Yesterday I laid Hazel down at my grandparents’ house for a nap. We were in the bed where I would always sleep when I spent the night as a kid, where I’d listen to the china rattle when the trains went by, and we were curled up under delicious blankets and it was so quiet and… I fell asleep too. Oops. We slept for two hours on the dot, and it was the most consecutive units of sleep I have had in about six weeks. I felt like a million bucks when we woke up, and Hazel’s hair was sticking out in twenty directions and she was very happy. And then last night she slept for so long that I woke up in that distinctive nursing-a-newborn pain (if you know what I mean) because I’ve been required to produce about ten gallons of milk a night for awhile now and last night it didn’t get used. Her hair was also not matted in seven places from tossing her head back and forth in discomfort/pain/whatever all night long. Now she is in bed after rolling in from hanging out with friends around 10:30, and she has been asleep for two hours. This might be too good to be true.

I need to start having normal evenings again because:

The blue & gold blanket is getting out of control. It’s going to be huge. Homespun yarn (which I am using) was way way on sale at AC Moore last week. I bought more.

I have enough cardboard food packaging (cereal boxes, etc.) to make enough mailers to last MONTHS. I made a batch and have been testing them for three weeks of Etsy orders and swaptree swaps – so far so good, so two nights ago I cut up what I thought was everything else I had in the house and assembled about a third of them. Then I found a whole pile from Kelly. And then I got more from my grandparents, Jess, and my parents.

I acquired a garbage bag and a half of destashed yarn. Kelly and I pawed through it and kept about half. The rest will be donated, but what else is there to do with 25ish partial balls of yarn in weird colors except make baby hats? I need to learn how to make baby hats, now.

I bought fabric today. More. Fabric.

I still have many things on my Etsy to-do list.

I have finally decided how to spend all of my Christmas and birthday money. A new sewing machine.

And a serger.

Oh, you didn’t know that I know how to use a serger?

(That’s because I don’t. I really just want to make cloth napkins and baby legwarmers and clothes for Hazel until my eyes fall out.)

Listening: nothing, but I have Levon Helm in my head (the song about Xavier, who was born on this mountain)
(I am) Reading: I have not touched a book this week except to move them from place to place
(Hazel is) Reading: The Butter Battle Book – for some reason she “reads” this book in a totally different voice than the rest of her books
Working on: yarny things, trash things, some custom earrings, Etsy things