Getting from my mind to my fingers and onto the computer has been the problem. My days are full, there is so much I want to save and to share. Bayleigh is 16 months old!! How did that happen? She's growing so fast and does something new and exciting every day. I should be documenting more, that's why I started this blog. To record whatever it was that I felt record worthy for that day or week. It's been mostly a sewing blog with life experience sprinkled in along the way. When I look back and read old posts, I'm almost always glad I captured those moments because in this busy life, so much gets overlooked and forgotten. It's just finding the time at the end or beginning of those full days to sit down an write. It's a challenge.
Since my last post Bayleigh stared daycare. The intention was/is (the jury is still out) for her to go a few mornings a week. This would give me a few hours to do some laundry and other housework (maybe even sew a little) and give her a few hours to play with other children. Just to explain the situation, Bayleigh's dad, Derek works in Alaska several months out of the year. Bayleigh's mom, Alyssa is in her final year of nursing school. While Derek is in Alaska, Bayleigh and Alyssa stay here with us (most of the time). I watch Bayleigh while Alyssa is in school, and try to help keep her occupied in the evenings for Alyssa to study and do homework. We are all exhausted by the end of the day. The idea behind daycare was to give me a few hours of free time during the day. She went three mornings the first week and by that Friday had a runny nose. She went one morning the next week and woke with a fever the next day. That was this past Wednesday and she's still not feeling good. She shared the cruddy love with Alyssa and myself so it's a house full of snot and tears. Nice, eh? I'm really beginning to think those few hours of free time are hardly worth it.
I've been in a real nesting phase of late, changing this, moving that, and of course painting lots and lots of this and that. Perhaps it's the changing of seasons that gets me itching to change my surroundings, I don't know. I suspect my recent addiction to some really wonderful home-dec blogs may have something to do with it. I've already shared some of the impromptu changes that my kitchen went through, the living room wasn't far behind and dining room, be warned you're next. I'll post the crafty stuff I've been up to in another post as this one is already boringly wordy and I won't wait a week to do it, promise.
