tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2486690184958153052024-02-20T09:20:06.994-06:00The Modern Home MakerI'm a 30 something textile artists, wife, stay at home mom to a happy little girl and a modern-day homemaker trying to stay true to my Southern California roots as I navigate living in Southern Louisiana.
This blog will cover a bit of sewing, cooking, green living and everything in between. I'll be showing you how to do the things I love and enjoy, as well as trying some new things a long the way. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-89756773548086736902018-12-20T00:32:00.002-06:002018-12-20T00:32:32.810-06:00Finding a routine I have had a hard time finding a good routine, and with out one I am starting to feel a little lost in my life. Now that Grace is a toddler I am finding it hard to get up and do things, I get up with her easily in the morning but I just am not doing anything becuase I am so tired I end up going back to sleep a few hours later and have her dad get up with her so I can sleep a little bit more before he goes to work. But by doing this Ido get going with my day till it's almost afternoon. Now that I'm back in school it's even harder to find the right routine, that's why I haven't put up a blog of video in so long. This just isn't working the way it is! I think the only thing that I can do is make my self stay up and deal with a few days of being very tired to make myself get in to a routine.<br />
I know what I need to have in my daily routine, I just don't know how to make myself do it! It's something I need to do because I want her to see a good routine from me in life and that's not what I have been showing her, sadly what I have been showing her is someone that is just kind off get by each day, someone that lives in sweats, they are clean but still I have been doing the bear minimum as far as putting myself together each day. It's not that I think I need to do make up everyday even when I was working I didn't wear makeup everyday but I was always pulled together.<br />
I have never been one fore New Years resolution But this year getting a routine is my resolution, but I'm not waiting till the New Year I'm staring tomorrow! Because the way I have been isn't making me happy at all and I want to be happy! So I'm making a change!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-38502847153830871652018-06-14T01:16:00.000-05:002018-06-14T01:16:42.283-05:00It seams that there's never a minute to just be in life. Even now my mind is going with list of things that I need to do. I feel that the never end things to do is something we have done to our selfs in life. Sadly most of it doesn't do anything to add to our happiest in this life, so why do we do it? Does it matter if we let the toys say is a mess and enjoy a minute of down time no it doesn't so why do I feel the need to clean up before I have a minute to myself. Because we have become the idea of things being right or looking right is so ingrained in us.<br />
Maybe this is why even with everything going on a young toddler that is just starting to potty train ( it's going well) trying to get the shop going and adding new things every few days. I'm getting ready to go back to school and finish. After all the running of my home, taking care of my husband and child, helping to grow a church. At the same time trying to get a business going is all part of being a home maker, I want to say that it's that it's part of being a home maker in this day and age but it's not new. My grandmother was a homemaker, who did most of the same things I do. It's just the way of life as a women in this world, I truly believe that. There is a saying that goes ( a man may work from sun to sun bit a women's work is never done) I never truly knew how that was till I become a wife and mother. As a new wife I worked full time and run our home, as well as taking classes and doing some things to my shop, and now as a mother I am doing something from the time I get up to the time I go to sleep at night.<br />
But I wouldn't change it, there is something that I find very satisfying taking care of my family, it's funny I never thought this would be my life but now that it is I do enjoy it. As crazy and busy oh yes and stressful it can be. Right now the big stressful thing is finding the best way to pay for school, well that and potty training my 15 month old. At times it's going well and at others it's harder but it's all coming together.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-10532359797488812412018-05-19T02:43:00.000-05:002018-05-19T02:43:52.165-05:00 The royal wedding It's interesting to me and I am up waiting to watch the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. I am honking about how I was up by myself late at night when the news of this mother Princess Diana's death broke, how I stayed up all night long watching videos watching the service and cried my eyes out. Being the same age as Prince Harry I remember watching him support and a lot of young girls at that time I grow up idolizing his mother. More of an off her of all the things that she did, she was the type of woman that I really want to be she was changing the world and for the better.<br />
More of an off her of all the things that she did, she was the type of woman that I really want to be she was changing the world and for the better. As crazy as it sounds I have followed her sons the ups and downs a if they are a favorite character in a book and it's just so wonderful to see them and the young Man they have become however being that we are the same age they are grown men working change to change the world and he's chosen someone to happen him in that task that they will continue in the same kind of work that his mother did. And I am a static that she will be the kind of role model for my daughter that his mother was for me.<br />
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Now to move on from sad thoughts I'm so happy to see this I even pulled out my tiara from my wedding to wear it as I watch. I don't care that I'm in my very mom pjs with this great tiara on. After all a tiara is never to much!<br />
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Also watching the news coverage and listening to them discussed how monumental it is that she will be walking her self partway down the aisle and that she will be seen she gives herself to him, it's fascinating that at this time in 2018 it's still considered an usual. I gave myself away, I didn't do it as a Feminist statement, or a statement of any kind really. But more for the thought it's up to me to say I come to marry it's my life I belong to no one so its up to me. This did upset the men in my family but that was thier isusseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-84239765275210835302018-04-22T07:48:00.002-05:002018-04-22T09:34:54.624-05:00Earth Day! #onesmallthing #earthdayHappy Earth Day!<br />
Now what should that mean? That we celebrate this place earth we live on right. Well sadly it's a day that we all say ok I'm going to do something that earth responsible, such as pick up trash today or try and read deuce this or am going to use the screen product. Really we should do these things every day we should use reusable products pick up trash because we live on this earth and this is the only earth we have this is our home we should care enough about it to treat it as if it matters.<br />
We should be looking for alternative options to the devastation that are oil and if she reeks on earth that the natural gas industry weeks out by Frankie, reusable biodegradable plastics eco-friendly housing all these things or things we should do everyday! So that our childern and thier childern have something I decent earth. What keeps running through my head is the Cat Steven's song "where to the children play" if you don't know this don't you can I'm sure find it on YouTube but it short it talks about that having all things is great but what does it mean for the childern?<br />
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However if you are looking for something you can do today that's great but don't let it stop at today! Pick one thing something small and keep at it for a month then two and keep going. It may seams small and that it's not going to do anything but if we all do something small it becomes something big that can make a change!<br />
#onesmallthingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-46688719294271447262018-04-19T14:24:00.003-05:002018-04-19T14:24:56.563-05:00 Supermarket games #freestuffI love doing the games that the supermarket dose. I know a lot of people fine that to be to much work and pointless but I do find that at all.<br />
The reasons why I do them are simple.<br />
- it's free<br />
-I get stuff (for free!)<br />
-I am shopping anyway<br />
Yes I play every game that they do, right now the store ( Albertson's ) is doing the Monopoly game, and yes it takes a little time to open the pieces but no more so then if I was going to cut out coupons would take. With the pieces you get a few different kinds of prices, you may get a percentage or dollar amount coupon off or a completely free item; along with the pieces of the monopoly game to play on the board and try to win other prices.<br />
I found that it's a great way to add some things into my drive pantry because I get them for free, my husband is constantly laughing at me because it doesn't matter that I have received about 20 free gravy mix packets I'm still getting every free gravy mix that I receive the coupon for and adding it to my pantry it's something that doesn't go bad and that you're going to use throughout the year, so Not pick it up for free? The same thing with the tomato sauce I have completely stock these items in my pantry along with every every day items such as free flour, not to mention being able to stock somethings my medicine cabinets like aspirin and ibuprofen that have been free as well. Then there's the free pastries which are just a nice little adding things I wouldn't normally pick up but if it's free yeah I'll pick up a pastry to have at night with my cup of tea. Then there's the actual prices with the monopoly pieces and at this point I have won $5 dollars cash and $5 dollars grocery coupon. Now I know to a lot of people that doesn't seam like much, but as a stay at home mom saving any amount of money can be a great help, it allows me to do other things around my house as well as other things with my daughter and my husband. When you add up the cost of the pantry items it really does add up to big savings there have been times using the coupons I receive and getting the free item that I have saved close to as much as I've spent at the grocery store which is amazing and I'm not talking $5 or $10 but $45 and up.<br />
No that's this particular game that they're doing at this time they also do once at different times of the year were you collect stamps and you receive the free merchandise such as knives or pans with them and I've done that as well and it's great it's a nice way to add in things that I may not order I just purchased even though it might be something I would like, but by collecting the stamps or receive for the shopping I'm doing anyway I have been able to get some things such as knives and convection pans it's a nice little thing for for you to do.<br />
I know that for myself as my daughter gets older I will be incorporating her helping into using these coupons an opening them and making it something that she can learn from as well. You can teach a lot to your children about money management and nutrition by encouraging them to shop with you and do things or like having find what's on the coupon compare it to it not being on sale and they can learn as well as it helps teach him how to save. It also gives them a sense of ownership over the family diet and in the home.<br />
So I say play the games get the stuff #freestuff<br />
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For her first birthday I know a lot of people go crazy with a partly but I didn't want to do that for a few reasons. First I'm tired and the idea of planing something just wasn't how I wanted to spend my time. Secondly I'm not a fan of over the top party's, I don't think it's something that you need to do. After all she is one. So Michaels parents come in to town for her birthday, it's a big deal for them with her being thier only grandchild. So we just had a family partly them my mother and us. She plead with her little cake, it took her sometime to even want to try and eat it. It was fun watching her eating it well mostly playing with it. I do feel that she wa given to much stuff for a kid that's turning one, but his parents can't seam to help but go over borad with her. We plead games and just enjoyed the family time, something that I think we all need to do more of.<br />
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This year feels as if it has gone by so so fast.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-17530018456555036482018-03-14T00:51:00.000-05:002018-03-14T21:12:05.965-05:00Aother year olderIt's funny that when we are children we look forward to our birthday all year long. We start the count down at the start of the month and are so happy when that day comes. But then at some point I don't even know what age it is that we start to just think of it as a day and that's great, the feeling of ya that's my birthday today, it just stops being so much of a big deal. Today well yesterday now was my birthday and this year much like the year before I just feel that it doesn't matter. It may be that not that I am a mother I care less about my birthday and I am much more in to her day it happens to be 5 days after mine, or it could be that now that I am in my 30's its just not that big of a deal.<br />
It's not even that I am so in to hers because I am so in to planning anything crazy for her, because I am not. I don't think that kids birthdays need to be as over the top as so many people do. I think that that's because growing up my family didn't do over the top, a family party some years a small party of 3-5 friends and then as we got older if was pick a friend and a place to go to dinner and that's still what I enjoy doing, going out to dinner. Now a days I enjoy a dinner out because I am with my little one all day and at times I am just tired and its nice to not have to cook. We are lucky this wee know that she is well behaved and does well eating out for a one year old, no big brake downs and as she gets older she is getting better and better. That could be because now she can start to eat the same things we eat makes it a lot easier. But back to the birthday I don't feel any older then I did a week ago, but then I don't feel any older then I did 5 years ago. Well in my mind anyway this last year my body at times feels much older, I have always felt older /old in my body because it hurts so much of the time. So even as I get older my body feels much like it always has so I don't feel older year to year.<br />
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You can tell I don't want to be bothered, everyone in the waiting room gets it they have said oh how sweet or cute the little one is and let it go and gone back to doing thier thing. All but this one older couple. The wife saw me when she first came in the husband didnt and had just found a sit by other people. But that sit was no good for the wife, you see at the time everyone else in the waiting room was black the wife didn't want to sit with them she made home get up and come sit by me. Then starts in on how to raise kids ok I get that everyone feels they need to tell a mother with a young child what they did no big deal. But then it starts the bull shit talk with saying things like those people. Talking about how ca they afored that phone, they most me on free health care that's how. It just pisses me off so much when people are like that, for so many reason one becuase its just wrong! Two if it hadn't been for the goverment health care my mothers cancer wouldn't have been found because even with her working full time, but her work at the time being a small none profit, that paid ok but not where she could buy insurance and because of her age and what she made she couldn't get and of the health care before Obma care. So when I here people bitching about it it upsets me becuase its what saved my mothers life!<br />
I don't care if your older or not acting in that way is not ok! Not wanting to sit by people becuase of the color of thier skin is so backwards it's sick!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-71867650038268378622017-11-16T02:58:00.003-06:002017-11-16T02:58:58.525-06:00Learning to love the post baby bodyI have to say the hardest part of having a new baby, in many ways has very little to nothing to do with the baby. This coming weekend my little girl will be 8 months old, I have gotten use to the crazy new hours, the teething, the trying to work around when she needs or wants something, I knew all of that was going to be. <br />
But what I wasn't very clear on is just how much my body would change or how much I would be fine with it. Being ok with it is wired for me all on its own, you see I have never been fine with my body. I have always been on the plus size of things, as a teen and young adult I worked hard to be smaller and it was something that never really happened. Then in my late 20's when my life was a bit crazy with working full time school and my mothers health being in well, I ended up with IBS because adding to the crazy was planning a wedding, as the wedding came closer and closer I lost a lot of weight getting down to the smallest I had ever been and still I wasn't happen with my body. But here I am weighting more then I ever have before and I am happy with my body. I have thought a lot about why that is, I think its because other then when trying to find jeans to wear its something I don't think about. But when do think about it I think yes my body has changed because I grow a person and I'm still helping that person grow. There's something that, that has changed how I feel about myself how I look at my self. That being said yes I want to loss the "baby" weight but I'm not overly worried about when that happens, nor do I feel the need to try and make my body look as if I haven't had a baby.<br />
I do know that many people think I'm wrong about that, all you have to do is look on line and you find so much about loss the baby weight fast get the body back. I think that's all bull shit!! This need to kill your self to try can get your body to look as if it has done what it has done. Yes I'm sure I could find more time to work out if I wanted to give up other things, for me I want to spend my time playing and holding my baby girl not working out, this time in her life isn't for long and the idea of missing things like rolling over, seeing her learning the new things that she does every day to be at the working out, to me I would be losing more then weight I would be losing this time that I can't get back.<br />
I have heard it all on why I would be working to loss the weight from health to making my husband happy. The only reason I hear that doesn't just piss me off is health, as were the one that just makes me crazy is making my husband happy to that I have to say that's the most bull shit thing to say to a women. I shouldn't have to say that I'm lucky that my husband loves me for me not for how I look because that is how it should be but sadly I know that I'm lucky. I know women who's husband say mean things to them about the added weight, and its just so wrong. when you have a baby your body changes that should be seen as a bad thing it should be seen as a good thing! WE NEED TO STOP! this trying to make our bodies go back to per baby 100% and so fast, it takes time to grow a baby so it takes time to get our bodies even some what back to what it was.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-29004890230111250362017-09-07T01:47:00.000-05:002017-09-07T01:47:00.896-05:00The Five W's of cloth wipes<br />
If you are or going to be cloth diapering then cloth wipes maybe something that you'll want to do as well. There are a number of reason why you may find yourself wanting to know how to go about making your own cloth wipes. That is till you start thinking about how to do it and what does it take, but its truly a lot easier then you would think. I think that there are five things you need to know when making cloth wipes, that's it just 5. Why only 5 well because that's really all it takes but then most of all because as a mom you want things that are not only good for your family but that are fast easies and low cost. I have broken the 5 need to knows of cloth wipes for you.<br />
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- Container with lid<br />
- Washcloths 48 or fabric to make wipes in the size you want ( I use baby washcloths that I picked up for $4.99 for 24 of them at Ross I find them to be the right size)<br />
- Water ( Purified or boiled)<br />
- Witch Hazel (12-16 oz)<br />
- Essential oils ( Tea Tree, and Lavender are what I use)<br />
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- Container with lid and air whole or you can not close the lid all the way<br />
you don't need to spend a lot of a container I picked up a food storage container at the Dollar Tree, it's the right size for my space but also for the 48 wipes that I make at a time.<br />
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the cost is about $3.50 a week, I'm sure your thinking that cant be right so here is the brake down</div>
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$1.50-$2.00 Witch Hazel ( its $1.oo for a 6oz bottle at the Dollar Tree $1.50 for a 16oz bottle at Wall-Mart)</div>
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you are going to buy a bottle of Essential ones ever 6 months or lager because you are using about 6 drops or 10, so it ends up being a few cents for each time you make wipes</div>
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water if your using bottled water its going to be a little more you need two of them size 20 oz size ore you can boil water just let it cool before mixing</div>
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this is really easy you wash them, that's right you just put them in the washer. (I just put mine in with the diapers washer and drier you don't get much easier) when they are clean you just put them in the bottom of the container under the unused ones <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-43856919727140478062017-08-31T12:00:00.000-05:002017-09-01T14:42:28.125-05:00Top Three reasons to cloth diaperYes you read that right I'm Cloth Diapering my little one. Now to a lot of people this seams crazy my mother in law, looked at me as if I was out of my mide when I said I would be doing this. Many friends have done the same as well others just know me and knew I would be. At first when I told my husband that we would be doing cloth diapers and not disposable, he to gave me the look of why that's crazy. That is till I put the reasons out there, I think that it's important to talk about the reasons we choos to cloth diaper over using disposable diapers, now everyone is going to have thier own reasons.<br />
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It takes about 500 years for one disposable diaper to brake down in a landfill,<br />
think about it most newborns will use about 90 diapers a week for the first few weeks. Yes they will start you use less but your still looking at a larger amount, of disposable diapers when you think about that a child is in diapers on average 2.5 years. Now yes you will use a bit more water however not that much, even if you are some where that has water issues there are ways to reduce the use of water by washing smaller loads, or hang drying the diapers, or something I do is add her clothes and other things in to the wash with her diapers. As well as I wash at off pike times like at night.<br />
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now it's true cloth diapers can cost a lot it's all in what path of cloth diapering you want to go, however even if you are buying all new cloth diapers your going to be spendings round $100-$500 for a full stash of diapers now that will be all the diapers you'll use the whole time the little one is in diapers, even using them for all your kids. Now if they are close in age you may end up needed to add to the stash. As with disposable diapers you will spend about $3000 or more a year, that's not even including disposable training pants that's only diapers. So it's a big cost savings. You can save even more if you make our own cloth diapers and that's something I have done as well as well as getting them on from the Wish and Home apps. You can even buy them used on Ebay, now that way I say to each their own, buying used underwear isn't by path. <br />
Now back to the water cost that's going to change depending on where you live, but for the most part it doesn't end up adding that much in cost. for my self it hasn't changed my over all bill more then a few cents and I do washing every day! Because yes you can have a lager stash and only wash every few days but for myself I cant stand having them siting around for more then the day.<br />
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Now this was big concerning both myself and my husband have very sensitive skin. So the likelihood that our child would as well was high, and guess what she does!<br />
Knowing this I don't want to even start with something that's full of chemicals, I want to use as many natural as I could. <br />
But sadly I did end up using disposable diaper for the first few weeks after she was born, because the cloth ones I had were to big. I didn't really think that my little one would be right at 6lbs when she was born and a bit under when she was going home, and then that she would take some time to add weight. But in that time she had diaper rash very badly and that's when I added some smaller cloth diapers to my stash till she grew in to the ones I had made. However she is now almost six months old and we have been cloth diapering for about five months and not one rash that whole time.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-76392281868236359902017-06-23T00:48:00.003-05:002017-06-23T00:48:59.601-05:00Back to designing I know that to most people in the USA taking three months off after having a baby is crazy because here that's a long time, however I do know that a l of country's women are able to take off a year or more and fathers get to take time as well. So when I tell people that no I'm not going back to my part time job and putting my child in day care, because let's just be honest for me to pay for really good child care I and have money after that to make working even close to profitable for me I would be working and you truly never spent any time with my new baby. <div>
So when I say I haven't done any design work for three months its seen in a mixed way. But designing is my passion in life however I have enjoyed spending this time with the new baby so I haven't had much energy or desire to want to do any designing. That is till now and she started to sleep more and started to have a bit more independence, well as much independence as a three month old can be, content to be in her bouncer things like that. Getting back to designing has been great going through the creative process thinking about what it is I wanted to schedule out my idea and now getting my dress form already so that's the right body size and take out what I want to design. Now th next step is to drap going through the creative process thinking about what it is I wanted to schedule out my idea and now getting my dress form already so that's the right body size and take out what I want to design. Now the next step is to drap it, I preferred to treat me that way I can change idea as I'm seen it come to life and I know what it is I want to change right a way versus a fat pattern-making.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-22928798552321258962017-05-27T01:45:00.002-05:002017-05-27T01:45:52.237-05:00 Postpartum BodyI don't truly understand the societies obsession trying to bounce back as fast as possible to do a pre-baby body after the delivery of the baby. I for one find it to be an unrealistic expectation as well as an unhealthy one. You have done something amazing by growing and giving life to a person, if your breastfeeding the toll That this puts on your body doesn't stop till you stop breastfeeding! We are told over and over how doing this is a miracle and great thing but at the same time we are told to not let our selfs go and to do what ever we can to not look as if we have had a baby. Why is this? I for one don't want my per baby body back, because I'm not that same person so why would I want to tr and look as if I haven't changed. Now I'm not saying I don't want to loss some if not all the weight I put on but I don't have a burning desire to try and do it absolutely as fast as I can or even to look exactly the way I did before. I just want to make sure I'm healthy being a size 2 isn't the only way to be healthy is so much more then being thin!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-61257359287894962952017-04-29T00:54:00.000-05:002017-08-30T23:21:30.023-05:00Breastfeeding out and aboutSo a long with cloth diapering I'm also exclusively breast-feeding. I'm someone that doesn't feel the need to find a room to hide in or but a cover over my baby when she is eating. This does at times get some looks, in the grocery store I have had some Extremely shocked women walk by and talk to each other about it. At other times I have noted the looks of shock from other people when put. So today when in a clothing store when my little one wanted to eat I thought nothing of taking her out of her stroller and feeding her, I knew I would get looks from some people as I always do but I have never had anyone come up and say anything to me, that is till today. So when a women walked by me and looked at me and looked as if she wanted to say something but kept walking I thought to my self ok this is going to be the first time that someone bitches at me for feeding my kid. But to my surprise what the women had to say was nothing bad but she walked back to tell me keep it up that she has been breastfeeding for 16 months and that she feeds in public and hasn't had anyone say anything but that she also doesn't see others doing the same, and that I need to keep it up. It was great that the first time someone says anything about me breastfeeding out in the open that it's nothing negative but something positive words and encouragement From one mother to another! It truly was a encouragement and empowerment as some other women that weren't to happy with it looked on.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-46653023035004180142017-04-16T23:59:00.002-05:002017-04-16T23:59:28.585-05:00Four weeks postpartum so here I'm four weeks postpartum, and I have to say I think it's harder now then the first few days home with my little one. For many reasons this was the first full week that my husband was back at work, I truly valued and greatfull that he was able to be off work for almost a full three weeks. It not only gave him bonding time but did things like gave me time to shower use the restroom when our little one doesn't want to be put down because he could hold her, but with him back at work it's just me. It's been harder then I thought it would be now that his back, with the mix of not having someone to help and her being extremely colicky meaning that I'm just completely exhaust. To top it off my in laws are coming this week to see the baby so at some point I need to clean the house, as it is I'm just barely keeping up with Basic sensual laundry.<br />
I truly don't know how women do this completely alone, or the women that have to go back to work at this time or at the six week park. I'm hoping that in the next few weeks I'll be back to get back to doing some work for the shop because I have some great ideas for things. However right now the only thing I truly plan on doing is hoping to get some sleep now that the little one is finally Thank god asleep!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-22505867602590091402017-04-09T00:38:00.002-05:002017-04-09T00:38:49.448-05:00Halo swaddle when my little girl was first born, I mean the day she was born she was ok with being swaddled but after that she was having none of it. She cried the whole time so till two days ago I had given up on the idea that swaddling would be a way to calm her and help her sleep. However after her not really sleep for two nights and most of the day, I thought what the hell Im going to give swaddling other try hoping that it would work even fore a little bit and to my great surprises it worked! It was great during the day but for some reason it didn't work as well at night, I wasn't sure why really, I thought maybe it was that I couldn't get her swaddled tight after I changed her diaper at night, partly becuase I was so tired trying to do it. I had been swaddling her the "old" way meaning using a Receiving blanket, in truth I thought that the swaddling blanket that had the velcro were something I didn't need after all I know how to use a blanket flooded to swaddled. But at this point I thought ok I'm giving I. And getting one hoping that it would help. I have to say the Halo sleep bag swaddled combo may be the best thing I have spent money on. Here is why the bag part has a zipper, that opens starting at the feet making it easy to change the diaper with out un doing the swaddle of the upper body. That's great because that means baby doesn't wake up all the way! Making it easy to change and feed and get her back to sleep in just a few minutes, meaning that I get to go back to sleep! Before using the Halo swaddled the only way that she would go back to sleep was on my chest with me holding her meaning I wasn't getting much sleep or good sleep because it was taking her along time to get back to sleep.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-52284066960080425852017-04-06T15:52:00.000-05:002017-04-06T15:52:27.885-05:00Three weeks postpartum What a complete whirlwind the past 2 1/2 almost 3 weeks has been. I little girl was born and came home, I have to say nothing truly prepares you for bringing a little one home that's definitely for sure. Even with my husband having time off work and being here which I have to say has been great giving me the opportunity to as crazy it sounds leave her with someone and just step out for a few minutes and keep my bit of my sanity, along with my mother being here I have all the great blessings I truly do not understand how anyone can do this without help. That being said I do know that I've had a relatively easy time with her, for the most part she's been sleeping through the night. I don't wake her to feed her if she wakes to eat then I know she's hungry and she wants to eat I am not someone that believes you should wake a baby to feed them if they're hungry they will weaken want to eat and when she wants to eat she eats. However there have been a few nights where she is up and just doesn't want to sleep, however for the most part getting her back to sleep to be solved by her sleeping on my chest she just wants to be near and held close, and I truly understand that after all the world is big and scary to her she's only been in it to an a half weeks being near me it's what she's known her entire existence. But the sleeping arrangement has been difficult for my husband I know because he's a very do everything by the book kind of person and all of the classes we took and books we read all are very against Cosleeping for safety. However I do believe that cosleeping is in many ways much more natural at this age then to try and put them in a crib or bassinet and just let them cry. I did have a friend that came to visit I had a better week after she was born they did say something about well you know you don't have to go to her all the time you can just let her cry, but to me I can't there is nothing more horrible for me to feel then to look at her crying and have a look of fear and anxiety and her face to me it is my job to comfort her and make her feel safe in this world so how could I just let her cry until she exhaust yourself then she is knowing anxiety and fear unnecessarily and I can't be the cause for that to start for her the world will do that enough to her now is the time for her to be comforted and that means I lose some sleep then that's the deal I made.<br />
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For the first two weeks of her life my husband was home from work so it was really nice to not be alone and doing everything as well as it was great to see her bond with her daddy. The first day that he went back to work was a little hard I think mostly because she did miss having him here but that is the way that it has to be. Last night was the first night that she just would not go back to sleep no matter what so I was up with her because after all he was going up a very long day at work about a 16 hour day and I didn't want to make him try and stay up when if she's not going to go back to sleep she's not gonna go back to sleep no reason for both of us to completely lose sleep when I'm the one that's going to be home and have the opportunity to nap when she does, so I got up and was up most of the night with her she's just had a growth spurt time wanting to eat and just be held every time I put her down she wake back up so I just set up and held her as she eat. I read a lot and had a lot of people tell me oh swaddle her and she'll fall asleep, has continued to try swaddling her and for the most part she hates it she cries more and doesn't sooth herself at all. However luckily this afternoon<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-86644384399762673462017-03-26T19:27:00.000-05:002017-03-26T19:27:47.082-05:00Birth of my little girl Saturday March 18. I gave birth to what I have to say is the most perfect little girl. It was a truly life changing experience that's for sure, even more so then I thought it would be. I decided to go "natural" meaning no epidural, after all all births are natural. Choosing to not have an epidural was something I knew I was going to do, but at the time that she was crowning I remember thinking why did I do this. Not just the no epidural but the whole birth thing, but the moment she was put on my chest the fare and pain of giving her life what's the place with the most sensational peace and love that compares to nothing else in the world. As I looked at her for the first time I began to cry not for sadness but of joy or over whelming emotion of every kind.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-31252643606666205442017-02-20T23:25:00.001-06:002017-02-20T23:25:55.315-06:00Can't truly believe itI truly have a hard time believing that I'm 35 weeks along qwith this little girl! It's seams as if time has just gone by so fast, up till now that is. I know that she will come when she is ready and that could be at any time now, and the waiting to meet her is what's killing me now! <br />
However as much as I can hardly wait, something I'm so very over is everyone acting as if I need to have hounders of toys and things for her to do and play with. I get that some people feel like to have to have all that stuff but I don't, we don't plan to give her every toy that comes out, I believe in her not only playing out side and yes I know that's not going to be for sometime, but also that it's up to me and my husband to do things with her not just put a toy in front of her and hope that that will keep her happy. I just don't believe that kids or adults need to have as much stuff as other people think they need.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-73140919836905357042016-12-31T01:44:00.000-06:002016-12-31T01:44:08.512-06:00His sick! Sadly now his sick! That's the way it goes frame one person in the house to the next I'm just hoping to get him feeling better sooner then I was. He like most men I think don't do well with being sick, even thought his been sick a lot the down time is still hard for him. The good thing is that his off work for a few days so he can hopefully do nothing and get better. The other good thing is that his very open to things like teas and other natural methods of healing to get better so he'll have his teas and that should help. Guess it's ok that as always we didn't have anything planed for the New Year's Eve, we just stay home becuase there are way to many crazy unsafe people out,and in truth it's not as fun I find for myself as it was when I was younger. That maybe becuase I have done the New Year's Eve partying thing and so I no longer feel this need to. It's just a date that we say is the start of the "New Year" but in truth if there are changes you want to do in life you can pick any day to do them and start that New Year for your self.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-2832255197958023042016-12-29T11:28:00.000-06:002016-12-29T11:28:24.684-06:00 Pregnancy and a cold at the holidaysI had meet to post more throughout my pregnancy I just kind of gotten crazy busy! So the up date I'm now 27 weeks ago, and things are over all going great! My mother has moved in with us and started at a new job that she is enjoying I have gone back to work very part time as well. It's nice to be back out a few days a week. But I'm still working on getting things put together so that once the little is here hopefully I'll be able to work from home, yes I like the idea of working somewhere very part time to pick me out in he world but, at the same time I want to be at home with my little one. But reality is that more income does help. So in between work and making things for my own little one and the holiday crazy of family I town I have been working on stock for shop.<br />
Oh the holidays, they were great my husbands parents came in to town, so we have a full family Christmas with them and my mother all here. So we took this time to reveal to them the name that we've chosen we did find out several weeks ago that we will be having a little girl. We just all in stockings from their granddaughter to be with her name in it. Reveal to them the name that we've chosen we did find out several weeks ago that we will be having a little girl. We just all in stockings from their granddaughter to be with her name in it. We knew that they would be happy to find out the name after all my mother in law has been asking every day for weeks what name we have picked. But we had no idea just how happy they would be with the cards, they found it to be the sweetes thing and they were just over joyed and that really made the day the best. But sadly I came down wth a bad cold on Christmas Day, now for people that done know there isn't much you can take for a cold with your pregnant, but you can take only halfway knocks out sometimes. In many ways I'm OK with this I try to do more natural remedies anyway a lot of echinacea tea and lozenges and rest. Because after all sometimes things just have to run their natural course, however my husband worries and doesn't feel this way so day four of me being sick he starts in on I have to go to the doctor sure enough I get up today and I'm doing so much better you don't always have to run to the doctor pregnant or not. Yes there are times when you do and yes being more cautious when you're pregnant is important however for myself I have an extremely low risk pregnancy and I know there's nothing more they can give me steam out your head and rest. The major downside about being sick over the holidays with family in town is it does take some of the fun away for everyone else, as well as time away from working on things I desperately need to get done. I have gotten one sheet for our bassinet made along with the pattern how to information photos and I'll coming shortly still have many diapers to make. No I know there are many companies that you can buy cough diapers from as well as disposables, however I'm not choosing to use disposable diapers for a few reasons the detrimental to the environment as well as they're extremely expensive, Then there is The fact that my husband and I both have extremely sensitive skin so the likelihood of our little one having sensitive skin is very high, so why not avoid chemicals as much as possible. I did look into several of the companies that make cloth diapers that you can purchase and that's great if that's the route you want to do however I wasn't overly thrilled with what they were offering, so I decided to kind of do my own may as well put that education of mine to use, information to Torio's on how I'm doing mine will be available shortly as well.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-65395550742664790412016-09-21T00:38:00.001-05:002016-09-21T00:38:35.000-05:00work ideasI'm still working for work out side of the home, not because its my first choice but because part of me really feels that I need to. Along with a baby on the way my mother is going to be moving in with us. My husband has been great about that, my mother has CRPS and a long with that is in remission from breast cancer. The CRPS has made it very hard for her to work, making it hard for her to take care of living cost by her self. Even knowing this he has not once said anything bad about her moving in with us, that has meant so very much to me. But I know that the adding of a baby and my mother is a lot on him, it would be a lot even if I was working but with my not working I know its even harder. So I want to try and take that burden off of him in any way I can.<br />
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So with that I have been applying for out side work, but with that I'm looking at what I can do from home as well. Working on marking my etsy misschastains.etsy.com but also along with that I have decided to upload my photography to a stock photo site were I can hopeful sell my photos. Giving a lot of thought to maybe selling Avon, Mary Kay, or something a long those lines really anything that I can do to make money and help with this burden. I do really hope that things work out that I'm able to work from home because I know that in no way would working out side of it is going to be easy right now, the pregnancy has been really hard and I don't think its just because of the pregnancy but that its also my fibromyalgia just the mix of it has been hard this first three months with the morning sickness and the always being tired. Makes it hard for sure, people keep saying to me that its going to pass and Ill feel better soon and my hope is that I do, I'm worried that I may not that I may end up having more issues with my fibromyalgia as my pregnancy goes on, that one of the big reasons for wanting the thing to work that would mean I could work from home making it easier it stop when I need to something your not able to o working retail. As soon as I know what website Ill be putting photos on Ill be sharing it on here same with as soon as I know what product I will be sell Ill be sharing that as well. I know that with as long as I put in the work with a few things then it will work out. Its just going to take not only me making up my mind and sooner then later as well as putting in the work for it, that's really all I can do. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11820363605217628381noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248669018495815305.post-90866678227919345042016-09-17T00:43:00.000-05:002016-09-20T23:08:34.536-05:00Pregnancy week 12<br />
Being that everything was still going well when we saw the Doctor this week we decided to go ahead and actually announced to everyone. Before now we had only announced to our parents, and they were over the moon. But this was the week we told the world, the way that we decided to do that was with a photo, that I took.<br />
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I took this photo weeks ago and holding on to it with out sharing it was so hard but we did want to wait. In truth it was truly nice to wait and really just keeping it between us and our parents, we kept it from them for the first 8 weeks and that was great just us as a couple having that time to enjoy this great change in our life's.<br />
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The first 12 weeks have been some what hard on me. Morning sickness is a joke, the joke is the morning part.who ever thought that calling it morning was crazy it's more like an all day and some times the night to. But as I come to the end of my 12th week I have had more days with out being sick then being sick and for that I'm so thankful. I'm finally at the point where I have put to getting our registry. I haven't stared doing to much sewing for the little one as it's still going to be a few weeks till we know some what for "sure" what the gender of our little one. However I have been doing a bit of crochetting things that are every neutral, working on a bunting now in neutral colors tantalite like a spark teal in it. But in a few weeks I'll start on cloth diaper covers because yes I'm choosing to use cloth diapers, however I'm not planing on the costly new way but a mix of the older and newer way so why not make the covers and inserts myself. I'll be adding a a blog with the steps use in a few weeks. Well I'm sure with some help from my mother.<br />
After all she was so happy with the news she is moving to where we are to be closer and is going to be living with us for a time. I know a lot of people would see this a a bad thing but I see it as a great help in truth. Even with things going well getting more orders in on my etsy but not as much as when I was working full time do the truth is that I'm looking at going back to work. I hate the idea in truth so much I want to be able to stay at home with my child but if I can't I feel so much better know I have my mother here to help so I don't have to think about a day care, because with the cost of that it would cost what I would make from work and there would be no reason but also I hate the idea of putting a baby in daycare for someone other then family to look after. But I also know that with my mother here I may be able to do some other work from home things that would be my dream after all.<br />
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