Work galore

Started the day today as usual with the gym and then getting breakfast ready for all the kiddos. Went so much better than last night super fiasco. Yeah I totally did not blog last night but it just wasn't happening. I made 10 pounds of hamburger patties. But, I was attempting to multi task and put together the patterns I felt a thump hit my back. Yeah... the little monster AKA Kel, was throwing raw beef like it was freaking snow balls.. ugh.. I SAW him.. and yet still he stood there with his bloody little hands and said his sister did it. Ummm no dude.. just no...

Anyhow breakfast went much better! I made pancakes AND biscuits... why you ask? SO that I could add images when putting the recipes up on the site. Tomorrow is cobbler and ice cream for sure. Can't put up recipes that have no photos right?

All of the recipes I put up need photos! I am working through adding stuff slowly but surely. The biscuits have rice... aside from rice they are free of the other top allergens. No gluten, no dairy, no soy, no corn, no egg... But a very nice fluffy biscuit.

Well that is not ALL I did today. I totally did some selfish sewing today. See I have tattoos now.. yup got the first in march and up to 4 now. Only issue is they HIDE... except, with a racer back top. But even most of those clipped the bit and the edge so I made my own and narrowed the back. I did also make one regular non racer back tank for my best friend. Because birthday party in 10 days.

We are all getting to an age where counting the years is a moot point... count the minutes lol.

Red Dragon

Halloween draws near... around here that's a big deal. a HUGE deal. It's bigger than Christmas. Because .... COSTUMES! Yeah we don't even trick or treat. Not because we don't agree with the process. We love it, but these kids are allergic to every blasted thing and its kinda hard to explain to a 2 year old why you he can't eat the candy someone just stuck in his bucket. You get this WTF mom look from them. So we do more events.. costume contests, fun like that. Therefore its ALL ABOUT THE COSTUMES! There will be much sewing to be done.

So I am starting!! With this fabulous new add on to the Wild thing Pattern by the brand new TWIG + TALE pattern company. (formerly Big Little Patterns) I love her sweet cape and vest and jacket patterns. SO easy to follow and so simple. No serger required, perfectly easy for someone still learning their way around a machine. The dragon wings and scales are a free add on for all newsletter subscribers. The add on works well with the cape pattern too not just the vest pattern.

Just look at the details we managed! I bought 50 of those cute buttons engraved with out last name. You got it - no need to label their coats and jackets this year!

And the wing detail. So sweet. Don't forget the spikes.. That's his favorite part.

My littlest monster doesn't feel super well today but that did not stop him from posing. Though smiles weren't to be had. Gonna just leave you a nice little gallery of his posing madness lol.

Girl's Night - first in over a decade!

Well I haven't had a girl's night out in about a decade.

I have 6 kids.. I literally spent the last consecutive 7 years pregnant, nursing or doing both, so going "OUT" wasn't really an option. But I had to wean the boy in April. He was only 19 months old and I totally felt bad - not - I would have if he hadn't attempted to chomp my nipple right off my boob about 5 times in a week. So... mama has a break, I am sure it won't take forever to be pregnant again, but for the first time in my life THAT is actually not coming easily.

But on February 3rd 2016 I was 358 pounds and finally just angry enough about it that I started the Keto diet. Today I weighed 281. so down 77 pounds so far. I have a ways to go still of course. Most likely this loss in a short span of time is why my cycles have been off and why we have tried a few times and still no lucky #7 on the way yet. But hopefully before long.

Back to girl's night. Well with all the pregnancy and nursing I have obviously gone many many moons without alcoholic beverages. But what's girl's night without some shots?? I am a fun drunk, a giggly drunk, but once drunk I can not count shots like at all. I should not open bar tabs... because then counting goes right out the window. And when counting goes out the window... Bacardi shots go way up in number.

We ventured out to The Whiskey Bent Saloon on the feeder between Jacksonville and Cabot. Magic Mike show.. yup you heard me.. DANCERS! The talent was well... talented! It was hilariously fun.

That was until.... I needed to pee. Drunk girls panic when they gotta go and have no blasted idea where the toilet is. There should be way way more signs in bars to the bathroom. They should also be written in whatever language drunk people read. Yup I am one of those can't read or write drinkers. Which means you got it, I drunk text. And it's completely illegible. I can NOT decipher it in any way shape or form the next day. Texted a friend - "resubmitted ass baked" If you have any clue what that possibly was supposed to be before autocorrect apparently took over you let me know.

OH and FYI - the door labeled OUTHOUSE... yeah.. it is in fact NOT an outhouse. Note to self- for future girls night reference, find the toilet BEFORE you order shots.

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