Hadley Marie arrived on her due date of Oct 3 at 10:14 PM. I was scheduled for an induction the next day, but after having contractions throughout most of the day, I had called my husband and asked him to come home around 3:30 PM. I tried laying down to be sure the contractions were {…Continue Reading}
Over the course of a couple of days, I managed to get fabric for four of my kid’s duffel bags cut out and two of them sewn. I’m calling the striped version the Jack duffel after my nephew who’s birthday prompted the creation of the first bag. This one is listed in my Etsy shop – {…Continue Reading}
We had taken the shots of me and my gigantic belly while Arden was napping. Since she’s been a little bit under the weather and pretty crabby, I wanted to at least be sure we got some pictures of Baby #2 before she arrived. When Arden woke from her nap, she was in a pretty {…Continue Reading}
Things are really getting down to the wire around here in baby growing land, and trust me – I’m feeling it! I’ve really slowed down lately: becoming so cumbersome with belly. I shouldn’t complain though, at this point in Arden’s pregnancy, I had been on bed rest for a couple of weeks with gestational hypertension. {…Continue Reading}
I’m 37 weeks and 4 days into my pregnancy, and I’m beginning to feel every single day of that! Time is ticking by both slowly and quickly, and I still have a few nursery prep projects left to check off the punch list. Today I tackled the shelf for baby’s room. The shelf is one of a {…Continue Reading}
At the end of August, we rented a cottage on the shore of Lake Huron (that’s the eastern side of the lower peninsula for those of you not up on your Great Lakes geography). Sort of a family of three babymoon in recognition that our family will soon be undergoing some drastic changes when baby #2 {…Continue Reading}
I got around to painting the nursery last week – I’m really glad I got it done because just afterward my right hip started acting up. I’m not sure if it’s sciatic pain from the baby sitting on it, or if my hips are over-relaxing from the hormones. Either way, it’s not fun and causes intermittent {…Continue Reading}
After bath, I always put lotion all over Arden. Recently she’s become enamored of the process and gets lotion in her little hands and rubs it on her legs. I got to be the lucky recipient of some of her attentions tonight as she rubbed lotion all over my 27 week belly… … and my {…Continue Reading}
I have the top of the quilt mostly done – just need to add the borders and then we’re on to quilting! I really love how this turned out. It’s not real obvious in the photo, but the center square of each block is gathered. It’s such a little detail in a simple design, but {…Continue Reading}
  image source  Yeah – I wish that were me – I’m not that cute pregnant! I thought I was past the first trimester exhaustion when I stopped needing to take a catnap in my office chair every day at work, and I actually managed to sew a few things (and sell one {…Continue Reading}
