On the move!!
Posted by: karynforyou on: May 27, 2009
We are so excited and happy to be moving into our own house. We have over-stayed our welcome and were ready to go home.
In less than one month, Jason and I will be evicting our two little roomates after two and a half years of sharing. I’m all for sharing but I there comes a time in every childs life when they need to move on out. In this case it is only a few feet across the hall because at two and a half that is far enough.
Creating, ripping off wall paper, pulling up carpet to expose the hardwood and sugar plums dance through my head. That’s right sugar plums picked from our very own tree. Bird feeders, vegetable gardens, curtains and re-purposed furnature, keep me awake at night with anticipation.
I am enjoying the anticipation, because I know that the inspiration and feeling of newness fades into a distant memory too quickly.
So I am off to surf the web for inexpencive area rugs. Do you have any ideas other than IKEA’S discount bin?
Brain Dump
Posted by: karynforyou on: April 19, 2009
I got this idea awhile back while blog surfing and thought is was a good idea. Here is my list what what I am thinking about these day’s
* waiting, thinking, praying that Jason will get the official job offer so we can go house hunting.
* I need to learn to live well in the space of waiting because life has alot of waiting rooms!
* When will I see the next centipede in my house like this one?
(I saved you a large image that may haunt you.)
Will I be able to exterminate it quickly and calmly so I don’t get the kids freeked out, we have to live here for a few more months after all.
* My little Roo is such a good baby.
* Should I home school? Can I do it? Is it right for Sunshine? What program should I do? It is hard to think about all of this in my static filled mind.
* I feel like my space is closing in on me and I am trying to get a handle on this closterphobia that is eroding my creative energy and enthusiasm.
* I miss my sisters expecially the one in Texas whom I have not seen for close to 5 years. She is going to my parents this summer.
*I will not get to go home this summer because of our housing situation.
* Sunshine is showing interest and ablility in writting.
* I was not prepared that parenting would require so much work to connect, to be in relationship, to love.
* I bought 4, 940g bags of cadbary easter eggs, I’m rich!!
* My baby hammock tutorial has recieved some linky love.
What’s going on?
Posted by: karynforyou on: April 5, 2009
My day’s are filled with great anticipation. We are waiting for the final word that Jason has a job and then we will be house hunting within the hour!!
So while I wait for that phone call or email to arrive in our in box I am dreaming of our new home and all the handmade goodness and smells I can fill it with, curtains, gardens, painted thrift store finds are dancing through my mind.
I will have a batch of my favourite ginger snaps christening the oven by bed time because nothing says home like the smell of ginger or comfort like a cookie. (Much to Jason’s disappointment who believes a cookie must have chocolate)
But for now, these are dreams and I wait and put together rugs to warm our feet because a new home could alway’s use new throw rugs. Like this one.
On warm sunny day’s you can find me on my deck with Roo hanging in her Jolly Jumper, Sunshine up to her eye balls in dirt and Joy alternating play between her sisters and me? I will be ripping sheets or weaving another rug.
What have you done for your new home?
Once upon a time, it was a shirt.
Posted by: karynforyou on: February 22, 2009
My sister gave me her shirt that never fit her properly, she figured that I was nursing so maybe it would fit me better. However, nursing or not nursing the shirt still gapped at the top. So I made it into a dress, it was too cute a print to toss into the thrift bag.
I really like how it turned out. She is so cute. I just love her so much.
They looked so happy, it is alway’s a picture moment when I see them playing nicely with each other.
Feeling a bit bloggy
Posted by: karynforyou on: January 14, 2009
hanging in her hammock
I feel like I need to have a really good post to compensate for the months of neglect this blog has endured. However, I only have a few minuets before one of the three kids pulls me away. Little Roo is cooing in her hammock while I play at the computer. A beautiful arrangement I think
I am finding the adjustment to three children much easier than from one to two children.
I am doing really well and I tell myself several time a day just how proud I am of myself! I even took the girls sledding by myself with Roo in my baby trekker. (that is one handy dandy carrier my friends!)
My projects these day’s are less about sewing and making beautiful eye candy and more about entertaining the girls, making something to eat, and being a kind parent.
I have been thinking more vividly recently about how I behave which influences and effects how the girls behave. I know this is rudimentary butI feel that I need to make my relationships with my girls my creative project.
With my second daughter I noticed that our parenting changed by being more organized and structured. We developed routines and rituals around meal time, naps, and baths ect, It was necessary to bring order the chaos with two girls I learned very quickly that I would lose my mind unless we had some structure to our day and lives.So my most valued tool was structure.
In developing these habits as parents we became better parents, now with the third child I am thinking less of day to day living and more of quality of living more specifically, relationship. So relationship has become my day to day project. It’s much like knitting.
One, two, three conflicts, an activity, take a deep breath and repeat yourself 1000 times each phrase, “sit down”, ”use your words”, “don’t grab that toy, ask for it”. After an unspecified about of time they should grow up into functioning adults. I just hope they turn out better than my blanket did.
phew, I did it. Word press has changed it’s set up completely so I have to learn all over again how to use this new format which takes more time of course. Thank you all for checking back all these long months
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