Well, Well, Well

You’re not going to believe this but we have a well on our property!!! Now we can finally pick up our building permit and start digging! Hopefully things will go more quickly from here on out. It’s possible that we could still make an October finish date so I can have my Halloween party!

The kids were great today so I was able to get a lot of picking up done around the house. The living room is all set up with chairs for the luncheon after the blessing. The doorbell rang this morning and it was a man asking if I wanted the lawn mowed and trimmed. He must have been reading my mind! The kids and I cleaned up the garage while they were working and I did some more weeding in the flower beds. The yard looks great now and the house is presentable. I finally had the courage to put up the For Sale Sign. If you know anyone moving this direction, send them over with their checkbook!

Baby Blessing

We’re getting ready to bless Elisabeth on Sunday. I finished making her dress and Chris is knitting her booties. He made Kate’s booties when she was blessed so I guess it’s a tradition for Daddy to make the booties. I bet there are not many women out there who can say their husbands knit! I’ve been obsessed with the whole knitting thing ever since Elisabeth was born. I made her blanket and dress and I just finished knitting her some booties that match her blanket. Now I’m knitting a hat for a friend who just had a baby yesterday. Shhhh, don’t tell her. I’m already planning all the new projects I want to knit. This isn’t a good thing considering I just went to a quilting show and came back with four new quilting projects to make. Well, we all know I’m not the type to let them sit unfinished so I’d better get to work. I wish my obsessive compulsive crafting disorder would take over in the house keeping department but it doesn’t. Once I start a project I don’t want to put it down until it’s finished. Nope, it doesn’t work that way with cleaning!

Speaking of cleaning…I’m working to get the house cleaned up for the blessing. My plan was to do one room every day this week. Here it is Wednesday and have I completed any rooms yet? Of course not! I did go out and spend a few minutes yesterday whacking down some ivy that had taken over my front porch. I have spent a couple days weeding the flower beds too. I’m going to work on them some more this morning if I can go back to bed and get some sleep. I’m embarrassed to say I woke up from a bad dream I had about Martha Stewart and couldn’t go back to sleep! Something about Martha and the Jerry Springer show. Poor Martha. I really do feel sorry for her. I can’t imagine what her life has been like the last few years. And I think a baby blessing is stressful!

Lovely Baby

This is a photo of what I’ve been doing for the last 7 weeks. Holding my sweet Elisabeth and knitting a blanket for her. I just finished the blanket a couple days ago. Now I’m finishing up a blessing dress I’ve been knitting for her.