{"id":1891,"date":"2012-01-30T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2012-01-30T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T06:00:30","slug":"1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julie.daneman.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/1891\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Blankets and Survival Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably heard (read? seen? you get the idea) me say I’m not a crafty-type person<\/a>. I stand by that, but this week\/weekend, I had a pretty good moment, I think.<\/p>\n

Saturday was a baby shower for a friend of mine. This baby was much prayed for and is already so loved and cherished – oh, and did I mention this baby is a girl arriving in a house of boys? Clearly no ordinary gift would do. So, since I’ve dabbled with sewing some baby blankets, as soon as I knew of the little princess’s pending arrival, I found some adorable fabric and binding and had great plans to make a blanket way in advance.<\/p>\n

Well, you know about best-laid plans…<\/p>\n

So, of course, I didn’t get it made WAY in advance. On Friday (yes, the day before the shower), I pulled out my fancy new-to-me sewing machine, and proceeded to make two of the UGLIEST baby blankets in the history of, well, ever. Don’t worry, I had planned for this contingency – sort of. I was “practicing” on two blankets for Sam (sorry, son). After ruining the first one, and breaking the machine on the second one, I gave up. I pulled out my trusty avocado green Kenmore sewing machine that’s older than I am. I finished up the second ugly blanket for Sam (to reacquaint myself with the machine). Then I made a perfectly lovely girly blanket for Miss Shelby. I really was quite proud of how it turned out. (Of course, being the ever-prepared person I am, I completely forgot to take pictures of it. Maybe if Makala reads this, she can send me a pic of the blanket and I’ll add it here. :))<\/p>\n

Since I’d already done one blanket for Miss Shelby<\/a>, I decided the other part of the shower gift would focus on Shelby’s Mommy, who I happen to know will be joining the ranks of working mommies after her maternity leave. So, I put together a Working Mommy’s Survival Kit (full disclosure: I came up with the idea, but needed help from Cris Waters and Ashley Bearden to flesh it out).<\/p>\n

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Just so you have an idea, the contents of the kit are to be kept at Mommy’s office (or desk, or car, whatever is appropriate) and includes:<\/p>\n