Items for Sale

Grey flannel scalloped booties with pink bows

Cobalt blue pleated scarf with white buttons

Light blue and navy wool rose hair clip

Chocolate brown scalloped booties with tulle bow and orange embroidery

burnt orange wool moccasins with navy wool rosette

Are you in love? I just wish I would have had the idea when Molly was little enough to wear them!

For sale only at the Missions Auction on Saturday at our church! Sorry! But if you like chili....and you like auctions...and you like donating to a good cause.....maybe you should come:)

Or, have a baby and ask me to make you some! They have been really fun to make!

Have a happy snowy day!

Abby

Touching up here and there...

I have been itching to do some decorating....I think it was the late night at Riley Hospital with Molly. They had wireless internet, so I did a lot of browsing and reading and getting great ideas...well, I think so:) My first thing I tackled was our stool that sits at our kitchen island. It was a boring honey color....Changed it to black this fall and last week decided late one night to put a number on it. Numbered items are really in....I see it on everything...kinda fun. I picked 5 because of our family total...the kids were worried about that...really? yes...they thought it would be terrible if we had an addition to the family and there was a 5 on our stool! I simply said that I wasn't planning on any additions and that even if there was, a five on the stool is just that....a 5!

My other decorating fun was taking coordinating scrapbooking paper and cutting it down on one side so it would fit in my printer:) Then I printed our family rules, framed it in a frame I had and posted it on the wall.
Happy decorating! What have you done lately?

Our Little Miss Molly

I have been on an emotional rollercoaster the pasts few weeks....yes.... surgery, bad weather....cancel surgery....reschedule surgery....sending my little one off with the nurse for surgery.....waiting.....more waiting....I could go on. However, we are on the other side of surgery and now we wait to hear a good report on how it all is going. Molly got back to her room with a sign from the Sunday School:

Jack informed me he signed it 9 times. Speaking of Jack....it was really sweet of the boys to make cards for Molly the night before. On their own, they went to their billfolds and pulled out money from their allowance to give to her...dollars, not even change! How sweet they are!These two pictures show the device they used to close up her 22mm hole (ASD)...amazing what they can do these days! Here is amazing Dr Hoyer who performed the surgery.

It was a tiring day on Tuesday. About 8pm (when it would normally be past her bedtime) she was wheeled down for x-rays. She didn't fall asleep until about 10pm and then was awoke every 4 hours to take vitals. Oh, me too! I was awake most of the night. Not only was the nurse coming in, but her monitors would beep or sound an alarm and keep us awake.

The things that most annoyed Molly was her IV (I hate them too), keeping her legs flat and straight and having to go potty at the hospital.

I was amazed that she didn't cry before or after surgery! She was so brave! The time she did break down and throw a fit was to go on the hospital potty. She informed me she would just wait until she went home....ummmm...no...that's not going to fly!

Here she is getting another ECHO before she is discharged....best part? She got to pick out a gift every time she went down there....she scored 3 gifts in 24 hours:) A Barbie wanna-be, a pink hippo beanie babie, and a bead kit.
She could not wait to get clothes on....I don't blame her....few people like to wear a hospital gown:)

At home, Molly opened her first gift from her Sunshine Basket from her church friends. Kent and Shelia (Chloe, Sam, and Lucy's grandma/pa) gave her a playdough kit. I am so thankful for the Sunshine Basket because it keeps her still and busy. Everyday she will have something to open...Thanks everyone!

Now we just wait. Monday we go for more testing and to check and see how the device is holding and how her heart is functioning with it on.

Again, thanks to all who have sent gifts/cards in the mail, provided food, prayed, emailed encouraging words, etc... ! You are all so awesome!

Abby