With Gratitude

We had such a fabulous labor and birth experience at Special Beginnings and I wanted to give something for our midwife and our nurse to express our gratitude.  So Tina made them baklava and I sewed them these little wallets, from this tutorial.  I made one for myself a couple months ago.  With these two, I added an inch to the width and I like the size much better.

The gray fabric is wool and the red dots are from a fun fabric store on the Oregon coast.  Last summer, when we were driving up from Tillamook to Seaside, I saw a fabric store along the side of the road.  It’s a good thing Nik has quick reflexes because he was able to stop fast in response to my shout of excitement!

I especially love the orange zipper/yellow lining combination of this one.  It’s particularly nice for gray winter days!

This was also my first project using snaps.  They were remarkably easy to use although hard to line up correctly.  Now I have another skill to put in my sewing tool box!

I hope these little wallets helped Megan and Breda understand how grateful we were for their tender care of us.

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Even Ellie helped!

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Not too late we hope!

Happy Birthday Drew!

Hope the first one with Grace was awesome!

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Pretty in Pink

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Recipe for a very healthy and delicious salad

I don’t have any pictures of it because I ate it too quickly!

1. Roast sweet potatoes (cut into cubes) with olive oil and garlic.  Let them get cold.

2. On your plate, layer: cold garlic sweet potatoes, cubed hard-boiled eggs (preferably from free-range chickens), arugula and spinach, and thin-shaved carrots.

3.  Drizzle with high-quality extra-virgin olive oil (preferably from Greece!) and sprinkle with lots of coarse unprocessed sea salt.

4. Devour and feel proud of yourself for giving your baby (or your body) all those nutrients.

(Arugula is my new favorite green.  It’s delicious but is also a member of the cruciferous family so it has lots of cancer-fighting benefits.  Arugula is rather expensive to buy but exceedingly easy to grow.  It should be part of everyone’s garden!)

 

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Sewing for other babies

I’m slowly easing back into sewing.  It’s much harder with a baby!  My first three projects have actually been baby blankets for other friends.  My friend Beth is having twin boys so I made two-boy themed blankets for her.  And my friend Candice was having a surprise, so Mom and I picked out two flannels – blue dots for a boy and blue flowers for a girl.  Candice ended up having a girl, named Eleana (pronounced the same as Eliana, just spelled differently)!

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Too cool

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“Sitting” starring Ellie (by Nik)

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Update

Ellie is still sick – the doctor said that it was a virus and nothing to worry about. But it’s been over a week now and I want to know why the breast milk antibodies haven’t kicked in yet! But today she took a TWO-HOUR nap. That was even better than the 1-hour nap that I raved about a few days ago.  It was particularly nice to have her sleep longer today because I have a bad sore throat and felt the need for some down-time myself.

She’s really growing and changing.  She weighed 10.5 pounds at her 1-month check up and had also grown 3 inches.  She’s looking at us for longer periods of time, making such cute noises, and is turning into such a fun little person.

Tomorrow, I’m venturing out to Bible study for the first time since she was born.  I’m a little apprehensive about being gone from the house for that long but I suppose I need to get used to it eventually.  Wish me luck!

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A classic ESOL sentence

This is from another student of mine (from Thailand) – a 7th grader this year.  Note the classic ESOL mistakes, and if I might say so, the classic ESOL student love! 🙂

I would want to see his pictures when she is more older.

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