NEW - DIFFERENT MAY TITLE

Hello! I changed the May title to Body Clutter - yes that's the one by Marla Cilley and Leanne Ely. The new Flybaby Habit for May is Moving and Kelly recommends we read Body Clutter, so be it! I know I am looking forward to reading this more than I was the original book I listed.

Our baby is spending the night in the hospital receiving IV fluids. If anyone out there is reading this besides us, please add her to your prayers.

By-the-by - the prayer shawl is very lovely! And the fringe exquisite. :)

Look! I finished something!

This is a prayer shawl for church. Our knitters have made hundreds of shawls, but this is only my second. And it is the first one I made with:
Fringe.

Fringing was hard and tedious. Or maybe just tedious. But it looks nice!


Baby A made a fast turn around from this:

to this:

After 18 hours of vomiting/changing clothes she is sleeping soundly. The hardest part was knowing how much she wanted to nurse and having to tell her no. We would nurse for two to three minutes and then wait to see if it would stay down...and it wouldn't. She would have just nursed/vomited continuously if I had let her. Jeff stayed up with her through most of the night while I got a little break. Hopefully we've gotten through the worst parts. Now to get caught up on the laundry...

I Did Read - but am not blogging, yet.

How FLYLady Helped Me Find Jesus... and other news

So, how are you anyway? Now that I have my calendar figured out a little better and know what month it is and what book we're reading, I'm trying to get back to work.

CAP and I went to the Marathon County Public Library's 100'th Birthday Celebration yesterday. It was wild and crazy and we had a good time. We took a trolley ride around downtown. CAP thought that was great; I had fun, but was glad it was a short ride - too bouncy for a carsickie girl like me. I remembered to re-check out the April book. CAP had cake. She said she was sad they didn't have ice cream, but thought that might be too messy for a library party.

Our kitchen herb pots are doing well.

Several times during the past few Christmases it has been possible to hear a conversation like this at our house.

Me: Has anybody seen baby Jesus?

Confused Family Member: What?

Me: Has anybody seen baby Jesus?

CFM: You mean today?

Me: I just need to know where he is so I can glue him back on.

CFM: What?

Me: He looks like a peanut.

CFM: Baby Jesus looks like a peanut?

Me: Never mind.

This happens because baby Jesus has been missing. He fell off of Mary's lap, not to be seen again. It is unfortunate to look so much like a peanut because that means that possibly you have been tossed out with the trash, or eaten by a then three year-old. So, I have done without baby Jesus (on that particular decoration) for some time. It is sad really.

Joseph and Mary (missing baby Jesus)

Today I was decluttering in my laundry room (well, ok, it's really just the basement) and I found lots of things I wish I hadn't. Globs and globs of laundry lint, many more spider webs than necessary, gift bags from our first baby shower (more than seven years ago) and one yucky old peanut. I was tossing things like mad when suddenly I yelled "A PEANUT!!! THAT'S NOT A PEANUT, THAT'S BABY JESUS!!!!!" I was immediately glad everyone else was asleep or away at school.

I found the glue and fixed the little nativity. (Do you remember this one? It was a gift when I memorised the 23rd Psalm in December of 1983. I know this for certain because you labeled it for me.) Now all that's missing is Joseph's staff. I can hear it now.

Me: Have you seen Joseph's staff?

Confused Family Member: What?

Me: It looks like a toothpick.