The New Year

This Year we have BIG plans and lots of stuff we will be doing. Lets start with Beau He will be Graduating from college with a degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering! I thought this day would never come! We have been stuck in cold Idaho for almost 3 years and everyone in our family is ready to move somewhere warmer. We don't care where he works but we would like to get back into the USAF as an Officer (I will make a great officer wife ;))I will be graduating with an associates degree, and plan on transfering to another university where we move to. I am also ready to begin "real life" again and no longer be a "starving student"! I lost 40lbs this last year and plan on another 30 this year. It will have taken me 8 years to loose that baby weight from my first child. Daniel has begun, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Language Therapy he will finish the 3rd grade and move on to the 4th! Emma will master her amazing reading skills and graduate from kindergarden and become a 1st grader! Nathan will finish preschool and begin kindergarden! We are all cold and ready for summer! here's to a Big Year full of great things!

Little Miss Muffet

Emma was Little Miss Muffet in her class nursery ryme operetta. It was super cute, plus I made her dress and apron.

PDD-NOS or A-Typical Autism

I'm doing this to get it out and face it head on. Daniel has been diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder- Not Otherwise Specified. Which is an Autism Spectrum Disorder.He also has a processing disorder, which means everything going in takes longer to be processed and put into categories, and it is harder for him to retrieve information, if he can at all. He now will begin therapy for language, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and Developmental therapy. the dev. therapy is to help him learn social cues and ways to cope with certain situations. We are still waiting for test results dealing with what doctors call Ataxia. Which addresses the balance and coordination problems. We are glad to know what exactly is going on inside of him, and I feel as though I can now use some strategies to help all of us, deal with this. We always knew Daniel was special and there was something different going on with him but I never new what it was. I am glad I finally found a doctor who would listen and not give me excuses for his odd behavior. It will be a long road but I know we will make it. I don't know what his future holds but now I feel as though we can give him the best chance of reaching his goals and creating a learning environment at school for him to learn, the way he learns best, not the way they expect you to learn. I feel like we have answers as to why he can't swim, why he still has training wheels, why he doesn't ask to play at other peoples houses, why he can't tie his shoes, has to have certain things just so, why he can't stand the smell of cheerios or gold fish. Why he needs a certain blanket, shoes, elastic waisted pants. Why he obsesses over Super Heroes, and the color Red. Why he doesn't play with cars, trucks or planes. Why he sits in the same spot in the car, at the table and on the couch everyday. Why he can't stop talking about certain things for days at a time. Why he eats the same thing for breakfast everyday. Why when he was younger he would eat things that were not food. The list goes on and on. I feel better now getting it all out there, and not holding it all inside. I wish as a mother I would have tried a little harder to get a referral, but I did the best I could. If you're still reading thank you for your support!

Froggy Flip Flops: Fabric Flowers

Froggy Flip Flops: Fabric Flowers

Froggy Flip Flops: Bed Makeover

Froggy Flip Flops: Bed Makeover: "Ok we bought this bed 6 years ago with the intent to refinish it. The only problem there has always been a child sleeping in it. Every time ..."

my new Ottoman

Ok so a few weeks ago I knelt on my coffee table and my knee went right thru it. it scared me more than it hurt and there was no blood just a nice scrap down my shin. so for a few weeks we had a table with a hole in it. So I set out to find an ottoman I've been wanting one but they are expensive. I found one that I would love from Target so of course it's on the cheaper side only $279.00 (cough cough)But of course I don't have $300.00 laying around. If you go anywhere else they are double that, so what is a girl to do? Craigslist of course! So I went hunting and this is what I found for $75.00. And they just painted and recovered it so no work for me!

Leg or Arm Warmers

OK so we are starting to get some chilly weather. Emma lives in skirts and dresses, and some have sewn in shorts, when you put leggings underneath they get pretty bulky, so here you go leg warmers.
First you take a ladies knee sock.

Then you cut it.

After that take it and fold it. then pin to the bottom of the sock.



next sew together, I stretched my over my machine and used a zigzag stitch to make sure it would stretch over her leg.

and then you're done well OK repeat on second sock!