He’s home now. There is the lingering vestiage of infection in his elbow, but I think he finally beat this staph. Here are a few things that I learned during the past 2 weeks:
Nurses are angels.
Men are not good patients, but they will consent to treatment when the wife insists.
How to vaccuum the swimming pool.
A 2-hour nap in your husband’s arms in a hospital bed is more refreshing than 6 hours at home.
A true friend not only watches your kids, but also washes your dishes.
Sometimes, the laundry just has to wait.
Don’t forget to feed the dog.
UNO + jigsaw puzzles + 2 children = quality family time.
It’s football season! And tonight’s the game I wish we’d seen last February! Archie’s boy vs. Archie’s team. What a fun kick-off to the fall! Hopefully, I’ll still think so tomorrow…
Speaking of this beautiful and fun time of year, be on the lookout for my new fall designs at PersonaliTy Children’s Clothes. I’m adding my new Halloween designs this weekend, including a gingham bat, an applique pumpkin, and a sassy candy corn for those “not so little” girls!
I haven’t had the opportunity to even sit down at the computer since last Wednesday. Hubby-dearest picked up a nasty staph infection and is in the hospital. After 2 MDs and a couple of different oral antibotics, it was decided that he needed vancomyacin, which he can only get via IV. So, there he sits, still waiting…
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV)
Yesterday a friend mailed me a link to the funniest blog. Check it out yourself: mom2my6pack.blogspot.com. After reading of the mothering adventures this mom faces, I told myself I wouldn’t complain about my 2 in the grocery store ever again.
Perhaps it was seeing myself in a few of her stories, maybe I was just in a reflective mood after a week filled with firsts…either way, last night I found myself so grateful for the blessings in my life. After praising God for my children and my husband, I began to reflect on his recent turn of events. I’ve already expressed the evidence of God’s design through that circumstance. Yet, standing back, looking over the past 10 years, I can see so clearly that not only are we destined to be here right now, but we’ve been placed here deliberately and with a purpose. What an overwhelming and humbling thought!
Our Big Girl made it through her first day of Kindergarten. I think she had a blast, and she came home exhausted! Now, if I can just get her there on time for the rest of the year.
The green top is Simplicity 3830. I finished it late Sunday night before wearing it Monday, but that’s the way these things go. As for the top, Step 6 in the pattern instructions is a little incomplete. I found I had to stop stitching at the side seams and reposition the fabric to avoid catching the “sleeve” portion of the wrap in the casing. The fabric was a silkie from Hancock’s.
If I were to do it again, I would be careful to choose a fabric with that was woven more evely. With the one I used, my side fringe is much wispier than my bottom fringe. I won’t be making it again, but it is a simple pattern that even a beginner could use. And, it adds a splash of color into my late-spring-summer-early fall “hot weather” wardrobe.
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