Year: 2012

I am very pleased with the crib! We still need bedding, bumper, and Josh wants a mobile 😉
Looks like I will be sewing up a storm soon!

Another picture of the quilt Mom made…yummy Minky stripey backing…

I am a nerd & didn’t get any pictures of the box I sent to my Caffeine Addicts group swap partner. But…I got my package today and have plenty of pictures!! Here goes…

The coffee is super yummy! I immediately brewed a pot.
The scarf is so fun! It will be absolutely perfect with my cream pea coat!
The yarn is Miss Babs “Yummy” Hand-Painted Sock and Baby Yarn, colorway Mums. I do believe it will be balled up tonight just because I love the colors and want it ready to knit at a moments notice.
Very fun swap! I hope Tinkerpro likes her box o’ goodies!!

 

We are so blessed with amazing family & friends!

Today was our Virtual Baby Shower and lo & behold, a late Christmas from the Ensey Grandparents too! Our table was FULL of amazing love & gifts.

A few things came early, like the black, white, & red quilt that Mom made the baby. Cute teddy face appliqued on the center and a scrumptious Minky backing.

The kids were spoiled by Grandma & Grandpa Ensey…crocheted scarves for the boys, a fab green shrug (short for “shoulder rug” according to Josh) for Sadie. She hasn’t taken it off yet…perfect gift!
It dawned on me today that my kids are surrounded by the rich love of handcrafted items. Blankets, quilts, scarves & hats to cuddle up in. I love that they can wrap up in the love of those that can’t be with them.

Josh & I received birthday and Christmas gifts…I was spoiled with a black leather jacket!! (Sadie thinks it’s so fantastic that it fits her too, sharing among the Ensey women!) Josh got Mormon potatoes ;o)

I am tired so forgive me if this is short or missing thank you’s. There will be plenty more to come I am sure!

Kiki (Karen Stephens) sent a jam-packed box of the cutest baby stuff & “cake”! Black and white and yellow striped leggings, hats, socks, onesies, GREEN yarn! I will have to make something super fun with the green yarn for the babe. You were so right, no party is complete without cake, the Twinkies were a big hit before dinner, Thank You!

And Melissa, thank you so much for the hand made treasures…I love the vintage fabrics, just as you knew I would! The screen printed onesies you made are so perfect…AWESOME!

Erin Middleton, thanks for the Amazon gift card…and yes, that is hilarious, the little snafu you made sending it to yourself… 🙂 I can’t wait to pick some fun things for the baby, I do believe we’ll wait until after the baby is born to know the sex and pick the perfect items.

Christi, my sister, the funny octopus toy is great! Made me realize I have no place for toys…

We are so grateful to be thought of in such high regards by friends and family that want to show us how happy they are for our happiness!
There will be many more posts in the future gushing our love and thanks…I am sure!

I so rarely get sick that I don’t even know how to deal with puffy eyes, sneezing, runny nose, cough, tight chest, headache, sour stomach, and the overall feeling of Yuck.

Cori & Mark came by last night before they left for their cruise this morning and dropped off some tupperware…2 garbage bags full of tupperware, all with lids! I have some organizing to do! Gotta come up with the perfect plan on how to store them, I have the cupboard space to work with so that’s good.

I am about 60% done with one of Josh’s Gansey socks and 30% done with the second. I need to catch the second sock up to the same length as the first then knit them at the same time so I can use up every last drop of the yarn on the pair. Hoping they will be tall enough. This is my first time knitting for a man’s size 12 feet.

Once those are done I need to focus on baby knitting. Sleep sacks and diaper soakers and booties and nursing wraps (shawls 😉 ). I can borrow a knitting machine from a woman in the crochet guild here to make a ton of blankies and maybe a few wrap sweaters for myself if I can. I love the sweaters that are showing up in all the stores that are just a long rectangle with sleeves set in, perfect for nursing!  

That one is not the waffle knit one I saw at Target the other day but it’s close.  I am sure by this point you all have seen them.

  

I also am doing a coffee lovers swap. I need to get over to the local roasters and pick up a mug and coffee beans. It’s so fun putting together packages, I already received the yarn and have a few other things in a box as well…yippee!!
I know, I know. Swapping coffee and yarn, my 2 indulgences, while we are tight financially may not be the most responsible thing but it’s so nice to spoil someone else with the same loves and interests. Especially when they live in a totally different part of the country!

Sidenote: If I could eat my cereal with cream instead of milk I would be one happy girl!!

I have missed a few things I lost in the storage unit, my apron collection and my fabric stash are on the top of the list. This is what reminded me…

That is where I will leave you all for now. I need to get a few more things on my registry and then get off this timesuck of a contraption.

Diamond Gansey socks by Wendy Johnson
Younger Yarn Twisty String- colorway Kissing Jordan in the Dark

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I posted in one of the forums on Rav this morning that I was in some serious need of some fiberly love to be sent my way today. Of course I got it! Like always, my ladies came through for me. 
Quick update…I hit a curb this morning on our way to run a day full of yuck errands; glucose test (blech), DMV for my drivers license change, Social Services to see about assistance when I have to go on unpaid maternity leave (that is one thing we didn’t get done, darnit, and I am not pleased with having to ask for assistance so I was dreading that one anyway). I knew immediately it was bad. The tire wasn’t flat but I couldn’t keep the car straight. We went directly to the one place that we know of in town.
Josh has been sick, as well as 2 of the 3 kids, and there haven’t been many hours for him at work this week so he was feeling pretty low that all this coincided with yet another car repair/issue and another day off. The first thought that went through my head was, “there is a reason this happened. I don’t know if it’s a good or bad reason yet but I know there is a reason.” My emotions bounced all over the place the first half of the day. The repairs costing over half of our income from yesterdays paychecks.
While I waited in the repair shop, Josh was out in the garage going over the repairs needed with the guy that helped us immensely the last time we had to go in. I was knitting on the gansey sock I had with me and crying when Josh walked in, job application in hand. The guy had offered him a full time position at the same pay he makes now but with guaranteed hours.
So then we had a choice to make on top of already heightened emotions over financial devastation (I hate car repair expenses SO MUCH. Especially when I could have used that money for say a crib, carseat, and stroller for this baby that’s ridiculously close to being here).
We were home, car-less, while they repaired the car for us and we spent our time making phone calls and doing crap online that we’ve put off doing for lack of time. Majority of what we had to do we had procrastinated on because we knew the outcomes wouldn’t be simple or cheap. I hate money, by the by.
Josh called the owner of the company and set up a time to drop off his application. Fortunately, it worked out perfectly that we could get pretty much everything we needed to do in a consolidated timeline and geographic area. I went to my doctor’s lab, drank the glucose drink (gag me with a spoon), we had exactly one hour to drive over to meet the owner, give him his application and ended up in a 40 minute interview (more on that in the next paragraph), go back to the lab, have blood drawn, go to the dmv, take a number, get my driver’s license, get home, get dinner in the oven, take the kids to Walmart to get new fish & a tank setup with the boys Christmas gift cards from their Ziegler cousins, home to eat dinner, get in bed, wait for Cori and Mark to stop by with loads of tupperware, and swimsuits for Sadie starting swimming tomorrow at school (huge lifesaver! I didn’t have time or the money now to hunt down a good suit for her in the middle of winter with one nights time frame). Now I am dead tired, fighting off the cold my whole family has had, dreading the next doctors appointment, and I don’t want to go to bed yet now that the house is quiet and I can try to relax.
I am also very anxious and this is why…
Josh got the job! He’s nervous about how it dropped in our laps, he was hired so quickly, no time to talk to his current employer about how the transition and hours would work, and the new job wants him there first thing in the morning tomorrow!
I knew there was a reason for my “accident” this morning. I guess it was to take the control out of our hands for a minute and be directed (which, by the way, I dislike immensely).

So! New unexpected job change. Cut up California driver’s license replaced with a Kansas license (I have had the same California drivers license since my 16th bday and that was rather unsettling losing that today). 
This had to happen on the first day of my 3 days off in a row (miracle in itself) so now I have 2 more days to ponder what I could have done with that money, clean, organize, plan, and most likely just be too sick with this cold to do much of anything.

Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for this work opportunity. I just don’t do well with quick changes that I wasn’t looking for or planning on. I am all for spontaneity! Love the quick decisions when I get to make them and hastily plan for them. I am a pessimist at heart, tried and true, through and through. I try not to be but that’s where I live. 

Now, I do believe I am tired enough to go and sleep. Another day tomorrow. Life has it’s plan for me and I guess I just need to shut the F up and deal…good or bad…

Runs perfectly. ..smooth as butter! Yippee!

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