Dresses and Anxiety
Written by The Lassie
Due to some positive and a lot of quite negative developments, I am a little behind with my birthday sewing. Luckily, I managed to finish the dresses I wanted to make in time.
The Birthday Dress
Fabric: Robert Kaufman
Dress option number II, just in case
Fabric: Riley Blake
Again, my favourite pattern ;)
Fabric: Kate Spain
Ahem. The pictures make me realize I should probably iron the dresses a little before our Bean puts them on.
Our Bean’s third birthday is on Friday. There’s a lot to be prepared for her big day yet. We will have family over, too, so the whole affair will involve a lot of baking, cooking and general prepping.
On the 13th, we’ll have a nice breakfast at home and then spend a good part of the day at the Berlin Zoo. Our Bean should have some time to play with her new toys while I make lasagna, salad and our daughter’s current favorite dessert, which for some reason is called ‘Scottish Dream’.
The Lad swears he has never encountered such a thing in Bonnie Scotland. It’s delicious, in any case. Frozen raspberries and chopped peaches are topped with a mix of yogurt, whipped cream and vanilla sugar. A little sprinkle of brown sugar rounds off this very yummy dessert.
My father will be here in a few days, too. I hope that things will be ok with him. We haven’t spoken in a little while, unfortunately. He hurt me quite some when I called him, very much in need of some fatherly emotional support – he was just unable to empathize, which left me in tears and feeling very miserable. There are quite a few sad, stressful and scary things going on for me/us right now, which I can’t yet go into detail about, because I have the feeling that putting everything here would just make me feel more stressed out and defeated. So for the time being, I will just focus on our Bean’s birthday and hope against hope that at least some of those worries will smooth out – somehow.
May 15th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Oh dear, I’ve just read the post about your little one’s seizure. I do hope it was a one-off and all will be well in the future.
I also hope your negative things turn more positive.
The dresses are sweet! Happy birthday to your wee one.