Craving the softness of nature!

With spring rolling around and hearing everyone talking about how the snow has melted away and the spring showers are gracing their newly emerging plants, I weep inside. It's over 100 degree's daily here now, and will continue to be late into the year!

I picture the nice warm sun filling my window first thing in the morning, pouring life into a dark sleepy house, waking it gently. This peeks the urge to emerge out into the morning...outside there is a cool breeze, but a warm touch of morning sun on my skin takes the cold away. I look around and see the newly planted earth that will produce the fresh vegtables that will be weeded and worried over until they stock my now bare pantry shelves. The freshly blooming trees with their buds poking out looking forward to produce the sweet juices from the fruit they will grow. And the soft green grass...Oh how I long for that.

There is plenty of sun here true, but it char's and dries any chance of softness and sweetness that may emerge from the thirsting ground. There is no softness here. It is a dry and brittle land that is depressing. Someday I will enjoy that soft morning again.

Revamp...

So I think my blog needs a new look...
Any ideas?!?!
I'll have to look around today and see what I think...


Ahhh...Sunning!

No, not me! :) I'm talking about my diapers! I finally hung my clothesline and now I can sun my cloth diapers. Oh and I guess some other laundry as well :)

So I hung my first batch of diapers out to dry and sadly found out that my line is not long enough! So I was left with half a basketful of wet inserts and wipes. And that's not even all of my diapers!
Well my fix was..wait a half hour til the first half was dry, then hang the rest. Isn't that a lovely sight? :) But I don't want to do two shifts per load so I'm going to hang another line! :)

New Giveaway - Flat iron!

Well if you know me, you know I have a lot of hair. While it seems so straight to most it's because I use my curling iron like a flat iron and work out my lovely partial wave. I mean, if I had a nice pretty wave to my hair I'd leave it, but no...it's only part of my hair that has wave to it, and it's frizzy too!
So, Vilate (http://niftynappy.blogspot.com/) is hosting a giveaway from Misikko (http://www.misikko.com/) of their flat iron. Well I'd love to win this flat iron :) You can also enter to win this giveaway on Vilate's blog.

Sad :(

So I'm very sad today. This is my last week before I go back to work from my maternity leave. I'll be happy to see everyone that I work with, but I really don't want to leave Illyana. I'd love to stay home and watch her grow...I hate the thought of missing her first word, her first step, her first anything. Granted I only work 3 days a week, but what if she does something while I'm there :( It makes me want to cry. Oh well...such is life.

On a less depressing note, Illyana had her two month appointment today and she was a champ. She's now 10 lbs 3 oz, 22 inches long, and only cried for 2 seconds when she got her shot. What a big girl!

GIVEAWAY!!!

So does anyone read this?

I'm posting about this giveaway that I am really excited about. I'm more excited for what we're trying to accomplish, and the giveaway is just an added bonus (that I'd love to win).


Notice my button that I added? It's about getting cloth diapers in hospitals! How awesome would that be? If you want to learn more about it or are interested there is a facebook page http://facebook.com/ClothinHospitals


There is a blog too! And this is where they are doing the giveaway, so go there and enter!!!


Slacker? Yes!

Wow! Um..it's been a while huh? Well I'm gonna do a quick short style update. We got aother dog, Mya...she's a Great Pyrenees and we love her, and so does Zahkar :) We also got pregnant and now have a beautiful little girl that is aready 2 months old today! Illyana Marie is the love of our lives. She's gorgeous :) Since we had Illyana most of the family has visited and met the newest addition, which was fun! Oh, we got chicken and roosters too! We now have 9 chicken and 2 roosters. Um...there was a lot more, but those are the big ones :) Now I'll post some pictures!
And the pictures come...
Meet Mya

Our roosters...we started out small...

added a couple chickens in the mix...

then added chicks...

and now we have many!

And this is our precious little Illyana Marie!

she is so itty bitty...6 lbs 4 oz, 19 inches long
she's just perfect!
spending a little time with Papa Mitchell
her first Easter!
how can you not just love her to death?
In her cute Nifty Nappy cloth diapers that aunt Vilate made for her!
Just two months and already so big and strong..my how time flies!
I'll try and update this more often (I know, I already said that once...but hey...I can only try).