big, rattly trucks come lumbering up and down the street at ALL hours of the night. But most especially around 3:30-4:00 a.m. Seriously? Where are they going that they need to leave so early? I certainly wouldn't want someone tearing off my roof before the crack of dawn. Maybe it's all a cover for something else. Hmmmm? Anyway, I'm super tired and we have a big, fun day planned ahead of us. We're going to Calaveras Big Trees for the day. Check out all the cool, ginormous trees...do a little light hiking...have a picnic lunch...etc. I'm going back to bed now. Cross your fingers that I'll be able to fall back asleep.

Me & Alison

I like this picture. It's just fun.