Taggie Blankie

I just made this new taggie blanket for a friend who's due any day now with her third baby. She already has two little boys at home, so I think a lot of people have their fingers crossed for a girl ;-). In any event, the colors were so lovely and the texture so soft, that I made one for my sweet baby boy as well. He loves it and has now become a "blankie" baby! Now, neither of my boys took to either the pacifier or their fingers. Bottles were a no-go also. Robert does have a softie dog that he sleeps with, but he's not particularly attached to it and never takes it out of his room. However, Matthew has fallen for the blankie. It now comes almost everywhere, and when he is sad or tired he clutches it. So sweet.

Whew!

Can you say "overwhelmed" five times fast? I feel SO frazzled and overwhelmed these days. School is really challenging me in many different ways - philosophically, as I make decisions regarding my belief systems with natural healing; intellectually, as I struggle to memorize loads of Latin terminology; and emotionally, as I try to balance missing my babies and not being able to put them to bed two nights a week. I miss them terribly while I am at class. My beloved's aggressive travel schedule has also been wearing on us (it's coming up on a year now). So - we are delighted to be heading off to a family vacation in Orlando, Florida! A friend had a condo available to be rented, so we snatched up the opportunity and cashed in some free flyer miles (M's got a lot - guess that travel is finally paying itself off!!).

Here's to a few more naps in the sun....