Our New House!
We moved into our new home in the middle of August. We really love it! It is our first "real" house, as my daughter would call it. In the past 18 years we've lived in a subsidized apartment, a mobile home, a manufactured home, and now a "real" house. Unfortunately for my daughter we moved a week before she left for college. She's having so much fun at college, though, that I doubt she's thinking about it that much 
Our new home is a stucco, mission style home. It is 2,000 square feet with four bedrooms, a small formal living room, and a family room. We also have a garage, aka my husband's "shop". The best thing about our new home is that the back yard is completely surrounded by a 6-ft cedar fence that our boys will not be able to escape from for awhile. The yard has been completely landscaped and has a gazebo in the center with wisteria growing all over it. I just love the yard. I've never been much of a gardener, but will definitely have to learn. Besides the wisteria there are roses, hostas, hydrangeas, magnolias, yucca, butterfly bush, clematis, spruce trees, weeping cherry trees, geraniums, burning bushes, and more, all in a relatively small yard! The boys spend hours playing outside.
I'm having a lot of fun turning our new house into a "home". I have been wanting to learn how to quilt, and have "dabbled" in it off and on over the years. I am making a small autumn quilt to hang on the wall in the living room. It's been fun working on it at night after the boys go to bed (when I don't fall dead asleep on the couch first, that is!)
Rachel Paxton
Editor/Publisher
CreativeHomemaking.com
Rachel on 10.07.06 @ 01:59 PM CST [link]
Six Stitches!
Six stitches. That's how many stitches my son Zachary has in his forehead after he fell down and slit his forehead open this morning! When I took him into the minor emergency clinic, the nurse took a look at his wound and said she could see his brain in the slit in his head! Trying to hold back the tears, I watched them give him a shot in his forehead and then two nurses and I held him down (he's 19 months old) while the doctor stitched up his forehead. He also has a huge scrape underneath his eye, making it look like he has a big black eye. His dad hasn't seen him yet...I'm not looking forward to it 
The good news is that he handled the whole ordeal like a little trooper, with relatively few tears and ate his whole lunch afterwards. Now his brother is giving him funny looks, wondering what's wrong with him
Rachel Paxton
Editor/Publisher
CreativeHomemaking.com
Rachel on 10.07.06 @ 01:46 PM CST [link]
I finished the quilted autumn wall hanging I was working on. It didn't turn out too bad, for an amateur