St. Patty's Day and Other Things

This week has been pretty uneventful for us. We celebrated St. Patty's Day by having a green dinner. Green eggs, green milk, etc. The girls loved it! Luckily, I didn't have to eat that dinner because I went to a Relief Society activity that night! I'm not a huge fan of plain scrambled eggs, especially green ones. Anyway, the girls got some pretty green bows from Grandma Mel so I took some pictures of them for you, Mom! Niah loves that you are Irish and she gave Bryan a hard time all day for not being Irish. My girls are pretty good models. Chloe is starting to pose like Niah now. It's pretty hilarious!

This one's for you Mom! Thanks for sending the girls an Irish package. They loved growing their clovers and they loved that they got to wear green bows. Niah pinched Bryan when he got home because he was not wearing green.

Since not much has been happening around here I thought that since I'm posting I will write about some other things...

Quilt update: I was so excited to get started on my quilt. I have done the same pattern three other times so I think I was over confident and on my first step I cut the fabric wrong. Grrrrr. This ended up making everything else short for the entire quilt. After much frustration and lots of help from my genius husband- yes, he was quilting with me!- I got the top finished. I'm glad I have Bryan here to do all the math and measuring. My brain really does not function in that area! Even though I had to piece some of it and it's not quite like the pattern, I think it turned out really cute. I decided to not even try machine quilting it myself after I messed the first part up, so I posted an ad on Craigslist to see if anyone out there would machine quilt it for me at a reasonable price. Low and behold, someone responded! I took the quilt to her house on Thursday and had it binded together. I am soooo pleased with how it turned out. The lady that did it was so nice and I am so glad I found her. She only charged me $27- for quilting it and for batting . If anyone here in Vermont ever wants her name and number I'll give it to you! So, then last night I start sewing my binding on. Everything was going well, I had two sides sewn on. Than all of a sudden I realize that I sewed it on the wrong side of the quilt. I'm such an idiot! Now I have lots of unpicking to do. Grrrr. I'll post a picture when it's finally done.

Funny Conversation with Niah: The past week and half or so I have been holding out on going to the grocery store so that I can stay within our grocery budget and still make it through the month with a decent meal plan. Niah must have noticed that all she's been eating is eggs, Ritz crackers, and mac n' cheese for the past few days. The other afternoon she randomly said to me,

"Mom, we're poor huh."

Me: "Ya, pretty poor. Why do you think that?"

Niah: "Because we can't even buy food!!"

I couldn't do anything but laugh. Who thought that she was so observant!? We really aren't starving, just trying to live on a budget. She is so funny. She always tells me we need a bigger house too. Little does she know that our tiny 568 square foot apartment is only going to get smaller in about four and a half months!