This WONDERfilled Life...

At our school's Fall Fest, 2022.  We won the trunk or treat contest! It's been forever...again...I am so behind on life right now.  I know it "looks" like I have everything together and handled but I promise you that I am barely hanging on.  I thought when both kids went to school (at the same school) this past fall things would get easier and I'd have oodles of time to work and do things like clean, organize and write...and...it's freaking April and I've written and published ONE blog post and my to do list is growing longer by the day. So...let's catch up a bit on life and then I'll tell you all about the newest time suck over here. I have like ten different blog posts rolling around in my head...I think I may have to go back to my 2018 plan and just force myself to write an hour a week and call it.  I find that when I get stressed (and getting behind REALLY stresses me out) my perfectionism starts to rear it's ugly head again and when it com...

Super and I joked often pre-pandemic about how life is just various stages of turning pages.  Thanks to COVID this current page turn in our life has moved…e…v…e…r… so … s…l…o…w…l…y.  But it IS happening, like, it’s mostly turned…I think I can even almost read the title of the next chapter…Not completely but pretty darn close. I don’t know if it’s just finally having both kids in the same place (i.e. summer camp) for the first time ever or if it’s the whole “I spent two plus years always having everyone around and catering to all their various needs, thank you global pandemic”…either way…I’ve been soaking in the past three weeks and the few hours I’ve had daily to just breathe and catch up on everything.  Take today, for example, I had about 50 minutes at home kid free after I got home from Rally classes with Zo, and I knocked out a major to do list that involved several phone calls, scheduling many doctor appointments, follow up emails, paying bills and ordering things fo...

O Cameo! O Cameo! How easy you make my projects!!! It's week 52...FIFTY TWO!!! There are not enough exclamation points to express how freaking proud I am of myself.  I made it.  I created something every week this year, took photos and posted each about it.  I was certain I would stop at the end of this year but I think I may, MAY, continue in the new year.  I have haven't actually decided yet...what I do know is that I will obviously keep creating (I still have a list of projects that I never got to this year) and will post when I do...but I'll figure out the details later. A round up of projects and my reflections on what I learned to come! This week was all about my Cameo again.  I took a well deserved break after our amazing Coco party but I needed to make the "Something to wear" for Bubba for Christmas so I got it back out.  We tried (and successfully stuck to) the "Something they want, Something they need, Something to wear and Something to re...

If you missed last week's project it was so much fun, and we've been thoroughly enjoying our new, comfy pillows.  You can check them out here, Week 47 .  When I was sewing up the last set of pillows the red fabric struck me as a Christmas cranberry color and I thought, hmmmm, I have enough scraps to make a few ornaments.  I cataloged the idea in my brain and continued with my week, until I blinked and the week had flown by and my Friday and Saturday were spent worried about family and friends in Anchorage, Alaska.  If you don't know they had a massive earthquake on Friday morning, 7.2.  No injuries and no fatalities, which is a real testament to their strong building codes...the Haiti earthquake was 7.0 and it obliterated that country.  I feel like since Alaska has coped so well it's been somewhat glossed over in the news, but for those of us directly effected it is still heavily on our minds.   ANYWAYS -  I got sidetracked.  ...