Crafting for Junior-etta!

My baby is asleep and I'm taking a break from typing out flavored popcorn and homemade root beer recipes.

I've been crafting this week. This is more what I thought motherhood would be like. You know, I'd read all of those blogs that talk about their free time during naps. Well, Cajun Boy is sleeping so much better that I can do things during his naps. Woo-hoo.

{I should be cleaning!}

One of my best friends is having her first baby.

{She's already practicing with Cajun Boy - he wasn't sure of all of those women and the laughter that kept erupting every few minutes!}

This friends gave me the courage to be myself because she was always herself.

She respected who I was, my religion, and the standards that I lived by without question.

I became the woman I am in large part because of the young woman she was.

I know that without her, I wouldn't be who I am.

I pray that Cajun Boy will someday have a friend like her to make being a teenager so much easier than it could be.

So I went to work because making it myself

with my own two hands

seemed much more fitting a tribute to our relationship.

It's a hang up I have. You know I really like you if I gift you with something homemade.

{Maybe you'd rather I didn't really like you!}

Her theme is a Pink Baby Zoo.

Some of my materials are more Baby Safari, but in small town Kansas the fabric choices weren't the absolute best. I thought it turned out well, though.

I made a diaper case to hold diapers inside her diaper bag (and keep them clean). I decorated a wipes case, so that it matched. I sewed decorative panels down the center of cloth diapers to make burp cloths and I hemmed up a swaddling blanket that will be big enough for her Junior-etta. Then because Mom and I found some cute paper and wash cloths to match, they got thrown in, too.

So much fun and such a confidence builder. I hope that she likes them.

It meant a lot to go through the motions and make them.

Love ya lots, A!

Love Junior-etta lots, too....can't wait to meet her.

What a lucky little girl to have you for her Momma.