Clearly Delightful

He's home!

Some of you have asked, so just a quick post to let you know we got to bring my boy home on Tuesday evening July 7!  Of course the snapshots started away.  My mom is holding him in this picture.

THANK YOU to everyone for leaving me such sweet and encouraging comments!   WOW!  I am really blessed by this blog more and more  each day!    I sure hope to have some stamping inspiration in a couple weeks for you, thank you for sticking with me!

Love you all!
Laurie

Here's my baby!

Of course, I just have to share pictures him because I think he is adorable!  I just now found out there IS internet at the hospital and I leave in the morning......  LOL.

OK, so here he is... little Wyatt.
Picture is a tad fuzzy since my husband took it with my cell phone.

And of course here is BIG SISTER with her little bro... she loves him already!  She talks about him ALL the time... and to ANYONE who will listen!

I might have to go home empty handed tomorrow and leave him in the NICU... he was 2-1/2 weeks early and just couldn't quite get all the fluid stuff out of his lungs, so they need to keep him until he can clear that up.  All other vitals on him are just perfect! 
It's just hard to see him with a feeding tube in his nose and an IV in the side of his head, not to mention that I don't get to feed him... they can't risk him taking more fluids down into the lungs.

They say this is quite normal for early boys, and some babies get over it quicker than others, so they just have to keep him until they are confident the stuff is gone.  I sure hope I can have him at home by Wednesday!

Anyway, I know this post wasn't about stamping, but he is something that will keep me stamping, so it's a little related.  Thanks for all you who have already given me well wishes, wow, it is just so sweet of you and I am touched anyone out there cares, especially people I haven't even met.  THANK YOU!!

I hope to be sharing stamping again by August, so I sure hope you'll check back then!

Stamping hugs
Laurie

Tub replacement nightmare

Not that I have many readers yet, since I haven't advertised my link anywhere, but I decided to keep a record of where I've been since I haven't posted anything. I promised blog candy and a new stamping tool demo, and the reason I haven't is because I got sidetracked last week.
To sum it up:
13 trips to Home Depot = $38 in gas
1 mostly remodeled bathroom = $700
6 full days of sharing the master bathroom with parents who need to "go" at least twice EACH during the night = PRICELESS
Some things you just can't buy.
My mom and step-dad came for a week to visit us and see our toddler. We bought a new tub to replace in the guest bathroom. As it turns out, the shape of our bathroom was such that you couldn't just replace a tub. In order to get the old tub out, we had to take out the toilet... which broke! OK, new toilet too. The flooring was about 20 year old linoleum, so since the 2 major pieces were already out, we bought a couple dozen tiles to do the floor. Decided that the cabinet would eventually be a pain to replace and possibly ruin the new tiles, so we replaced that too. A one day job turned out to be a whole week! And we still need to paint and put up the trim.  I didn't get to stamp ALL WEEK!
Here's some before and after pics. ~Laurie