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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Every year I struggle with what to dress up as for Halloween. As I get older, my interest in this holiday wanes increasingly. But now that I have a child, it’s time to get psyched again about trick or treating and dressing up. The one day of the year you can pretend to be anyone you want. You can dress up outrageously and not be looked down upon for it.
I’m looking for costumes for Amelia. I’ve chosen her costume this year, but I can definitely use some creative ideas for the next 5-10 years down the road. So I browsed the web for inspiration and ideas on Halloween Costumes and found Halloween Adventure. They have costumes for everyone: men, women, kids, babies, plus masks, makeup, wigs, etc. And the way their navigation is set up with main categories and sub-categories, I can go straight to the costumes for infants and toddlers. They even have costumes for your pet, so you can dress up your dog as Batman!
This Holly Hobby costume has to be one of my favorites. I remember loving this doll when I was little and my room was decorated to match. I love the patchwork of her dress and little girls look adorable dressed like this. It would definitely be my first choice if I hadn’t already chosen Dorothy for this year. May they have a bigger version of this and she can dress as Holly Hobby next year. Or maybe I’ll convince one of my many mommy friends to dress up their baby girl in this costume. I like costumes like this because they look more comfortable than some. And if she has to wear something underneath, or wear the thing all day, I want to make sure she’s not miserable. But costumes have come along way since when I was a child. You don’t see nearly as many of those plastic gowns with plastic masks. I remember wearing one of those and going as Casper, the friendly ghost…remember him?
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Please publish your feed with full posts…no excerpts that leave me hanging. I just got a new iPhone and I suspect that I will be using it more for my blog feeds because it’s an easy way to keep up with what’s going on.
Sure, I can visit your site on my phone, but it comes up in teeny tiny print that I must resize in order to read anything, but it’s such a pain in the butt, that it’s just not worth it.
Please!
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
I’ve been slacking in the blog posting department again. I guess motherhood and work has been keeping me busy. Actually, that’s not true. Motherhood and knitting has been keeping me busy. But that doesn’t mean there’s been knitting content posted over on the knitting blog either. Sadly. Lately, my internet time has been spent on Facebook and Ravelry.
The AB mommies kept sending me invites to Facebook, so I finally took the plunge and joined. I didn’t realize how many of my friends were there. Within a few days I had over 20 friends and that’s a lot for me. A lot of my cousins are there as well, plus friends I’ve lost touch with for one reason or another. So it has been so much fun reconnecting with everyone. Then my husband joined and he’s totally addicted to the flair. LOL!
Besides Facebook, I’ve been obsessed with Ravelry. And in conjunction with the Summer Olympics in Beijing, we’ve been doing our own knitting version…the First International Ravelympics. It’s been great fun trying to knit as many projects as possible or just one challenging project during the summer games. So lots of knitting and spinning has been going on the past 2 weeks.
Amelia has been keeping me busy. What’s going on with her? A lot. She got her playhouse at the beginning of August. My Father-in-law came up and he and my husband put it together for her. It’s a 6×6 foot playhouse with 3 windows, a door, a 2ft front porch and cedar shingles. Pretty sweet little crib for a 2 year old. So we bought her a play kitchen that looks like Cinderella’s castle and a bunch of accessories for it, so she can cook up some delicious meals for us.
She’s talking to much now, it’s sometimes frustrating trying to figure out what she’s saying. But we’re slowing learning her language. She tries to dress herself and last night managed to put her shoes on all by herself. Of course they were on backwards, but it was adorable.
And the biggest news of late…she’s teething. She’s got the two bottom molars coming in, plus one if not two teeth coming in at the top (neighbors to the front teeth). So she’s been miserable lately. Cranky, clingy, fussy. on top of that she has some sort of cold that keeps her coughing. And the poor thing smashed her fingers in the door at daycare this week. I cringe every time I picture her crying and hurting and I wasn’t there to cuddle her. It hurts me that I wasn’t there when she needed me. Thankfully she has wonderful teachers that cuddled her in my place and rocked her to sleep at nap time. But it’s never the same as mommy. So we’ve been giving her extra cuddles lately as she deals with these mean, painful teeth. I’ll be glad when they finally break through and give her a bit of peace.
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
Every time I hear a James Blunt song I just picture a movie. Most of his songs are perfect for background music in a song. You know, the scenes that they are just dramatic moments in the storyline with no dialog.
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
I’m all moved over to my new blog. Using Wordpress and the import of all my old Textpattern posts was so easy! I had a script that I downloaded a while ago that took all my posts and comments and created a file in MT export format. I just saved that file then used it to import. Everything came over as it should. I spent some time tweaking my template and voila! I’m just about done. A few more things I want to tweak, but otherwise, it’s done.
I still need transfer it over to the root from the subdirectory I was setting it up in, but I’ll get to that this weekend. And there are a few other things I want to add. I’ve also linked up the feeds to FeedBurner for both here and the knit blog.
So anyway. There you have it. I’m switched. 
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Using each letter in your name as the beginning of the sentence or phrase, write sentences or phrases that describe you.
As you can guess most of these relate to being a new mom, as does practically everything in my life now.
R eally loving being a mom
A melia’s mommy
Y earning for more hours in the day to get everything done
N eeding more sleep
E njoying the Manic Mommies podcast
OK, I could probably do better at this but I’m really tired today. I slept better than last night, but it just wasn’t enough, as always.
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