Three Thought Thursday: Episode 3

1. My world has revolved around potty training this week. Three full days of "total submersion" into all things potty followed by several more days of getting used to participating in the real world in undies instead of a diaper. This includes everything from going at a friend's house, going at a restaurant, going at Target, and even going behind a tree at the park because Mama forgot the travel potty. Really, I've had to think about it non-stop because what self-respecting two-year-old boy would honestly want to spend his day doing that!?! Though I must admit, 9 times out of 10, he tells me when he needs to go. It's just that 10th time when I'm glad I reminded him.

2. Has anyone else been having problems with Blogger? Mine is behaving badly. I really don't like either of the blogging formats they offer. I usually end up bouncing back and forth between both formats just to be able to do what I want to do. Surely it's not that hard to come up with a blogging system that's user friendly! I hardly have time to get on and blog as it is, so when I do, I'd like for it to be a smooth, efficient process. Free time is precious, people! The last thing I want is for it to end with frustration! And if google can't do it, I may just have to go to a different system! Bahumbug!

3. This past summer I (finally) took up sewing after twenty-seven years of watching my mother do it on a regular basis. Really? It took that long? Yes. I had always wanted to learn how to sew but was one of the busiest high schoolers you could ever imagine and just never got around to learning. Then college came and it was more of the same. My parents got me a new sewing machine for my twenty-seventh birthday (which I absolutely LOVE) and I haven't turned back since. I love the feeling of actually producing something after a project is completed. And sometimes when the only thing going on with the boys in a day is total nonsense, making something with the machine is quite empowering!

Anyway, this "thought" is not about the love of my sewing machine. Yes, I love it dearly, but right now I'm just totally infatuated with my magnetic pin cushion. I supposed I just needed to give it the proper background story before I jumped in to discussing it's super powers. Prior to receiving this awesome gift from Abby for Christmas, I was using the good ol' tomato pin cushion where you have to physically push each pin into the cushion. The only problem was that as I would sew, I would pull out each pin and just set it on the table. Seriously, who wants to stop the machine to push each pin into the cushion?! Get real! So I would end up with a pile of pins on the table and then put them all back in the cushion at the same time. Inadvertently, there'd always be one (or seven) pins that would roll to the floor, under the table, across the room.... You get the point. Despite my efforts to track them down, there were constantly run-aways. Mark constantly was getting on to me when his magic eyes somehow tracked them down. But alas! A creation that solves this problem completely! The magnetic pin cushion zaps up any metal object that comes with in a foot of it. Seriously, drop a pin relatively close to it, and it sucks it right in! It even holds my thick, heavy, metal fabric scissors with no problem. I have several baby showers coming up so I've been sewing away in my free time (i.e. pretty much rarely, always during nap time, and certainly not more than 30 minutes a day...) and finally getting to use my new little gadget. Let me just say, it's awesome! If you sew, you need one of these! Especially if you have little ones. Their knees and hands will thank you! (or Aunt Abby!)