Nothing like taking a year or so off from the blog....

I would like to say I have been so busy that I couldn't ted to my blog, but truth is, I just choose to do other things.  Instagram is so much easier than blogging.  So. if you Instagram. follow me at Georgineb1.

2014 was a blur.  Charley turned 4, B started 2nd grade at a new school and turned 8! and Charley started reading and writing.  I turned 43!  Where has time gone?  We also hit Disney in October for Halloween.  We did it a little differently and stayed at the Beach Club Villas, where we had a kitchen, so eating at Disney was way better for me than relying on their restaurants (giant turkey leg?).   Christmas was not the easiest for me.  It seems like so much work!  We toned it back a bit and told the girls they could only ask for a few things from Santa.  Otherwise, Charley would circle everything in the Target Catalog and say she wants it.   The year ended with both girls getting Chicken Pox! Yeah, really weird.  B has been vaccinated and actually got more spots than the unvaccinated Charley.  Truthfully, we tanked them up with Lysine and they got maybe 40 spots total between the two of them.

This past January, the little bit turned 5.  I couldn't believe she wanted a Frozen party, really an over played theme, but I made it work.  I cut at least 200 snowflakes to hang from the dining room ceiling, blew up (OK, Mike did it and used a pump) 50 balloons for the family room, and had a sugar Olaf made.  Anna and Elsa heard about the fabulous party and couldn't help but crash. There are a ton of photos - here are a few.  Robin also took a bunch so it was a well covered party, photographically.  

I spent a bit of time at Charley's school painting chairs with the kids for the school auction.

We went to see the baby goats at Rustic Road Farm (great place for local pork, chicken and eggs).

What else?  There has been plenty of art making, pretzel bun making, granola making, sewing.  We are spending a lot of time making a lot of our food.  I am tired of looking at the back of a package to see it has food coloring or preservatives or something our kids should not be eating (or us for that matter).  

B, 8, is into karate (currently a red belt).  Charley, 5 is into ballet and acting.  Both are makers and love Netflix.  They paint shirts,  make stop motion films, make dioramas, potion making and Perler beads.  Mike took them to the Daddy Daughter Dance.  I have been sewing Alabama Chanin Style and well as machine sewing and doing some painting, drawing and stamp making.  Bird/squirrel watching/feeding, crazy hair day, snow, days off school, hand making valentines, legos.  We are not busy, but we get stuff done.

 B painted the board she cracked at a martial arts demo.

I can't believe it is already late March.  

Climbing Kitty

It is coming close to Halloween you know, so the kids have been talking about their costumes. For the last part of the summer, Charley has been talking about Climbing Girl and Climbing Kitty - superheroes. She first wanted to be Climbing Girl, with orange and green leggings. Then it morphed into Climbing Kitty. So, together we drew up an outfit complete with colors - because Charley is not one to trifle with and she will have a fit if you don't read her mind and who needs that, for the fourth time that day? I made the costume a bit early because Charley was invited to a super hero birthday party - so the good thing it is ready for Halloween.

I used the Lil Blue Boo Sienna 2.0 pattern and made a pattern for the cape (which I cut incorrectly and had to fix - which is why is is short). I found the mask template on the internet then shrunk it on the copier.




I like how the satin looks, but it is seriously miserable to work with - slippery and it frays. I had trouble finding a lightening bolt embroidery pattern, so I did an appliqué instead.



We got ready for the party. Put streaks in her hair, added her kitty ears.



Seriously cute right? Turns out the party was the next day. Charley was so excited, then so disappointed. I apologized profusely, then offered her chocolate milk and everything was fine.









So Chatch went to the party the next day and had a lot of fun.







Here are the kids showing their muscles.



Here is my little challenge with hair she designed herself.






I cannot remember where we went that day, maybe school? I had a lot of trouble getting so many piggy tails in her hair. When I saw she grabbed almost every clip out of the drawer, I couldn't figure out how I was going to make it work. But, I saw that pouty face (she has my number, eh?) and figured it out.



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Catch up Time

I would like to say I have been extremely busy, but that isn't exactly true. I have a friend, Robin, who is very busy. Two kids, works, getting work done on the house and her husband travels every week. Or a couple others with new babies. I am not that busy, thankfully. But, I have been making things, and shuttling kids around and reading books to them, and listening to B read and emptying the dishwasher.

We've biked,




scootered,



ate hot dogs on a stick,



hosted a baby sprinkle for a couple of friends (Keli made this, how cute is it?),



made a sassy girl a dress,



celebrated my birthday, (like Charley, two fisting it with a pancake in one hand and chicken in the other)



(I was going to celebrate by eating an english muffin - B saved me for a stomach ache by eating it for me.)




ate some flourless birthday cake for breakfast,



went to the zoo, (I made Chatch's shirt)



made this "hospital gown" for B (out of Liberty of London! I was so bummed it didn't turn out as well as I hoped),



made body art,



(you know, because everyone needs some inking)







had a cute spiky caterpillar visit the house,



did some yarn weaving (we learned from a video on Creativebug)



and made bracelets.




Next up on the backlog of pictures? B and Charley go to school, Charley starts gymnastics, I made Charley a superhero costume based on her own idea and B has a birthday party. Can you believe she is going to be 7?


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