A little about me and mine...

Anytime you want to scream, because we all know that the stay at home mom job does tend to get to us all from time to time.. they say something really cute that brings a smile to your face. Our house has been filling with kids gradually..
We adopted our first child when we had only been married a short time and she was 7 years old. The biological mother was a nightmare to say the least! We however were just happy to give this precious little girl a home and lots of love. She is now our oldest and will be 25 this july 2nd! Holy smokes my hubby is getting old! Melanie is now serving in the military overseas and has a new husband and baby boy that will be 1 on July 8th.

We later were foster parents for the state and ended up adopting a precious little baby boy that was only a matter of months old. He is now our know it all and doesn't mind telling you how much exactly he knows.. at 13. He believes in making money at this young age. He started his own pet sitting business last year and this year it is a booming business! This is a great thing for him.. for us however... not so great!

During our time as foster parents we had 5 kids in our home at any given time. The more kids in our house, the better. I loved the house being filled with the noise of them all. It broke my heart when we had to move with my husbands job and leave our kids to the care of another person. Had we not been so young at that time, we probably would have adopted them all.

As the years past and our daughter turned 18, she also turned from the life that she had been brought up with and thought it would be cool to hang with the crowd that did all things illegal. Being the parents that we are.. total believers in tough love and we cannot care more about them than they care about themselves.. Our daughter after a very long drawn out ugly process called and wanted help out of her newly found lifestyle. To this day we do not believe that she would ever go back to those ugly choices and will continue to grow as a beautiful young woman and mother. This was a very hard stage for our family to endure.. but we were strong enough to make it through and still remain in tact as a family.

We have also been blessed with our cutie pie Ben. He is bi-racial and a total joy and pain in the butt at the same time. Ben helped us realize just how stupid grown adults can be when it comes to a white woman walking around with a bi-racial child. People can be very ugly! We are the only parents he has ever known to this day.. He is four now and growing like a bad weed. He is a sweetheart and loves getting his attention cup filled.
(And he is a total Momma's Boy!!)

Then there is our beautiful Abbie Princess. Abbie is a precious full of energy girly girl. You have to watch her though.. it is nothing for her to walk up behind the boys and smack them upside the head. She just turned 2 in January and has such an amazing personality. She will tell you very quick like that she is "Daddy's Girl".
We now have visits where Mel brings her new family home to visit.. she and her hubby are both in the military. We are finally grandparents! They just put in for her to re-enlist and be stationed much closer to us so that they can come spend more time with us. This is great because then I will get to squeeze our grandson anytime I want.
Some people try to cloud the world with things such as what race a child is.. what features take after who.. in the end.. it really doesn't matter as long as that child is taken care of and gets the love that every child deserves. We have some family and friends that feel the need to make a point of pointing out our children are adopted, or other details that would only hurt the kids.. to those people.. Shame on YOU! Our family in some eyes are totally disfunctional.. but it works for us and all of our kids, and that's all that matters!

My first attempt at a Jumper Dress!!

For a long time now, I have wanted to expand my horizons in the sewing world and make other things.. My only problem is that I can't read a pattern.. I have some sort of mental block that just does not allow me to follow the foreign language. So this is my first attempt and I had the fabric left over from other projects, so why not!

Feelin a Little Crabby

                               Today.. okay well for a while now I have been doing different items with the cute little crab design. Recently I had bought some of the red sequin fabric.. so I have been wanting to make Abbie a little Crabby bling shirt and finally I found some time today to sit down at the machine and create! She loved how sparkly it is.

I think that is when I enjoy myself the most.. just being able to sit down at the machine and be creative, using different types of materials for applique work or making a one of a kind item.

Here is Miss Abbie showing her crabby side :)