Just an east coast girl getting into the west coast swing of things
I have been trying to find ways to share my pinterest pins with you in some sort of round-up fashion. This solution combines the powers of Moodboard with my iPad blogging software. Consider this my maiden voyage… If this becomes less difficult over time, I will share more posts like this in the future.
3. Oh Baby Bars
4. Devil Dogs
Share on FacebookYes. I am indeed pregnant. I’ve been pregnant since March – and for those of you who don’t want to guess at the math, the estimated due date in December 1st. Here is a sonogram taken in April:
Many moons have passed since this sonogram… In fact, I’ve had several others since then. Unfortunately I do not have them photographed. But what I do have is a photo of me at about 5 months pregnant. I took this in the bathroom at work. I admit it, if I were to wait until the perfect photo opportunity, you would never see any photos of me.
We found out last week that there is a little boy tucked safe and sound in my womb. And just as a side note, I love being pregnant. It hasn’t been easy, but more on that later.
It took me about 10 minutes to find my previous post about the last time I moved. I said that the next move would be into our forever house. Well…
That turned out to not be true.
After almost a year of commuting 5 hours a day, 4 days a week, I was empty. Hollow. Nothing soulful left in this set of bones. I woke up at 4:15, I ate breakfast in the car at 5:15, I caught the train at 6:48, I walked from the train to the office (15 minutes), I worked 8.5 hours, I got back on the 4:30 train, I got home at 6:45, I ate dinner and went to bed. Every day. At first I was holding it together. My daily blog posts kept on coming. But then something happened….
We decided to start a family – and BOOM! I was pregnant.
So Eric decided that we should move closer to my job and he can commute for a while. I was against it at first. And then every time we filled a box and there was still more stuff to pack, I HATED the idea of moving. I was coming up with every excuse in the book about why we should stay put.
Then we started looking for places in Sacramento. And it became even more hellish. We had two specific neighborhoods in mind and both were not experiencing very high turnover. And one of them was mostly out of our rental price range.
But as fate has it, we were driving down a street that a friend lives on and I saw an empty house with the front door open and two men working inside. We had just spend an entire afternoon looking at rental after rental that couldn’t fit our needs. I told Eric that I was just going to ask if it was rental. IT WAS! The owner showed us around. the rent was in our ballpark! The backyard was lush and green! There was a front porch! And a back porch! Hardwood floors! We loved the neighborhood and we were only two doors away from friends. It was perfect.
So long story short (too late), we got the place and moved in on May 30. Sure there were some fun fiascos associated with it, and maybe that is a post to come later on. But right now I am relishing the fact that my pug and I can kick it on the back porch on cool evenings.
The 800 plus blog posts I have to read in my RSS reader. Sure it is a overwhelming number. But 783 of those posts will inspire me to get moving again. Physically, mentally, and craftily. And for two months that was lacking. All I wanted to do was lay in bed and mope.
So thank you, my imaginary internet friends, for keeping me moving- for clearing the path for me to get to the wide open field. Maybe in two weeks time I will be back to my old self. Once I am not ladened with secrets.
Share on FacebookAnyone else here the crickets chirping?
You know what they always say… it is always the most quiet before the storm.
(I haven’t been making anything lately. Just taking a much needed hiatus from the digital world… I will return soon. Promise.)
Share on FacebookI love when my friends have babies. Boys. Girls. It doesn’t matter. I have a million great ideas for newborns. Plus everything is small, so you don’t have to buy as much fabric. I like trying new things when the opportunity comes around. So when I found out our friends Jen and Jef were going to have a little boy, the first thing that popped into my head was…
Did you guess peeped teepees? Because all I could picture was the first time the kid pees on Jef. (Sorry buddy.)
I made these sans pattern. I love my little rotary circle cutter. They are flannel and fleece. it look less than a quarter yard of each to make a set of ten.
Good luck keeping dry my friends!
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The February edition of Martha Stewart's Living. It's pink and I like that. And it actually makes me kind of excited to celebrate Valentine's Day.
