Felicity's Quilt

So first of all, our daughter's name is Felicity. Yes, it was inspired by my favorite TV show. It's not my fault it's the most beautiful name and right now not that many people have it. It means "happiness", "joy", "bliss", etc. Her middle name will be Sarai, which means "my princess". So she will be our princess of happiness.

Now that that is out of the way, her quilt is finished. I sewed the quilt top together myself and was pretty happy with how it turned out. This time instead of finishing the quilt myself, I paid somebody to do it. Liam's quilt was just too much work for the little machine I had and honestly, I didn't have the energy to finish it. So the people I used provided the batting,backing fabric and thread, quilted it all together with a pattern, and even did the binding. So what probably took me a month to do with Liam's quilt, was done in one week. I am really happy with how it all turned out. The quilt pattern I chose looks great and doesn't take away from the beautifulness of the fabric. Now I just need a little girl to put on top of it.

(All the pictures are taken with my iphone so they aren't that great, but maybe later we will do a real photo shoot)

The full quilt. I used about 12 different Echino fabrics in the colors green, teal, purple, and pink. I was trying to make it babyish and girly, but I couldn't stay away from all that color.


A close up of some of the fabrics. The thread color we chose was like this purple/wine color. It did a great job of blending in with the patterns on the front.


For the back I chose lavender. The thread really stands out and you can see the pattern of flowers and vines.


How the front and back look together.

They did the binding using a machine and put this little pattern on it. I think it's a nice little touch.

Another quilt down. The professional look of this one makes me want to redo Liam's but that seems a bit crazy. I guess the homemade look is cool too.

Feminine Appeal - Chapter 2

At the moment I am crawling my way through three books and one of them is Carolyn Mahaney's Feminine Appeal. I'm only on the second chapter and I've enjoyed it already. Basically she is going through Titus chapter 2 and the charge for older women to teach younger women. Chapter 2 of the book is called "The Delight of Loving my Husband". She talks about the way that Paul encourages the older women to train the younger women how to love their husbands in Titus 2:4. The word for love that Paul uses here is the agape love that we are used to but the phileo love. This love is an affectionate compassionate love. So often as women it is easy for us to love our husbands in the agape way - sacrificially, but hard for us to love them with phileo love. Some great words of wisdom from the chapter are:

"In fact, women will often continue to sacrifice and serve their husbands even is all the tender feelings for them have subsided. Author Douglas Wilson makes this observation: 'Women are fully capable of loving a man, and sacrificing for him, while believing the entire time that he is a true unvarnished jerk. Women are good at this kind of love.'" Yikes! I often use this to justify my attitude. I can clean and wash clothes totally pissed off and think Well I'm still serving you and fulfilling my role, what are YOU doing.

"Where sin is present, warm affection dissipates. Anger, bitterness, criticism, pride, selfishness, fear, laziness -- all vigorously oppose tender love. This love cannot survive in a heart that harbors sin." You can't muster up the feelings you need to love your husband affectionately. If there is bitterness in your heart it will always seem just like a chore

"... we were created to be our husband's helper not our children's mother. Certainly we are to love, care for, and nurture our children, but this love is to flow out of a lifestyle that is first and foremost committed to helping our husbands. Our husbands should always remain first in our hearts and in our care." This is a tough one to swallow but I believe it is true. Many husbands suffer because their wives have made their kids the number one priority and have left them (the husbands) high and dry.

So far, so good. I'm excited to see what the rest of the books hold

SYTYCD Season 8

I haven't said anything about SYTYCD yet this season, but it's been great. I love the new format with the mix of dancing as a couple and then with the All Stars. I really don't want to say much but share my favorites from this season.

First of all, from last night



This didn't get as much praise as it should of



Classic Lyrical Hip Hop from NappyTabs


Ryan totally rocked it in this one


I think Clarice and Robert were perfect in this Bollywood


I really could care less about Ricky in this routine, it's all about Allison for me. She's amazing. I love the tension in her body.


Just fierce


I'm sure there are much more, but these are the ones I really liked