After Dancing Zebras soft opening, I had an order of blocks for a little girl named Haileigh.  I was so excited and couldn’t wait to start them!  After many hours of sanding, painting, sanding some more, and adding the gloss, I think I have figured out which steps work good with an electric sander and which steps are needed to be done by hand!  🙂 

Since I do not have a girl, I borrowed my sweet neighbor’s room/house to get some pictures with my blocks displayed.  Cali’s room is modeling for me here, but usually she is the model!  Check it out!

This week I completed three orders for my new store Dancing Zebras!  I am loving creating this business with my sister and hubby.  We are having so much fun thinking and designing logos, tags, website, inventory, etc.  One of the orders I did this week were these two custom ordered owl Hook & Knob creations:

They are some of my favorite ones so far!!  I love the colors the sweet customer picked out!!  As fun as this all is, it is quite a lot to take on while being a mom as well!   I find myself working during nap time,  at night when the boys go to sleep (some nights I stay up close to midnight), responding to emails while the boys have their afternoon snack, working while matt works at Phillips…pretty much any time I have a spare moment!  I am learning how to do things faster, be more efficient with my time while crafting.  For example, ordering things in a way that I can keep painting or working on something while other things are drying.  One thing my husband is encouraging me to do is to give more time for the creating part and to not promise for things to be done  in a weeks time.  I am trying!! 

I love this outlet as a mom.  It really feels like it is me and something that I can get ‘lost’ in.  As much as I like to get ‘lost’ in creating, I can forget my first job is being a mom.  I don’t want my kids to suffer as I am tired or in ‘task mode’.  We are still working out the kinks to this owning a business thing, but I feel so blessed to have this issue!!  Thank you for all your support!!

First off, sorry to all my Monday Craft followers!!  Ha ha I kept thinking about putting up pics of us creating our garden and planting stuff in it-but I slacked off in stead!  Please forgive me 🙂 

Now on to some exciting news!!!!

The boys had been in bed for about 20 minutes when I heard J squealing with delight and clapping!  I go in there to check on him and this is what I found….

J was standing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I teared up!!!  Do you see the complete joy on his face!?!?!  This is the first time EVER he has done this, and he is so so proud of himself!!!   He pulls himself to his knees all the time, but this is really the first time he has made it to his feet all on his own.  It makes me realize all those moments where I have thought “he is physically frustrated”-he really was….cause he is so so excited here!!  I am so proud of my little guy and am praising God for this milestone!  Ha ha This happened even before physical therapy began!  God is so good!

During Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs against the Hawks, Brandon Jennings of the Milwaukee Bucks falls out of bounds and lands on Matt at :10 in this video. Click the picture to see the video.