Lacking Profound-ness

I haven't had anything profound to post lately, not that anything I ever post is "profound".  I've been working on sewing projects, and trying to find a good balance between family time and sewing time.  With E at home, I only have nap time and bed time to really sew, with the occasional day where I have a some time while she plays or watches a movie.  I am constantly making myself feel guilty for sewing instead of playing with her, but I have to remind myself that she gets plenty of play time and interaction with Mommy and friends so a few hours of playing on her own is good for her.  
Most of my projects take almost an hour from start to finish so that lets me accomplish maybe 3-4 things on a good day, not nearly as much as I would like to be doing.  Luckily for me, Elise was feeling a little under the weather this week so I took it as an opportunity to get caught up on some sewing projects that I have been wanting to try out.  Thank goodness for our new Showtime channel and old school movies!  Elise was introduced to The Land Before Time (the original!) and The Care Bears (Care Bear stare!!!!!!!!!!!!) and I whipped up 3 skirts and 3 pairs of ruffle pants! 

I really am enjoying sewing and it's a good departure from the embroidery.  For those of you who don't know, the embroidery machine is all computerized, so there isn't a lot of "work" involved while it's going.  You do have to set it all up, load the files, spell out the name one letter at a time (really boring!) set up the item to be embroidered, and then stay put in front of the machine while it stitches out so that it doesn't mess up, so it can be tedious.  Sewing goes a lot faster and there are more steps involved but has you up and down and moving around a lot more which I like.  So I am glad to have that balance between embroidering and sewing.