Summer Fun

Foster Kitten

We fostered a kitten for one night and now we are debating about if we should adopt a cat or two. It's hard to resist, but I'm just not sure if we can swing it right now.

Here I sit debating on whether or not this will be my last row. How can fill the little bits of free time? What will I do with my hands while I watch tv or sit in the car?

A couple more rows wouldn't hurt right?

Anna's 2nd Birthday!!!

Today was my baby girls 2nd birthday. We read a bunch of books and were inspired to make a crazy cake.

The kids decided to eat said cake in their birthday suits.

Then we went to the farmers market to pick up our CSA and get some yummy treats.

Anna loved sampling all the vegetables and sniffing the onions. They devoured a pint of blueberries, two carrots, some broccoli, and a handful of green beans on the short walk home!

This is all the stuff we got for in our CSA and it averages out to $8 a week. I'm pretty darn happy with it so far.

Anxiety

I inherited a very wonderful condition from my Mother who inherited it from her Father who inherited from his Mother and so on and so forth. Anywho it's called Panic disorder and sometimes it's a problem and sometimes it's not. I sometimes go six months without a panic attack and other times I sit on the verge of panic for days.

I am in one of those funks at the moment. My vision gets blurry, it's hard to hear or breathe, my chest feels heavy, and I lose control. It's one of the big reasons why I don't drive. In terrified that I will have a random panic attack for no good reason and kill some innocent people just trying to take their kid to the park or something like that. 

I really have a hard time coping when I start having back to back episodes. I'm afraid of everything. I worry my children aren't going to be fairly treated while I'm trying everything I can to just get my resting emotions in check. It's times like this I'm glad they are independent and for the most part well behaved.

Anna's second birthday baby doll.

I'm not actually all that happy with how this turned out, but it's my first time actually working with jersey as the folks skin. Anna liked the doll until I added hair and now she keeps asking me to take it off!

Vintage Patterns

I've been thinking it might be nice to post some of my vintage patterns for other people to use since I love finding ones other people have posted. My problem is not knowing how long a copyright lasts or what legalities go along with such things. I think for the time being I'll stick with just posting ones from like the 40's. If anyone knows anything about what I can or can't legal post I'd love to know about it.