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Today I was able to do a page or two in little man's scrapbook. I forget how theraputic scrapbooking is. I need to do this more often. I finally got his baby pics in and he is almost a year old. Looking through them was so heart warming and so fun. He was so little and I remember the most good things about his birth. The little person that went from being in to the little person in my arms looking at me. And now he is this, 

A ten month old asleep on the floor. Hahah. He is so funny, he played with his bottle until he fell asleep. Didn't drink, just shook it around. My little man, I love ya, you silly boy. 

Finally, I put pics in the scrapbook.

I am a scrapbooking mama, normally.  But I haven't had any time to do so lately. Today I made time. I had too and you know what? It felt good to work on it. I feel great about it. I got some of little man's ultra sounds in the book. And it made me think about my pregnancy and how small he was when he was born. The drama during my pregnancy and all of that. It made me realize even more I may not want to go through that again. My little man may be it for me. Who can say for sure. But as of right now I am happy with my family of three.
When I tell people I may not have anymore kids they treat me like I am being SELFISH. What? Really?
"Your son wont have a friend.  He will be lonely! "
Who are these people to tell me stuff like that. Why do they get to determine how many kids I do or don't have?  Why is it when someone says they only want one child they are pegged as selfish human beings? Perhaps they can not afford more than one. Maybe healthwise they can not handle it. Or it could be their preference.  It doesn't make it wrong.
What got me talking about it today is my scrapbooking reminded me of that. It made me happy about my little man, but also reminded me of defending myself to everyone. 
Yeah, I have to defend myself about kids. I am not the only one. People defend their decision to have many or none at all. People have to defend their not wanting to get married. Why do we have to go through this and why should we care what other's say?

Fall fun: bat chandelier

I love fall fun and Halloween. I love making crafts for every holiday.  What got me in the mood was watching a Martha Stewart DVD. I looked at my dining room chandelier and thought "it needs bats." And bats it will have.I used my Cricut cutter and the October 31st  cartridge. If you don't have that it is ok, you can hand cut the bats. I also did this with my 6 month old on my lap. Yes, it can be done and we had fun!!

What you will need is:

Black cardstock

Red Ribbon, black, or clear string

Zots or staples

Scissors

You want to cut out several different sizes to hang around the chandelier. For Cricut I used sizes 4,3 1/2,3, 2, and 1 1/2

Cut a ribbon 10-11 inches long. for each bat. 

Place a zot on the back of the bat, and place the ribbon on top of the bat.

You should cut the ribbon at angles to fit on the bat, place the ribbon on the zots.

Cricut does make it easy to do, but like I said you don't have to have one

I free handed a bat, using extra paper and scissors

Fold the paper in half and start to cut out a bat like shape.

When you open the bat it will look like this.

To make the center, make a larger bat and then attach a ribbon to the bottom. then zot a baby bat on the string, using a zot or staple. To hang from the chandelier I used the free handed bat and poked a hole. I strung it on a ribbon connecting the one side to the batty string . Then I attached a second ribbon to the top bat I free handed and tired it to the chandelier.
What you see is the end result at the top. I wanna add spiders to it. But doing this with my baby bear it would be hard to do.