Rapture Baby

Adrian Madrid. Born at home, May 21st at 1219 AM. We think maybe we've been raptured...

Last fall when we told Diego that we were having another baby, he cried. He told us that another baby would be too much work for him. I believe he may have been thinking of moments like this.

Some garden pictures

I can't tell you how much better this looks in person (to me anyway). It's such an improvement over what had been there...and it has so much potential.

Help

I need to make curtains for the dining room. The dining room faces west and becomes a greenhouse (not in a pleasant, vegetal way) in the summer. I can't decide on fabric. Please weigh in.







The color of the room is most like the picture above--kind of a yellowish green.

I made a table runner with leftover squares from a quilt I made for Claudia's bed back at the old house. I used thick flannel as the lining because when I've made table runners and place mats in the past, even the thickest quilt batting makes them too poofy .
We also planted a berry patch! I am so excited about this. We pulled out a huge, old lilac in order to do it ( I was afraid to show my face around the alley afterwards). But then our neighbors (whom we share this little patch of dirt with) got into the act and pulled up some privet and put down grass seed and laid the path. How nice is that! We have two neighbors whose beautiful lilacs we can actually see and enjoy from our new berry patch, so pulling it up didn't seem like too much of a loss to me. Hopefully we will have enough berries to share in the future, so folks may forgive us.

Now that's what I call a smorgasbord!

I am so done with cooking. But the children still seem to need to eat. The smorgasbord was a big hit. Better than smoothies for dinner--they didn't seem to go for that quite so much...

We went to a fancy plant place on the way to Longwood Gardens on Easter Sunday. Everyone found things to like.
Including a really expensive Easter brunch...
I have been busy lately, outfitting P with appropriately old-fashioned clothes. She is Laura Ingalls after all.
And I made a baby carrier for the new baby. Claudia and Al were kind enough to model it for me. It is the mei tai carrier from Sew Liberated. The pattern was really easy--so easy in fact that I was half kicking myself for buying it. But with so little time for crafting these days, it is nice to skip the test runs and just know something will turn out well the first time. Which this one did.
Lots more stuff to show. Nothing says end of pregnancy to me like manic frenzied crafting, and I've been doing plenty of it!