Answered prayers.

Last month in my 40 Days of Love Bible study we prayed every week for our friends Nikki and Matt to become parents.

Their hearts and home were open to whatever God had in store for them.

This week their lives were blessed with 9 month and 2 year old sisters.

Amazing.

So tonight I am off to meet these little girls and celebrate God's faithfulness so evidently displayed.

I couldn't resist making the sweet sisters matching apron dresses full of girly pink.

Since it is suddenly Tuesday I had grand plans for my Tackle It project.

In the running were:

1. Organize the linen closet.

2. Clean out and rearrange the pantry.

3. Eat ice cream and watch The Hills on the Tivo.

Which one do you think I chose?

Monday, December 1, 2008

Obscure Wham reference.

Last Christmas

my dog crapped on my tree skirt

and the very same day I threw it away

This year

to save me from tears

I am going to make

something special

Yes, I just wrote "crapped".

Scandalous! Well I'd never!

But sometimes words like that are necessary to accurately describe traumatic events.

You see, he is a big dog.

He had some big digestive issues.

Instead of waking us up to let him out,

he let it all out.

Saucy.

Copious.

Sprinkled everywhere.

Good thing Santa brought us laminate flooring, because the carpet was done for.

I couldn't wash the tree skirt either.

I made it to match our stockings with surfboard fabric and grass skirt trim. Those kind of things don't survive in the washer, much less the toxic dump that invaded each fiber.

But the silver lining of this feces fiasco is the now perfectly acceptable need for new stockings and a tree skirt. I really wanted to make them last year, but didn't want to ditch the surfboards for no reason.

Can you help me pick which fabric to use?