It's been hard, easy and sometimes (eek) normal year so far!

This year has been hard, in ways I never imagined.  I had to start working at the youngest's school because he needed his blood sugars to be tested as some of his tests came back different.  I think they did it to shut me up, but they are finding it wasn't as easy as they thought. Now we've been told they are closing his program down and he's having to move.  Those of you with autistic children, know how hard this is for all of us, but especially for him. He doesn't like change and it's starting to show up! Majorly!  He's having more meltdowns and it hasn't been pretty.  Came to the point today where I'm really thinking it's time to pull him from this school and being done with it.  I'm done with the stress it's causing both of us and because the school can't handle things like him being in a wheelchair for outings, he's being singled out and not able to go on trips. This is wrong and frankly, I'm tired of fighting. I'm tired of having to fight and I'm tired of what it's doing to J. 

Another change is that Meg, my type 1 diabetic, was diagnosed with nerve damage in her feet and some in her hands. This has made it so she can't work and she needs to apply for help.  It wasn't easy to do, but we just received the new health card and we were very surprised to see that her insulin pump supplies were totally covered.  NO cost to us at all!!! This usually costs us $300 a month!! So nice not to have to pay that up front and hope that it's accepted from the insurance company in a timely manner!

Because of all this going on, I haven't been able to get into the craft room as much and it's hard to get back into the swing of things.  I've got all these ideas but am having a hard time getting up the energy etc to get down there and actually sew something up.  I know I need to get things done, I have a TO-DO list like no tomorrow.  I know I have to get started on the Christmas stuff soon or I may not get it done either.  If anyone sees my get up and go, can you tell it to get up and come back?? LOL 

Some good news that has come up is hubby's photography business is starting to get going. He's going to be doing a Little League thing here in August and hopefully will be getting some business from that as well.  He's such a great photographer, he deserves some good stuff to happen. He's helped me out so much when my Fibromyalgia is acting up and he works so hard so I can stay home with the kids.

Hopefully you are having a fantastic year and if you are having one that is a little harder, remember that tomorrow is another day and will get better. It can't always be bad!

Love and hugs
Stacy

adding seat belt covers....

I will be adding seat belt covers to my Etsy over the weekend. I had a custom order!!!  She has ordered 6!
One of them is of our Edmonton Eskimos colors which shouldn't be too hard. She also wants one with my choice. I'm not too sure about this one, but I will figure it out. I may just make a couple extras and then take them all for her to decide! lol  If anyone wants a tutorial, I will be taking pictures as I go as well. I will be hopefully be able to upload it all onto Craftster I hope it will allow me to add pics this time.

I spent the last couple of days with Joey and it has been interesting.  He has such a vivid imagination that he surprised me a couple times!  He also helped me with colors for the Eskimo seat belt cover which was kinda funny. I had picked a couple different ribbons and wasn't sure which one to pick. He told me the yellowy one, I ended up buying the two I had narrowed it down to and turned out he was right!! LOL

I have designed a purse for Meghan's 17th birthday this weekend. I'm not sure I'm going to get it done, but I hope to otherwise she'll have the mock up I did.  It is going to be a smaller messenger bag with extra pockets for her diabetic items, her tester, needles, etc.  That way she won't have an excuse not to have it in there!  I am also working on a clutch type for me. Ron's Christmas party for work is the weekend of our anniversary (Nov 27) and the purses I have are all huge! I don't want to have to take all my things with me, just a lip gloss a comb, gum and my Epi-pen. Most commercial type clutches don't have enough length for my Epi-pen so I will make one and have an elastic on the side for it to be anchored in there. I will add pics as soon as I get it done. I don't know what color yet because I haven't decided on my dress yet! lol

Meghan is home!!

Meghan is home from the hospital!! The dr's released her yesterday and I am so happy to have her home now.  She still has to see the dr for visits, but she's out of the hospital and started her last year of school!! My baby girl is in grade 12!!! YIKES!!!!

It was Ron's birthday yesterday and we went to Boston Pizza for supper and he had a photo shoot to do there. There were some wrestlers there  that they were promoting and the restaurant manager asked Ron to take pics for it.  Those guys were HUGE! We had fun and I'm fairly sure Ron won't forget this birthday! LOL Happy Birthday Hon.