Little Pink Cast

I haven't blogged or read blogs in weeks... When Hope went on a trip with daddy she fell and broke her elbow... I have been driving back and forth to the doctor which is an hour away... She will be getting off her cast in the beginning of October. It is amazing how something so small can disrupt the way a family works.

Hopefully this week I will get back to blogging and sewing. I can't wait to see what I have been missing :)

Fun Books From the Library

In the middle of this week, Hope will be heading on a road trip with her daddy. I plan on using my toddler-free time very wisely. I have so much sewing to do. I want to make new curtains for the living room. I have the fabric forever. It is just a lot of material to work with when someone with little fingers is running all over my sewing area.

Today at the library I found these fun books. I want to try to use some of the ideas from them when I am working on my Wardrobe Refashion clothes.
Fabric Jewelry by Teresa Searle

The New Crewel by Katherine Shaughnessy

I am hoping to get a lot of sewing done!!!

I also want to work on a time schedule for my family for fall... We usually do a lot better with a plan for our time then when we just go about things willy-nilly. If any of you follow schedules I would love some tips on planning fun things into our schedule. It seems like the fun family things are the first to get skipped when we are just running all over...

County Fair

We visited our county fair on it's last day. I hate to admit it but we went mostly because of the food :)



We didn't even go near the carnival rides. Hope had so much fun riding on the pony rides. She was so serious when she was on the pony's back and as soon as she was off she wanted to go again.

The animals were a lot of fun...The baby pigs were so cute... Mama pig... just laid there sleeping.

Hope didn't want to leave the miniature horse... They were so cute and they would come right up to be petted.

I was surprised at how brave she was when she was watching the draft horses. She was barely as tall as their knees:)

I am glad we went... It brought back a lot of memories of being little.

Little Hope is Sick...

This morning when she got out of bed she said she couldn't walk and that her feet hurt... So I put her in my bed with a cup of milk. Her cheeks were just a touch of pink... but I knew what was to come. As the day would go by she would become feverish.... and very achy... This evening her fever is 103.1F






This has happened about every 2 weeks for about a year... and it is a been a mystery illness... It is a high fever and sore bones... Last time we took her to a local hospital out of our insurance area... and it turned out to be strep throat... 10 days of antibiotics... She seemed well when it ended... but here we are again... I am a loss as to what to do... I just feel so bad that we don't know what the cause is... and also knowing that she loses days of been well too...





Poor thing