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first clap at the fabric store

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IMG_6396 IMG_6397After noticing how plain my couch looks during Alex’s baby shower, I decided on finally making those couch cushions I bought those down filled pillows for almost a year ago.  Those pillows have become an almost permanent part of my to do pile in the sewing room.  To the readers of this blog, it may seem that I get a lot done, in fact it is the most asked question that I get.  My answer… you should see the pile of stuff I don’t get done.  Please remember that this blog is a place for me to share and remember parts of my life and I guess I don’t want to remember that huge pile of laundry waiting for me in the loft 🙂

To make the couch pillows, I needed the perfect fabric.  The perfect fabric is seldom found in the enormous selection one already owns so I was off to the fabric store.  Shopping carts are not my thing, I prefer to have Matthew in his Ergo but this day, he was very wiggly and it was getting kind of hard to look at fabric so I used those disinfecting towels (that I always tell everyone not to use because I think antibacterials are the debol <insert the voice from the mom in the movie the water boy>  <if you haven’t seen the water boy, that is how she says the word devil> to thoroughly clean the shopping cart since I don’t have one of those shopping cart covers.  He was so excited to sit there like a great big boy that while at the cutting counter I clapped at him.  When I told an elderly couple behind me in line that he was excited to sit in the cart like a big boy, they started clapping too and then Matthew followed along and he has been clapping ever since and of course we are all clapping back.

Don’t forget that today is the last day to enter the mama cloth giveaway.  I will announce the winner tomorrow morning.  Oh and I have an amazingly cool new giveaway to post tomorrow…you don’t wanna miss it!! <there is a hint, in one of the pics from yesterdays post>

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friday night at the movies

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Yesterday was a long tiring day of trying to catch up with all the weeds that have grown everywhere but most especially in every garden area and bed.  We are preparing for Alexandra’s baby shower here on Sunday.  Half of us worked outside in scorching heat.  It reminds me why I don’t even bother growing food in the summer.  By the time I got back in, I was dead tired.

Poppa somehow still had the energy to put together a very nice dinner, I love his energy.  After dinner, the kids invited me to the movies.  Not just any movie but the most wonderful movie theater ever complete with snack bar, fresh popped organic cinnamon sugar popcorn, and go as you are attire.

I walked into the living room to find a ticket man waiting (who asked me not to take his picture ahem) with a movie rope to let me into the theater.  The line at the snack counter was quite long so I waited for the crowd to order and then got a nice big bowl of popcorn and a box of candy (I am not a candy person so I only ate a few pieces).  We sat down and watched a few previews before our featured movie, Annie began.

Once the lights were out and the movie speakers were on, it really did feel like we were at a theater except I got to cuddle with Olivia and at some point one of the kids decided to braid my hair while I watched the movie.  Best movie theater ever, I highly recommend it!

This morning I awoke to find the living room as if nothing happened.  Those movie theater cleaners are pretty good.  Today I have a to do list longer than my arm.  Cakes and cupcakes to make, decorations to create, cleaning to do and there is still more weeding out there.  Gotta go!

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