Finished the dresses…
So I finished the dresses for Kaylee's birthday present this year. My Mom is making four more dresses so Kaylee will be set this summer in regards to summer dresses. In the Winter they can be paired up with a white shirt and pants too which is great. I set up shop over at Etsy and I'll see what may come in for that.
Here is the last dress I made.
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Possible Money Maker?
My mom says I'm getting good making these dresses for Kaylee. They are easy to make, take about an hour (if you have the time) and can be made with 1 yard of fabric (always on sale) and some thread. My mom was like I can sell them for between $10 and $15 which would net me a profit of probably $5 (because of shipping charges) on each dress.
The thing is do you go with custom orders? For instance do I go and make dresses for Kaylee with fabric options that I can work with, post them and then make dresses as the orders come in? I think this is the best option because I'd hate to have extra stock. Then over time I could make other things too, like shirts and jackets. These dresses can be made from size Newborn to 4T.
Another question becomes are NASCAR dresses? I foresee this potentially being a popular item. Can I sell these dresses at all or would I need permission to do so? I tend to think I can sell them because I know of some other people who sell things with the same fabric and have no problem.
I've made three so far. Here are some pictures of the dresses I've made:
Clean my room!
Who knew getting your child to clean her room and pick up her toys was as easy as downloading a song on iTunes. LOL! Here is what Kaylee currently cleans up to:
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now
Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up nowClean my room (Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now)
Clean my room (Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now)I got toys coming out of their box
Here's 17 mismatched socks
There's clothes all over the floor
I've got so much stuff, I can't shut the door
Gonna put all my toys away
So I can have room to play
And at first it seems like a lot
But if I break it on down, you know that it's notClean my room (Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now)
Clean my room (Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now)When you clean up, you gotta get down
So your knees are close to the ground
And you wave your hands all around
And you pick up the toys that you found
Now you've got everything you can hold
From your games, to your toys, to your clothes
Put 'em high, put 'em middle, put 'em low
You know where everything goes!Clean my room (Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now)
Clean my room (Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up now)When you clean up, you gotta get down
So your knees are close to the ground
And you wave your hands all around
And you pick up the toys that you found
Now you've got everything you can hold
From your games, to your toys, to your clothes
Put 'em high, put 'em middle, put 'em low
You know where everything goes!I got toys coming out of their box
Here's 17 mismatched sock
There's clothes all over the floor
I've got so much stuff, I can't shut the door
Gonna put all my toys away
So I can have room to play
And at first it seems like a lot
But if I break it down, then it's not
Clean my room
Pictures of Potty Training…
So the question is, do you take pictures of potty training your child? Now Kaylee may see pictures as a celebration way of what she's doing and how well she's doing.
This morning she peed in the toilet for a cookie. Now I might continue to use that prize for a while. GMA said she's going to take her out for ice cream as well tonight and Daddy is getting her a present. Hopefully all of that will keep her going. I made her a Kaylee's Potty Cookie Bag. She told me she'd continue going on the potty. One cookie for pee and two for poop. After a while if she continues then I'll slowly get rid of the prizes for her.
So we'll see how this goes and if she continues. Today we have a bunch to do so hopefully she'll hold it through our playdate and trip to the bank but after that we're at home the rest of the day so hopefully she'll take me up on my offer of cookies after peeing.
Honestly I think she was afraid of the toilet in a way which is totally normal. One of the teachers at Phoenix Ranch said once she does it and realizes it's not such a bad thing she'll probably take it up no problem. Well we have all weekend to do it so we'll see how it goes.
Another question though, do you still put your child in Pull-Ups for outings (in undies at home) until you know for sure they get the whole concept?
It’s about damn time…
Eury Jr. is out as Crew Chief for Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the number 88 team. Finally. Although this may not fix the issues that team is having I've been of the belief that neither Jr. or Eury understand how to work together in a rational logical manner. They are too catty with each other. The team needs someone who can reign Jr. in and make him communicate effectively. Someone who won't take his crap but also won't "fight" back and get catty back when Jr. does get angry. This is a two part issue in my mind. The lack of ability of Jr. to communicate with his Crew Chief and the lack of wanting to listen to Jr. by Eury Jr. because of some belief that he knows better.
So they're bringing in a guy who's worked with the best of the best. He won't be brought in until after Dover so at Dover they'll have Team Manager Brian Whitesell do the running of things for Dover. Then after Dover they'll bring in Lance McGrew and hopefully he'll be able to whip those boys into shape. The pitting has been shit. Jr.'s driving hasn't been any better and the cars are just crap so something needs to change. Although I doubt there will be some miracle and suddenly Jr. will be doing well, this was a long time coming and hopefully will lead to Jr. actually, you know, doing well in a race.
"We're going to put our full resources toward improving the situation and winning races," Hendrick said. "It's going to be a collective effort that includes all of our drivers, all of our crew chiefs and all of our engineers. Everyone in our company will be involved on some level."
As a crew chief, McGrew has posted victories in all three of NASCAR's major touring series. He has won races with drivers Brian Vickers, Jeff Gordon, Ricky Hendrick, Kyle Busch, Mark Martin and Tony Stewart.
So here's hoping this is a turn in the right direction for Jr. and his team. Something needed to be done and lets see if this works!
Tell us again how great your life is…
I've become one of those people. Those bitter people who don't want to hear how great your marriage is going. Although most of the time I don't mind because most people I know don't brag too much. I have no problem hearing about what someones husband has done for them or family things because as a friend you want to hear the wonderful things happening in their lives.
Emphasis the MOST in that sentence. Frankly I think anyone would be tired of the daily reminder that life is going oh so fucking wonderful for this person. It's just darn right annoying. I mean seriously how often can one brag about how wonderful everything is? It's one thing to be appreciative of life, but this is so not that. It's like some kind of attempt to prove life is really great.
On a side note, we went to Phoenix Ranch today and tomorrow I will enroll Kaylee at the school. It's a great private school. I think she'll love it.
California Supreme Court is Insane…
Seriously. The court has said it's okay to discriminate. Plain and simple. What a bunch of idiots.
On to other news, Patches, my Mom's cat, is a drama queen. LOL! I took him to the vet because he wasn't walking on his leg and he's fine at the vet. Get him home and he's playing it up for my Mom. He's working the system.
I made Kaylee a dress last night. I'll get a picture of it up soon. It's cool. Going to make another tomorrow probably.
Keeping In Touch…
So what I found cool is that it seems the government has really tried to keep up with the times and provide families of service members access to what's happening so that they can feel more in touch. I signed up for the site for Andrew's ship and it's run through SharePoint apparently. It has a message board though which is cool. Also every month they put out a newsletter which was 23 pages. What I found cool is while in port they encourage the sailors to go into whatever port and take part in touristic activities.
For instance they were in Israel recently and a bunch went rating and everyone visited landmarks and basically got to visit a whole bunch of cool places. So Andrew has hit the jackpot in regards to ships that go cool places. And in this newsletter is a bunch of great pictures and stuff. Makes you want to go there yourself.
One line I found towards the end was "Everyone returned from Israel alive."
I wonder if that is put there because of people's lack of understanding of the situation there and to make sure families don't freak when they read that they were in Israel. Anyhow I'll probably check the site often just to see what's going on and talk to other families.
Cajun Festival 2009
So today we arrived at the Cajun Festival at 9am and didn't leave until about 7:45pm. We had some great food like Polish Sausages, Fish & Chips, Funnel Cake, and great lemonade. My mom and Step-Dad had things like spicy Cajun sausages and gumbo and alligator. That wasn't for me though. I'm sun burnt but it was a good day.
In other news have I told anyone lately how insanely angry this whole situation makes me? That I depended so heavily on someone and can't take care of myself without help? I mean seriously, I guess I just had trust in him that we were a family and that being a Stay at Home Mom was something he wanted as well. But as he told me he never intended our marriage to be a life long commitment anyhow. And that's perhaps the most angering. That I apparently took our relationship a whole lot seriously than he did. I put up with a lot and stuck with him through things that other's may have left their husband's over.
And I have to wonder if it's because I just assumed that he was as good as it gets and for someone like me I shouldn't strive for something better? But honestly even with those times when he did some bad things I wasn't thinking about how he'd hurt me but rather if he was going to be okay. I mean I was happy, honestly happy with how things were going. I'm not stupid, I wasn't anywhere near perfect, but I thought it was going pretty well in general. And I was totally wrong.
I just wish I hadn't been blindsided by this all. That I had had some sort of warning that things were so horrible for him that he felt the need to no longer be married. But that didn't happen and so be it. But I'm still angry as hell that any of this is happening.
It’s all in the meter…
So yes it's all in the meter. I checked Kaylee's blood because she asked me to before her nap. She was just delaying nap but hey who am I to deny her? I check it and it's 179. Now I double dipped (which means I didn't fill the strip the first dip and had to dip a second time) which commonly leads to overly high results. So I put in a new strip and it came out to 139 which seems more appropriate but still high. Of course I'm not thinking the meter is wrong, I'm thinking it's finally right and that I can in fact come down on Kaylee's dosage again. So tonight I will do 1.2mL and then tomorrow I will do .9mL for the day time dosages and see how that effects her numbers.
I just have to wonder how off that other meter was? I mean if it was nearly 40 off most of the time there were days she was waking up with her numbers in the 80s and does that mean in fact she was 120 and if so what the hell was her number during the night?! So I'm happy to be seeing somewhat normal numbers now and we can get back to figuring out what her correct dosage should be. I mean the doctor did say her Insulin levels were normal so obviously we weren't experiencing lows like I though or else the Insulin levels would have reflected that.
