Sorry! I haven't been blogging at all! Bad, bad, blogger.
I've been sewing a lot rather than blogging. It's very therapeutic. Well, blogging is too but sewing is in a different way. The creative side of me needed to come forward and well, it sort of took over.
Let's see... where did I leave off?
January I posted something about getting new slippers in an after Christmas sale, and that was pretty much the excitement for January.
February was a bit of a rough month for me because I felt badly about hitting the one year mark of my breast cancer battle and it's not even over yet. But as I was having my little pity party, I met two people that put things into perspective for me (although I didn't tell them that they helped me quit feeling sorry for myself). While dropping the kids off at Michelle's Place to the kids' counseling group for kids whose parents have/had cancer, I met a man and after a little hello and small talk, he shared that his wife died of breast cancer less than a year earlier, and his 6 year old son was dying of another illness and had already lived longer than his life expectancy. Suddenly, surviving breast cancer didn't seem like all that much of a sorrowful thing. Then I met a homeless family, they are happy and healthy and having fun living life without a home. They're awesome. They don't complain about their life, they brag about how awesome it is. And, no, they weren't religious freaks or cult members or anything, just normal people who made my little messy house feel like the Ritz. They are living in a tent and I was commiserating about needing to repaint the interior of my house again. So, Febrary was a roller coaster of emotions for me and it ended on a good note.
March came along and my little girl turned 9 years old. Hard to believe! (I say that every year.) Also in March, my daughter Katie asked me if I wanted to host a vendor table with some of my sewing wares at a Natural Parenting event she was organizing. She got a little part time job at a baby boutique, and part of her job was to organize this event. I agreed to be a vendor, which actually, I know I wouldn't have done that if anyone else had asked me. I spent most of the month sewing up baby items and things for the vendor booth. I sewed like a maniac!
In April, I went to the craft fair and had my vendor booth. It was awesome! I did great! The crowd was smaller than they expected, and many vendors didn't do well at all. I made $100. That isn't much by any means and only covered my expenses a tad. I'm totally in the red, but it was a great boost of confidence and a good experience. Now, I think I could actually be a vendor at a larger craft fair event or farmer's market. I put all of my leftover inventory on Etsy and we'll see if it sells. In the meantime, I'm sewing other things. I have been taking a few orders.
I had a crazy experience this month that I'm sure I'll never forget: I had an anxiety attack at my last Herceptin treatment and so the nurse gave me a second dose of Ativan to calm me down, which was great and it worked well, maybe too well. On the way home from the chemo clinic, I was driving in the left lane (not the turning lane, the left driving lane) and I blacked out behind the wheel. I have a dashcam and the video shows that I accelerated as I drifted across the right lane of traffic and hit the curb against the sidewalk. Amazingly, I didn't hit anyone or hurt myself or my car! But when I smacked the curb, I came to again and immediately realized what happened. Good thing I didn't drift to the left into oncoming traffic. I put the car in park and turned on my hazard lights and called my husband. I managed to drive it the rest of the way home, aprox 2 miles, and then I went to bed. The girls hitched a ride home from school with a friend because there was no way I could pick them up in the shape I was in. Thankfully, I didn't get arrested for a DUI. Dumb luck that nobody was hurt, it was really crazy!
Now, it's May. Usually the busiest month of the year (at least it ties with December). Gracie and Charlie are in soccer, Libby is in ballet, The kids are all winding up their school years, and I'm still sewing away. Why not! Some excitement coming up: I have my last Herceptin infusion on May 8th. Keith is taking the day off to drive me. I'll be so glad to be done! The other exciting news is that our exchange student from Germany, Anna, is coming for a visit at the end of the month. Yay! That should be fun.
I guess that's the update. We're busy and doing well.
