Easter Festivities...

we had a great weekend with family...the kids found TONS of eggs and a good time was had by all!

Happy Easter...

With happy hearts we send our warmest Easter love to you all. May the true reason for celebrating Easter Sunday, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, be in your heart and throughout your life.

good recipes????

i'm in need of some new recipes! it was hot today...just a warm-up (as it were) to temperatures to come, i know, but i was thinking of making dinner and turning on the oven made me want to go lay down:) so do you have any great recipes you like to make in the summer???? (even if you have to use the oven, i don't mind, i am just a little tired of our tried and and true recipes) something fun? fresh? anything is a good idea...we're brainstorming! thanks in advance. you can post them in the comments or email me (myhedwig@gmail)

dinner here we come!

and it came to pass...

and hopefully not to stay...it's been a rough few weeks around here for ethan and me for some reason. we've tried to explain to him about the baby and maybe that is why he's acting out all the time, or maybe he's just 3 and almost 4 years old. for whatever reason he is just really frustrating me. sorry to have to say it, i get frustrated with my own kids:) it's just everything and i think i feel bad because i've not felt good lately and can't do all the things i want to. but i can only do so much you know? and avery is cutting teeth again, and is sad and am i really going to add a whole other person into this craziness...yes i guess i am. heaven help us all! sorry for the venting, just had to express.

and another thing...

i was remiss in telling the stats about the bag, lest you think i'm a bag wizard, i'm not... i had a pattern this time...in an effort to give credit where credit is due the bag originally looked like this, it's called the all-day tote...

and came from this book by Lotta Jansdotter. i made a few changes to it...i added another side pocket, it originally only had one, i made the straps longer for shoulder carrying and i added more pockets on the inside. oh, and one more...the orange on the outside (which incidentially is an amazing martha stewart dishtowel) is actually still that sideways pocket you can see in the original picture, but i put some velcro on it to help things stay in. the end.

i was thinking about halloween...

and wondering what we should be. i was thinking that maybe i could go as a 2 day overdue pregnant woman since, THAT'S WHAT I'LL BE ON OCTOBER 31, assuming that baby number three has not made a debut before that:)

my due date is oct. 29th and we are very excited.

the reason i haven't said anything before now is that i feel sort of yuck-o and didn't want to be all "woe is me" so i didn't tell in an effort to help myself pretend to feel not yuck. does that make sense? anyway, now you know:) the sickiness makes me think it's a girl but time will tell:) i think i might be starting to think of sort of maybe feeling better, but let's not count our chickens before they are hatched, okay?

i just finished this bag...i really like it and i am hoping to use it as a diaper bag...we'll see if it's big enough.

amazing dolls...

okay, here is this etsy shop, Bit of Whimsy Dolls, and they are ADORABLE!!! i want some of those patterns so much! man, creative genius!!! so cool! Sevi Designs is having a giveaway of the patterns....i so hope i win!

recently...

my kids are watching my friends tigger and pooh....at first i was against this show on principle. there is no christopher robin people.....it's a little girl named darby. she's cute but what about christopher robin? are we trying to reach a different demographic by having a girl be their problem-solving friend? maybe. does it work? i don't know. my kids like it just the same as they would if she wasn't a girl, i am sure.

i have been reading a book called Street Gang by Michael Davis what is that about, you might ask? acutally, it's a complete history of Sesame Street. This show is near and dear to my heart. i love sesame street and my kids really like it too. it's cool to experience the show as a child and then with your children. reading about it has been interesting too. it took, sadly, about 120 pages for me to really get into it though. because the author spent a lot of time telling the backstory of A LOT of people before it ever got to the actual beginning of sesame street. it was probably necessary, but it was a little slow for me to tell the truth. but now we're clicking along and it's due back at the library by the 3rd...tomorrow, so i gotta get moving here. i was on the waiting list for it for a LONG time so i do want to finish it. did you know that the lyrics to the Sesame Street song were a rough draft? they intended to change them but never had time. funny huh? and oscar used to be orange. the same guy who does big bird also does oscar (Caroll Spinney). Jim Henson (before his death, obviously) did Kermit and Ernie (and others i am sure). Frank Oz (who also does Miss Piggy) did Grover, Bert and someone else....can't remember. the same guy who does elmo (kevin clash, he is a large black man...you wouldn't guess it from elmo though, huh?), also does Hoots the owl...pretty awesome! it's really interesting to me to find out how sesame street came to be. so overall i really do like the book.

in other news, i made, quite possible one of my favorite slings the other day. (Kim, this one is for Kim your SIL). It was kind of funny because the fabric she picked they don't carry anymore (gasp) so i had to call her and tell her we would have to wing it and she was super nice and let me take some creative license with it:) i do hope she likes it. the pink is the pocket and is one of my new favorite fabrics now:)

so cute:)

and it's finally happening. our dishes are getting the 7 year itch i guess. i was eating cereal out of this bowl yesterday morning and saw some milk on the floor and surmised it must have been from one of the children....then my hand was wet and i found this lovely crack in my bowl!

sweet.