Back to Reality

So I haven’t had much lacking in blogging material lately.  When in Phoenix, I turned 30, Solveig turned 3 months.  (I got a massage and pedi on my birthday.  It was heavenly.)  We picked grapefruit, visited all of my grandparents, and played in a Bunco tournament.  We watched movies, played on playgrounds, and replaced the radiator on our van…again.  We were glued to the news about Japan, my mom’s birthplace, and have been checking on our family who still lives there.  I started teaching Silje cross stitch, and started a knitted Jane set with some fair isle accents for my store.  I also got to see my grandpa for the first time since his stroke, which was bittersweet, and got to talk face to face with my grandma which has become such a treasured time for me.  It was also the first visit where I met my twin nieces, Mary and Elizabeth.

How’s that for blog fodder?  Life has been so full in fact, that I took a small vacation from blogging…despite my overflow of material.  I’m sure much of that will come up again in the future that I’ll have to write about.  My 500th post is very quickly approaching, and my giveaway for it just isn’t ready for it.  It’s coming together, but just won’t be ready in time.  Maybe it will be something like a 517th post giveaway, or something like that.  Who’s really counting?

So we’re back home, and it finally cooled off to normal temps in Phoenix…the weather I was originally expecting.  We’re already unpacked from the trip, which is good.  I bribed the 2 older kids with a sticker to help me unpack all of the suitcases, and it worked!  School resumed yesterday, and I was surprised how much we were able to get done.

Elias and Solveig both have terribly stuffy noses, which is making nursing (for Solveig, of course) very difficult and the nights a bit longer.  I was hoping to get her to sleep in her own bed more when we got home, but with her cold, letting her sleep with us is the only way I get any sleep.  I’ll wean her from our bed once her cold is done.  I know some people always co-sleep, but my rest isn’t quite as deep when she’s sleeping with us.  I like my sleep.  However, light sleep with her in bed is better than no sleep at all, so you gotta do what you gotta do.

I have a few things to blog about, but I also have a custom diaper order that needs to be completed by the end of the month.  I also have these amazing pocket diapers that I’m currently having embroidered with Norwegian rosemaling to bring to the women’s retreat at Inspiration Point where I’ve been invited to share in an expo there.  I can’t wait to show you pictures of those.  So the business will continue, and I’ll try to keep up writing while still meeting my deadlines.

Until then, here are some pictures to breeze past how much fun Arizona was this time: