Erica’s Blog

Oh, BTW, I’ve nearly finished that big ball of pink Pound of Love.  I’m forcing myself to take a break from my felted bag binge in an attempt to finish it off.  (OK, OK, maybe I’m also waiting to see if my Secret Pal sends me some cool yarn.)  Made a cute “knot pattern” hat today in a “large preemie” size.  I’d take a picture, but with the darn camera MIA, I can’t!!!

I counted them all out, and between the white ones, blue ones, variegated blue/purple ones, and the various shades of pink ones, I’ve made 70 hats.  In some ways, I’m really excited about that, but I know that if I hadn’t taken so many detours to do other projects, I’d have a lot more done.  Actually, I *DO* have more done b/c I gave some away for:

• Baby Andrew (1)
• The Twins (2)
• Baby Hannah (2)

I seem to think I’ve given away another one or two, but darned if I can remember where….

Pretty soon, I’ll go up to UCSF to donate the hats to my fave social worker.  Before I do that, I’ll pull a few out to send off to The Preemie Project.  I also have the beautiful white set that Thing Two’s friend Devin’s grandma made to include (I don’t even know her name!).

Oh, speaking of UCSF and my fave social worker….Have I mentioned that we’re going to speak on a parent panel in November?  They’re having a big nursing conference in November, and the day before it starts, there’s a smaller, pre-conference meeting, and we’ve been asked to be on the panel.  We’re also going to be on a patient committee to give input for the new hospital that’s being built.  Tres cool.  Talk about not wasting our pain….

Hmmm.  Not much news.

I ordered some fancy flowers to take to the cemetery Sunday.  When I looked online, I found lots of expensive funeral-type stuff, but nothing that really floated my boat for my sweet little boy.  So, I called a florist I’d heard good stuff about and made an order.  Blue & white flowers in one of those papier-mache vases b/c we’re leaving it at the cemetery.  It will have a white ribbon with gold lettering reading “We Remember Baby Paul”.  I’m sure we’ll all bawl.

Hubby & Thing One are at the A’s game as I type this.  Hope they’re winning!  Thing Two & I are having “mommy/daughter girly time”.  We painted each other’s nails with purple sparkly Barbie nail polish (peels off about 10 minutes after it’s dry) and played “beauty shop”, putting a zillion clippies & ponytail holders in each other’s hair.  Then I let her take a long bath.  Afterwards, while her hair was still wet, I put it in a bunch of small braids. She’ll sleep with the braids in so that in the morning her hair will be wavy.  Since her hair’s just like mine, it will be wavy for all of about 12 minutes.  Now, we’re watching “Peter Pan”.  I think she’s about 2/3 asleep, though.

Hubby paid for the Pilot today.  As soon as the check clears tomorrow, it’s ours.  Whoopee!  When I told the Things about it, Thing Two asked if it could fly since it’s called a Pilot.  Logical question if you’re four years old, I suppose.  I hated to disappoint her.

Camera is still MIA.  I still really think it’s up at Poppa & Nana’s house, but they say they can’t find it.  I’m SO upset about this.  I use that camera nearly every day!

Hubby’s button with Paul’s picture on it has gone missing, too.  He took it off the other day when he lay down to rest, and now he can’t find it.

OK, someone’s snoring now, and I don’t know if it’s Jenna or Thing Two.  I’d better go see…