Yes, another new blog

I know.

I KNOW.

And I don't blame you for thinking that.

Here's the deal. Not two days after I created this blog, I found out from my husband that we may be moving soon due to a job transfer situation. Not TWO DAYS. I figured I'd better get a new blog going that was not location-sensitive.

I'm well aware that I appear to be the biggest flake in the history of blogdom with all of the recent blog creations and transfers and whatnot, but I assure you that I am not. What I am, unfortunately, is a perfectionist to the point of near-ruin! I'm going to work on that - with YOUR help. If I can smell that a situation is not right, I just can't pursue it. I've simply wasted too much of my time in the last couple of years on well, learning experiences. As such, I suppose that time wasn't completely wasted but still I'm looking to build and grow instead of eternally repeating certain processes. What I want is someplace in blogdom to call home, to sit down and put my feet up and stay for the long haul. Someplace that so completely fits my life and my philosophy of being that nothing could our would ever make it irrelevant so that I might have to uproot myself yet again, losing cherished contacts and followers in the process.

I believe I finally found it! I love the Blogger setup that I found through High Desert Hooker, so I'm sticking with that. It's so very social, and everything's all linked (Blog Following, Google Reader, Analytics, Picasa, etc.). I'm giddy about it. I'll still be keeping this blog open as long as we continue to live in the High Desert for my high desert craft-related posts, but for the rest of it all, and for family posts, I will be at my new home for the long haul, Happymaking. I will also be transfering the placement of my non-desert related Etsy creations to my new Happymaking Etsy shop.

Thanks for sticking with me. We'll laugh about this someday.

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I figured out how to get Joe to eat vegetables!

I've been practicing baby led weaning with Lily, but seeing as how she's mostly been playing with the food and not actually consuming it, which is more or less okay at this age, I decided to buy some organic pureed veggies for her to try. (Yes I know I can make them myself, and I will give it a go next time around.) As a pleasant side effect of this process, I've discovered that Joe wants to eat anything and everything I try to feed Lily! He has been a typical toddler lately, not wanting anything except for yogurt, cheese, Cheerios, etc., and it's been worrying me to death. Now I see a light at the end of that tunnel! Next time around - green beans??

Is that carrot baby food in his hand?

Is that a baby spoon in my water glass?

Are those carrots on his face and *gasp* in his mouth?

And like 8 new baby spoons! Yay!

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6 x 6 Tag!

Holly Jahangiri over at Do I Have to Spell it Out tagged me with a new meme. Okay, she actually tagged another blog of mine, How to be a Woman, but since I haven't been over at that blog in centuries, she said it was okay to respond to the tag here.

Rules: Choose the 6th image out of your 6th picture folder from your computer and blog it. Then tag 6 more people to do the same.

Oh my Heavens, this does put the fear in me. Okay, going for a look now.

BOY did I luck out. I mean really. Not that this is such a great photo mind you, buuut. Well. Never mind.

In any case, here's how it went...

I went to "My Pictures" and selected the 6th folder, "Coachella 2006".

Then I selected the 6th photo starting from the top, going right.

And here it is, folks! Me thinking I'm being funny by pointing to the word "Virgin" in the sign above me. Before you judge me, please think about it for a minute. Does this seem like the sort of juvenile frivolity that I would have hatched up? Or does it smell more like my husband Dennis aka man behind the camera? Thought so.

Here are the folks I'm tagging:

Connie's View

Cindy Crochets

Crochet Liberation Front

Every Day Crochet

I'm Living Proof that God has a Sense of Humor (Love the new look, Helene!)

Who's the Boss?

Have a wonderful day! :)

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Joe loves our hat modeling sessions

Firstly, I'd like to take a moment of stunned silence to address the window coverings in the photos below. I did not pick them out. They were there when we arrived. I'm not good with windows - they scare me. And so they've stayed.

There. Now that we got that pesky business out of the way, I am compelled to let the world know what a wonderful boy my son Joseph is. Much to his father's chagrin, he simply loves our hat modeling sessions. Even when Lily is the model of the day, he likes to participate by grabbing whatever hat he can find and jumping into the shot.

Is that drool on his shirt? Yes, and that's okay. He's two for the love of God. Nice blowout flash on Lilyface, Heather.

If the hat doesn't fit, we must acquit! And thank goodness I learned after the previous flash fiasco.

This hat hasn't made it to Etsy yet. I've been trying to perfect my crocheted starfish. (It's going to be a beach hat.) But look how sweet Joe is - he's concerned that she might be falling forward in her Bumbo chair and is comforting her.

Here Lily, look at the flower Grandma gave Mom and Dad for their anniversary. You like?

Ahh, my baby boy. I love my little dumplings. Thank you sweet Jesus for plopping them into me belly!

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Free crochet and knit patterns at Quamut!

Quamut, Barnes & Nobles' "How to" site, is offering up all of their crochet and knit patterns for FREE throughout the month of February! Scoot on over there and snag some!

CLICK HERE for crochet projects
CLICK HERE for knit projects

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