Brandee

My husband just left on his 3rd Iraqi deployment on Dec 15th. He went through the first one before we met, and the second one the first year we were married. This time, we have a newborn baby. The only thing I care about is that he is safe.

Well, my baby’s due date is in 4 hours. However, she is still hanging out, enjoying herself. I am so ready for her to just get here, it’s not even funny! I had an appointment on thursday with my midwife, and she said I am 4 cm dilated and 100% effaced. She said that she thought we’d have a baby by the weekend. Well, it looks like that just isn’t the case. I haven’t even really had any contractions, well not any painful ones anyways. UGH! Can’t she just want to be born already?! I can’t wait to meet her.

Well, I have been making changes here and there. Sometimes I forget, but I’m learning and trying to make it a habit!

One thing I have always been is a crafter. I love to make things with my hands. Even better than that, I love making this out of something that has no purpose anymore, things people just throw away.

Which leads me to this awesome website that I stumbled across last night and just had to share!

http://www.myrecycledbags.com/

This website is going to be the thing that finally nudges me into learning how to crochet!

I absolutely LOVE the idea of using those plastic grocery bags for something instead of just throwing them away. I know you can recycle them at the store now, which is great, but if you are like me you probably forget to take them.

There is a pattern on this site to make a reusable grocery bag out of all those ugly flimsy ones, and this one looks really sturdy!