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Ellie slept through the night again! I, on the other hand, woke up four times.  Once to catch Willie sneaking into our bed, once because my night guard was out of my mouth, laying on the pillow, stabbing me in the face, and another time to find my night guard completely awol. I have been […]

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blast from the past – my first quilt

This quilt is going on 15 years of UFO-ness.  It’s the first quilt I ever worked on, though I’ll probably have made 50 by the time I get this one finished.  It’s a sample quilt that I started at the tender age of 13.  I was hand quilting it at the stroke of midnight 2000.  […]

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how Junie B Jones made Will cry

Will and I read the first chapter of Winnie the Pooh on the ipad tonight and it was so much fun that I went looking for other ipad chapter-books-but-still-have-pictures books.  Because I need a break from “The Dancing Bears” (The Berenstein Bears).  I remembered Junie B Jones, and got Junie B Jones and a Little […]

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ellie loves books

When Will was a baby I tried so hard to get him to love books, but he just didn’t.  With Ellie, I forgot to try and yet…she adores books.  She loves to go into her room and look through her box of books, and earlier this morning I heard her huffing and puffing her way […]

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stroller quilt finished

April 2015 Update: I’m getting lots of questions right now about the blocks and fabric I used. Unfortunately this was a quilt from four years ago so I don’t remember the details, but looking at the stroller blanket I’d made previously that I based this quilt on, the blocks are 8″ finished.  They are based […]

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reentry.

We’re alive.  I swear.  I managed to post while at Disney, I had posts all scheduled to go so there wouldn’t be any interruption…but I didn’t realize what I really needed were posts for our return!  Not only did we have the usual laundry/unpacking/picking up the chaos we left behind, but I’ve been doing the […]

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