The Stocking Story

After joining Nathaniel's family, I took on a new appreciation for the concept of a Christmas stocking. For years and years, Nathaniel's Grandma Belva was able to make each grandchild a personalized Christmas stocking. This is Nathaniel's stocking...As a continuation of the stocking tradition, I finished a project that I had started years ago, which was actually a kit given to me by my Grandparents May. Here's the finished embroidery work though it still needs to be turned into a "stocking"...With the help of Nathaniel's Grandma and the use of her strings, I picked Abraham's stocking pattern and dove into my very first large scale cross-stitch project, which I just recently finished.

With her encouragement, I was able to do a bit of customization to the stocking pattern in the form of eliminating a year that was supposed to appear under Abraham's name, adding vining in place of the date, and adding a scripture reference (Is. 9:6) at the bottom just under the wolf ...So far, we've got 3 down and 1 to go! I don't know when I'll start the baby girl's, but as long as I finish it at or around the Christmas that she's 2, I feel like I'm doing pretty good. I plan to meet up with Nathaniel's grandma to seek hands on instruction for turning the flat stitched design into a stocking. Its been fun to continue on one of Nathaniel's family's traditions and to be able incorporate my stocking from my Grandparents into the mix as well.

Little man is growing up...

For a while now, I've been working on refurbishing the toddler bed that I used when I was little. On Tuesday, all the pieces came together and we took the plunge! We weren't sure if we would have him use the bed the same night that it got set up or if we'd let him get used to it in his room first, but he was pretty excited about it so we just made the switch that very night. (Stay tuned for pictures of the kids' room. :-))

This is Abraham his first night in the bed (post-moving-to-bed-rather-than-crib-trauma). He had a bit of trouble falling to sleep, but he did better than when we went camping! (He got moved to the middle of the bed after the picture was snapped...)

Here he is this evening at about 10:15 pm. He didn't even try to get out of bed tonight and was asleep within his normal fall asleep time.

Now we just have to pray that it continues! :-)