Tackle it # 12–that is for the next three weeks

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Ok ladies here’s my tackle um for the next three weeks or so.. or should that be sew! That’s right a sewing tackle. I am a novice at sewing on all counts but I have a lot of it to do. In three weeks my husband is graduating with his M.Div. I was feeling really Really bummed about not having something nicer to wear. Well Yesterday I stumbled upon a great pattern someone just gave me and it says that it is supposed to take two hours but with two small kids and another on the way. It should take me about three weeks!
So here’s the picture and I will update periodically. As of right now the fabric is washed and hopefully I will get to cut out the pieces this afternoon!


So I am going to make the twp in the center basically because they do not have buttons. The long one will be in the floral print and hopefully the shorter one will be the gray material.. It is up in the air if there is enough! oh well time will tell I guess. Wish me luck! It really helps having a mother-in-law a mile away who is a home and consumer sciences teacher!

I don’t know where to start!

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If you don’t know about our weekend then I suggest you stop reading this and go straight down to my last Tackle-It-Tuesday Post . That would be # 11. There just is not enough time to expound upon that AGAIN! Tuesday i felt like a total slug and felt fairly nervous becaus I had not been feeling pregnnat for some time. I tried to take a nap but was so jittery that I just laid there and shivered. Not to mention my parents keep their forced Air gas heat at a balmy 75 degrees! Needless to say We are not used to that we keep our house at 60 during the day and turn it back…way back at night. So needless to say after spending 4 whole days there it has been really really hard to acclimate. So I got up to get a shower and that helped…make me more sleepy that is! Well then I took the kids to the post office. Got the mail scanned it all for the yellow card that means you have a package. Well there wasn’t one so I heaved the monster of a double stroller back around and headed for home a few hundred feet away. Well I got both kids in the house, my husband was calling on the phone when I walked in. I went back out while talking to him to heave the monster stroller back up the stairs in it’s compact form. Luckily I didn’t take it in side. Because I went in and sat at my chair at the kitchen table to see what mail we got while we were gone. Bills Bills, Junk junk and more junk. and what should slide out of the last flier…you guessed it a yellow card! I glanced at my watch I had 15 minutes till the Post Office closed. Luckily the kids still had their coats on (he he he he he ) And we raced back. I was absolutely ticked to see that my first eBay purchase had arrived! Well I have a full day to write about Wednesday, however Tornado must have thought that taking nap was an option so after I re-tuck him in and put lady bug down for her nap I shall return to my story!

I don’t know where to start! Part 2

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Ok a side note- Just now when I took Lady bug up to put her in bad who should be standing at his door waiting for me..tornado of course. He is very good at opening his door. Too good in fact. However what was interesting this time is that he was completely and totally naked. Not a stitch of clothing not even his diaper! Now to be truthful this is not all that uncommon either but what is uncommon is when I tell him not to undress himself he listens. Every time I turn around today he is removing his clothes!!!!!!

Ok on to Wednesday. Well I didn’t have to worry about not feeling pregnant anymore because I felt nauseous all day..That isn’t normal for me so it was hard getting acclimated to that. Then while the kids were having breakfast I received f telephone call from a telemarketer. dumbly I gave them our checking account #. yes I know better but in the process Tornado had broken a ceramic dish, the dog was trying to get at the chunks of wreckage and I can’t remember where lady bug was at the time but if I remember correctly she wasn’t happy either.

As I recall there were a million other things that happened that were just above and bbeyond my daily routine! To top it all off Hubby was in charge of Prayer meeting at our church last night! He rushed home from work to pick me and the kids up . He doesn’t normally have to do that. His parents pick us up but they are out of town. So we drove the mile and a half back to church with kids in tow only to discover that NO one would show up. This is common and not normally a big deal but after the day I had it was just icing on the cake.

Today has not been much better. Tornado and Lady bug are both adamantly refusing nap time (which in no way shape or form is acceptable!) Lady bug puked all over the floor and she normall is not a puker. I think tornado gave her Poly-fil to play with and she ate it!

And as I discussed earlier tornado has been getting naked all day. I need a nap myself but I am VERY VERY far behind on my indoor planting and that must get done or we will not be having peppers, tomatoes or broccoli from the garden this summer. So for now Auf Wiedersehn. C-ya round the blogoshere!

Tackle it Tuesday #11 – The Weekend

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Never in all my life have I dreaded an Easter as this one. No because of the holiday itself but what it would hold for our family! Or mission was to retrieve this A 1985 Chevy Suburban from the beautifully warm State of Arizona. Of which we live no where close to! This is the means by which the fellas got to Arizona (the fellas being hubby and my brother-in-law) So they left Saturday morning via the above airplane and flew to NYC then from there to Phoenix Az. Then they took a two hour shuttle ride north to see the truck. They loved it. so thus that evening they started their long journey back across the U.S. From Arizona to New Mexico and from there to Texas and from there to Oklahoma and from there to Kansas And from there to Missouri (apparently to buy cattle) To understand that you can read my brother-in-law’s blog by clicking here and reading the comments. Then from Missouri to Illinois to Indiana to Ohio and finally to New York A total of 2,500 miles DRIVEN in a Day and a half! In the meantime I spent the entire time at my parents home in Pennsylvania until hubby came to pick me up last night. We left at 2 AM this morning so he could come back for work. What a weekend and I just wanted to thank two people. Thanks to HT and Sugar. Sugar for giving up her hubby for their first Easter together as a married couple and HT for making the long journey and keeping my hubby awake. Make it three and the Good Lord for keeping everything and everyone safe! As for the reason of doing all this! We bought a brand New car last August the week after Ladybug was born, however as we just realized the back seat will be quite cramped with three car seats. That’s right baby #3 is due two days after Thanksgiving!