Check your facts....

I find it interesting that a major 'newspaper' wouldn't do a more thorough check before releasing a story that would have the impact that it did. The day before the Superbowl, the Boston Herald realeased a story about the Patriots and more spying on other teams.

The story isn't the reason the Patriots lost the superbowl. It did however cast a negative light on the team. Not that I think the Herald is a stand up organization to begin with, but they had to have known the effect it would have.

Here is a link to the story about the Boston Herald's apologizing for the mistake on MSNBC. ( I am not going to give the Herald any traffic to its website)


However, they have apologized now, and hopefully it will be put to rest so the Patriots can have a great season in the fall.

Pictures with Grampa

After Maggie and Cassie were born, we tried to get my dad to have pictures done with them. Lino's parents had some done, and I wanted to get some with my dad. He wouldn't do it. I didn't push, because when my dad makes up his mind about something, there really isn't any way to change it.

One of the Christmas gifts I did was matching shirts for my dad and Nate. My dad is a younger brother with 2 older sisters, and he is always saying that I don't let Nate do stuff because he is a little brother, too. My dad is really tough to buy gifts for, and Lino and I thought that the shirts would be really cute.

Well, my dad brought up getting pictures in the shirts done, so we made an appointment. Unfortunately, Nate was a bit resistant (ok, he cried a lot) but before he started crying we got a couple of pictures that turned out okay. And, I also had my dad do a picture with Maggie and Cassie (finally)

Here is what we got:

It is allergies, folks...just allergies

Apparently allergy season has started. Lino wasn't feeling well this afternoon. Is it a cold? Is it allergies? The Dayquil he took this morning didn't seem to help, so on our way home from pictures with Grampa we stopped at CVS and he ran in to get some allergy medicine.

It took him forever! He came back to the car and was telling me how he needed to get a ticket for the kind he wanted, wait in line for the clerk to get it, read and sign some things, show his license, have his license copied, all for a box of allergy medicine!

I understand that there are some 'people' out there who are addicted to drugs and stealing cold medicine to turn it into crystal meth. I understand that to help and prevent the theft of said medicines, stores are keeping them behind the counter. But, seriously, one box of cold pills puts us on a list somewhere?

I would much rather the government work that hard at keeping Level 3 Sex offenders behind bars, or maybe doing something about the price of gas and home heating oil...forcing oil companies to lock in a price that they can't raise for 4 years.

But, no, let's get the honest people who are stricken with fierce allergies, let's have them jump through hoops to get some relief.

To top it off: the clerk gave him the wrong kind! Luckily, I was looking at it in the car, so he went right back into the store. They couldn't just exchange it, so he had to return it and buy a new box....which meant showing his license again and all of that.

We are lucky that we weren't raided by the DEA tonight.

This will make you laugh for sure...

This is very cute. I personally like Number 2 and Number 1 the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Rw_3ky-uo

New baby gifts

One of Lino's coworkers is a brand new dad. Naturally that required a trip to Joanns so I could make some baby things! :)

Lino picked out the fabrics, and I put it all together!

I was really pleased with how they turned out. I did a taggie blanket, 2 bibs, 2 burp cloths and a larger blanket. Flannel and fleece, nice and cuddly for a new baby! The embroidery on the burp cloths is one that came with my machine. The name on the bibs, blanket and taggie is a font called "Boys r Gross". It stitches out so nicely, I love being able to use it.

The burp cloths are a solid green flannel with a flannel print. I edged them with some binding tape. I used to make them plain, but I think they look nicer this way. (I also got lucky, I cut the fabric before I embroidered the name...it just fit! whew)

The bibs have the flannel print on one side and the yellow side is fleece. I am getting better with zig zag stitches...I have tried using just a straight stitch, but I have trouble keeping it even, and making certain that I am not missing spots on the binding.

I needed a way to tie the green theme into the taggie and the blanket. So, I cut some of the pictures out of the print and stitched them (using zig zag) around the name. The taggie has topstitching to give it a finished look, and the blanket has an overcast stitch, so it has a raw edge feel, but it looks nice (I think).

Unfortunately, I took these pictures at night, so the lighting is not the best.

Mmm....cake

I think the pictures speak for themselves. From Lino's birthday....

Future rock star:

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Lino!

Naps happen

So, sometimes naps just happen when you least expect them to. Like when you are playing with your trains on the couch. And Mama is just so happy that you actually are napping, that instead of moving you to your bed, she just takes a picture to document a real nap.

The curls

Can you understand why I can't bear to cut these off just yet???

And people get surprised that Nate's hair is long, I don't understand it since this is Lino a few years back:

When he finally cut his hair, he sent a 25 inch ponytail to Locks of Love. It is funny, because now he uses the clippers about every 3 weeks or so!

Sewing today!

It feels like it has been a while since I sewed anything. I am going to see how much I can get done today. I cut a skirt pattern (for me!) and the fabric yesterday. I also cut some etsy stuff yesterday.

I would also like to cut the pattern and fabric for a dress for Maggie and Casssie and a jon jon for Nate.

We shall see!