A new day! Yesterday I was very panicked over all that was left to buy and left to do. I got a list started and was able to cross a few things off so I feel a bit more relieved. I have tons left to do in the house, I'm waiting on her dresser to get here in the next week or two, ether way it should be here before she arrives. It will be so nice to get her clothes organized into one place instead of stashed away in ten different places.

I keep having this feeling that she wants to come early, none of mine have come early on their own. I have bad dreams abotu the epidural, and bad dreams about my water breaking, which it did with Ari but I was 7 days past my due date. She seems to have dropped and is making walking painful, she's unhappy when I sit straight, so I'm at an angle half the time to keep from painful punches. I imagine she isn't the most comfortable ether as she is growing big now that we are so close to the end.

For mother's day me and the kids headed out to my parents, and had dinner out there. Dad took the kids and everyone else (but me, mom and ais) out to the woods, where Ari proceeded to get a tick on her head. We got home and my sister calls to say that her and dad had a lot of them, and to check the kids. I made Jeremy pull the ugly little guy off. Of course Ari was traumatized and wishes she never went in the woods at all.

I made dessert and posted the recipe at the end. Here's my mama cutting the cake.


Aislyn helping me make the dessert while everyone else was out in the woods.


Coming back from my mom's we hit a train that is going through town, these babies don't hardly slow down at all. They just zip on by, shaking the earth as they go. What I loved about this scene is that I'm in this small town, and everyone knows everyone, and at a train, they get out and talk to the person behind them, lol.



The neighbor's dog keeps yapping in this high pitch, awful bark. It gets my dogs all riled up, even when they are inside. The downfall of having windows open, you have to hear everything your neighbor's are doing, and their dogs. It's driving me nuts though, yap yap yap, for the past few hours. Then telling my dogs to keep it down and to ignore the little punk dog, which they only remember for two seconds, cause the other dog doesn't seem to stop to breath between yaps. Seriously it's driving me bananas.

On another note though, I brought my camera to T-ball, and snapped a few photos that turned out ok. This is Aislyn's first year playing, she wanted to play desperately last year, and I believe she found it to not be what she expected. She only stayed on the field for the first 30 minutes, she doesn't mind when they practice in the field tossing the ball to the coach. But once they did a scrimmage with the other team and she had to bat, and run to bases, she must of been overwhelmed, cause after she made it to the home plate, she came over to me crying saying she wanted to be by me.

William at bat


Ais in the outfield practicing with the coach, seems to be happy.


On first base after batting for the first time (besides at home), the assistant coach is talking to her.


I don't know what to do in this situation? Send her out again on Wednesday? Let her just sit on the bleachers by me and Ari? Make her sit with her team? With Awana's she was this way in the fall, and I let her sit back a time or two with me, but after that she needed to get over the fear and go through with it. She would cry about me leaving her and afraid I wasn't coming back, so I didn't want her to feel that I was giving into her fear because I felt it was valid. If that makes sense. But this is a bit different, this isn't her thinking I'm going to abandon her, so I'm not sure what I should do in this situation. Thoughts?

A few more finished knits.

"Pixie Hat" from a Debbie Bliss Book; My first completed pom pom, I'm pretty happy with it. :D I used this finger wrap method to make the pom poms, easy peasy.


"Texture Cuff Bootees" from Zoe Mellor's book - 50 Bootees to Knit. I made the purple pair flat as the directions called for, and then the pink pair I did in the round without having to make adjustments to the pattern.



I received a few gifts from friends. First up is the Booties Swap over at Ravelry, I got my first package. She lives in Quebec and sent me this foreign candy. I love foriegn candy, my dad would travel internationally a lot when I was in junior high and he'd come back with big bags of candy for me and my s.mom to try out. Finland had some of the best candies!


My friend Katie gifted Miss Pickle with some delicious knits among other items! Her little man wore the longies outfit, and it's just adorable as could be!


Katie made these soaker sacks, they are so darling!


My friend Claire (who the jester hat/bib were for a few posts below) gave my kiddos some felted wool balls, the only one that is fully felted is the orange one, it has a little ball inside. The others are for the kids to finish felting in the bathtub, they seriously can not wait.


And last but not least my friend Michelle sent me a tie dye shirt from her store Little Earth Angels. I love the colors she dyed this!


My main computer seems to have a video driver issue, don't know anything about computer hardware, so I'll have to get some basic knowledge in regards to that and fixing it. Saturday night I went out to see "Baby Mama" with Jessie, we had a good time. The movie was predictable but had some good laughs in it. It's always nice to hang out with her, we made it up to 2 am just chatting in my living room about all the stupid things we did and thought as kids. I love having that history with someone.

So much to do this week, Ari has a dentist appointment to get her cavities filled, she's petrified over this. I have an appointment tomorrow, and have the great pleasure of bringing three tag-along kids who'd rather not be there. I feel like a first time mom all over again, I have a million questions for tomorrow that I should write them down before I forget. So with that thought, I'll leave you with the easy recipe below and I'll get my questions wrote out before they leave my slippery, overwhelmed mind.

decked out strawberry/banana angelfood cake

I got this recipe from a magazine probably 6 years ago. I used to take it to our old church, because you can make this healthy and I *believe* diabetic friendly, but I can't recall exactly.
Ingredients
1 prepared angel food cake
6 ounces strawberry banana jello (sugar free substitute works well)
1 pint strawberries
3-4 bananas
Cool Whip (Reduced Fat optional)

Cut prepared angel food cake in half through the center (for layers), I do this about 3/4 of the way up. I poke holes with a fork through both layers then put the top layer back on. Boil 2 cups of water, add Jello. Add 1 cup of water after Jello has dissolved. Pour Jello slowly over angel food cake, then put in fridge to set.

Not sure how long it takes to set, I got it out about 2 hours later after dinner. Cut up bananas and strawberries. Lift the top layer of cake and set aside. Layer Cool Whip, then strawberries, then bananas. Then put top layer back on cake. Spread Cool Whip over the entire cake then layer strawberries and bananas on top, and strawberries along the side. Then serve. :)

It tastes great, its super moist, and if you buy your angel food cake from Target it takes amazing! They have some of the best angel food cake prepared with lots of almond extract, yum!