My week

If you want a glimpse at what my week was like, these are my facebook* updates from this week...

Sarah wonders why every time Justin leaves to travel for work something weird/tragic/major happens here at home?????

Sarah is wondering if Hudson's timing could be any worse... he has the stomach bug and this is just not a good week to be sick!

Sarah realizes that the day your son has the stomach bug is not a good day to run out of laundry detergent!

Sarah is missing Justin.

It's been a rough one. My husband left for 15 days on Sunday. (He travels for his job.) Then my grandma died on Monday. She was 96 and had suffered with Alzheimer's for about a decade. It was horrible. It was a blessing that she is finally at peace. Tuesday my son came down with the most dreaded and evil stomach bug...both ends I'm telling ya, both ends!! Wednesday were the calling hours (does everyone call them "calling hours"? or is that a po-dunk thing to say? I don't know what else they would be called, but my sister who lives on Long Island told me they call it something else there- although she couldn't remember what.) Thursday the funeral. My sister and cousins and I sang. My sister read the eulogy. My mother sang Ave Maria. it was beautiful.
Today I am recovering. I feel exhausted, although i am going out to dinner with my parents, aunts, uncles and cousins... most of of live nearby, but a few traveled from all over the country (Wisconsin, Montana, Washington State) and they leave tomorrow, so we want to get together one more time.

My sewing machine is still on the fritz. My wishful thinking didn't work this time, but here is picture of the pj bottoms I made for Alex for Christmas. She loves them. I feel bad that I didn't make the boys anything.
*Yes, I am on facebook....want to be my friend?

Scrap Quilt

I had hinted that I wanted some blankets for couch snuggling for Christmas, but it fell on deaf ears I suppose, so I decided to make myself a gift - a scrap quilt. It started like this... some scraps lying on my sewing table.

Which pretty quickly morphed into this in about an hour. The picture below is the top about half way done. I didn't have much rhyme or reason for the scraps I chose, except they had to be either mainly green or brown. Then I threw in just a little bit of light blue just for the heck of it. I didn't realize that I had so much green fabric lying around. I guess I like green... of course that should be obvious as 6 of the 9 rooms in this house are green. The quilt should be fun... it will remind me of all the projects I made last year using these fabrics.

Now, I have told you before that I am incredibly cheap and lazy...wonderful character traits, no? So not only did I decide I would buy nothing to make this quilt except the backing (I didn't have a big enough piece of solid fabric for the back- and I used an old flannel sheet for the batting) but I also didn't measure anything.... lazy, I tell ya. But I plugged along and it was coming out just fine- a wonderful smallish quilt just big enough for me to snuggle with on the couch- and then "crunch!!"... something happened to my machine. Don't know what. Hope it's not too serious. (My cheap lazy brain says, "Wait till tomorrow... it will be better!") And now I'm bummed because I was sooooo close to finishing this tonight. Oh well.

And while I was at Joann's buying the backing fabric I picked up this super cute book. I haven't really looked too closely at it yet, but now that my evening project is put on hold, maybe I will.

Today

Look at what I picked this morning!

I need to make some more sauce or these babies will go bad I'm guessing. My husband and I are good for about one tomato a day each- unless we make a pizza or something, which we will probably do tonight- but the kiddos just are not tomato eaters. I can't really fault them. I didn't like tomatoes until I was an adult. I think it was a texture thing.

We are having some chicken drama around here... the two boys are making everyone CRAZY! They are such beautiful birds and for the most part not a real problem at all. But the crowing, oh God. The crowing, or as I call it, the cock-a-doodle-doing, is making for some tired people around these parts. I do not have a problem sleeping through the noise, but my husband does. And we used to let the birds roam free, so one morning when Justin went out to go "kick the damn birds" (he really can't kick them because we can't catch them) and he stood in door of the back porch and was scared half to death when one crowed from BEHIND him... it was already on our porch.... our enclosed porch... like a stalker. I thought it was pretty hilarious! He did not. And, during their free-roaming days, they would go up on my great aunt and uncle's front porch and crow at 5am. Not a good thing for 75+ year old people. So every night we have been waiting until they (the roosters) fall asleep and then we sneak up on them, catch them and stick them in their coop. This seems to keep the crowing down a bit- or at least muffle it enough that we can all sleep. But now, to make up for it, after being released from their coop they crow ALL FREAKIN' DAY LONG!

We called our local humane society as we know they accept farm animals, but the lady said that they have too many roosters already and that they would just euthanize them. That's not ok. If they are going to be killed, they should at least be eaten. And honestly, I just feel too bad to do that to them. I mean, they are kind of our pets, and I'm not planning on eating my dog any time soon.

So if you know anyone who wants a loud but pretty rooster, let me know!!

Isn't this a Craft Blog?

I know, I know... but with out a camera to document what I've been doing, it seems silly to try to keep up with the crafting I have been doing. It would read something like this, "I made another tote today, but I can't show it to you, so never mind." I am really hoping to have my camera back soooooon. We had to send it off to to Connecticut to be fixed. So, yes, not having my camera is annoying me to no end....