Sewing:
Whew! Between quilts, shirts and sewing lessons, I've been busy busy! My latest finish is an shirt for a sorority sister that I worked tirelessly on...
... and then my child danced all over it.
Ah well- it turned our great and she loves it!
The shirt orders have been steady too- I am loving creating unique shirts for little guys and gals- especially for birthdays! Is it just me, or is everything cuter with a bow on it?
Life:
As you may have noticed before, Noah wears "underwears" now.
*thunderous applause*
Homeboy keeps us cracking up with his crazy antics. After I put him down for a nap this week I went in to check on him and found this:
I guess he wasn't tired at first, so he started tearing his room apart, got bored and fell asleep with his head wrapped in a duvet. Whatever tickles his fancy, I guess.
In what started as a nerve-wracking phone call and ended (oddly enough) in a sigh of relief, my OB has officially given a name to what's going on with my crazy uterus. I have been diagnosed with MTHFR gene mutation - which stands for a bunch of huge words that won't effect me day-to-day, but it explains why I haven't been able to carry a baby to term since Noah (who is apparently a freak for making it outta there alive!). Basically I have blood clotting issues, and so my miscarriages were most likely caused by blood clots between the placenta and the fetus(es).
As weird as it is to be relieved by this information, I am. I'm glad to know that there is an actual thing that is different about my body and that it's not something that is my fault. It also just confirmed in our hearts our decision to adopt- God's plan for our lives started long before my (somewhat faulty) body was created and I'm just so excited as each little part of that is revealed to us piece-by-piece.
Which leads me to...
Adoption:
We have officially applied, paid application fees, paperwork is finished, we have been fingerprinted and our homestudy is Monday! Woohoo!
We're not 100% financially ready to be checked out by birth-mothers yet (we definitely don't want our scrapbook looked at until we have the last payment- which won't be due until after the baby is in our custody- sitting in the bank. Until then, we're doing everything on a "do what we can, when we can, with what we have" basis!), but we are sitting on go and doing the best we can to earn and save as much as possible!
On that note, some AMAZING friends of mine heard that I was making some quilts to sell to raise funds and they offered up a TON of awesome items to put together an auction! It will be running on Facebook from April 6-8th and I will post more information and a link to the auction as soon as everything is up and all the details are finalized!
My contributions to the auction will include these quilts
(only, they'll obviously be finished by then!):
As well as 4 others! Whew!
Another project that I'm SUPER excited about is a shirt fundraiser:
(click to enlarge!)
Never really thought about it, did you? Superman WAS adopted, and- let’s be honest- he’s pretty fantastic! Adoption is an amazing gift that our family is planning to take part in this year!
Our dream is to bring another SUPER child into our home and we could use your help. How? By choosing your favorite “Superman was Adopted” shirt for the SUPER price of $15! All proceeds from these sales will go straight toward our adoption fund, to help bring our new baby home and into our family!
Shirts are available in black, red, blue, light pink, hot pink, light blue and charcoal in:
Toddler: 2T, 3T, 4T, 5/6, 7
Youth: YS, YM, YL, YXL
Adult: S, M, L, XL
If you are interested in a shirt, please comment below with your email address and what size/color you would like and I will send you a paypal invoice for $17 ($15 + $2 shipping no matter how many you buy!). Make sure that the address associated with the paypal account is the address you’d like your shirts shipped to!
Orders will be taken for the shirts until March 31st and shirts will ship sometime around April 10th. If you have any questions, or would like an additional size, please email Laura at laura.d.phillips@gmail.com
Wow... is anyone still reading? Sorry to write a novel, it's just been a while and there was a lot to update! I hope to post more pics soon of finished quilts and projects!
