Happy Halloween!!!

Two posts in one day!  Woohoo! :) 

So here's what you've all been waiting for... well, what I've been waiting for. :)

It's Wednesday, obviously, and well, Eric and I are youth leaders at our church's youth group, so we had that going on tonight.  And there was a theme - to dress as a household object. 

My brain kind of got stuck on that one, because I really didn't want my child's first halloween costume to be a chair or a spoon or something.  What I really wanted was for him to be some cute little animal or something of that nature.  However, I also thought it would be really fun if the three of us 'went together'.  We brainstormed for a LONG time.  For awhile I thought about being the three different utensils.  Eric thought maybe we could be 'small, medium, and large' of something, but we couldn't decide what. Then Eric had a brilliant idea to appease my desire for Asher to be some cute little animal, AND meet the parameters of our theme for youth group. It was a mad dash to create them in two weeks time, and so I've been sewing and stitching and gluing and braiding and twisting and tying at every naptime and bedtime and independent moment I could find. So I present to you our very first Halloween costumes as a family of three. 

The Groom... oh excuse me.... the BRoom. 

The Mom... err... the MoP....

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And that cute little thing we're both chasing around all day long... Can you guess what he is???

 

 

 

 

A little Dust Bunny, of course!!! :)  (I may have gotten a little carried away on the fluff component...)

His little tail was wagging all over the place! :)

And his little bunny feet slippers. :)

Here's the best shot of the three of us.  (Sorry it's a bit blurry.  It was taken on a phone.)  Man is that baby cute! :)

 

 

Anyway, Happy Halloween!  I'm glad I can go back to doing things like dishes and laundry a naptime for a while... (my house is rather in disarray at the moment) but then I'm sure I'll be on to my next project soon enough...  I mean, seriously, it's only three weeks till his first birthday!  :)   But for now, I'm very very glad it's done and over with.  (BIG sigh of relief.) 

 

 

Happy times!

#Meagan



Time for Me!

Sometimes as a stay at home mom, I miss having time on my own, to just have some "me" time. When Asher's sleeping, entertaining himself, or hanging with Eric, I often feel like I need to be productive, doing laundry, dishes, etc.  But I'm finding that when I do that, I can from time to time end up feeling like I'm working 24/7, and then when I do take a break, I end up feeling like I'm just wasting time.

And well, I got some "me" time this weekend while Eric's parents were here and it's so rare these days that I didn't know what to do with myself.  So Eric's mom suggested something along the lines of making a list of things I like to do on my own so that when I get a moment (when other priorities aren't pressing) I can easily grab something.  For me that would be something like a list of books I want to read, or recipes I want to try, or crafty projects I'd like to do to make my house prettier or more organized.

Anyway, Asher took a rediculously long nap this afternoon, and I felt (after prepping our youth group lesson for tonight, paying the bills, loading the dishwasher, and making sure that we had something for dinner) that I could take a break and do something for myself.  Unfortuately I haven't made "my list" yet so I found myself browsing Pinterest looking for something I could do with anything I had a home and here's what I found...

    
They are pajama eaters!   The mouth is a zipper and kids are supposed to store their pajamas in them during the day.  Since I first saw this a few weeks ago, I've been brainstorming ways to modify these for Eric and I, because I'd rather not have Eric's draped over the bed all day, and he doesn't really like mine in a pile on the bathroom floor. :)  So, I searched my craft room for fabric and found... none. At least not enough of anything that would look good in our bedroom.  But before getting too discouraged, it dawned on me that I had just packed away a bunch of ratty, old jeans of Eric's to get rid of.  And here's what I made with them!

Pajama bags!  Only took me about 20 minutes too!  I just cut off the legs of his jeans from the knee down, sewed up the bottom of the leg, hemmed around the top, hot glued a ribbon on either side of the inside so I could tie it up, and Voila! Our pajamas are neatly stored in cute bags on our bed! 

It's amazing how doing something so simple can make such a huge difference in my emotional health!  And they're going to bring me joy for days to come. :)

Here's how they look on the bed. Can't wait to show Eric when he gets home!

#Meagan