Happy Halloween!

 

What a great day we had today. Our son's first Halloween! He trick or treated but guess who will be eating the candy? : )

Another Blog!

I just started a new blog! I will be blogging about Literacy in America. I will still update this one with my personal stuff. Come on by!

http://lifetimeliteracy.wordpress.com/

Little bit of my boy!

Okay, excuse my voice, I was talking to a friend on the phone while I was taping this.

My baby boy continues to do well. He is growing and changing everyday. We are enjoying being parents. I have about a month left to my leave so I am trying to get our childcare plan together. Of course, I want to stay home with him. Living in SoCal does not lend itself to being a one income family. So, I am going to be a big girl about it and be grateful I still have a job.

I am trying to come up with a plan so that I can eventually stay home. I have launched my new business and if I play my cards right, I might be able to build it into something great. Check out my sight:

Kim's Bookstore

I have become an independent consultant for Usborne Books and More, an incredible line of educational childrens books. I am so excited about this opportunity. I have tried two other party plan businesses in the past and due to life circumstances I gave up on them. Mostly, these businesses were just not a great fit for me. However, Usborne, I believe will be perfect for me!

Its a great opportunity and if you want to know more about it, the info is on my site. I had a show that was not so successful but I ended up have 4 personal shopping appts and all four purchased books. Thats what gets me excited. The books really do sell themselves. Plus, I get to build a great home library for my son!

I am handling motherhood a bit better these days so I plan to update more often with more picks of my 10 WEEK OLD little guy. Its so hard to believe that he is already so close to being 3 months old!

By the way, anyone on facebook? Friend me! Kim Pettis Thompson

My Son

I only have one hand available right now as the other one is holding my little one! Thanks for all your prayers! We are very very happy! And Sleepy!

Leaving Tonight

Pray for us. I am leaving tonight heading to the midwest for the birth of our baby! Please Please remember my family in your prayers today and the rest of the week. Some of you remember that we got this far before and the birthmother ended up changing her mind. WE truly are praying that this is it for us and the next time I post will be a victory story! Official papers cannot legally be signed until 72 hours after the birth of the child. So, if the baby is born tomorrow, the papers will be signed on Friday. So please pray pray pray.

Thanks!

Kim

Victory Gardens

During World War II, food was rationed and the government encouraged United States citizens to plant gardens to provide their own fruits and vegetables. According to statistics, 20 million Americans planted gardens anywhere they could in support of this government plan. At one point, Americans were growing 40% of their own veggies!

In this economy, we might need to revisit this idea. In fact some people are already doing it. I was listening to a podcast on frugal living. The host was describing how she and some of her friends and Neighbors have formed a cooperative where they each grow different things and supply one another with fresh veggies. Talk about saving! They simply trade out. And, these veggies are pesticide free. Since I am planning to be off with no pay, for 3 months once we get the baby home, I am looking for ways to cut costs. I think a victory Garden is a great way to save money. My problem is that I live in an apartment. While many apartments in LA have either a patio or a balcony, I have neither. So, I am going to try to plant a container garden. There are all kinds of resources on the web with info about what varieties to use. So I am thinking tomatoes, cucumbers and pole beans. I have learned that they have some varieties that have small footprints. I am so excited to do this.

When I was a girl, I used to go to the nursery with my grandmother all the time. Though we lived in Chicago, we had a great garden in the yard in the spring and summer. She grew all kinds of things, including tomatoes, collard greens, banana peppers and even pumpkin and watermelon. She also had all kinds of flowers. She was from the south, A Georgia Peach. She had a very green thumb. One summer, I planted a garden with the boy next door,(my playmate, turned prom date.. By the time we were done, we basically had a muddy messy plot, however, we did grow a handful of beans and a few carrots. I made some sort of soup out of them. Hopefully, things will go a lot better this time! We will see if I inherited that green thumb!

So Here is my little Victory Garden! I have one tomato plant, one yellow bell pepper plant and 3 sunburst squash plants. I hope I can do this! Wish me luck. I am already worried that they won't get enough sun. I will have to figure that part out.





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Adoption progress: Well, we will be meeting our new little one in less than 3 weeks if all continues to go well. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers, as I know you have been doing. Its very surreal. We are doing everything we need to do to get prepared, but somehow, its really hard to believe that its going to happen. If all goes well, a month from now, I will be holding my own little one! Pray!

Craft Day!

Well, I have been so busy lately, studying, writng a paper and preparing for our adoption. I have not had much time to craft at all. So, I decided that this weekend, I would craft all day long ( while washing 4 loads of clothes, of course!). My husband had to work ( on a Saturday, no less!) so I had the place all to myself. Our place is not that big so it was nice to be able to spread out and not get in his way. So I was able to make a dress. Its not quite finished because of course, I made plenty of booboos.

This is the pattern:
Butterick B5040



I am making view B. I still need to put the bands on the sleeves and put the hem in. But overall, I like it. Looks better on Me that on my twin.




And speaking of my twin, I got her from HSN last year. I just took her out of the box yesterdy. I really like having a dress form. HSN is so great because they have the easy pay option so that you can sort of pay a little per month until its paid for. I also got a serger this way ( which I have to learn how to use soon!)

I was given a lot of Jo Ann's Fabrics gift cards for my birthday in December. I have great friends! I was able to put them all together and purchase this at the After Christmas sale:

The best sewing table ever. It opens up on both sides and offers a pretty big work space. So much better than cutting on the floor!.

So, I had a great day, at home, doing my sewing thing. Hopefully, I will finish the dress today and take a picture of me wearing it!