basement project!

Since Elijah, I haven't had a chance to sit and sew or crochet. I miss it SO much. It was my chance to get away, and clear my mind. I don't have a 'workspace' to just leave out my crafty items, so I decided to transform a part of my basement  into a crafty corner!!

First I need to find some folding tables for cheap! Once thats done, I'm going to put foam mats down there, and TRY and think of a way to baracade Elijah in-by making a makeshift huge play pin :) Get a few isolating fans and extension cords and whaaalaa! I could probably even find a cheap old tv and let videos play for Elijah too!

I really think this is a good time to start this too, Elijah is getting older, a lot more mobile, and can entertain himself for a good while!

I'm SO very excited about this! Hopefully I can get sewing again, I have new patterns for so many things that I found on sale that I want to try, ironing board cover, new ruffel aprons, closet organizing racks..etc. The list goes on!

my lil monkey

is 8 months!

So, I'm a little late on his 8month blog. But thats only because he keeps me busy! :)
Elijah turned 8 months almost 2 weeks ago. Since I last blogged about my sweet boy,he's a full time crawler. He has learned he can go/do just about anything. He will follow us to the kitchen, into the hallway and into our room. He chases after Maxx(poor Maxx can't relax now :)) and will pull himself onto his knees(and in some cases all the way up to a standing position) on pretty much anything.

We've celebrated another 1st Holiday with him too, Easter! We had a great time with family, Uncle Levi was home on leave, so he got to have fun with us. Elijah got tons of goodies the Easter bunny left at our house, Grammy & Pops house & at Grandma Martinez's house!

I busted out his little pool last week, and he loves it! He loves to play in water in general, born mid -summer in Tx...I think thats a given!:)

I've also noticed he recognizes people more. He LOVES his Pops (my dad). He can see him from a distance and put his arms out to go to him. Its SO cute!

Just yesterday evening-as he was chewing on my finger, I felt a lil poke-a tooth! His first bottom tooth(bottom left) !!

As I sit here, Elijah is sharing a lunchable with his daddy, I couldn't imagine life any other way. I don't want my baby to grow up, but I'm so proud of him! I don't know what we did before him!!

social networking = network of drama

Perhaps I'm just way too sensitive for the madness of social networking.

My life with social networking stuff started way back when ( ok maybe not THAT long ago, still feels like forever..) with myspace. After a while, that place was FULL of drama. What people could find, feel  whatever about you, what they were too afraid to confront in person..etc., they did. People turned the "you commented on her page and not mine", "you put her as your #1 and not me" into a mess. Then there was conversations going on between comments that people took way out of wack. MESS I tell you.
So I think after a while, and I 'grew up' I moved my way to facebook when facebook was only signing people up with their college emails. Then they went 'public' and now, well if you are any part of it, you know where it went.
I joined facebook MAINLY to keep in touch with family that I don't see often, maybe 1-2 times a year. It was a way for me to keep up to date with close friends when we moved to KS, and now I use it to keep in touch with friends I've made in KS, and to make friends around here.

But heres where it gets me: When people start crap with me on or about facebook. From "I couldn't see your page, you blocked me" to "I know you were online I saw you posted on "insert name here's" status. COME ON. I'm a MOM I don't have time to sit in front of the computer(cause I know you can't do it from a phone...and from my phone is where I do my FB-ing..) and figure out how to block you from seeing a certain post or picture. If I post a comment to someone, it was most likely from my phone, and not to spite you-but because I had something to say about their post. You people that have NOTHING better to do than to stalk my fb page, get a life. If you have a problem with someone, please don't post through your status about them or a status about the whole situation, keep it to yourself, you look really stupid brodcasting your life out like that.

That is all. I think I may have been all over the place, but this is seriously getting out of hand people. We are (mostly) all adults, time to start acting like it.