Mama Bird

Michael and I have started a new venture. We have started our own trucking company. For the first while Michael will be driving and Milena and I will tag along when we feel like it.
Trucking with a one year old is a bit different than the last time we were on the road. How to feed/eat with her around and not have to sleep with crumbs or smears of food in the bed is the big question.
I came up with a tidy way of feeding her cherries.




I would bite pieces off for her at home too but leave them on her tray for her to grab and eat.

In the truck I just passed them to her with my mouth. Kinda like a mama bird, though I didn't prechew it.



As you can see it worked quite well and she thought it was great fun.


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Three FOs

Well, it's not exactly what I had planned to do with my sewing time, but my little one didn't exactly care to accommodate my plans.

I finished these three items. (And by finished I mean sewing on the ribbon which I found in my stash box). I'm glad I didn't end up having to sew little tubes!

Heidi visits!

Got a special visit from my cousin Heidi, just before 'little Schultzie' arrives.

We had a good time hanging out. Even went to check out the Narcisse Snake Dens!

She also helped me get my Silhouette Cameo (digital cutting machine) out and try it for the first time. Oh, and helped me rearrange the furniture, which was also fantastic!

We made some labels for things at her place.

Here's the finished product:

Thanks for the visit Heidi! It was great to see you!

another Ontario Holiday

We stopped at Ikea to do a bit of baby shopping on our way out. This was supposed to be a short 4 day trip, so I managed to pack light and we went a little crazy shopping.

We had some really great weather and free time, so Michael polished the wheels and I worked on some knitting. It was beautiful.

Here's a little belly shot for you all. This was at 32 weeks.

Our trip turned out to be a lot longer. Our load got cancelled, we got rerouted, then we got rerouted again, etc. In the end we were gone for 14 days and spent a week hanging out in Ontario. So, we played a cool word game with Michael's cousin, Aunt & Uncle. I can't remember the name of it.

Also, since this trip turned into 14 days instead of 4, we were cutting it really close to my 'no longer able to travel to the US date', so on the way home we had to make a very important stop.

This was the crazy walk way from the truck stop to the parking lot. Let's just say it was a little bit long for me to walk when I really had to use the loo!

Gearing Down

Well, our stint in trucking is coming to a close soon, though we don't know exactly when. Here's some shots from the last while.

Being in the truck has provided lots of knitting time! Look at those cute baby socks! The best part is that they are made from scraps of socks I knit for me (on the right) and Michael (on the left).

Notice the prettied up water tower.

Beautiful scenery.

Some laughs at our reflections in the side of the tanker. We laughed hard.

Commissioned Sewing Project

I have a friend who really helped me get into knitting who is also a spinner. Occasionally we trade craft talents. She wanted a particular kind of bag she had seen on etsy and she had a special piece of fabric gifted to her that she wasn't about to tackle sewing herself.

So I agreed to sew her the bag, and she agreed to spin me some yarn! Sorry, I don't have a pic of the yarn, but it's fantastic!

Easter Eggs!

Well, I borrowed my little friend miss K again to dye eggs. Since I always feel just a little too silly to do it alone.

This year it was incident free! We got some great colors too! (note: I like to buy the peewee sized eggs at Price Chopper, as they are only $1 a dozen, and little eggs make for a more colorful bowl).

Babymoon

Our drive home from Ontario turned into our 'babymoon' complete with shopping for some baby outfits (the ride home from the hospital clothes) and a stay in a fabulous B&B. Indulging in a smoothy craving that turned into finding an amazing little diner and pie shop, since the GPS's declaration of 'your destination is on the left' had us looking at a house instead of a smoothy shop.

I can hardly believe that we'll be meeting 'little schultzie' in less than three months!

The diner.

The pie case.

Our B&B.

The room.

hanging out with Cate & Kasey

Headed out to Austin for the day to see the play Mom was in. Also spent some time with Cate.

She helped me stuff the little teddy I'm hand sewing (from a kit that I got as a gift), defintely grateful for her tiny fingers to help!

Mom in the play (it's too bad it was so hard to take photos...)

Right back where we were

Today was a crazy day.

It started with checking in with dispatch to see if they finally had a load for use to go out trucking again, they didn't. So, we got our paint clothes back on and started painting the last section in our main living space. While we painted we talk about the fact that it was date night and what we should do. The Lady Antebellum concert was that evening. We thought it'd be fun to go since I had chosen their latest album as our baby CD. (When we were on our honeymoon we bought a Rascal Flatts CD since we were frustrated with the poor radio reception in our rental car, we played it to death, but I still get all warm and fuzzy everytime I hear songs from that CD).

I went online to see if I could still get tickets, sure enough I could and they weren't even crazy over priced, so I booked them. Proud of myself for how spontaneous I was being and that we were going to have such a great date night.

About two hours later, everything changed. Michael got a call from his cousin's wife. Barry has been sick for a couple of years and when we were there a couple of weeks ago, we realized just how seriously ill he really was. That phone call was to let Michael know that he should come to ON, Barry was asking for him to be there. Barry is close to Michael in a big brother kind of way. So, I went to Westjet's website and found Michael a ticket for 6pm that same day, booked it and then we set about getting ready for Michael to fly to Ontario. We finished the first coat of paint on the section we had been working on, considered who I could invite to the concert in Michael's place, realized that I'd have problems getting into the concert because the tickets were booked on his credit card, call Ticketmaster to find out if there was a way around this, which there was, but they were also gracious enough to let me cancel the tickets, and tried to get laundry done so Michael could pack for the trip.

Looking back I had to have a little laugh at myself for being so proud of the spontaneity of booking concert tickets the day of the show, and then having to be even more flexible to change all those plans and get Michael to ON.

Anyway, Michael was able to be with Barry, and to be a support to Barry's wife and three kids, which was fantastic, and be there when Barry passed away.

Here's a collage of pictures from his (and later my time out there).