Knitting, doodling, raising baby
Saturday, December 27th, 2008
A wonderful time-waster, curtesy of Ruth:
Things I’ve Done (In Bold)
1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band – I played the drums, but not in a band. Unless Rock Band counts.
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis – In kindergarden. I was kind of fearless about bugs.
10. Sung a solo – which does not go well with the fact that I can’t carry a tune to save my life.
11. Bungee jumped – but I plan to (sorry Ruth :))
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightening at sea
14. Taught myself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning – more times then I care to remember
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty – I walked half way because the top was closed. But I planned to.
18. Grown my own vegetables – strawberries are technically a fruit, but still.
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill – many, many times.
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon – HA!
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught myself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke – see number 10. I was in the army, and a bit drunk..
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had my portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing – no, but I went deep-sea diving.
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person – and was so impressed I just fell back on my ass while staring at the ceiling. I just sat there until the guard came to yell at me.
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie – unless low budget student “productions” count.
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason – which is a good thing, because I don’t like flowers.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving – but I want to.
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp – don’t ask.
67. Bounced a check – my own or had someone else’s check bounce?
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square – but not in New-Year’s. Maybe next year.
74. Toured the Everglades – I don’t even know what the everglades are..
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book – a book I illustrated was published, That sort of counts, doesn’t it?
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating – EWWW!
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Rode an elephant – but I rode a camel.
Go ahead, tag yourself!
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
… when you get your Amazon Recommendations email and it recommends “It’s Hard Out Here For a Shrimp: Life, Love & Living Large” by Pepe The King Prawn. My life is getting wierder by the minute.
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
A new movie about the Craft and DIY movement, about to come out in 2009. I just saw the trailer, and it’s kinda nice to be able to put a face on some of the crafters I’ve been following all these years.
Also, do people in the USA really say “like” every second word?
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Welcome to my new blog system. I’m still working out all the quirks and kinks, so you can just enjoy the new design for now.
Oh, and if anyone had any success at making the Ravelry progress bars work, please let me know..
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Well. 
Life with the midget (as we fondly refer to our enormous, 95th precentile, 7-kilo baby) is starting to look a bit like a life again instead of a long, hectic day. He smiles. He laughs. He eats faster. He sleeps longer. He learned to make noise by banging a rattle repeatedly against my head. He says Ah-Goo and holds his head up. He anticipates events and gets angry if they don’t happen fast enough. He realized there are cats living in the house (Ah! Goo!). He is slowly coming out of the "newborn-ness" that surrounded his existence until now.
I’m learning too. My aunt was here a while ago and we talked about her work, and she told me that the reason she is so efficient in her work is because she doesn’t like it and prefers to get it over with as fast as she can. And I realized, whatever I choose to do now, it’s gotta be fun. It’s gotta be something I’ll want to do so much, that I won’t want to just get it over with. And very slowly, ideas that swam around in my head for the last 2-3 years are starting
to take the shape of sketches and Google Documents and excited phone
calls. Slowly, becasue I know myself, and I tend to get over-excited about new projects and then burn out faster then a match. And this time I want it to work. And when Toam looks at me 20 years from now I want him to see that I did what made me happy and fulfilled and not what paid the bills, because that’s how I hope he’ll live his life, too.
Meanwhile, I spend a lot of time online, looking for inspiration. Feel free to check out these hand-picked, kiddy links:
Small Magazine (check out the ads, they each lead to sites more amazing and wonderous then you can imagine)
Keri Smith writes about motherhood and creativity. In a somewhat kitchy way, but kitch does tend to become the truth when it comes to babies.
Baby Rings – A toy to sew for young ones (this is a link to a PDF file)
e-coloriage – Eco-themed coloring pages for kids (to print out. Which kind of beats the whole ecology thing, but I guess you could color them on the computer, too)
Cuteable – blogging everything that is cute, and not just for kids
Ohdeeoh – blogging everything that is for kids, and not just cute
And my recent find, Camille Soulayrol, a French (I think..) stylist. I want to live in her world. don’t forget to roll over the dots under the photo and wait a bit.
And, for those of you who are poetically-inclined, check out my cousin’s review of "Twist of Address", on Slope magazine.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
So, this is pretty much what’s going on in my life right now. One kid, getting bigger every day while I sit around and watch, awed. I’ve been meaning to write a new post for quite a while, but I’m not sure what to say – I’m not particularly crafty these days, not too much online, nothing extrememly interesting is going on unless you’re me, or you are as interested in this little baby as I am for some reason (Hi, Grandmas! :))
2 months ago, a bit after Toam was born, I remember how I sat one night and couldn’t really figure out why we made him, what was wrong with our old life. I was wondering how I’d feel if he disappeared and I wasn’t sure it would be too bad. I missed my hobbies. I missed sleeping. Now? I spent an hour away from him last week and it felt like someone ripped my leg off.
Officialy I’m back to work, but my brain is mush. I don’t do much now except hang around with my kid, taking him out for walks, talking, laughing.. not much going on these days, really.
And yet, surprisingly enough, I’m enjoying every second of it.
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
My new little teacher.
A teacher of patience.
Of admitting you were wrong.
Of finding out what works for you (the cloth diapers? No good in the Israeli summer unless you want to wake your kid up every hour to change his diaper. Which I (obviously) don’t. Toam got an INCREDIBLE rash and we had to store those away for now).
Of facing your fears – I’m going back to work next week, and Ez is taking the rest of the maternity leave. Which means decisions should be made, about what my business is going to look like from now on. Yikes.
Of finding the balance between "mom" and "me".
Of being able to function properly when you don’t sleep for more then 4 hours straight (and yes, I know 4 hours is a lot with such a young baby..)
Of not feeling guilty about every little thing.
And of finding out that what you thought was 100% of who you are, was in fact only about 85..
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This is a long overdue post that I was a little scared to be optimistic about before I had any actual experience.
A few months before Toam was born, we tried to make some decisions about the way life with him will be – we asked friends to build us a co-sleeper, and bought some cloth diapers. Most of the family thought we were nuts. Cloth diapers? in the age where disposables are so available and easy to use? How will you manage? and what about the laundry? and WHY?!
Well, there are a lot of reasons why. Ecology is one of them, but that wasn’t on the top of my priority list – it’s just a nice benefit. I got the proof of why cloth diapers are much better when we left the house for the weekend and switched to disposables for the sake of convenice – Toam’s little newborn tush was covered in diaper rash within 24 hours, no matter how much cream we used to try to protect him. Once we got home and switched him back to cloth, the rash was gone.
Cloth diapers contain no chemicals, no bleaches, no glue, and no questionable substances. True, they take some getting used to and require a few minutes more of your time per diaper – you have to take the dirty diaper, wash the poop off (easy if you install one of those sprayers next to your toilet) and store it in a pail. Once a day, just empty the pail into the washing machine and you have a batch of fresh diapers.
It’s not for the faint of heart who don’t want to handle poop, but from what I noticed so far, handling poop is what parenthood is all about.
You also don’t have to do any of the old fashioned "baby origami" to diaper your baby, and there are no pins! today’s cloth diapers are shaped like a disposable, close with velcro or snaps, and you have a huge variety of options to choose from – some have covers, some are "All in One" diapers that include the covers, some have a pocket so you can choose how much absorbant material you need.
The best way to choose cloth diapers is to buy one of each of a few brands you want to try, and see what works best for you. I chose a different way and bought a whole batch of bamboozles from Tots Bots, which got excellent reviews, are extremely soft and fit almost every body shape (and at least for us – they don’t leak!) and are made of antibacterial Bamboo. They’re pricey, too, so your inital expense might be quite large – but in the long run, cloth diapers will save you money, too.
They say that once babies start eating solid foods, things get more difficult. I will have to remember to report about that when the time comes.
More baby news – we survived the Brit on Friday, as well as our first weekend away from home. I’m getting better, and Toam is getting BIG – he spends more time awake now, and doesn’t fall asleep after 5 seconds of breatfeeding. Life is emotional and full of ups and downs, and there is not much on my mind other then diapers, milk and sleep. Lots of smiling and lots of tears for all 3 of us. Lots of getting used to this new life with this new person, who can be wonderful and frustrating all at the same time.
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
5 days ago I gave birth via an unplanned (but non-emergency) c-section. We got home yesterday and we’re feeling wonderful – I spent 4 days in the hospital recovering, and at the end they said I can keep him
I’m insanely happy and hormonal, and can’t take my eyes (or camera) off the little wonder that is my son. Wow.
p.s – Ruth – your blanket is a life-saver, the baby loves it and spends his days and nights snuggled in it. I’ll post photos soon!
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