Thursday, August 23, 2012

Rewarded for not going to sleep

The other night, Roderic and Hyrum were delaying going to sleep.  Not unusual at all, unfortunately.  "I need a story."  "I need a drink."  "I need some music." "I need the light on."  "I need the light off."  "Roderic isn't letting me fall asleep."  "Hyrum isn't letting me fall asleep."  "It's too hot."  They were using all of them.

Ryan was finishing the front lawn and I was enjoying the cool evening without the smell of fire on the front porch swing.  Our neighbor, Stan, was working on his Hot Rod.  Its a Model A cab, with an early corvette engine, a sweet ride.  I told the boys to go ask if they could have a ride.  They were too shy.  I told them I would go with them.  So we walked down to the end of the cul-de-sac, where he was taking pictures (it's for sale, if you're interested I can get you the info).  He told them to hop in and off they went.    Five or so minutes of driving around the neighborhood and the boys came home so happy.  Tired?  Not at all.  They still needed a story, some music, the light off and a drink.

Friday, August 17, 2012

A new dress!

 This has been a hot summer.  Even more so since I'm pregnant.  So I am finding that skirts dresses are by far the coolest thing to wear.  I bought this dress at Wal-mart at the beginning of the summer and have worn it a couple of times with a shirt under it. The armhole openings required a shirt under it and as my belly has grown, the length has shrunk.  And did I mention it is hot?  I didn't want to continue to wear a shirt under it or even think about wearing leggings with it.  Stacy and I went to Caledonia Fine Fabrics downtown, looking for some chambray to make a ruffly, flowing sleeve and instead found this perfect ruffle fabric so I could add sleeves and 4 inches to the bottom. It was a $3 fix and took about 3 hours from thought process to cutting to sewing to be able to wear.  I am very pleased with how it turned out!
I believe I even have enough of this fabric left over from the 1/4 yard I bought to be able to make a onesie dress for the baby!