Walking Backwards

Today has been pretty eventful in respect to my last week. To most it would seem boring, but to someone who has been in bed for a week it is full of excitement. I spent most of my morning trying to recover the house from a week in the care of my husband. Apparently Nicholas tried to hide several pieces of candy cane under my bookshelves. I spent the good part of an hour scraping the pieces off my wood floors as carefully as possible. I then put away all of our Christmas decorations and moved the boxes into the garage to go up into the attic later. I cleaned out my calendar and made a to do list for the next week. I swept all of the floors and mopped the front room. In the last hour I have paid all of our bills (hope that one will arrive by the 13th). By far the most exciting part of my day was a trip to South Congress to go shopping with Annie. We went to DragonSnaps to pick up some clothes for the baby before they closed. I got a fleece sweater, a pair of pants, a jumper, a hat, and a red t-shirt for the short one. They are soft and cotton and lovely. Annie spent a good deal of time shopping for vintage clothes at New Bohemia and got some choice items. I love vintage clothes but can't justify buying them right now. They invited me to go to church with them tomorrow, but I don't know if Nico will be up to it. It seems that his interpretation of the current bug going around is runny nose + severe congestion + difficulty breathing. He is still smiling, but I worry when my baby is having such a hard time breathing. I'm hoping he will improve soon, the congestion is keeping him up at night.

I think I have found my next project for the year. Other than Nicholas' baby book that is. It is a photo memory quilt. I would love to have our family photos in quilt form. Much better than the cardboard box they currently exist in. I do really want to keep up with my scrapbooking this year and I probably shouldn't add another project, but it seems like I can do this at the same time. It would also help get rid of some of the massive amounts of fabric I have stored around the house, unused since the baby was born. We shall see. It always seems that I come up with so much to do at the beginning of the year and then get lazy about two months in and end up with ten unfinished projects on my hands. This year, instead of just saying I am not going to do these things, I am going to resolve to not start a project until I am done with another. That should work. . . right?