Yesterday morning I decided it would be a good idea to get together a list of stuff to pack to take to the hospital. As I was compiling my little list, I realized I’m missing a few key things…namely a nursing bra and nursing pads. Oops. A couple weeks ago when I ordered new maternity pants from one of the fat lady stores I looked at nursing bras, but the place I was ordering from didn’t have bras small enough for me. I figured I had time to worry about it later. Hm. I think I waited too long. Oops.

Since I don’t have giant mongo bosoms, I’m hoping I can actually find a nursing bra at Target. If I can’t find one tomorrow, I’ll order one and hope it gets here before I need. Worse case scenario, I don’t have one when I need it and I just make due. No big deal.

Of course, without the bra to hold them in place, the nursing pads aren’t very helpful. (I suppose I could duct tape them on?) Still I figured it wouldn’t hurt to work on acquring some. Being all crafty like I am, I decided to make the pads myself. I was a little worried because we’re talking circles here instead of my familiar squares. Circles are scary. And round.

I dug out a pair of old, flannel receiving blankets we were given by the people we bought our diapers from. Paired with some thread I found floating around, my materials were free. Even if I messed up, I wouldn’t be out anything, so it was going to be OK. Cutting out the pads was way easier than the diaper wipes…probably because I didn’t have huge pieces of fabric. I drew a template onto cardboard by tracing a bowl. Then I traced circle after circle onto the flannel using a magic marker.

I got everything cut out and then stitched together four layers of flannel to make each pad. Two receiving blankets made me four sets of pads, which will do for now. I’m pretty proud at how circular my circles are, and I’m especially pleased with how neat the edges look all stitched up with the ziggityzaggity.

I’d be all set, as I told Andy, if only I could sew up a nursing bra. Somehow I think that’s a bit beyond circles and squares.

Speaking of circles, the lambs love to run in them. ‘Round and ’round the barn they go!

Hop suddenly got sick this afternoon and died around 8:30. We buried her under our little almond tree with her sister Munch’s ashes and with our little kitten Tama’s ashes, too.

Bye-bye HoppyHop.

Andy decided Carla was looking very sad and lonely as she watched Hop and Wibble snuggle and groom each other, so he grabbed Carla out of her cage and snuggled with her on our bed. The kitties quickly got into the snuggling, too. I told Andy he looked very cute, and he said, “I do look rather sexy don’t I? What with my chiseled chin and long, flowing hair. You should post that picture for sure.”

While the gang hung out on the bed, I worked on sewing up baby wipes. They are flannel on one side and old towel on the other side. I’ll probably do some that are flannel on both sides, too. For something that is basically a square, I’ve had a pain getting this project done. It’s really hard to cut huge pieces of flannel and towels into 8″ squares when you don’t have a table to cut on. One of those handy cardboard cutting things with lines on it would have been helpful, too.

The green/yellow knitty things in the picture are the supposed burp clothes I knitted. They are almost the same size as the wipes. I don’t know how much burp they will contain.