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Bethany had her baby!
Elliora Violet was born at 11:20 November 29th! Six pounds, 6 ounces, 19 inches and healthy! Three hours of labor without an epidural and Bethany is doing fine!
It couldn’t be a better day to be born!
I wanted to organize the office today but Bethany had other ideas. Apparently Bethany doesn’t nest. She paints. She was very adamant about painting and well, you know me, I’ll never turn down a trip to a pottery studio. I love to paint! So paint we did. We painted for four hours while Grandma Debbie (Bethany’s mom) watched Bug and Annalie. It was delightful. I worked on some dottery (which I cannot show you because Bethany took her camera with her to the hospital and I didn’t have a chance to download the pictures but who cares! We have a baby!) and Bethany painted some ornaments, including one very special one for the baby. Now that I think about it, I wonder if Bethany knew on some instinctual level that this was probably her last chance to paint for a while. We talked about it jokingly but then we’ve been thinking every day was going to be the day.
We came home, cooked up some delicious tamale pie and then Bethany laid down on the couch complaining of some “annoying” braxton hicks that she assured us were just the usual. Grandma Debbie and I shuffled the girls off to bed thinking it was just another night like all the rest. When I came upstairs after Bug was asleep, Bethany and Troy were packing her hospital bag and heading to the hospital because her water had broken. Three hours later we got a text from Troy that Elliora was born! Three hours and no epidural!
Then Bethany called and asked me to quickly blog it so she could make her midnight deadline of posting every day this month. She wasn’t participating in Nablopomo but it was just a personal challenge for herself. Silly Bethany, how I love you so. I’ll blog it today and tomorrow! I hope you don’t mind the typos!
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Big News!
I said I was going to do two things when I arrived here at the OMSHes’. I was going to create an SAJ 2011 calendar and finally finally finally put up a portfolio website. I’ve designed my website so many times and never finished it, it was silly. I’d start off with an idea and by the time I finished working out the design (three weeks later) I’d be so sick of it I never wanted to see it again. And that is why you guys never saw it.
Well, I accomplished both my goals. I have finished the SAJ calendar up to November (I’ll finish December when I actually design December’s banner) and I finished a portfolio website. TAH DAH!
Go click! Go get lost for a while and then come back here. I’ll wait.
So that’s that! I didn’t really go overboard with the design. It’s not anything new or ground-breaking, just a simple portfolio. I like to call my inspiration for this design: “GET IT DONE” with a side of “GET IT DONE OR ELSE.”
What I’m really happy with is the coding. I don’t know how to code. I’m not a programmer. I can’t do anything outside of Photoshop and Illustrator. But I do have friends who have husbands who are programmers with super duper mad skillz. I created the images and sliced them up and Jeremy wrote the code. I don’t even think he was familiar with php files but he read up on it, taught himself and then put the whole thing together in just a few nights. It would have been up sooner if I hadn’t dragged my feet on writing the rates-page copy and then made dozens of rounds of changes. That can be so exasperating, especially when all the mistakes are your own.
Anyway! It’s done! And so is the calendar. Probably in mid-December I’ll put it up here as a free pdf for my favorite readers to proof for me like last time. So if you don’t mind a calendar with a couple of typos you can save yourself a few bucks. Then when it’s all perfect I’ll put it in my shop.
I’d also like to formally announce that I’m working now. Pass it on!
