So today I felt like I really made progress. My mom was still here so I didn’t feel so guilty spending time on the quilt rather than with Abby. The picture shows one strip – it is the width of a queen size bed. I do need to put a border on it after the body of the quilt is finished.
I started on my quilt this week. I’ve never done one before and actually never wanted to make quilts until recently. I had in my mind that quilts only looked a certain way and I wasn’t a huge fan. And then my friend Bev, showed me quilts from magazines that were not your grandmother’s quilts. Bev let me borrow the pattern which I am now using. At first, I was going to try to do just a small one but then Paul wanted one for our bed…so my quilt grew. My quilt is browns and oranges…the main blocks are...
On Monday, we took Abby for her 9 month checkup. She weighed in at 15 pounds, 1 ounce and is 25 3/4 inches long. I chose to go to the SIU teaching clinic. My thoughts were that an experienced pediatrician would be assisting a new doctor and wow! I would get really great medical care. Instead, only the resident came in, very nervous I might add, and seemgly out of his element. After asking me “Did she come in for her 8 month check-up?” (there is no 8 month check-up) he then proceeded to ask “What shots are...
Abby is 9 months old today. I am sitting here watching her play on the floor where she is rolling over and over until she gets where she wants to get. This is brand new. It’s almost as if her body knew she was hitting the 9 month mark and said “Get mobile now”. I guess that means we have to babyproof the house now. I think she’ll find out soon enough that rolling is not an efficient way to get around and hopefully figure out crawling. Another fun thing Abby is doing is trying to mimic what we...
Chocolate Mini Bundt Cakes (This recipe came from alpineberry.blogspot.com) This recipe is actually pretty easy and tastes divine! Cake: 1 cup all purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 4 ounces (1 stick/8 tbsp) unsalted butter, softened at room temp 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract 1/2 cup whole milk 7 ounces good quality* milk chocolate, melted and cooled Glaze: 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped 2 tsp light corn syrup To make the cake: Preheat oven to 350F. Generously butter a 6-mold mini bundt pan. Sift together the flour, baking...
In an earlier post, I admitted that I wasn’t doing cloth diapers for the double yuck factor. Well, we are now using cloth and it really isn’t that bad. We use prefold diapers with diaper covers and it is actually super easy. One of our most recent additions is a diaper sprayer which is attached to the toilet. You can use this to spray off the poop from the diaper rather than the traditional dunk and swirl. My husband loves using the sprayer so this is a double blessing for me Since we still have lots of disposables,...
Tuna is one of those necessary evils. I have lots of it. I know it is good for me and yet, I dread eating it. Today I combined several different ideas and wahla! tolerable tuna. My new combination: Mayonnaise/ ranch dressing (2-3TB) Relish (2TB) Mustard (just a dab) 1/4 Sweet Onion – diced Cilantro – chopped, about 1/4 cup 1/4 apple – diced small It tastes even better if you let it sit for about 2 hours before eating. Enjoy
Today I read part of an article talking about a possible baby boom say in about 9 months from election night. Apparently the excitement of the evening continued once people went back to their own houses. It will be interesting to see what happens in the upcoming months to see if this theory holds. What is ironic to me is that Obama is so strongly pro-abortion that I wonder if instead of a baby boom, will we see an abortion boom? Just curious….
. . .watching your daughter get shots. Today Abby had her 6 month check-up. All is well and she is growing right along the curve. She weighed in at 12 pounds, 12 ounces and her length was 24 inches. She was all smiles until the end. The nurse came in to give the shots and this time asked me to hold down Abby’s hands. Now that’s CRUEL! Abby looked at me with such a confounded expression like “how could you do this to me?” She’s been quite fussy all afternoon and actually sleeping a lot! I pray that...
So those that know me know that I can be cheap. Not all the time. For example, I am using disposable diapers instead of cloth diapers. Probably only because I only have access to a washing machine once a week but I must admit that I like using disposable. You only have to deal with the “yuck” once. So I’ve been researching making my own baby food because I just can’t stomach the idea of buying those jars of preservative rich baby food. I’ve also been to enough baby showers where you have to smell and taste to guess...