Made By Me March (MBMM) #2

The kids thought matching Christmas pajamas would be fantastic, so we bought 10 yards(!!) of flannel and went to work. Sarah and Amy helped sew, too.With everything else at Christmas, I knew the only way it could be possible was if we bought t-shirts instead of making the tops, so we did that.

Made By Me March #1

I've decided that all things in this "Made By Me March" series must be thing that I've made and we have here in our house. (I make lots of things and give them as gifts). At first I wanted all items to be clothing, but maybe this is more fun.

Because of today's unplanned trip to the Fayetteville ER, this first post has to be of something that's already in the computer files. Marty fell in PE and split open his temple. Instead of driving all the way up to Sanford's ER, we went to F'ville, and I'm glad we did. They have a kid's ER department which was fantastic. As usual, wait time was LTIT (longer than Iowa time), so I am very grateful for well behaved children who can be trusted to be in the waiting room without me. Marty was a trooper; not one tear. The kid's pain tolerance is scary.

Without further adieu.......#1

This is the kids' bathroom that we redecorated last summer while Matt was at the Boy Scout Jamboree. The shower curtain and toilet seat cover were made my me. On the left wall you can just see the art work that was made by the kids.

Coming in March, 2011

I'm thinking about doing a "Made By Me March" series of posts wherein I will post a photo for each day of March, of something I have made. Originally this idea was about clothing, but I might like to include some other stuff if i run out of garments. What do you think?

Merry Christmas to you!

One more sleep

Whenthe kids were very little, we would translate time into "how many Barney shows" or "how many sleeps" so they could understand how long until whatever it was they were waiting for would happen.
Well...it's just

one more sleep

until Papa comes home.

More funny business

The girls are getting funnier all the time. I recently found this note that Amy wrote to Sarah. She was teasing Sarah about how much she fusses when her hair isn't just right. While I certainly don't promote making fun of someone else, this was pretty funny, especially the way Amy said it.

Now we laugh about it all the time and Sarah joins in.

Aunt Shelia came to visit!

and we had a great time together!
She brought Iowa geods to bust open
They played "Mary Memory"
More geo busting
We made goo and had a lot of fun with it.

Thanks, Le-Le, for making the trip. We really enjoyed having you here!

While Matt's at the Boy Scout Jamboree,

we are having a demo/redo party here at the house. Can't give details because it's a surprise to Matt, but later I'll have a complete recap.

Isn't it just too funny that Matt is at Boy Scout Camp??? American Water is providing water and wastewater services for 35,000 boys at Fort AP Hill in Virginia. They actually thought he would stay in a tent--but that idea got nixed pretty quickly and the corporate staff have RVs now. Sounds like a pretty intense time--I'm glad to be here rather than there. You know, 35,000 boy scouts he is not responsible for---4 kids I alone am responsible for.......sounds about equal to me.

Took a picture for you all yesterday; it was

on our deck at 6:30pm.

Weather guy said it was hotter today but we wouldn't know--

we didn't go out!

2 days down; 12 to go.