Guest Post by Daughter

Life sucks! And the thought of moving on to 5th grade isn't helping.  Luckily, I have 4 siblings that help me in different and better ways.  Joey the oldest boy helps me get down and dirty and let my creative side shine. Marysa, the oldest of all the kids, can help me with my girl problems.  Then there's Sonny, the second-to-youngest. He helps me feel responsible ('cause I watch him all the time) and that someone always loves me.  Last but not least, Declan. He teaches me how fun life can be if you just go with the flow.

When I first thought about the 5th grade, I was scared even. But then I realized I have totally Awesome brothers and sisters to help me. I love my family so much, and I hope you people out there have a family just as great as mine.

Wordless Wednesday

To all my lovely readers

Happy summer. I can't keep apologizing for my irregular post. My guess is most of you are enjoying summer. I have been off on disability for my back. My older kids have been out of school since last week. We joined the YMCA where I have been swimming daily or at least sitting sitting in filtered shade at the advice of my Spine Doctor. So far not much improvement but good things come to those to wait. My kids are loving it. I have been looming in the morning since I can while laying on my back. Lots of hats, baby blankets, scarves and purses to come to my Etsy shop if you want to see. Some sewing machine sewing, those projects take little longer since sitting is no fun. I am hoping to post some bags and sun hats to celebrate summer.

As far as the kids.......... Tanner, Marysa and Joey have been crafting key chains, friendship bracelets, and soap. Sonny and Declan are still going to daycare since watching them all day makes my pain increase and they have more fun with all the kids.

For your silly steak... Here are some great pics of table dancing before table dancing is not so cute.

Oh and one more thing. E-mail me your breastfeeding stories. I'd like my contributions to combat  the bad press Mama's have been getting for nursing their babies in public to be my blog All of July!!!! I'll be posting as many as I can,telling my own stories and a Shout Out/Giveaway  to a really cool Lactavist inspired shop Mama Pear Designs. I can't wait.

Thanks again for being a friend. I can't wait to hear from all of you.

~Mary L

Wordless Wednesday Flash Back

Not bad if I don't say so myself

Joey loves and expects me to know everything. If there is one thing I can teach my kids is to try. Joey has pajama day at school tomorrow. He remembered me joking about being the van Trapp family when I made Marysa pillow case dress out of some old curtain panels I had. I was joking how I was going I was going to make clothes for everyone in the family and go on a singing bike ride.

As you probably can guess Joey asked me to make him pajama bottoms out of the same curtains. I have never made pants. Lots of dresses, and blankets but not even one pair of pants. I didn't even have a pattern. At least if I had a pattern then I would probably do OK.  My little boy wanted pajama bottoms, he wanted skinny cut and he wanted his Mama to make them out of that curtain.

Soooo I did. I'd have to say they look alright for no pattern or know how. Joey is beaming and understands how he needs to bring extra clothes to school just in case of a split in the duff. All is good in the Land of Super Mom and Boy Wonder.



Closing location and moving

MarysaJane.com didn't take off like I thought it would so we relocated our handmade items to Etsy.com.

Someone is spoiled with a new bebeMellon

This mama has a bit of a cloth addiction. As my last baby, Declan, gets closer to being a "biggie biggie," I have been selling of my stash of cute fluffiness and replacing it with a thinner look. He now runs and rides tricycles, and his pants aren't as accommodating for the fluffy butt look.

But I found Flip, and I love it! I just miss all Declan's prints....  However.

I am also a lover of Twitter. I click and look at everything. BebeMellons is my favorite click. Overwhelming cuteness. It makes me want another baby. (That is just NOT going to happen, though. This mama is DONE at five.) But I've been drooling, knowing I don't have reason to buy anymore fluff. Kind of sad, I know.

But then bebeMellons came out with diaper covers. While on Twitter one Saturday morning, I clicked on a tweet and got my fill of cuteness -- a bseball diaper cover that had not yet been sold.

The print was just what I needed. The fabric is soooo soooo soft. I can feel the slickness of the PUL inside, and not on Little Man's skin. The cover is a one-size-fits-all -- and it worked. Declan is two and a half years old with a thick little frame and chunky little thighs. I can snap the cover so that each flap meets in the middle, and there is no gapping around the legs. He can move freely and wear his pants without looking stuffed in them. WINNING! He is wearing it as we speak, and looks like a little man.

I don't do the review and giveaway thing. I'm more of a "let's celebrate small business" kind of girl, so I had to share my delight with this product. So tell me what you think.... should I sweet talk bebeMellons into letting me do a shout-out, and a you pick the prize? My treat :-)  Maybe September?

If I can get five of my GFC followers to tell me they would LOVE it to do a shout-out for bebeMellons, I'll line it up.