Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone is enjoying getting ready for the holidays! I know I am:) Although I have been moving quite a bit slower, but all for a great reason! Apparently I have a very active and above average size for her age perfect little girl still growing like a weed in my big round belly! We were told that she would probably be small, but now we're told if she continues to grow as she is now she will be 8-9lbs! I'm 27 weeks this week and so far all is perfect! Everything that can possibly be checked has been checked! She's perfectly healthy, and I'm perfectly healthy, just really tired! But that could be that I don't like to slow down either. On top of being growing a very active baby, I have been getting ready for Christmas, going to Christmas party's for the garden clubs, traveling to VA for my big baby girls Sweet 16, crafting, and a small amount of helping with the hydrangea festival planning.

If any of you have the weekend of June 3-5 free, then you should plan on being here in Douglasville, GA for The Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival! And if you don't have it free, then you should rearrange whatever it is and be here anyway! It will be so much fun! And for the one's of you that live close by, you should be thinking about what you would like to enter in the flower show and/or the table designs! Remember last year was my first time going to the festival, first time ever going to a flower show and first time ever entering a a flower show, and I won first place for a day lily! If I can do it, so can you! And look where it has gotten me, I'm now the President of The Town and Country Garden Club! haha! Even if you don't enter, you should still come and see everything and take the garden tour! Check out my pictures of the tour from last year here! Absolutely amazing gardens! One of them has been featured in Southern Living magazine like 4 times! (and I'm pretty sure it will be on the tour again this year and also featured in the February 2011 Southern Living issue I'm told!)  So go check out the blog, that is still being worked on, and continue to check there or follow it for all the updates as I get them!

I hope you all have a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year, in case I'm not back on here before!

I'm back and busy busy busy!

Well, we made it back safely! We had an amazing time in Vermont and Montreal! But my week wasn't complete until I went to The Country Living Magazine Fair here in Stone Mountain Park just outside of Atlanta!

I have tons of pictures and stories that I will post this weekend!

I am taking on something new, something that I've never done before. I will be the new president of Town and Country Garden Club starting in January.  That has also landed me on the planning committee of the 4th Annual Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival that will be held here in Douglas County the first weekend of June 2011. We started the planning this week! There will be more details to come! And I'm starting a festival blog!

Anyone who has a chance to come here really should! Last year was my first time at the festival and I had a blast! That is where I won my first place ribbon in the flower show! There is also a garden tour that is amazing! One of the homes on the tour last year has been featured in Southern Living magazine a few times and is supposed to be in the February 2011 issue!

Here is an article that was published in Southern Living about Penny McHenry. I wish that I had had the chance to meet her! 

I'm seeing Pink!

I'm seeing PINK everywhere because.....

It's a GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right! I'm having a baby girl, due March 21.

So, I'm getting the sewing bug really bad right now! I got my pleater and bishops dress pattern out this week to see if I can still remember how to smock. It's only been about 13 years since I've smocked anything.

I can't wait to see what I might find for her next week in Vermont and Montreal!

My mom is having a Giveaway!

Happy Anniversary to my Mom and Dad! 34 years tomorrow!

And for her anniversary, she is having a giveaway on her blog! 

So go check it out! And good luck!

Best Buy has lost me forever!

That's right! Best Buy has lost me and my family as customers FOREVER!

Last week, I took my laptop (which I did not buy there) in to be repaired by the Geek Squad. I purchased it online through Dell about 3 years ago. I've been very happy with it. But the battery stopped charging and then last week it was not getting any power at all. So I thought since I live 5 minutes from Best Buy, I would give them my business, instead of dealing with the hassle of shipping it back to Dell. BIG MISTAKE!

First of all, I keep all of my embroidery designs and photos on jump drives. The Geek Squad tech wanted me to purchase an external hard drive to back up everything, but only the things that I already have copies of. So I declined. I payed $35 to ship it off. This weekend I got a call from someone telling me to call the store that I dropped the computer off at and they would give me an estimate. The estimate was $285 for a new power source and a new hard drive. My hard drive was just fine when I took it in. My husband took over at this point, he knows more about these things than I do. No one could tell us anything about my computer except that it was not in front of them and that I could call this number and find out something. Our only questions were "What was wrong with the hard drive?",  and "Was it recoverable?". How else were we to make an informed decision? If I had to start over from scratch then it would be cheaper and easier to just buy a new computer. But with each person that we reached, we got the same answers, "Your computer is not in front of me, I'm not sure where it is." "Can we speak to someone who has seen our computer or can you get a message to them?" "No, we can't do that, we never talk to them and they will not talk to customers."

So my computer is on its way back to me, my husband will fix the power problem and if I need a new one, it will NOT be purchased at Best Buy!

I just feel like this is very poor customer service. We should be able to get our questions answered. It's almost as if they expect you to not have questions and just spend your money because they say that you should. But Best Buy you came across the wrong customers this time!

My daddy has always said that he did not like Best Buy and would not go back there. He and my mom bought a new refrigerator and dishwasher there and both were duds! It's not the fault of the store, just the appliances. I guess I'm with my daddy on this now, no more Best Buy for me either!

The Truth Is......

The truth is.....

that I'm a liar.

that I'm not always as ok as I may say that I am.

 that it's easier to just smile and say that I'm fine.

that I'm terrified every day that I'm going to do something to harm this baby that's growing inside of me.

that I miss my baby boy every second of every day.

that there is not a day that goes by that I don't cry for my baby boy.

that some days I cry harder than others.

that I look at his picture and kiss his little face everyday.

that I cry myself to sleep most nights.

the nights that I don't cry myself to sleep, I lay awake and think of him.

that I don't think my husband knows any of this, because I haven't told him.

that its been 5 months since I gave birth to my sweet baby boy and it seems like it was just yesterday.

that when you go through something like this you find out who your true friends are.

that the ones that I so desperately want to talk to about all of this doesn't seem to be there.

that I fill my days with lunches and outings with the ladies from the garden club just so that I'm not thinking.

that sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy.

that sometimes I feel like I'm the bad friend.

that I don't want to feel like this.

that I am not writing this for sympathy, I just needed to write.

that I probably won't answer any of your comments.

that I miss my family.

that I miss me.

that I now know what to say to someone going through this.

that its better to say something than nothing at all.

that I have friends who still have not spoken to me at all, or when they did speak they never mentioned it.

that sometimes that is what hurts me more.

that I'm not angry with God.

that I'm sad, but not angry.

that I thank God every day for the blessings that he has given me.

My First Trunk Show

My friend Karen, is having a wine tasting party at her house. She has made some homemade blueberry wine, Yum! Although I won't be tasting any for quite some time! She's also making some delicious, risotto (this I will definitely be able to sample) !

Anyway, she has asked me if I wanted to display some samples of my work to sell! I'm so excited! Maybe I'll be able to make some spending money for Montreal!

I'm hoping that this will be the first of many trunk shows for me:) After all, it is getting close to Christmas and time to start thinking about presents!

So these are just a few pictures that I have on hand, but I'll be doing some more bags of different sizes, embroidered towels, and burp cloths (after all I need to put that embroidery machine to good use!).