The Queen's Rambles

I was adventurous and went to a Girl’s Night Out last night. I thought I would know the host and one other lady, but it turned out that I knew over half the party. The host’s mother lives four doors down! I also knew people from my old mom’s group, preschool and freecycle. Do I need to say it again? This is a small town.

I used a Nigella Lawson cheesecake recipe since I couldn’t find my fool-proof Kraft recipe. Boo! You’d think Nigella would kick Kraft’s ass, but it wasn’t all that good. I was disappointed.

It was really nice to be out, talking to grown ups, doing grown up things without a child to supervise.

Yesterday also brought me a plethora of little girly clothes. I have seven bags and a big box to go through, most of it from one of Mike’s co-workers. I’ve already started the sorting and there are some super cute items, but there are also some head scratchers. Well, not really head scratchers, but more of “No. Just no.” The co-worker’s daughters are 17 and 15, so the baby clothes are ’90s retro. The turquoise and purple florals are a bit eye searing. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful. I really am so touched and grateful that so many people have thought of us. With all the hand-me-downs we’ve received I think this baby could live her first year of life without ever wearing the same thing twice. I’m not sure it’s worth keeping the stuff that makes me cringe just to be nice. We simply don’t have the room to store it all.

I was outside talking to my neighbor yesterday and mentioned that I wanted to hire a housekeeper to come give my house a thorough clean from top to bottom. I mentioned it to her specifically because I wanted her to offer her services. She’s been here a year and is really unhappy because she can’t find a job. She says all she likes to do is work in the yard and clean her house. She used to be a custodian and then a CNA. Anyway, I didn’t want to straight out ask her if I could hire her as a maid, but she was all over it. She’s coming on Monday. I can’t wait! Though I have no idea how to even start getting this house organized. You should see the huge pile of boxes we have in our dining room. I’ve been ordering a zillion things online and we always keep the boxes because we use them for our paper recycling. I think we need to let some of them go. We have enough boxes to last six months.

I did something kind of dumb yesterday.

I went to JoAnn’s to buy some thread to finish up the quilts I’m working on. The never ending quilts. Oh my!

I stumbled over the clothing patterns and saw the cutest little girl dresses/bloomers. Suddenly I found myself at the cutting table with elastic, clothing fabric and interfacing. Just when am I going to have time to sew this child an outfit? I barely have time to sort out the three majillion outfits that are already sewn!

Sewing projects:
-Bind doll quilt. Put off cutting out the paper doll clothing until the child is old enough to do that part.
-Quilt charity quilt
-finish piecing/quilt/bind real baby quilt
-sew a bunch of postpartum pads (my hippie mama seamstress friend gave me a pattern and a bunch of super special fabrics to do this with. . . stuff like bamboo velour, Zorbo and some fancy kind of waterproof fleece)
-Sew a baby outfit

I am having a baby in 24 days. Do you think any of this will actually happen?