Voice-less

I am currently voice-less.
This has my 4 year old cracking up every time I try to talk to him. Also, he won't kiss me because "mommy, when someone has sickness it's wery bad to kiss cause then I might get sickness too and I would be wery sad."
My 7 year old now only whispers to me. Which completely cracks me up.
My 10 year old just shrugs.
I have spent more time sleeping since Saturday than I have awake.

However, every time husband suggests that I, you know, maybe go visit our doctor. I insist I am NOT sick. Or at least not very sick. Certainly not sick enough to have to visit the doctor. And now, now I am voiceless. Never mind the fact that we are supposed to go see the Harlem Globetrotters on Thursday or that I am supposed to go away overnight this weekend - for the first time without my family in over 4 years and the second time ever since being married?

Hmmm ... it just might be time to go to the doctor tomorrow afterall.

Laughter!

If you head on over to Bloomingdales they are currently running the Tote-ally Green contest - in which you can design a tote bag, made by them!
It's kind of fun! I made mine - I like it. If you like it, you can vote for it too (by clicking laughter down below). Anyway if you make one, let me know and put the link in the comments.


Laughter: "

Simple design, celebrating flowers, laughter and Ralph Waldo Emerson!"

Fabric!

This week I've done some fabric shopping! The first pile is fabric from an unexpected place! It is a pile of tablecloths, curtains, blankets, sheets, and pillow cases. This fabric came from Goodwill - where we stopped to look for some other things. But all of this jumped out into my hands so I had to buy it! LOL! All of it will be transformed into something different. I'm very excited about this!



Then it was off to the fabric store to pick up some fabric, which netted me this pile.



And last but not least, is this one fabric - bought at Joanns. This is my splurge buy. I didn't find this fabric until we were at the cutting counter, where the woman next to me was buying it. When she finished, I asked them to please pass the bolt to me. I loved it from the first moment I saw it. I couldn't pass it by. It has my heart. The other things I will be making, well, they won't be for me and will hopefully leaving the house soon, but this fabric - this fabric is all for me and will be staying with me!



Of course the trick now is to find the time to sit and sew!

Summer Preview

Construction begins:


Games of tag:


Laundry hanging on the line:


Water fights:



Knitting on the front porch:


Picnics:




Tree climbing:


Piggies get freed:



Reading with the kids:


And gorgeous skies ahead:


I've loved getting this summer preview for the last two days! =)

I have a blog?

Really? I mean, you'd really think I had forgotten!

I swear I haven't, but life, along with that pesky thing called "Not enough time in the day" just really seems to get in the way!

I've been up to a fair bit of sewing. I hope to share it with you soon. I've also been digital scrapbooking - again, I hope to share some of it with you soon! I have some knitting going - which again, I hope to share soon (all of this is code for I've been too lazy to take pictures of anything! LOL!)

So here's hoping I can find a bit of balance soon and get back into the habit of posting over here!