Getting ready for Lydia

at 02/06/10 9:52PM

I find I can't go through the Target anymore without stopping in the baby section! So many cute things! I am trying to restrain myself from buying everything in sight - if I don't, I'm afraid there would be nothing left for anyone to give at the baby shower {tee hee}! But I have broken down and bought just a FEW cute things!

I am also working on a quilt for Lydia. It is not a patchwork quilt; it is cross stitched on white cloth. I don't like the way it is backed, so I am going to redo that part. It has cute jungle animals on it to go with the theme of the nursery. I would like to finish it by the shower, but I have serious doubts. The work is intricate and there just don't seem to be enough hours in the day :(

Steve is getting ready for Lydia, too. My grandfather made a doll cabinet circa 1930 for my mother and then reworked it for me to use in 1960. Unchanged, it was in Daniel's room, and now Steve is refurbishing it for Lydia. Steve cleaned the antique hinges today and made them look great! He is waiting for warmer weather to strip the old paint; but, as he puts it, "is sanding the gunk off before he strips the paint". We picked out a color for it, but are still thinking about what art/decals/pictures to put on the doors.

So, excitement is buzzing all around the "old" Harbin house for things to go into the "young" Harbin house when Lydia arrives! Yay :):):):)

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I want to see both pieces of art! I bet they are both great!

by pistal77 at 02/07/10 7:15PM
I can't wait to see the cabinet when it's finished. Lydia is one blessed little girl!

We're thinking about trying to paint the nursery sometime this month (once we get another free weekend). Everything will come together soon:) Love you and can't wait for you to get back!

by csusoftballgirl at 02/08/10 8:51AM
You will have to post pictures of all the finished products, sounds awesome!

by cmdl at 02/08/10 9:23AM
aww! heehee

by adeline at 02/08/10 6:53PM
Thank you! I am really blessed that I get to stay home with my children! We are going to stop by and see your mom tomorrow. I will let you know how it goes.

by blueeyes at 02/09/10 2:20AM
We stopped by to see your mom today! We took her a cupcake and a Valentine.

by blueeyes at 02/09/10 12:23PM
We miss you! Hope you were able to accomplish good works on your trip. Love you and the example you are.

by maryel at 02/10/10 9:34AM
That is so exciting!! ~ I find myself in the baby section at Target a lot more these days too!! :)

by kendralulu at 02/14/10 11:24PM
Taking a grading break to distract myself with Pleo. I wanted to stop by and say 'hi.' I'm sorry we can't do anything this Friday. I'd love to get together early next week!

by csusoftballgirl at 02/17/10 11:36AM
Sounds like fun. I am soooo excited for you!

by roseofsharon at 02/18/10 11:05AM
Thanks, I am too! We like the OK cowboys too; they were really good the first show. When she finishes Jacob's Quillow I'm have to show you. :)

by kendralulu at 02/19/10 9:33AM
I know! Once the ticker gets down to 90 days--the 3-month mark--it'll really seem real. It's going by so fast!

by csusoftballgirl at 02/20/10 5:26PM
Thank-you so much for that... it helps to know you're not alone.

by millie at 02/20/10 7:25PM
I'm glad I get a return, too!! :)

by kalawi at 02/22/10 11:28AM
Yes!! I love the thrill of the hunt! :)

by kendralulu at 03/04/10 2:25PM
yeah, Dan and I sent each other secret smiles when we heard Deut. 6:24 mentioned:) Booyah, as your son would say!

by csusoftballgirl at 03/08/10 2:20PM
Thanks! It's unfortunate that the meetings fell at the same time. We've enjoyed the lessons this week. ~ We're looking forward to spending sometime with Craig's parents this weekend. :)

by kendralulu at 03/12/10 3:36PM
Glad we could help.

by blueeyes at 03/15/10 11:10AM
Well good! Thanks! I love it!! :)

by kendralulu at 03/17/10 5:26PM
There are still a lot of things up in the air right now....so I'm not sure about NY :/ I've been wanting to go!!! But it might just not work out. Well, it will be on my list of places to go in my lifetime. :) I'm so excited for you guys about Lydia!! May is coming so soon!!!

by windham4life at 03/17/10 9:58PM

Lydia Harbin....

at 01/14/10 9:52PM

... is coming! Can't wait for May 26th to meet my first grandchild!

Very exciting!

by blueeyes at 01/14/10 10:02PM
i like how formal her name is.

by pistal77 at 01/14/10 11:25PM
Super cute name!

by cmdl at 01/15/10 3:22AM
I love the name! I'm so excited for you guys!

by kalawi at 01/15/10 8:37AM
:))))) We can't wait either!

by csusoftballgirl at 01/15/10 11:00AM
:)

by ewalker at 01/15/10 3:10PM
awe, they picked a name! Very cute! Due date will be here before you all know it!

by windham4life at 01/15/10 11:04PM
:] cute!

by adeline at 01/16/10 9:58AM
Yay!!! :)

by kendralulu at 01/18/10 2:08PM
She is going to be gorgeous! Can't wait.

by bekahv at 01/18/10 7:25PM
Thank you!! :)

by kendralulu at 01/21/10 10:58AM
Though you didn't know that I knew, I knew! Such fun shopping in the little girls' dept. I have some prized things of yours (via Ana), that I think you should have back. Would you like them for Lydia?

by roseofsharon at 01/21/10 11:41AM
I can't wait! We will have so many sweet girls running around!

by juliehud at 01/22/10 10:18PM
Thank you! You are special to me. I cannot tell you how excited I am for you to be a grandma, and extra special because they live there instead of somewhere else!

by roseofsharon at 01/24/10 8:03PM
Thank you! He had a great time!!! :)

by kendralulu at 01/26/10 3:35PM

Now that's what the holidays are all about!

at 12/28/09 12:17PM *

For the second year in a row, we had Dan and Melissa spend a couple of nights with us. Lots of parents have their children come visit for a few nights for the big gift exchange day, but ours live just down the road in Leander! But, the 24/7 is a really great experience :) We did lots of cooking together to make the Christmas meal come off at noon so that my mother could eat with us and open presents. Standing rib roast, potatoes, green beans, my mother's special cauliflower recipe, and two pies and fruitcake! Yum! Mom only picked, as usual, but seemed genuinely surprised and happy at getting presents :)

Opening presents was great, of course, but the time together was the best part. We watched two movies - the new Star Trek one and Up! We also played two board games. Melissa must be a great influence on our family - even Steve, our non-game player, had a great time! Well, you would too if you won everything like he did! Ha! I told him it was good practice for playing Chutes and Ladders and Hi Ho Cherry-O with his grandchildren :):) I hope this is a tradition that we can share for many years to come. AND, doing a sleepover thing at other times of the year would be great, too!

Well, only 10 days until Melissa has the ultrasound that will tell us if the baby is a boy or girl, IF the baby cooperates. Since we all really want to know, I hope the baby is turned the right way :)

that is great!

by pistal77 at 12/28/09 1:38PM
I know we had a BLAST! Thanks again for all of your hard work and good cooking:)

by csusoftballgirl at 12/28/09 4:04PM
Ahhh! Only 10 days?! That is pretty exciting! I hope you guys are able to tell about the baby. :p I like the Star Trek movie a lot, even though I was never a Star Trek TV show person. "Up" made me cry like a baby, MANY many times! I'm a sap. Ha!

by cmdl at 12/28/09 5:21PM
awe, that sounds like an awesome Christmas!! :) I like both of those movies you watched, good ones. :) So exciting that they find out the gender soon!!! :)

by windham4life at 12/29/09 1:20PM
That sounds like so much fun! I'm excited for y'all to find out the gender.

by ewalker at 12/30/09 12:44AM
I'm glad everyone had a good time!! :)

by kendralulu at 12/31/09 10:11AM

Just call me "Nana"

at 12/02/09 2:46PM *

The news is finally out - Dan and Melissa are going to be parents. But, MORE IMPORTANTLY, I am going to be a grandma! I am so excited that I feel like I could bust wide open. They are due on May 26 - it seems so far away, but I know that time will fly quickly. What a great new stage in life is approaching! Now I get to be a Lois instead of a Eunice. I can't wait to open the Bible with a little one; I hope I do go good job of imparting wisdom while alternately squeezing the stuffing out of my grandchildren and spoiling them to death. All I can say is.... :):):):):):):):):):):)!!!!! And, lest you think I am alone in this, you should see my husband (who now refers to the the baby as "Stephanie/Steve"!) who has not stopped smiling. Steve will be the best Grandpa EVER!

Friday, Melissa and I are going shopping for maternity clothes and to look at cute stuff for her and the baby. Fun times!

UPDATE:

We don't care if it is a blizzard - we are going shopping! After all, let's keep our priorities straight here!!

I was very happy to hear Dan and Melissa's news! All these babies are SO exciting! Congrats, Nana! :)

by kalawi at 12/02/09 3:11PM
LOVE baby shopping! I'm so excited for yall. It's so fun!

by bekahv at 12/02/09 3:33PM
I was wondering when you would make a post! Thanks for the advice. Breathing is always good advice. :p Sometimes I forget to do the simplest thing. Ha!

I am so excited for you to start this new stage. I think my mom wishes she could have skipped her "kids" and went straight to the "grandkids" hahaha! You get to be so different, and more spoiling than ever. Lol! :p (and she is way different with her two grandkids, lol.)

by cmdl at 12/02/09 3:39PM
THAT IS SO EXCITING!!!!!! :) Congrats!!

by windham4life at 12/02/09 3:50PM
YAY!

by csusoftballgirl at 12/02/09 6:00PM
Congrats to you! :)

by musikluver05 at 12/02/09 6:20PM
Your husband's reaction cracks me up. I'm very excited for both of you! :)

by curlie at 12/02/09 8:32PM
I am happy!!

by pistal77 at 12/02/09 10:11PM
You are so cute! I'm so happy for all of you!!! What will Steve be called? ~ Yeah, now there will be another BFF!!

by kendralulu at 12/03/09 8:42AM
So excited for y'all!!! :)

by ewalker at 12/03/09 3:43PM
HA! I can't wait for our shopping trip. I finished all my grading just so I could have no other obligations hanging over my head:)

by csusoftballgirl at 12/04/09 7:30AM
HAHA! your so cute!

by adeline at 12/04/09 5:26PM
CONGRATS!!!!!! Sooooo happy for you all!! We will be praying!

by tortilla at 12/05/09 7:17PM
You two are going to be WONDERFUL!!! What an exciting time.

by bek at 12/09/09 8:04AM
Can't wait to see you today!

by csusoftballgirl at 12/10/09 7:41AM
Thank you! He loves anything with wheels!!! :)

by kendralulu at 12/12/09 2:19PM
I finally found out how to do a ticker. It's up and running:)

by csusoftballgirl at 12/23/09 2:30PM
THANK YOU so much for all of your hard work and great-tasting food this weekend. We had a BLAST! We need more family weekends together. I told Dan on the way home, we'll make Steve into a gamer yet!

by csusoftballgirl at 12/26/09 9:16PM
Missed you tonight. Hope your back feels better soon:)

by csusoftballgirl at 12/27/09 8:33PM

An era, of tennis at least, is ending...

at 10/02/09 10:00PM

Well, I found out two days ago that the tennis shop where I have been working is going out of business. We lost our contract for our park location AND..... we have to be out of there by October 15th!!! Yup, just two weeks! We will be having a gigantic sale to sell off everything, including store fixtures, so if you need any tennis stuff or shelves - come on by! I will not be seeking other employment; taking care of my mom takes more time than I had thought it would. I was already on reduced hours at the shop to free up more time for me to take care of the rest of my life. Now I will be going back to my regular hours just to help with all the paperwork involved with going out of business. I feel sorry for all of Danny and Debbie's students who will no longer have a tennis program to call home or such loving and caring teachers. Along with our office space, we have also lost the right to teach lessons at the park.

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That is sad! I am glad you will have more time with your mom though!

by blueeyes at 10/02/09 11:52PM
Bummer! Hope all with go smoothly while finishing up.

by ewalker at 10/03/09 12:20AM
oh my word! :[

by adeline at 10/03/09 5:51AM
Wow. That stinks for all concerned.

by jabberwock at 10/03/09 7:57AM
Well. Hmmmm. Hey, now maybe you can join us for Ladies Bible Class every other Tuesday am....... That'd be cool.

by maryel at 10/03/09 6:30PM
wow, that stinks!! I am sorry for them too. :( I'm sure it will be nice for you to not be working anymore though. Like you said, there are so many other life obligations to take care of. It is hard for women to work outside of the home...I am starting to feel more and more that way.

As far as meeting up with y'all, I know we are busy the weekend of Oct 24 (because that is Jesse's mom's birthday). We can even drive down on a week night too though if the weekends don't work out. The drive isn't too bad. We will have to work something out!

by windham4life at 10/04/09 7:36PM
Sorry to hear that.

by kendralulu at 10/05/09 8:31AM
I am so sorry to hear that. I need to call Deb. :(

by roseofsharon at 10/07/09 12:02AM
I did see Mrs. Melissa today :) It was cool!! I have not seen her in a while!! Yes you are correct, only my dad would do something like that :) :) And yes it was AWESOME today!! Going back tomorrow!!

by skittles_rainbow09 at 10/08/09 9:43PM
The 31st is definitely a possibility but I will have to talk to Jesse to make sure! I will get back with you to let you know! :)

by windham4life at 10/12/09 7:22PM
Jesse said that the 31st should work out for us just fine. :)

by windham4life at 10/16/09 12:22AM
Haha, thanks! :) And yeah, I'd love too sometime!

by cmdl at 10/27/09 1:09AM
I can't wait for Tino's tonight!!! Is it 5:30 yet??

by csusoftballgirl at 10/28/09 12:01PM
No it is not pound cake. i haven't made thought about that.

by pistal77 at 10/28/09 4:26PM
Yep. Actually, I was trying a biscuit recipe out of my Southern Living cookbook. It looked very similar to yours, except it used all-purpose flour instead of self-rising. These biscuits were almost exactly like yours, so I'll probably stick to your recipe. The self-rising flour cuts out that extra step:) Have a great week!

by csusoftballgirl at 11/09/09 7:14AM
pleease send me some stuff! ill send my email in a message on here!! THANKS : )

by adeline at 11/23/09 3:53PM
When I found out Melissa was pregnant I couldn't help but think how delighted you would be. Congratulations! What a fun ride you all are starting. :)

by bekahv at 11/30/09 10:18AM
I just saw all of your smiley's on Melissa's page. How exciting for you! :p

by cmdl at 11/30/09 5:15PM
I loved your comment on my blog:)

by csusoftballgirl at 11/30/09 7:37PM
Congratulations! So happy for you all!

by blueeyes at 11/30/09 10:34PM

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Getting ready for Lydia

Lydia Harbin....

Now that's what the holidays are all about!

Just call me "Nana"

An era, of tennis at least, is ending...

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