Loot

I've made it through the holidays and now, kid's birthday week. Yes, both of our children are in the first week of January and by the time the birthdays are done, so am I!! Sometimes we save our celebrations with friends to later in the month, but this year with people getting older, we decided to go to movies in lieu of a big party. The boys saw Avatar. Unbelievably, spectacularly, imaginatively awesome (but that's just my opinion). The girls saw Leap Year. Let's just say that it functions as a very nice tourism video for Ireland.

D had 3 friends sleepover after the movie and asked me if I would make them all something small as their 'loot bag'. I'm happy to oblige, but the request was made on Thursday...sleepover was set for Friday. Sheesh. I used Valori Wells' cute wallet pattern that some friends and I picked up at the Stitchin Post in Sisters last July.

D had fun choosing all of the fabric combinations for each friend individually. She thought about each of them very carefully, trying to decide on just the right fabric, taking her time. A girl after my very own heart! Before she started touching, she first asked "is anything off limits?". To which I replied (after first taking deep breath) "of course not honey, anything you like in my stash, we can use." Aren't I a big girl?

T's birthday was a biggie for me...there's a teenager in da house! The most significant impact of this milestone for me is the realization that in less than 1/2 the time he's been in our lives already, he'll be gone from us! I hope he doesn't go too far. My family has a tendency to do that (go far, that is...my poor Mom). T's closing in fast on my height, is wearing the same shoe size as B and has started attending the 'teen' dances at the rec center. Here we go!!