Why is Devon writing The Green Notebook?
Two reasons. Mostly. I have a blog--The Yellow Notebook--but have noticed that blogs with specific goals seem to shine. So I decided that I would blog about the next two-and-a-half years as we work REALLY hard at squeezing my husband through nursing school while randomly making money, consistently saving ourselves money, raising small children, writing a novel, dealing with the current economy, trusting God and deepening our friendships, et al. Watch the balancing act! Also, my friends have been complaining that blogs tend to be, well... life edited. So I am going to try NOT to edit out the things that make us a real family with real financial and other struggles. And in this ring...
By the way, I have not named my children "Boy" and "Girl." I just like to refer to them that way on the blog. I also refer to my nephew as "Baby."
And here is my tagline:
What economy? Or Diary of a Young, Urbanite, Apolitical, Lower-Income, Middle-Class, Writer, Foodie, Artist, Stay-at-Home Mom.
*If you want to know our story and the protracted story of this blog, see the entry from January 17, 2010, titled appropriately "Our Story."
Check it out. We have been going to give Boy a classic spike for months, but we finally got to Michigan so that Makah could give him one. Awesome.
This project is not Christmas related, so I can share. I got an eleventh-hour invitation to a baby shower and was pretty proud to have whipped this up out of fabric scraps around the house. Made with fleece, it ended up being really soft and feeling very thick and warm. I think it will make a great blanket to set the baby on a hard ground, and Mommy Monika really seemed to like it. Lalaloopsy not included.
