Making Mama

I made a dress!! My first sewn garment and I couldn’t be happier with the results 😊🧵 🪡 👗 🐌

Can anyone explain why babies only get off schedule when you have plans? I was supposed to be at my grandma’s house (45 min away) about 10 min ago based on typical nap schedule. Instead he’s still sleeping so we haven’t left (he also needs to eat and have a diaper change first).

My baby is 6 months old today! Just yesterday he rolled from his tummy to his back for the first time. He loves sweet potatoes. He can almost stand holding onto the couch. He giggles at beards. He touches my face while he nurses. He’s brought me more joy than I could’ve imagined.

18 0.5oz frozen servings of sweet potatoes! For now he won’t even eat a half ounce in one sitting, but I’m sure that’ll increase to multiple cubes before I know it. Peas are next on the list.

I guess the interest in solids was part of a growth spurt. I’m trying to nurse and he’s just so mad. Dude, I can’t make the milk come faster. You gave me 45 min to replenish from a 15 min feed. I’m chugging water and mad snacking. This is all I got.

I’m so excited! Baby is suddenly a fan of solids. He figured out what the heck to do with a spoonful of rice cereal, and he can’t get enough! So excited to try other things. I have pea purée and sweet potato purée planned. Any other recommendations? I’m going all homemade. 👶

New development at the oboer household! Baby no longer tolerates the sound of an oboe. That was a short practice. 🎵👶

I am torn between diving head first into climate activism, and burying my head in the sand. I can’t tolerate this anxiety without doing something, but it feels utterly hopeless and I don’t know where to start. How do people cope with this?

Finally making progress again on this shawl for my sister in law. I’m hoping to finish by Christmas… 🤞🧶

My first sourdough in very many months, after severely neglecting my starter (having a newborn does that to you). Starter successfully revived, delicious bread baked! 🍞

(Why are the photos cropped so weird?? I promise when I took them they weren’t cut off and off-center 🙃)

Our townhouse has been without gutters since mid-May due to a grossly mismanaged roofing project. They finally gave us gutters a couple weeks ago, but didn’t reattach the downspouts. They are FINALLY working on the downspouts, and started with the gutters by our bedroom (where baby sleeps) the moment he settled down for a nap. I calmed him down and moved him to his (future) bedroom on the opposite side of the house, and as soon as he fell asleep they stopped working. So now he’s sleeping away from the baby monitor for basically no reason, and I can’t do my noisy chores downstairs because I won’t hear him wake up. So I’m stuck puttering around up here, killing time until he wakes up. What a day.

Any other crocheters out there feel neglected by the yarn community? I wish there was more crochet in the world.

Just a quick post about why I’m making a blog. I’m sick of the normal social media platforms. They are insincere places filled with people putting false images of their lives up on display, pedaling false information for likes, and the systems generally trying to give you dopamine hits without actually giving you a valuable experience. I want something simpler. Something more honest. A place I can be myself without comparing myself. This is going to be some mix of showing off crafts and cooking and journaling about mom life. Wish me luck!