The last couple days I’ve had very little sleep and I feel like I’m running on fumes! Shannen has been waking up every 2-3 hours, and I can count on one hand how many nights I’ve gotten 4 or more hours of sleep. I feel really bad, but I think it’s because he’s teething and because he uses breastfeeding to comfort himself. This, of course, is not healthy for me, as this little amount of sleep has caused my brain to stop functioning at even its lowest potential. I wish there was an option to help get him in a better routine at night, without breastfeeding to fall asleep and get him to sleep longer through the night.

Of course as a practicing AP mom, I refuse to leave him alone to cry it out, and there seems to be little other options; and I’m concerned for when I got back to work in 3 months! I guess we will have to just keep plugging at it until he gets down a bedtime routine that works with both Mom and Dad!

SO, other than the frustrating lack of sleep over the past 7.5 MONTHS, I’ve been up to my eyeballs in crafting projects and house projects. My current house projects are making a couple quilts and arm-rest hangers for the couch, as well as painting a mural on our pillar wall.

My newest addition to the website, though, is a full original pattern that I plan to make more Amigurumi dolls from. I had been planning on making a doll pattern, but nothing had inspired me until I needed to make a present for a good friend! The pattern is rightfully called “Halfling,”and depending on interestI may make it available. There are still some kinks to work out, because there are some parts of the doll that I don’t really like and would want to change.

Halfling Pattern