anyone there?

Hello if anyone is still out there.

A lot has happened in our family the last few weeks and so the blog died but I'm going to try to revive it.

We sold our house we've lived in the last three years:

Which meant we had to move:

But my husband still had a month left with his program so the kids and I moved to the new rental and he stayed behind.

Luckily we moved to his hometown where a lot of his family is so I had some help to unpack and move in.

Then we had a family reunion and since I've decided a ratio of 1 adult: 3 kids is a bad idea for camping.

Trying to carry two screaming kids out of a tent to jump in your car before you wake everyone else, half asleep and blind without your glasses you just crushed isn't fun.

(the mound in the grass is Ellie where she just dropped and fell asleep)

Izzie is almost 6 months old and sleeping through the night which is liberating!

Then last Thursday my husband graduated residency as a physician in family medicine.

His education and training has determined so much of our lives, his dream became my dream for him as we went through the process together these 10 years, and it's thrilling and weird it's all over.

He'll still work a lot of hours as we're in a really rural town and he runs the Emergency Room 1/3 of the year,  in addition to his regular job, but it has to be better than what it's been!

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So it's been kind of crazy and stressful for me this year on the home front.

The last few months I've really struggled, and have been thinking back and forth about quitting blogging.

I guess it's amazing how easily three kids could kick my trash before 9am most days.

I wasn't creating much, and the time it took to photograph everything and blog about it seemed like wasting energy that should be going to my family.

So I haven't blogged in weeks, and haven't really done much with blogging it feels since Izzie was born.

I don't look at my blog as a business.
I don't try to make money off blog traffic or sponsors.

I tend to loathe anything creative that feels like a job, so to ensure I still enjoy blogging and in order to try to stay authentic to what it's about--I am a hobby blogger.

It's always been just sharing things I've made with the few PDF patterns on the side.

So being a hobby, I've thought about just ending the blog aspect in general.

Then all my free time could be just creating and making.

But I found during the break I miss the interaction I have with everyone here,
and the documentation and info on the projects for myself. 

 I look back to get details on a lot of projects if I make them again, or do something similar.

And I really do enjoy blogging in general.

So I'm going to try to make it work.

I've started feeling better physically as I quit nursing and am sleeping better with baby sleeeping through the night now.
I've also had some mild post-partum depression and the fog seems to be clearing.

Plus we live near family and my husband lives with us now and won't be working 80 hours a week so my life will definitely be easier.

So I'm going to try to keep blogging and am just going to try to change my approach to the posts.
There are times where the photography, editing, and writing of a post can take 3x as long as the actual making of the project.

That's where I'm going to try to change how I work.

We'll see how it goes, I was never stellar at the blogging side of things so the thought of me putting even less into my crappy blogging makes me wonder if it may be better in the end to just quit.

But we'll see.

If it's just the ideas you're interested in, that should still translate.

So thanks for all the support I've had with the blog these last 6 years and we'll see how the new approach goes.

Coming up I have:

-bench made from old church pew

-striped inverted pleat skirt

-formal charcoal dress

-girls swim suit

and more I'm working on.

RJ drew a nose and whiskers on my face, and talons on my fingers so I could be a mean cat,
 he was a bigger and meaner dog....the dog won the game.

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