The Sewing Mom

Just a quick note to apologize for my recent absences.  It has been crazy busy this week with doctor appointments (routine), school functions, softball and last but not least, our homeowner’s nightmare, a hot water tank that burst in our attic.

Between working, having plumbing work done (a new eco-friendly water tank installed) and my daughter’s school and softball obligations, I haven’t had very much time to be on the computer.  I’ve been dropping EC when I can, but it’s been somewhat sporadic this week.  The coming week will hopefully be calmer, although, I’m still trying to get a ceiling and wall repaired from the water damage.

Please bear with me.  I’m hoping my life will return to its somewhat mundane normalcy soon!

In the mean time, I hope everyone in the U.S. is enjoying a relaxing Labor Day weekend. 

I was so pleasantly surprised today to discover that Buggy from Cute as a Buggy has given my blog this lovely, J’Adore Tien Blog award. I understand it means I Love Your Blog.

There are a couple of guidelines, or rules, that come along with this award:

1. Copy the image above.
2.Pass the award on to the bloggers you feel deserve. As many as you like.
3. Leave a message or a comment with the bloggers you give it to, notifying them of the award.
4. Leave a comment on the blog of the person who gave it to you.

Now, I do visit around 300 other blogs almost every day, and I have to admit that there are so very many that I would like to give this award to that I am having trouble narrowing it down, there are so many blogs that I love! I’m just going to have to pick a few, so here we go:

1. Lenox Knits
2. Proud Mommy
3. Redsox Mommy even though I’m a White Sox fan!

There are so many more that deserve this award, but alas, I am out of time!

I have to send a HUGE shout out to Mrs. Mecomber of Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook. I have 2 blogs and both were in desperate need of having their Wordpress platform updated. I have attempted on a couple of occasions to accomplish this task on my own and it never fails, something in my blog breaks. It’s frustrating and pretty much makes me feel incompetent.

So, while dropping EC’s the other day, I happened to notice a blogging friend of mine talking about the latest update and the reasons why Wordpress needed to update, yet again. I decided to ask my lovely friend if she would be willing to update my blogs for me and, I shouldn’t have been surprised, she said yes! Her only request of me was to install the Automatic Wordpress Update plugin, which I then had my sister Karen do for me because I knew she could complete that task way faster than me!

Next thing I knew, both of my blogs were running on the most updated Wordpress, 2.8.3 and were finally up to date!

Rebecca, YOU ROCK!

It’s been so busy around here this month I’ve barely had time to keep up with anything, including this blog.  I’m trying, but I’m also staring at a family room that truly needs cleaning, so I’m going to post my favorite meme, Four Foods on Friday and then start some house cleaning! I was actually let off early from work this morning, so I’m going to do my best to make the most of it.

Here are this weeks questions and my answers.

1. What’s your favorite flavor of Italian Ice? I actually don’t know if I’ve ever had an Italian ice!

2. Watermelon. So you prefer seeded or seedless? I prefer seedless, but sometimes they don’t have as much flavor.

3. Ice cream. Do you prefer soft serve or hard? I prefer hard most of the time, but a good soft serve cone is pretty tasty now & then!

4. Ice pops. What kind is your favorite? I love the red ones and the purple too.

Valmg is doing some updating to her blog and also making some possible changes to this meme. Don’t forget to visit her and leave her a link if you’re going to participate!

Wow!  It’s hard to believe, but today is truly the first day in a week’s time that I’ve had a chance to get on the computer.  We’ve been traveling.

Last Friday morning, we left our home in the Dallas area and headed northeast to Indiana.  We drove for about 15 hours straight and made it to my mom’s house around 11 p.m.   Then we got up on Saturday and, after a nice breakfast cooked by my mom, we headed south to Indianapolis for my nephew’s wedding.  The wedding was beautiful and the reception was a lot of fun and I’ll hopefully have photos up soon.

We spent Saturday night in a beautiful hotel in downtown Indianapolis and then drove back to my mom’s house on Sunday.  We spent 2 beautiful days with my mom, sister, brother-in-law and niece, before heading west to the Chicago area, which is where we are right now.  We used to live here until we moved to Dallas 2 years ago.  My daughter has been really missing all of her friends since we left, so we took the opportunity to spend a couple of days here so she could see them again.

We visited our old house, ate dinner with friends, and our daughter had several friends that she spent the day with yesterday, shopping at the mall, swimming at the hotel, and just hanging out in the hotel room.  Three of her friends were able to spend the night last night and I think they’re all still sound asleep.  I’m just happy that she was able to spend time with them.

So, I did bring my laptop on this trip, but today is the first chance I’ve had to even get it out and open it up.  I apologize to all my EC droppers for not reciprocating, I hope to recitfy that soon.  We will be heading south again today, but will obviously not get an early start.  We’ll be spending an extra night somewhere in Missouri before arriving home sometime tomorrow.  I know we will have a lot of work to do around the house with having not mowed the yard all week or cleaned the pool, so it may be Saturday or Sunday before I am able to get started catching up on my blog or anything else.  I also have a 4 hour shift scheduled with work on Saturday, so that will take a bite out of my personal time as well.

So, I hope to share pictures soon.  I forgot my usb cable for my HP camera and my laptop won’t read that memory card for some reason.  So, hope you’ll come back soon!