A Blessed Mess Blog

As I reflect on this wonderful Thanksgiving Day, I can't help but smile.  This holiday was different for us this year.  I'm so thankful Travis wasn't on duty and we were able to spend it as a family together!  This morning was a "late" day for me work-wise and I didn't have to start until 8 am, so we even got to sleep in!  That was great even though Sophie woke us up at 6:30 am to tell us she felt better after a night of nausea and just feeling bad.  Of course, I couldn't go back to sleep, so I ended up getting out of bed around 7:20 and starting work a little early.  To my delight, I was out of work around 9:00 am so I managed to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with my crew.  Usually our Thanksgiving mornings when Travis is home are filled with rushing around trying to get a few dishes made to take to his family's for dinner.  This year his parents went out of state to spend the holiday with his younger brother, so our day was left open ...

I'm at a loss for words, y'all.  So I've had my2sweets for a few years going.  I've sold to friends, friends of friends, church friends, you know, nothing real big.  I did the Rhea Lana sale twice a year, which was big time for my2sweets.  I retired from RL last fall and went out with happiness in my head.  It was a great 6 sale run.  So with a job change looming (oh, man, nothing looming about it---it's elation, to be honest!!!) I tried focusing on my awesome little booth at The Bees Knees where I hang my American Girl doll clothes I sew.  I post pics from time to time on Facebook to show others.  It's pretty fun.  Christmas is nearing so I have a great idea from a friend, Ms Jamie, to make clothes for the popular little Elves...you know the ones.  I can't really TYPE their name, but you know what I mean :)  Anyway, around October or so I start talking about it.  Not much comes from it.  A sweetheart friend from church an...