...And The Winner Is...

Kalurah! (cheers and applause)

The number was 23. =) Send me your mail info and it will be on its merry way!

Sorry for the blog absence. We've had....a week. My son, the sweetest - most angelic child - has nearly driven me insane! =) For sure mentally drained. The kind of week where I find myself thinking "we want another one? ...and we'll have to do this AGAIN?" ;) Half kidding of course, but man he's stumped me.

You know how with parenting, just about the time you feel like you've "got it" and everything is comfortable and easy, they go and change it on you? That's never been more true than now. The sweetest, most angelic child, has decided henceforth, he needs no nap. (ah! but he DOES!) So we've been having MAJOR naptime battles...major. And its just spilling over everwhere else. What used to be a 5 minute process, is now 2 hours if I'm lucky. So blog, craft, ...sane thought patterns, have been put on hold while I try to figure out how to 'parent' this one. Tomorrow we're trying a new tactic. We'll see how it goes.

You'll know, if there is a blog post about what we did friday night, and the new bags I'm putting up in my etsy shop, you'll know naptime was a success! If not, think of me, I'm sitting at the top of the stairs, praying for a nap! :)

Contest!

Let me start by saying, electricity is a GOOD thing! Sorry for the delay in posting the contest, I had planned to have it up last night. I put the boy to bed, finished a few things, sat down to post and....thunderstorm. More importantly....lightning! *sigh* shut down, unplug. wait for later.

That was around 8. By 9:30, thunderstorm passed, now just a nice easy rain coming down. "ah! I'll finish a few rows on this scarf, finish watching nanny 911, and go post"

...Then darkness. Then the lights flickered on a second or two and, dark again. I waited a few seconds thinking "It'll kick back on" ....lights? ....hello? ....Air Conditioning? ....guys?

And then the boy CRYING upstairs....and I had to feel my way up to him without breaking my neck. Then feel my way back downstairs (you wouldn't BELIEVE how dark our house is!) to fumble for candles, and matches - which, smart mommy I am, I'd 'hidden' WAY up high. Just to make this moment that much easier. All while the boy is clenched onto me.

A few minutes later, we were on the front porch, happily eating raisins and talking about how dark it was. Go figure.

(see, I can ramble!) All that to say we didn't get power until almost 1am, after I'd set up camp in the living room (sleeping on the floor didn't always hurt did it??).

Note to self: make that stupid power outage box I'm always telling myself I'll make.

I did realize at one point, we DID have a flashlight, and retrieved it:

yeah, the doggie flashlight. It only stays on for about a minute, but it did fill the requirement in that - it makes light. Good enough!

Alright, enough about our power outage (after all, my AC works again and that's all that matters!)

--------Contest!---------

First the why? I SOLD MY FIRST ETSY ITEM YESTERDAY! ...and I'm freakishly excited about it. You have no idea. =)

So to celebrate, I'm doing a little give-away!

(minus the slightly crumpled cup, my son likes to play with it and its taken a beating)
The yellow is a bit more mellow than in the picture, but still a very cute coffee cozy if I do say so. 100% cotton, wash and wear.

So here's the deal, starting...now! and ending Sunday the 15th (let's say midnight). I've picked a number between 1 and 100. (I even wrote it down) Leave a comment with your guess. Even better? Send a new reader over and when they post, you can guess a second time (or third...or fourth...)

The good news? I don't have many readers, so your chances are pretty good ;) LOL!

Have fun!