So it's been a rough week in our house. The kids have all been sick and cranky. Evan has had the swine flu and I think passed it on to the other two now. I hope they are passed the worst of it but now it's the awful coughing that is sooooooo bad. Poor Trevor was up about 20 times last night coughing, drinking water, roaming the house, crying...... It wasn't a pretty sight. Then to make matters worse poor Karl got stuck at work until 2:00 in the morning. I am a tired momma this morning and really hoping that I don't get a call from the school to come and pick up her sick kid! He was so mad that I kept him home yesterday but I really wanted one more day to get his immune system back up a little before he went back to that gross germy place. The coughing going on in schools is unreal right now.
Well on a lighter note, I have been trying to organize a MUCH needed girls craft night. The sickness with all the families has really put a major dent in those plans but I must keep trying. I am starting to loose my mind being stuck in this house and it's only Novemeber people. This is NOT good!!
I have couple of crafts that I am itching to make and I will post some pictures as soon as I get going on them.
Hope all is well out there in blog land!
The second project was a photo tile that I found on someone's blog. I of course can't find it at the moment but I will try and post a link later to it. It was very easy to do and came out so cute. I made one for my in-laws that I forgot to take a picture of. Mine I wanted to do very plain colors to go with the sepia photo. You basically just find a smooth ceramic tile and mod podge your picture on there, do the same with a nice piece of scrap book paper and then add some sort of decoration in between. They also showed them on a heavy block piece of wood that had been stained and those didn't require the easel because they just stood up by themselves. Very easy and fast craft to do!
OK enough about the dumb weather. I spent most of the weekend cleaning and organizing. It felt so good to have all the Christmas stuff down and put away. My house always feels a little empty when it's all gone though. It's only because there is room to walk again!! Trying to stay tidy with a toddler is so hard. You would think I would get this concept by the third child but you tend to hope he will not demolish everything you put away just moments after you accomplish this! There were so many trying times this weekend where this happens and I find myself yelling the same things. Then I stopped to think about how much loss we heard about in just a few short days around here. A local little girl just 4 years old lost her fight with cancer. I have been following her story through a friend and that sweet girl touched so many lives with her story. My heart breaks for her family. I kept thinking as I would box stuff up, I wonder what they are doing right now? I am struggling to organize while my loud boys keep making messes and run through the house and they would probably give anything to hear that noise. Then another friend of the family died at only 20 this weekend of a freak heart problem. No notice and in the prime of his life. Again so sad. Another one was my cousins wife's mom lost her battle with cancer too. The situation reminds me so much of losing my mom and sister to that horrible stupid disease. I hate the word. I don't use it that often because it's like acid in my mouth. Time does heal and it has and I hope that these families will find some peace like I have. Some days are hard but I vowed to both of them long ago that I wouldn't let their sickness and death ruin my gift of life. God has taken and given me so much and I have to be thankful for that. You can't miss something that you never had and I would hate to have never had their presence in my life.
Next are some hemp cone shaped trees?? Did that make any sense? 
Well I got the idea 
Then he asked where he was going to put it? Now to back up a few years, when Trevor lost his first tooth I was on bedrest. I wanted to make him a pillow to put it in because that was what my mom had done for me but I couldn't get to my sewing machine. I am sure I probably could have thrown something together but it wouldn't have looked very good! My step-mother surprised him with one that she made for him. I thought that was very sweet of her and much appreciated. So now for Evan I felt I had to make him his own. I found this cute tooth design somewhere a long time ago and had it in my head. This is what mine came out looking like.
