Car Seat Tent

I am determined to finish a project at least every other week. I mean 100% complete it. I won't buy anything for another project until the one I am working on is complete. That's a new thing for me because I am the girl who starts and stops projects. Even if it is a gift I will start and stop and sometimes never complete it. I've had the done to me recently and I was really hurt by it so I am turning over a new leaf. My sister-in-law is expecting their 2nd boy at the beginning of November. Through all of my creative mom blog searching I found something called a car seat tent. I read a bunch of tutorials and decided to go for it. It looked like it would be super useful for a mommy with a toddler! It's a cover for the car seat with velcro straps. You know when you put a blanket over your sleeping baby and then you go to pick up the car seat the the blanket is awkward or you set the car seat down and the blanket slides off? This solves this problem. Genius!

I went to work. Sometimes the hardest part for me is deciding on what fabric to use. I refused to let myself over think for too long, make a decision and stick to it. I am glad I did as I ended up loving it.

I wish I would have taken pictures of the step-by-step process but I just didn't think that far ahead. I am a self taught sewer so I guess and check A LOT. I love it though because already I am getting SEW (sorry, I just had too!) much better.

Hmmm...what should my next project be? I think I should start on some Christmas projects. I have a few ideas! :)

Let's Try This Again!

I loved blogging. I did it all the time and had a blast sharing about my first year of marriage. Now, things are different...I am into my third year of marriage, had a baby, own a home, still teaching and have so much to write about!

You know those AMAZING blogs that moms have now with tutorials and amazing crafty ideas? I LOVE those blogs and pray that LORD willing I will be one of those moms someday. Staying at home with my kiddos and doing crafty things, decorating my home, and loving my husband and babies through it. That's my dream. That is what I feel like I should be doing in my life.

Until then I will continue to serve my God by going to work daily, loving those kids. It's hard though, I feel like I am stretched very thin unable to do any of those things well. It makes it incredibly hard when I have other dreams. God knows those desires and if it is in His will he will lead me to that place one day.

I hope this blog will be a compilation of the things that I am doing right now. The happy times as husband and wife, the fun times as a growing family, the milestones of a little one, the CrAzY times as a first grade teacher, the struggles that come with being a pastor's wife, and everything that comes in between.