40 @ 40
Updated to say: Today is not my birthday. My birthday was back in August exactly 1 month before Badger turned 40, too. (I had to add that part about Badger because I don't think any of the rest of you are 40 yet and a few of you are beyond that so ... This cheese didn't want to stand alone.) I had been planning to do this list and have only now gotten around to it.
New things about me I don't think I have told you all.
1. I love to sew. When my girls were small I made everything they wore. I often dressed Colby and Gracie as if they were part of Little House on the Prairie.
I told you so.
2. I love to cross stitch. Most everything I have ever made I have given away as a gift.
3. I love to crochet. While most people on the net seem to be knitters I am a crochet -er.
4. When Colby was a baby I did not have a sewing machine and sewed everything by hand. Think dresses and french seams.
5. It is far to expensive to sew for other people. They do nt seem to appreciate the time and talent to produce good work. So I do not sew for profit.
6. My most favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story (you know the one with Ralphie and the BB gun.)
7. My second most favorite movie is The Homecoming.
8. I identify more closely with the Walton's than with the Ingall's.
9. I fall in love more every day with this part of Virginia. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
10. I hate shaving my legs.
11. I need to do so almost every day.
12. Somedays I don't.
13. On those days you would think I had not shaved in a week.
14. I hate being a hairy girl.
15. I have to wax my upper lip.
16. Right now, I feel very old and very tired.
17. I probably will never get another pedicure in my life. The summer I was pg with Steven a nail tech broke the nail bed and my big toe nail is just now healed and growing out.
18. I like warm coke.
19. I prefer crushed ice.
20. I love turn of the century photographs.
21. I have four sets of sheets for our bed.
22. Three of those sets are red. The other is white.
23. Red flannel sheets are delicious.
24. It makes decorating our bedroom for Christmas very easy.
25. Each bed upstairs has at least 2 changing of sheets specific to each bed. There are 5 beds up there: 1 queen, 2 full, 2 twin.
26. I iron the sheets and pillow cases on my girls beds.
27. I like sleeping in a beautiful bed.
28. I get more pleasure knowing my children are sleeping just as beautifully.
29. We have become a co-sleeping family.
30. Steven sleeps with us.
31. We like it just fine.
32. Steve rarely hears the baby wake up therefore I provide 99% of his care day and night.
33. Now you know why I am really tired right now.
34. I have made 30 faux headstones for my front yard for Halloween.
35. I need to order my Christmas Cards this week. I am already 3 weeks behind on these things.
36. I tend to be very happy about there being 600+ miles between me and the rest of my family.
37. I will not be as generous in my gift giving this year as I have been in the past. Some people never thanked us for the lovely gifts they recieved, neither written nor verbal.
38. I won't be going overboard with the girls either. They get too much all year long. This year less is best.
39. I have no idea what I will be doing for Steve for Christmas this year.
40. The coming season is my most favorite time of the year. It takes alot of planning and preparation. Usually I am near the end of my to-do list by this time of the year. This year I have not even started.
Happy Birthday Angie!
I hope you have a great day!
I love the upcoming season as well. Love it!
Happy Birthday Angie.
I love this time of year on Home Grown, too, because it is always evident how excited you are even when you're tired.
Btw, I love that you are co-sleeping because is doesn't seem typical Angie, and it's kind of fun to hear something atypical. I could never co-sleep because my husband and I don't sleep well with kids in bed, but I always thought it would be nice to do once in a while. When Hannah was a newborn, we did have her in our bed a lot because she had a bad stomach and needed to be propped up to sleep for any length of time.
Happy 40! I'll be there soon enough.
Raehan - all of my children were co-sleepers. I just have this super hang-up about putting babies in rooms alone and going off to my own at night. I hate nursery monitors, too. Every pediatrician I have had has fussed at me about co-sleeping and I have always replied, "When you pay my bills and when you give birth to MY child then and only then do you get to tell me with authority when and where and how my baby should or should not sleep." They usually shut up then. :-)
Co-sleeping is not for everyone. But it has always been for me.
As a newborn Steven did sleep in his cradle. Now as an older baby who wakes at night and wants only to be cuddled it makes sense to me to put him in bed with us. Steve loves to have the baby between us to snuggle with. He sleeps and wakes and sleeps again and no one has to get up and stumble around in the night. In the mornings he is sleep and smiley and sings and plays. He pulls up at the headboard and jumps up and down. He pulls at Steve's ears and hair until he wakes up or rolls over. It is a very sweet way to start the day.
Some of my favorite people are co-sleeper. ; ) You included.
I miss my girls cuddling with me in the morning like they used to. Now they just get up and go.
Angie, I sometimes wonder if we were separated at birth.
I am also a hairy crochet-er. I've been taught how to knit but it has never appealed to me the way crochet does.
And my girl child was in our bed until she was 14 months old. I don't regret it for a minute and we had no trouble at all moving her to her own bed when the time was right.
We tried co-sleeping with the boy but he didn't like it at all, so we did a "sidecar" with him (crib pushed against my side of the bed). I could reach out and hold him but he had his own space too, which he seemed to need.
There is no one I'd rather be 40 with!
I knit better than I crochet, but I can do both. One of the first things I crochet-ed was a hat that I gave to my niece (it turned out too small). Neither my brother nor my niece's mother thanked me. Nor did they take a picture of her in the hat and send it to me. I doubt she ever wore it. That makes me sad.
I only co-slept from time to time. I didn't make it a permanent part of our routine. I didn't want to deal with the 'extraction issues' of getting them to sleep in their own beds.
As I had the honor to see your home last year all decked out for Christmas, I can only tell your readers that pictures simply do not do it justice. And this year with the new kitchen and the sweet smiling healthy baby ...it's a Christmas card already :)
Your girls won't miss you going overboard because you have made Christmas traditions more meaningful than gifts. Cannot imagine the joy at your house with Steven celebrating his 1st Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Colby and Gracie would fit right in with the Ingalls in those outfits!
I feel so much better !! I have all the Waltons DVD's and The homecoming in my personal library.
I have been tortured by my family for watching them. I wish that there were shows like that now.
I cringe when I see what is available to the younger set now. My nieces and nephews are not permitted to watch some shows at my home. I do not apologize for being old fashioned. We love your photos ... keep em coming .
I so know what you mean about gift recipients not having the grace to say thank you. I had a housekeeper that I gave a cash bonus to in a card the first year.....silence. The next year I forgot to get cash so I put a check in a card for her. Once the check was cashed and no thank you proffered I fired her. Never told her the real reason because I think it was her mother's job to teach her manners, not mine.
Gosh, does that sound as haughty as it reads? I hope not.
Anyway, I really enjoyed your list and can't wait for the Christmas pictures of the house all dressed up.
~K!