Too Many Milestones

It's been a couple weeks since I've posted - I just can't seem to find the time as I try to take care of my crazy kid! This month has been a blur of firsts for Samweli - first tooth, first sickness, first time to pull himself up - along with starting to sit up, scoot, baby talk, take a pacifier (finally), and really get into the whole baby food thing. It wears me out just thinking about how much he's grown up this month. And as I see him getting stronger everyday, I feel like I'm counting down the seconds until he takes his first steps and stops being my tiny little baby that I brought home just a few months ago. When I actually think about it, I can't believe that in less than half a year, he'll be 1...1...1 <---(insert dramatic echo here) Can you believe it? I can't go there emotionally...let's move on.

Besides all of Samweli's firsts, we've had lots more going on. During the past month, Noe's cousin and her family from Minnesota came for a visit, we got a new/used car for me (yay for a bigger vehicle to change poopy diapers in), and we celebrated Noe's first Father's Day. Now, if we could just sleep through the night!

For Father's Day we took Noe to Buffalo Wild Wings for endless wings and then spent the afternoon at Bass Pro Shop where he - I mean we - enjoyed hours of shopping. He came home with lots of goodies for Buck, our dog, and on Sunday we surprised him with this bag for his training decoys:

I used a really simple online tutorial to make this. Samweli really enjoyed playing
with the strap while I sewed it up. I actually impressed myself by adding
lining AND pockets. 

Here's a little bit of diaper fluff:

From left: Guitar print diaper I received for a swap;
Fitted diaper made from Noe's old work vests;
Blue flame diaper made for a swap; and
ruffled and serged diaper that is super-cute...
and maybe a little girly - just don't tell my son

Where Do You Stand?

This week/weekend has kept me busy - and away from my blog. Yes, I've sewn a little, (and you'll get to see the fluff later) but first I want to write a little about what God's been doing in my mind and heart lately.


I don't always get to go to small group during the week (it's no fun to hear my kid screaming the whole ride home because I've kept him up too late), but this week we made it. :) Our discussion was on a prevalent mindset that, until those divine moments, I didn't realize was ruling my perception of my relationship with God. Do you think that God is ever pleased with you? displeased? happy? mad? Until Wednesday night, I sure did.


In the Old Testament, God worked with people groups - his chosen ones and the heathen nations. He showed His range of emotion when He would wipe out whole nations because of their ungodliness. So yes, God can get angry - and definitely displeased. But with His new promise and covenant, Jesus Christ, we get to experience God in a different way - as individuals. Even more than that, we get to experience Him through His Son, who is perfect. What does this mean? He sees us through Christ. If you look through a tinted glass, everything is tinted - when God looks through Christ's perfection to us, that's what He sees - perfection.


Because of this we are always loved, always received and ever-pleasing to God, our Father. Can we do things that cause Him to have a heavy heart? Yes, but that doesn't change the pleasure He finds with you, because you are His creation saved through His grace.


In my whirlwind of a weekend, I found myself wondering how some of my old friends were faring in their relationships with God. If asked to answer the question, they would probably consider how often they are going to church, reading their Bibles, and praying a thoughtful prayer. The heart of our Heavenly Father is much simpler. Forget about the things that you think you need to do or not do in order to please God; just say, "God, change me." Through these simple words you recognize that God is the one who does the changing - you're just the end result of His work. 


You, in your sinful nature, with all your imperfections, are pleasing to God, who sees you through the perfect One, His Son, Jesus Christ - AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL SEASONS OF YOUR LIFE.


*I know that someone reading this may see my theology as flawed (and you're free to comment with your own thoughts about this), but since this is my blog, I get to share my revelation as I understand it now. 
1 Corinthians 13:12 - Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.


Since I'm on the topic of God, I would like to take a few lines to thank Him for my amazing little sister who graduated from high school this weekend:  God, you have transformed her into such a spiritual influence among her peers and made her a role model for others to follow - if you can work such miracles with her, there's hope for us all. ;) I love you, sis! Congratulations!


And now for the fluff...let's recap a partial list of the projects that I listed the other day:
Zorb 2 soakers - done
Pillow case - done
Serged cd with ruffled legs (but not with practice materials) - done and ghetto!
QSFW with zorb 2 - holding off for more materials
QSFW converted to fitted  - done and I'm in love!

The pillowcase and Zorb 2 soakers (same day=shared picture)

My serged diaper looks pretty good from here!

And in this close up you can see how terrible it is...
I just thought if I kept going over and over and over it,
it would get better...but it didn't.

Below are pictures of the QSFW flat diaper I made into a fitted by adding elastic:

And these pictures are just because my son is so cool:

He's getting an early start on music recording. 

"Sorry Mom, I didn't mean to get up so early."
He laid there for about 15 minutes after we got up.