Sorry…

I remember growing up my sister and I had a terrible problem with saying “I’m sorry.” (Not that we don’t still have that problem!) We’d say “I’m sorry” over any little thing, even if we weren’t near what happened at all. It used to drive our step-mom crazy. She would say “Quit sayin’ you’re sorry!” To which we would quickly say “Sorry! Er…oh…shoot! Sorry! I mean…*sigh*”

I was thinking of this when I was coming on her to say I was sorry for barely posting lately. There is a variety of reasons why I haven’t blogged. I’ve had to work some writing kinks out. I’ve actually been writing a lot, but haven’t have the nerve to post any of it. It’s like when there’s an elephant in the room, but the elephant is in my head. I need to write about the elephant before I write about anything else. And the elephant doesn’t belong on this blog.

Fortunately, I have no blog commitments besides my own personal goals. It’s not a job, and I don’t get paid. I do enjoy seeing who comes on my blog, and feel like the blog is appreciated by some people. So I’ll try back to climb back on the bandwagon, and share some of what I’ve been doing lately.

This last weekend, I not only got to see my high school roommate, (an event I sadly don’t have pictures for) I got to meet a real live diaper diva. As I was dealing with my elephant, she picked up her family, and came out to visit me. They took the kids and me out to Applebee’s too! She brought her husband to hang out with Knut, and her little boy to play with my kids.

Driving from 2 hours away just for me really touched me. Some of you may remember this package sent to me from one of the divas. That was Libby, who came to visit. In this picture, we were playing with muffin tins and buttons, a fun activity I learned from Knut’s great-grandma. It’s one of the kids’ favorite things to do. All these visits with friends have been so refreshing!

I was also fortunate enough to get in on being a pattern tester for one of the diaper diva’s new up and coming patterns. This pattern is meant to not only be put on and off like a regular diaper, but pulled up and down like underwear. I thought that would be just the thing for David, as night times are difficult as he wakes up to go to the bathroom, takes his diaper off, and goes to bed sans diaper. Then he wakes up wet. This is the pattern in progress by Sam, of Little Comet Tails, which was my very first diaper pattern purchase. I’ve bought, all and all, 3 of her patterns, and was given this one as a part of being a tester.

It’s a really good fit, and we’re going to try it out tonight!

Later today, I was chosen to be a part of a different diaper pattern testing from a different diva that is for a “cloth Pull-up” for lack of a better title. That testing won’t start until the new year, though.

I don’t have pictures of the baby blanket in progress, but that’s almost done. I’ll have to post a picture when it’s done. Other than that, we’ve just been busy during this harvest time, and sorely miss having Knut around. We’re grateful he has work, but we miss him too! Hopefully one of these days I can send the kids somewhere, and go riding on the tractor with him for a few hours.