I debate on a weekly basis not renewing our domain name or our web hosting. I don’t think that anyone would miss it but me. I know I’ve said this before but I’m determined to be a better blogger. Tom will more than likely be deploying at some point next year and I’d like to be in the habit of blogging normally so that he knows he can pop in and catch up if he can. Plus I love this blog and the memories in alot of the entries.

So – let’s see what’s been happening in our world.

Miss Isabella is 7 weeks old now and smiling at everyone. She’s a good baby and we are loving having her with us. The boys are enjoying being out of school for the summer. We’ve been trying to hit up the beach as much as we can manage. They’ve been taking full advantage of being able to play video games for a good portion of the day of course. Amazingly enough I’ve kept up with the Project 365. I’ve totally neglected the 365 blog I started – oh well. I’m just proud of myself for keeping it up for this long.

I’ve also been becoming better friends with my sewing machine. I added some black-out liner to our curtains in our bedroom before Isabella arrived. I also made her some baby leg warmers out of some knee socks. I made a couple of pillows, a few out of t-shirts that no one wanted to have to wear anymore but couldn’t bear to part with and a couple of of fabric. We actually purchased a pink t-shirt at WM the other day with a pink Batman symbol on it so that we could make Isabella her own pillow. I also experimented with cutting up some flannel receiving blankets and making burp cloths out of them. I really like the end result. I also found some fabric pom-poms online that I loved and thought would be absolutely perfect in Isabella’s room so I got to work on finding the supplies to make those. 3 paper lanterns and 6yds of fabric and a new hot glue gun later and I have finished one and have two more ‘in progress’. lol That’s me right now, a million things spinning around in my head and only about a quarter of them with a plan of how to get it finished.

Tom and I are also working on building our new kitchen table and matching bench …yes – another project! lol We bought the wood last week and got it all cut to size. We sanded it all and threw 2 coats of stain on all the pieces. I found the plans from Ana’s site Knock-Off Wood. She’s got a lot of great plans available to make your own furniture. I know that normally you paint or stain last, but a few of the readers who commented mentioned staining the wood first, so that’s what we did. We finished the bench and we are going to tackle the table bit by bit over the weekend. The bench looks great and I’m hoping to get the first coat of poly on it tomorrow.

I’m sure there’s more, but it’s all the same. It’s like Isabella’s days…eat, sleep, poop and repeat. Tomorrow we’ll do it all over again.