Thanks everyone for all your supportive thoughts and calls and emails. I received so much great advice and I have to share 2 things that cracked me up. I got an e-mail from my dear friend Jill
today, whom I had recently told that I just wanted to "scream," to which
she replied, "…and if you must scream, this is the season to do so!"
Oh, Jill, so, so very wise beyond your years. And Heather who said, "I have no
idea what you are battling and it doesn’t even matter. What matters is
the totally classy and rad way you are going to fight your way out of
it." Okay that made me laugh, thanks Heather. I WISH I could be
totally classy & rad while fighting my way out of anything!!I think it just felt so much better to get it out there, off my chest. It was interesting to read about others who said they were in the same place, or recently had been. I’ve been so self-absorbed in everything that’s been going on here that it never really occurred to me that right now, out there, others are struggling too. I know, it’s absurd. I realized, I just need to pull my head out. I just need to serve others. I used to be so good at service and doing things for others, but I haven’t done anything for so long, I’ve just turned into this little hermit crab. So now, things are a changing. Neighbors are getting cupcakes.
I picked up this magazine while I was in Utah last month and was chomping at the bit to make these guys. There’s a ton of other great recipes in there that I can’t wait to try. Aren’t they a hoot! LOL! We made carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Henry and I just delivered them to some neighbors upstairs and we will be out delivering some more tonight. I think it’s just what this little family needs.
My MIL’s birthday was Thursday and so at 9 p.m on Monday night, I decided I probably should make something for us to send. When I first started sewing, patterns were just beyond me, so since then I’ve been coming up with patterns on my own, which is by no means an easier solution. I pulled out the dozen or so apron patterns that I had and decided on this one. Man, it’s so much easier when everything is already measured out for you!! What had I been thinking? This was Butterick #6567, Apron A, and it came together quite easily, and my MIL is just as much as a Halloween nut as I am, so I hope she likes it! Now if I had mad sewing skills, which I do not, I would SOOO be this for Halloween:
Miss Pumpkin??? It’s beyond brilliant. I want to be her so very badly, but how would I ever do that hair?? (okay the hair should be the least of my conerns..) My recent haircut, which is a short bob, would just ruin the whole effect. And where would I ever find a hat like that? How much yardage would a dress like that take? I fear I would just wear it all year long.
Oh well, here’s to dreaming!
xoxo
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