New Project

We went to JoAnn's tonight, and all of the Valentine's Day fabric was gone! I couldn't believe it. I am not sure if I will get to make the girls love not pillows or not. It depends how much fabric I have left over from my new project, which I started tonight. No, I haven't tacked those curtains yet. I will get to it sometime. The new project involves these:



And I have to have it done by tomorrow night because I am giving it to my secret sister on Tuesday. Or I hope I am. Maybe the doctor won't see any patients tomorrow. Ha!

Time to fold some clothes and then go to bed!

Weekend Update

I ended up working until 9:50 last evening and didn't get to sew anything! I emailed my boss after doing another 87 minute dictation today and asked how long this will go on. I can't keep it up. I am worn out!! My brain has stopped functioning well when I am typing :P.

In other news, Carolyn came over yesterday and we finally exchanged Christmas gifts!! She gave me a gift certificate to Pier 1. Oh my. We are going tomorrow afternoon after nap. She got the girls stuff to make necklaces and bracelets. Of course Pilly cannot do it yet, but Pnut is loving it! She is doing really well stringing the beads.



Isn't that a goofy face? She was supposed to smile...I am not sure what happened. We made a necklace last night, but some silly mom cut the string too short so we are going to have to take it apart.



Daddy and Pnut made a necklace and a bracelet today. She wore them quite a bit. She loves, and I mean LOVES, the star beads. They will probably be all gone very quickly. She has not seen the other ones glow in the dark yet. So thanks Lynn, it was a great gift!

Joel and I watched a movie together tonight called Hot Rod. It was really silly and I laughed a lot. No Mom, you would not like it. It was nice to spend some time together, even if we just laid on the couch and watched a movie. Usually, Joel plays a game on the XBox and I sew or work.

We also went to Wal-Mart tonight. The fabric is now 50% off, but it is almost all gone!! There was not any Valentine's Day fabric left. What?! I was just there a little over a week ago! They have not put any of the extras on sale like scissors or rotary cutters. It is still only by-the-yard stuff, but it is supposed to be totally gone by sometime in March so probably soon!

Well, I think I will go work on these curtains a little more. I still have two to finish tacking down with the slip stitch. Have a great night!

Almost Done!

I actually had enough binding to do all three curtain panels last night so that was exciting! I am now slipstitching them to the other side. I was only able get one done during Lost. I will probably only do one tonight as well. It takes longer than it looks like it should!

Basically all I have done all day is working. I am still covering the extra account. Thankfully, today's dictation was only 82 minutes instead of 103 like the other day, but my regular doctor saw 18 patients so that is making up some extra time. Hopefully I will be finished by 9:00. Not only do I want to watch The Office, but I start typing funny if I work too late!

I wanted to mention a new blogger tonight! I went to high school with Steph and she has been reading my blog and thought it looked like fun. You should go visit her over at Random Thought Bubbles and leave her some love. You should leave me some love too...all you lurkers. You don't have to have a profile to leave a comment!!:) I am impressed that anyone reads this. I sure can write a lot without saying much!

I also wanted to mention a CD we recently got. Well, Pilly got it for her birthday. It is called Slugs, Bugs, and Lullabies byAndrew Peterson. We like Andrew Peterson a lot. This is his only children's CD. He is a Christian singer and sings in a style similar to Rich Mullins. The CD is lots of fun with songs like Bears, Bears, Post Office Song, and Tractor, Tractor. There is also a really sweet song called Beautiful Girl that makes me want to cry every time I hear it. It is a good thing I never hear it with Joel around. That man is so unemotional. This is his website, and here is the blog that Andrew contributes to. Good stuff.

Hopefully, I will be finishing up these curtains so that we can move on to the new projects I have running around my head. I have been on sort of a recipe slump lately and haven't tried anything new. I was thinking about something fun for breakfast tomorrow...just depends if those girls behave. I will try to spice things up here!! Have a great night:)

Be Afraid of Chickens No More!

I am afraid of chickens. Not only the living, breathing, people-chasing bird, but also the dead ones that you have to cook. They intimidate me. Roasting a whole chicken?! That is serious stuff. I don't want to undercook it and have us all die of food poisoning. But today I cooked one all by myself. And I am still here to tell of it. Joel discovered a site awhile ago called amateur gourmet. He has a wonderful tutorial video about cooking chicken so that it comes out moist. It is different than I have seen it done before. The link to the chicken part is here. It only took 1 h, 45 m to cook a 7 pound chicken. That seems short to me. The breast meat is moist and delicious. It is covered in salt so you know that is good. He also puts potatoes in the pan and they are so yummy. Be intimidated by the dead birds no more! I can't say anything about the live ones though.

Tonight, my plan is to sew the binding on two more curtain panels and hopefully finish them. I have to get one more thing of binding to do the last panel. I am hoping to go to JoAnn's soon. I have this really cool Valentine's Day idea that I want to share. I just love Valentine's Day!

My little baby is not feeling so well. She is looking like the Pnut did the other night so I am going to go cuddle her on the couch while we watch the first part of Sesame Street.

What a day!

Can you guess what this is:



I was sitting at the computer typing, and I thought it smelled like someone was cooking. I am working on a 103 minute dictation so I am trying to focus and the girls were finally being good and quiet. The smell continued to get stronger so I turned around and saw this:



That would be all of our garlic salt. Wow. It smells pretty bad in here now. I had a hard time not laughing. I told her if she ever did it again, she was going to get in trouble. She must have climbed up on a chair and gotten it out of the spice rack. Pilly is now licking the empty jar. Hey, garlic is good for you...

This has just been one of those days. The muffler fell partially off the car this morning on my way to my mom's to clean so I had to come home. I have this super-long dictation on top of my other work. Pilly has gotten Pnut's cold pretty bad and is not sleeping well. She would rather if I just held her and she slept like that. Also, Pnut was in our bed like 10 times last night. I would wake up, find her and take her back to her bed. Then, she would be back the next time I woke up. I hope it doesn't sound like I am complaining, it has just been a rough day! At least the Garlic Incident was funny.

So now they are enteratining themselves with the empty container so I am going to try to get back to work!

One Done!

I finally finished one panel of the curtains for the girls' room! Only three to go! They should go more quickly though. My mom took the panel home with her and came up with three different scalloped edges to try. She made them varying in curviness. I had to do the least curvy one to make the binding lay flat. It looks nice though. Once they are all done, I will post a picture. They need to be hanging up to see how it really looks! I am just thankful to finally be making progress with these! I have other things I want to work on:)

My favorite secondhand store for children's clothing is having their winter dollar sale. Everything is between $1-4 depending on what its original price was. I bought some 4T clothes. Pnut is only 2, but I have 3T from a friend. I got $37 worth of clothes for $10. That is always exciting!!

Tomorrow is looking like a pretty busy day. I am covering an extra account for work (please God don't let him dictate tonight) and I am cleaning for my mom. The extra account is the guy who dictates for up to 2 hours, never less than 1 so it is a lot! But maybe he didn't see anyone today. Ha!

I hope everyone has a great night!!

Pilly's Party

We had Pilly's birthday party yesterday, and everyone had a lot of fun. I made my first attempt at a special cupcake. Lets hope my children don't expect much through the years...or maybe I will calling my friend Cheryl who made Elsie's cake! I have this book, and I made the horse cupcakes. They didn't turn out exactly like the book, but they were close enough!



Here is the whole herd. They yellow and green cupcakes are grass and hay.



The heads were Circus Peanuts and the necks were sugar wafer cookies.



They were very sugary. Seriously, Pilly laid down for her nap after eating, and when I went up 30 minutes later, she was running around the inside of her pack and play!



Here she is in her special birthday girl hat! She is the third child to wear that in the last 1.5 years!



We did gifts first because she was going to be getting messy!



She got several books for her birthday. We like to read!



Pilly is fascinated with this popper! Thankfully, it isn't too loud!



Going in for the kill!



Not too bad!



This picture just shows those beautiful eyelashes!!



She really wasn't too messy by the end! She only ate a little bit more before I took it away. She liked the icing the best, I think.



I just wanted to show you all how much she was enjoying her new books. On top of the table...at least she is interested in reading!