Mother's Day this year had an extra special and exciting twist! On the way to mass Sunday I said, "Wouldn't it be great if the baptismal gown I made sold in the church shop today?" When we arrived at church I slowly walked around the corner into the shop and could see the dress was gone! A grandmother had just purchased it for her new grandchild's baptism! I was elated! I received compensation for the gown and floated into mass, full of gratitude!
It was certainly a gift to sell something I had made. I wanted to come home and make another one! But the day was filled with more gifts - homemade cards, some sewing tools I had picked out and my favorite restaurant for dinner. For fun, when I picked up the food I paid with the cash I had received that morning! Moe's chips and salsa never tasted so good! :)
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| Beautiful poems and drawings! |
Before I could start another baptism gown, I had to finish up a quilt I had started for the hospital. Going back to the number one reason I started sewing in the first place, making a quilt for a child going through something similar to what Ellie did is incredibly fulfilling. The fabric comes in the mail which makes it super easy to piece together and construct. This is my second one I've done. The first was dedicated to a boy, Walt, who lost his medical battle last year. This one would be dedicated to a sweet little girl whom I never met but have a connection to her Mommy. Ellie and Nora were both born April 17, 2012. Nora lives about an hour or so from where I was born in Kentucky. Nora had heart issues and lung issues and an extra chromosome too. Nora fought for a little more than 2 years and her Momma's blog is what inspired me to start blogging. That and terrible cell phone coverage in the ICU :).
This fabric had little robots all over it and the back had a newspaper article about the superheros that stopped the robots from destroying the planet. Nora certainly had super-hero powers the way she fought so hard those two plus years and I loved writing her name on the little tag that will soon circulate through the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Egleston Children's Hospital in Atlanta. Ellie gave it a few hugs before I mailed it off. I expect my brain will continue to think of Nora while singing Happy Birthday to Ellie each year.
To end on a musical note - Ellie has some exciting news! I discovered a grant that will pay for piano lessons for her! Here is her first lesson after the other three had their lessons with "Ms. Heather". Ellie is marching to "Old McDonald" while "moo-mooing" :). She has had two lessons now and runs into the room when it is her turn! We sing, clap and spend a lot of time using other musical instruments along with the piano. A xylophone we've had for years is coming in very handy!
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| She's so happy and is responding to it all very favorably! |
