Unless you live under a rock, you know tomorrow is Easter Sunday. And if you're on Pinterest, or peruse the craft/sewing blog community, you've no doubt been slapped in the face with all manner of Easter-themed DIY's.

Like... Read more about Hoppin' down that old bunny trail

Today's post isn't going to be at all exciting. Gage came down with some coughing, hacking yuck last weekend, and guess who he decided to share it with? 

Yup.

So I spent the first part of last week home with sick Gage, and the last part of the week sick at home with improving Gage. Today, I feel like crap on burned toast, and me and still-milking-it-Gage are sick of each other. Adding insult to injury, I'm supposed to report to work tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. for a high school science assignment. 

NyQuil, take me away! Read more about arts and crafts in the infirmary

Okay, so, now that I just wrote this whole big long blathering post about how I'm not Dana and I'm cool with that?

I totally made one of her skirts.

*snicker*

But I did it all by myself. Without her pattern. Because I am ridiculously cheap frugal and I just can't bear to spend eight bucks for a pdf file. It just feels like giving someone money to watch their video on YouTube. And that would be silly. Read more about kyndal cupcake skirt

I originally planned this quilt to be part of my Holiday Mart inventory. Of course, when push came to shove, I couldn't get it all finished in time, and no one wants to buy a quilt top these days. 

I did end up finishing it, about a week after the Holiday Mart. Read more about christmas tree strip quilt

One of the pros (or cons) of being a semi-employed person is you have a lot of time to think. Usually when I have ample time to think, it ends with something like me ordering something some infomercial has convinced me I CANNOT. LIVE. WITHOUT and trying to explain to my husband why my hair is a different color than it was this morning. Fortunately, nothing quite that dramatic has taken place these last few months--but I have begun looking into doing a complete career 180: going back to school for my masters so I can be a real teacher. Read more about Oh, Betty! - fluffy rice and chicken (Budget Casseroles, Card #19)

I've heard a lot of whining lately about how Thanksgiving has become the "forgotten holiday." This trend, of course, is due to the immediate retail rush at midnight November 1st to move all things Halloween to the clearance aisles and start pushing the Christmas crap on unwitting (and witting) shoppers. Turkey Day proponents are concerned this phenomenon perpetuates society's downward spiral into consumerist hedonism, as we completely neglect the one day a year set aside for gratitude.

Gratitude, schmatitude: That's my attitude. Read more about turkey--the ugly white meat

Contrary to what my husband may or may not have told you, I am not "temporarily out of the state on family business." He's just been saying that to cover up that I joined a band of Irish Travellers who used to follow the Grateful Dead and started their own circus after Jerry Garcia died. Okay, I'm lying. I've really been in Canada having gender reassignment surgery. Okay, that's not true, either. Read more about you miss me. admit it.

...actually, that's not true at all. I don't think basil is lame. I like basil. A lot.

I know my presence here has been sketchy lately. And I know I completely flaked on this week's Oh, Betty! post.

You may commence flogging now.

But really, all of this absentia is totally worth it because I've got some good stuff going on.  Read more about me = lame like basil

My first child was born on October 23. Which is probably a really good thing, because if he hadn't shown up by Halloween, I had planned to go to my OB appointment (scheduled for that date) with my enormous midsection painted orange with black triangle eyes, nose and jagged-toothed mouth.

Like I said, I have a life-long love for Halloween in general and costumes in particular.  Read more about ghosts of halloweens past - costumes, part 2

Meet Harley and Jake, who I acquired when we bought our house four years ago. As soon as we became homeowners, our first priority was not furniture or appliances--no, we wanted livestock. My husband wanted a "substantial dog"; I wanted a cat. The dog was an easy find--a local shelter often put their inmates on display in front of our neighborhood pet supply store, and when we drove by one Saturday, there she was. The cat, however, was not such a simple acquisition. Read more about there's no such thing as a "free" cat