I'm Back

I'm back - at least for a while anyway - I mean, I'll try to write a little more, promise. I feel like I've got tons of stuff to share since I haven't updated in so long (since like, August). Anyways. So what's been going on with us?

Well, in October we bought a house here in our hometown (if any of you old friends of mine remember where the Michalks' lived, it's right next door to their old house). Unfortunately there was a good bit of work to be done before we could move in...the biggest thing was gutting/remodeling the bathroom. :) We moved in with my parents, again - I love you, mom and dad - so we could have time to finish up after we had to be out of our rent house. In November, Samuel turned 1 year old. We had a great birthday party that I put a ton of work into. I decided that my next baby that turns 1 is getting a big bouquet of balloons for decoration - and a bouncy house - no theme needed. It's easy, and what does he/she care? We also got to see my family from Washington, who came down for Thanksgiving. In December, we got moved into our new house and decided to take a break from all projects. January came and went all in a blur. I had a big diaper stash I was working on for a friend, and I finally finished it (2 days ago). They'll be all delivered tomorrow. 23 fitted diapers, 6 covers, a pail liner, and a wet bag. Yay! I can't wait to try them on that newborn tushie.

Hmmm...well, I guess it doesn't sound like we've been doing too much, but really, we have. Now that we're finally getting geared up to finish this house, I'm hearing all my mom friends talk about how it's time to start the gardening - what? I thought that wasn't until spring. That just shows how much I know - which is not much.

Those are all my thoughts for now. I'll try and do a funner post next time, and yes, it will include pictures. :) Oh, and just for the sake of letting you know, I am even enjoying doing laundry in my new house. Well, I don't mind the washing, but I still dislike folding and putting away. Actually, if someone wanted to do my laundry for me, I wouldn't stop them, but at least I'm not avoiding it like the plague anymore. :P

Be blessed!

I Want to "Do it All"

I just can't, or maybe I can, but then I probably wouldn't be anywhere close to sane. There are so many things I want to be doing!!! I'm sure every mother, wife, and woman feels this way, but I just wanted to put it out there - I feel this way too! I really want to be able to do it "all". Although most of us feel like this, I'm sure our "all" is very different from person to person. Part of my reason for putting this post out here is just so that I can make a list of all the things that I would like to start accomplishing. It may take the next decade to be able to do all of this on a continual basis, but I will:

- coupon well
      Maybe not ever "extreme" couponing, but I at least want to coupon better
      than I do now (not to mention get them all organized and share how I'm
      doing it on my blog).

- write tutorials
      I'd love to share some of the projects I'm doing with all you wonderful
      people, BUT I insist on doing it with pictures which means it's not happening
      anytime soon, because I just can't seem to find time to do my projects AND
      take pictures all along the way!

- be completely eco-friendly
      I feel like I'm definitely on my way with this one, but it's like every time I
      turn around there's some other way to "go green" that I hadn't even thought
      about. My list is already super-long of the things I want to start doing to take
      small steps to feeling like I can officially bear this title.

Well, there's more to add to this list, but considering that my husband just walked in the door and is already asking me to do stuff, I guess I better be grateful for my short opportunity to pop up a post while he was out and baby was down. <-----talk about a run-on sentence, huh?

Ya'll enjoy the rest of your week and feel free to share some of the things that would make you feel like your finally "doing it all" (maybe I'll find a few more things to add to mine, hehe).

About my Blog

Today I want to share a little bit more about what you might find on my blog. I titled my blog Fluff and Other Stuff because I have recently fallen in love with sewing - actually I've fallen in love with sewing cloth diapers. And for those of you who aren't around me much and don't know - I've become quite addicted to it. So that is where the "fluff" comes in. Besides that I just wanted my blog to have a cutesy title that rhymed. And there you have - Fluff and Other Stuff. (The "stuff" part will cover pretty much anything else I could possibly think of blogging about so I went with it.)

Here's a little bit more about how I got started in sewing and CDing (that's cloth-diapering for those of you who don't know my special lingo...haha). I got a great deal on gDiapers - a hybrid diapering system (you can use cloth or disposable, but earth-friendly inserts) - but they unfortunately didn't fit very good on Samweli. So I decided to try and sew a cloth diaper - because CDs are so stinking expensive! How hard could it really be to put a few stitches into a piece of fabric, right? Well, that brought me to now. With the help of my mom and a friend, I think I've become a pretty good beginner seamstress. Now, I want to sew anything green (earth friendly, that is) - unpaper towels (it's the modern name for cloth towels), cloth napkins, cloth diapers, cloth wipes, cloth clothes (hehe), cloth anything! You will probably see lots of pictures of my ventures in sewing, as I am very proud that I can even sew a stitch.

For now, here are the pictures of Samweli "helping" me do the laundry...which, yes, I did eventually get around to doing the other day :)

Safety Note: If you decide to let your 6 month old play in a
laundry basket, be sure he's not on anything elevated and
that he's surrounded by soft things. That way when he falls
over and bonks his head, it will be on something soft. :)

My First Post

As my house gets messier, I keep looking for ways to procrastinate having to do the chores...hence, the beginning of my blog. I know you're probably thinking, "the last thing I need is another blog about someone's random thoughts to read," but then again, here you are - reading. You're probably just putting off your housework too. I have no clue what this blog will grow into, if anything. As a matter of fact, I'm not even planning on sharing it with anyone at this point, but I need somewhere to write down all the ideas that keep running through my head, keeping me up at night, so I'm starting here. Hopefully, I'll eventually get an "about me" tab up (although I have no idea how to do that) and then you can read a short blurb about my positively blessed life. And now my baby woke up so I'm going to post this for now and go on with the rest of my day. Hope you enjoy what's to come (if anything ever does, that is).