Wife, Then Mama

This is baby Mitchell.  He was born on March 7th 2012. On June 10th 2012 he was taken up to Heaven. I told the story as it was told to me in my last post, and have since asked his mother, Jessie for permission to use his picture, and the letter she wrote to him on my blog. "oh mitchel. you've been such a miracle. You've fought for your life since you were born. I lost you at 3 months and 3 days. but those days between today and when you were born were the best days of my life. You'll never be taken for grante d nor will you ever truley be gone. i love you so much my beautiful boy. im glad i got to hear you laugh last week. and how much you wanted to cuddle with me. im going to miss your small cry and that beautiful voice. Your baby talk could make me laugh for days. Im SO proud of you mitchell. I know you were tired but it's okay. mommy understands. lol, you know what i loved? when i would smile at you and you would smile back. or when we wou...

I spend a lot of time being bitter and jealous.  Today I realized that while being infertile sucks, there are much worse things that could happen. I was talking to my sister today, and she told me something awful that has recently happened to a friend of my family.  This is what she told me.  My dad's friend's daughter, Jessie, had a baby a few months ago.  He was not growing well and had trouble eating and breathing.  I don't know the whole story, but I know they put him on a feeding tube and he started doing better.  He couldn't breathe when he was laid flat on his back, so they always had him propped up. The doctors wanted to do an MRI on the baby to try and find out what was wrong.  Jessie told the MRI technician to make certain that they didn't lay him flat on his back, because he wouldn't be able to breathe.  They took the baby and put him in the MRI machine.  He screamed for a few minutes, then got quiet.  They pulled him ou...

So I was watching Good Luck Charlie, because I am just that cool.  On this particular episode Amy (the mom) signs up for a "BuddyBook" account.  Teddy (16 year old daughter) says "BuddyBook" must be uncool now.  Then she finds out her grandma has an account and says she needs to delete her account.  When Amy sends PJ (18 year old son) a friend request, he denies the request! Maybe I am crazy, but I love when my family is on Facebook.  I don't understand why it would be embarrassing to be "friends" with your grandma, or your mom. I guess I just don't have anything to hide?  I mean I don't put naked pictures of myself up (yes I know, Facebook doesn't allow naked pictures, but some of them are close enough), or post offensive status updates.  As a teenager it might have minded a little bit, because everything feels like an invasion of privacy to a teenager, but I am pretty dang sure that if my mom had sent me a friend request and I'd...

I have made Simplicity 2699 a couple of times now.  A friend of mine bought it so I could make her little girl an apron for Christmas.  Then I made another one this last Christmas. This is the first one that I made.  I spent A LONG time making it.  I wanted it to be perfect since my friend had spent the money on the pattern, materials, and thread.  I used my sewing machine, but I manually turned the wheel so it wouldn't go to fast.  Not the whole time of course, but for the rounded parts, and parts that had to be sewn over more than once. The second one I made is not as well done.  In fact it is now falling apart.  But that is my fault.  I thought the extra wide double fold bias tape was to thick for the teeny tiny apron, so I used some thinner bias tape.  It wasn't wide enough.  She isn't sad, she had just woken up and I wanted to take the picture before her mom picked her up. And just for kicks, here is...

I made a shirt from the left over fabric from the first dress I made (if you look WAY back at the beginning of my blog you can see the disaster that was).  It turned out pretty cute.  Except for one thing.  This was supposed to be a PREEMIE sized baby shirt.  And it fit a 12 month old.  Hmmm...

I have tried to sew without patterns a few times.  Usually it is either a disaster or close to one.  But this baby blanket is one time that I didn't fail miserably at the pattern free sewing.  In fact I think its kinda cute :) Add caption

I got a puppy!  I thought that everyone would want to see my baby dog, so here are some really bad pictures.  Its really dark in Michael's mom's house, so the flash is always having to go off even in broad daylight, making the pictures look weird.  Plus my photography skills are lacking... Her name is Daisy, and she is a rottweiler/lab mix.  She is really cute.  Also really obnoxious at night.  She sleeps all day and cries all night.  I am sleeping in the spare room with her, because I have to let her out like 27 times a night.  Plus she cries for like 45 minutes before going to sleep if you leave her alone, where if I sleep in the room with her she just whimpers a little and goes to sleep.  If she would stop waking up a zillion times, she could just sleep in our room with us, but Michael drives for a living, and I prefer him to get a full nights sleep. She is a sweetie, and I am super happy I have a puppy again, I am just a little whiny...