I am back!

Yeah, hey, sorry about that guys. I know I went on a crazy hiatus thing. We had a stomach virus sweep through the family, and then a death in the family, and then some crazy nap stuff going on (Little Dude decided to switch from 3 naps a day to 2 and after I figured it out there was some adjustment, etc etc etc). But, I think I am officially back on track-ish now.

Of course, I also haven't gotten as much done as I'd have liked to. We've officially switched to cloth diapering most of the day (he wears a disposable mostly only at night and first thing in the morning, when Shino changes him, though sometimes Shino changes him in the evening as well and that's a disposable too, because he doesn't really like cloth. Whatevs.), so there'll be a post upcoming about that.

Other than that, I have managed to get the faces of all three quilts done. I had them laid out and Thing 1's quilt was pinned, but then I realized that I desperately hated the borders for both, and so had to switch them around and haven't had a chance to re-pin. I hate pinning, btw. It's the most tedious part of the whole quilt, to me- there's no FUN involved, just work. So, I have to pin Thing 1 and Thing 2's quilts and then sew them and I"ll be done with the machine sewing. Then I have to cut out a few more pieces for Little Thing 3's quilt because I messed up on a couple of squares so it was all odd looking and this'll look nicer anyways. After I do that, I can sew those pieces on, cut out some batting, and pin and sew it. Am HOPING to have this done before Little Thing 3 gets here in April, but gods only know if it'll happen. I am quite lazy, after all.

We also contacted a trainer about Sisko, whom we've been having a lot of issues with. He's an aggressive Alpha Male, and while we thought we had that under control, the baby has just proven how much we do NOT. He is incredibly disrespectful of our authority, which  means he still thinks he's the boss. He knows the commands, but only listens when it is convenient for him to do so, and certainly not with distractions. So, we paid about a thousand dollars for training and a behavioural collar. Because we have GOT to get him under control before he hurts the baby (whether intentionally or not.)

First lesson will be this weekend, hurrah.

I haven't even started on the Steampunk story yet. Which is fine, because I had decided not to enter it in that contest anyhow. I want to spiff it up nice and enter it into a bigger contest, I think. Something that might get me a real publication credit, so I can at least gain a bit of experience. I plan to get it started tomorrow or next week depending on how crazy tomorrow is (I have a cloth diaper workshop in the morning, and birthday party planning jam session with the awesome Punk Rock Girl- Little Dude's godmother- and cupcake planning with the equally awesome Doot tomorrow evening). And I never get things started on Fridays, so if I don't get it started tomorrow it'll have to wait until Monday probably.

Shino has promised to start harassing me about it too, so that's nice. Maybe I should ask more people to help harass me about it. Harassing is almost as good as having a due date to make me actually get things done.