A NEW BABY TO LOVE!

I can't figure out how you can love someone so very much who you've only "known" for 3 days! Madelynn looks exactly like Kaitlynn did when she was born. She is bigger than Kaitlynn was but looks just like her. She is so sweet. I am so in love with her already it is ridiculous!

Thank you for all your emails and your thoughts! Here are some pictures of Ms. Madelynn Elizabeth!







Kaitlynn loves her baby sister!! Wait until she figures out she can really boss her around!!! LOL!

WELCOME BABY MADELYNN!!

Madelynn Elizabeth was born at 1:59 pm today. Weighed in at 7 lbs 4 ounces, and was 20 inches long. Her resemblance to her older sister Kaitlynn is astounding!!! Did I say I had my camera ready???? NOT!!! Can you believe it had no batteries! AND on top of THAT I did not bring the charger from Key Largo! A trip to Best Buy will resolve that little issue tomorrow.

But well, the important thing is the baby is fine and so is Kristina. The labor was actually quite simple and quick, thank God. Madelynn is perfect! She is so beautiful! Well, at least in my eyes!! I will post some pictures of her tomorrow.

I will also post a picture of Kaitlynn when she was 2 days old so that you can see the resemblance. God is good and He took care of my babies today. Can't think of a more wonderful Mother's Day than this new baby to love.

My father SO wanted to meet Madelynn. He wanted to be here for her birth but I feel in every cell in my body that he was there with us. That he smiled on this new baby who has his eyes. This new baby that he would have so loved to meet. It was hard not to feel a little melancholy today but I refuse to take away any of the joy and pride in this new gift from God and am just grateful that God was there with us at her easy and perfect birth.

Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers. Right now I am going to get some much needed sleep. I was called by Kristina at midnight last night that the hospital had called and told her to check in within the hour. It took me an hour to get to the hospital and I have still to get some sleep so.... good night and sweet dreams my friends.

at the hospital

Since 1 am. The doctor just ruptured her water. It should not be too much longer. Epidural on the way. I know this is natural but its hard to watch your child in pain.

My camera is ready!

BABY UPDATE!

As everyone knows my daughter, Kristina, is expecting her second baby. She will be hospitalized tomorrow and her labor will be induced. We are expecting baby Madelynn to make an appearance on Wednesday, 5 de mayo!!! Woo HOO!! I am so excited to meet her! Kaitlynn is also excited about meeting her new baby sister! I didn't believe I could love any child as much as I love Kaitlynn but I already love this baby and haven't even met her yet!!

I'll post pictures when she arrives!!! Wish us luck!

COMING UP FOR AIR......

Wow!!! May!!! Can you believe it??? How the hell did four months already go by? Amazing. Yesterday made 4 months my father passed. FOUR MONTHS. I guess it's because I am staring 50 in the face (come December), but I am so much more conscious of time than I used to be. It seems to be slipping by so much faster. There is so much I want to do .... Anyway, just random thoughts for this morning!

On another note, if my daughter has not gone into labor by Tuesday, they are putting her in the hospital Tuesday to induce labor on Wednesday. So one way or the other, I will be meeting my second grand-daughter Madelynn, by no later than May 5th! I can't wait! I am so excited to meet her! It seems like Kristina has been pregnant with this baby 4Ever! Kaitlynn is very excited about meeting her baby sister too! I will keep you all posted.

Still patiently (well, ok, not really) waiting for my iPad to arrive! Received the docking station and keyboard yesterday.... love new toys!

I wish you all a wonderful THURSDAY! I don't work on Friday's so you KNOW I am loving today!

ZENTANGLE DIVA

Okay, so as you know, I have been practicing faces for a bit. Stopped for about a month and now I'm back. However, they are, quite frankly, starting to bore me so I decided to try something different - combining Zentangles with my faces. I LOVE zentangles - they put you into a "zen" state!!! And I love drawing faces too so there you go!!!

This is my first Zentangle Diva. I think I am going to name her Rose... don't know why really.... she just LOOKS like her name should be Rose. I am going to put her into one of the RR journals I have here at the house... don't know whose journal yet but it will go in one of them!

She is still a work in progress and needs a lot of the details yet but what do you think??? She was a lot of fun to make!

PAM CARRIKER'S JOURNAL 365

I absolutey love Pam Carriker. Her art is different and exciting and she is an incredible teacher.

Her latest class, JOURNAL 365, I believe, will be absolutely fantastic. She is a very "simple" yet dynamic artist. I made a journal out of Fabirano Paper just for this class and am so excited about it!

These are the first two pages for the class:





The page looks a little blurred but that's the scanning! It's actually really pretty.


I have tons of completed pages in my journal. I use up every spare bit of paint from other projects to color in pages and then go back and work on them. These pages have several layers of acrylic, charcoal pencil, stamps, images. I used the word BEGIN (from a magazine) because it's the first pages in this journal and the beginning of the 365 day journey with Pam.





The day that I feel like writing/journaling I never have to start by covering up the "white"! I am quite pleased with these pages.

Have a great week everyone!