New Blog name

Lately everything has been about patchwork quilting. It's all I look up on the internet, read in books, and go to Jo Anns for. At the same time, I've been trying to think of a new blog name. I just feel like the one I have now doesn't really describe me or what's going on in the space. First I thought I would go the domestic route, but I didn't want to be confined to only write about cooking and sewing. Then I thought that maybe I would just write about motherhood, but that's not what I want my entire life to be about. I still wanted to maintain my identity apart from my current roles in life. So my mind went back to Patchworking and how that could be symbolic of what this blog is about. It's about a lot of different things that don't necessarily go together, but make up a beautiful whole thing (me). I can have the freedom to write about whatever I want whether it be a recipe, music, faith, love... whatever. I know it's not that big of a deal, but it gives me some closure knowing that things will fit in nicely here.

Welcome to,

A Living Patchwork

Fabric Frenzy

So I might be a little obsessed with fabrics as of late. I've been wanting to make Liam a baby blanket for a while so I started searching for fabrics online. Boy did I get in over my head. I literally spent hours/days looking at fabric online before I made a decision. And since I liked so many fabrics my decision was to make 2 different blankets; one taggie and one quilt. Through all my researching I fell in love with patchwork quilts. They don't look like grandma blankets and they seem easy. I've never made a quilt before but we'll see how it turns out. I am anxiously awaiting my fabric in the mail and until then I am learning all I can about about blanket and quilt making.

Fabric for Taggie Blanket

Fabric for quilt

So this is the New Year...and I feel very different

Last Night we celebrated the New Year in a very different way. For the past eight years we have celebrated in Atlanta during Christmas Conference. We danced the night away with friends and stayed up really late. Well let me tell you, times have changed. Instead of spending the night out dancing with friends, we stayed in and forced ourselves to stay up til midnight. I felt totally lame. Is this what parents do on New Years?

To make the night a little fun I made an Italian inspired dinner for us. We started with a plate of Bruschetta and Manchego cheese with Honey. Then for our second course we had Eggplant Parmesan (Martha Stewart). For dinner we had Steak with zucchini ( I didn't really follow a recipe for this). Finally my favorite part, we had Lemon Panna Cotta with a Blackberry Balsalmic Sauce. This was my favorite!!!! I was so happy with how this turned out and am anxious to try different combinations. Here are a few pictures.

Happy New Year!

Christmas Day

Well this has been quite an eventful Christmas to say the least. I am typing this from my phone on my makeshift bed at Largo Regional Medical Center. Let's start from the beginning.

Like any child, Liam woke up early and was ready for Christmas. He successfully woke everyone up with some squealing and grunting. As Dylans family watched in person, my parents watched on ichat as Liam opened his presents. Well he really could care less about him opening them but enjoyed playing with them. Then we called and woke up my bro and SIL and told them to iChat too. This was a highlight. My whole family ichatting together. Liam went down for a nap right after that and we continued the unwrapping of gifts. My husband was very creative in his wrapping this year.

Things were looking great. We had a great time opening gifts hanging out with the fam and were starting to get ready for a Christmas dinner on the beach with Dylans extended fam. Then Dylan started feeling ill. Afters while it started getting serious so he went to the ER with his parents. At first they thought it was appendicitis but he had cat scan and nothing showed up. So after hours of waiting and two shots of morphine he finally was able to rest. His family has a history with stomach issues so they are keeping him overnight with the hopes to have a GI specialist see him tomorrow.

So that's where we are right now. And as if this couldn't get better his vents make a lot if noise when the heat kicks in so we have to turn the heat up high, allow the room to get really warm and then turn it off so we can get a little sleep before it turns on again. This is why I'm up at 1:22 am.

As I think of what a bummer this is and how inconvenient it is to us, I am reminded of the huge inconvenience Christ went through to become one of us.

Happy Incarnation!