Sick all week

We get home from spending time up in Mesa and I was looking forward to spending time with friends from around here and such, we went to the park on Monday morning (we were visit teaching one of our sisters, we find the park nice because we all have children and our children can play and life is good). After naps on Monday Rose woke up with a fever. It is now Saturday and that fever hasn't fully gone away. Nellie has had a little bit of a fever.
I just want our lives back!

Nursing blanket clips

I see clips to make any blanket into a nursing cover, they range anywhere in cost from $5 to $30. I started thinking about how nice it would be to have them but I didn't want to spend the money on it. I looked for clips to make my own, but I didn't really find anything. Until I found a set of sheet straps at the grocery store. I paid about $4 for a set of 4. Sure they don't have some ultra cute fabric covering them, but it works. Since there are 4 in a pack I have extras to keep in the diaper bag, the car, my house... I could always cover it if I really wanted the cute fabric.

Framed it

When we were married my husband told me we wanted this map from his Grandpa in IA.

Its not as old as it looks. Its circa 1967.

In Feb 2009 we brought it home from IA with us.

In September I took it to a framing place and had it framed.

I wanted a frame that made the whole thing look older. Old looking frames

are not cheap. But I figured that it was going to go up in our home for

many years, making sure the quality we wanted was there.

In December I finally got it up on our wall.