More appointments for Isaac, and I need a distraction!

The evaluator for Tn early intervention services came by this morning, and we should get this ball rolling pretty soon. We still have the psychologist appt for his "official" diagnosis (one or more) on Monday. In a few days another lady from TEIS will call to meet for his whatever they called it plan, and therapy, or the therapies,  should start soon after that. I'm so tired of...what are those things..acronyms. Like, TEIS stands for something, ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Really...I'm stuck in this place where everything and every sentence has one or more of these in it and I have to try to figure out what they mean. I'll probably know all of them in a few months, but right now trying to read stuff on the Autism mom's group fb page is like half acronyms. That I don't know.
I'm trying really hard to get my mind off of all of these appointments, and I'm also trying to sell stuff like crazy to afford some of these appointments. I'm selling stuff all over fb resale sites. I started a gofundme page for Isaac, for anyone who's feeling sympathetic and wants to help out! Please! The amount that we are trying to raise is what his speech therapy alone is going to cost this year. I put on there that it was for all 3, but I just added up his twice a week visit copays and that's the number I got. Sheesh!! So...if you feel like you can...click the link and help us out!! What I didn't realize is that gofundme will not make your profile/page truly public where wonderful strangers can donate...until you get $100 in donations yourself. So please share!
As spring is fastly approaching, I need something for me to do to earn money. I can do boutique hairbows and diaper cakes with ease, also homemade bath salts and sugar scrubs ... so I was thinking about maybe getting up a big stockpile of those and doing spring, summer, and fall craft shows. Most of these are on weekends anyway when D is off work and I can drag the Jessica with me to help out. Thoughts? On most of the big ones, little ones, and even consignment sales I have noticed that they have vendors who do bows, but since the diaper cakes are so much fun for me I thought about those. Good idea, bad idea? I do not think I can do both in one booth, but I'm not sure about that either. Or not risk it at all? I really really really need advice on this one. I'm on the fence.
Still working on that super sparkly list for this year though, and just wondering if crafts/trade shows should be on it. Y'all help me out with deciding!!
Love and always God Bless! www.gofundme.com/5ywwdw

I finished something!! Yay!!!

Lately everything has been seeming to be seriously rushed, and it seems as though I have so many things half done or almost done. And you would think something as simple as putting up the Christmas tree would be one of those things you can just "get done". Nope. Not this chick! I do believe that right now I have about 3 to 4 different projects going on that I am desperate to finish!!! Here's the list:
1. Bows. I have made a sh*tload of bows it seems lately, and I still have about 4 more rolls of ribbon to do as well as Christmas ones. Need to really get on that.
2. April's diaper cake. (Can't finish that til find that perfect topper at Disney!)
3. Packing for this trip. (Can't finish that either, obvious reasons!) But having all the luggage in my room cause there is already some stuff in them doesn't help much. I'm ready to go!!
4. Touch up paint in the kitchen. For some lovely reason, the table is sticking to the wall peeling off paint. As before, it's taking 5, 6 or maybe even 7 coats. I'm on coat 3.
5. Putting up the Christmas tree. I started this, in what I thought was plenty of time before the kids got home from MDO, and it turns out that even with 3 new sets of lights, I am short one. Y'all! My fake tree didn't GROW over the past year!! How did this happen!!! I replaced 3 bad sets, with 3 new sets...and am still short!!! So there the poor thing sits...no ornaments, just waiting, not lit all the way to the top. Lights were bought tonight, so after the Lego awesomeness tomorrow hopefully it'll come together!
6. Shopping for Mr. E's first birthday. I have been to several stores, and it seems that none other will do for my first nephew. Disney store look out. That's my big Sunday project. After being at the mall...I'll need the rest of the day off. Seriously. And I'm only going to the one store.

As the title of the blog says, I did finally FINALLY finish something! The teacher gifts for Christmas. Since we'll be leaving early I wanted to go ahead and get these done.
TaDa!

 

 

I am not quite sure what I'm more excited about with these!! The fact that I did something new to me, the fact that I finished something, that I did something "craftsy", or that I have a SET for all 12 teachers. That's right, 12 sets, 24 jars, and comes out to about $2 a piece to make! I did have some ribbon I was going to use instead of the yarn, but at the time all that yarn was just hanging out on my counter. Thanks Carol! So maybe for an idea to sell the stuff would be a pretty ribbon and maybe cover the lid. Could still probably do it for just under $3 a jar! And these smell sooooo goood too!

Coming up tomorrow: How my princess did with the robot!!