I am happy to report that I got a nice little chunk of Mommy Free time this last weekend and it was WONDEFUL!!! It was the first completely kid free time I’ve had since Cole was born about 2.5 months ago. Randy took both kids out for several hours and gave me a break. Of course, instead of napping like I probably should have, I couldn’t wait to get in some puzzling time. I spent close to 4 hours working…
Wow, hard to believe it has been two months since I touched my puzzle! Of course, having another baby and a toddler has definitely had a huge impact on that. Plus the fact that we’ve had almost nonstop company since Cole was born. Not that I’m complaining about our growing family, lack of sleep, or the visiting relatives and friends, but it sure isn’t allowing for any puzzling time. So for the first time yesterday, I got to spend about…
After not having puzzled for more than two weeks due to baby Cole’s early arrival, imagine my surprise when my mother in law is in the kitchen day before yesterday and says, “Here’s a puzzle piece.” She pats it dry (apparently the back was a little wet) and said she had found it laying on the kitchen counter. At first I thought, oh this must be a piece from one of Derek’s puzzles, but then when I saw it I…
Well in case anyone is wondering why I haven’t been updating the blog much in the last couple of weeks, here’s the reason why… Day 7 — Going home today! Cole Hudson Weiss decided to make his world debut 6 days earlier than previously planned! So, on July 30th at 9:36 p.m. we welcomed him to his new world. At only 4 lbs. 13 oz. he was tiny but relatively healthy, but was having some issues maintaining blood sugar and…
I have made a little progress on some of the anemone areas surrounding the clownfish over the last week. It’s not a significant amount of progress, but as they say, any progress is progress, right? This evening I am planning on working on Tom and Mercedes’ mystery puzzles. I have had to put off working on it further until after I got some things done in preparation for Cole’s early arrival. I should be able to post new pictures of…
I promised Tom and Mercedes that I would not wait until I had finished the Life puzzle (Gee, I wonder why they asked me that?! LOL) to start working on the mystery puzzles gift they sent. So last night I put aside time to start laying out the many edge pieces of what has turned out to be three Thomas Kinkade puzzles all mixed together. It appears that they may be of different piece counts as well. The largest one…
So this morning I decided to begin sorting the mystery puzzle that Tom and Mercedes sent me. As I said in the last post, I thought based on looking at the pieces visible through the ziplock bag that it might be a Thomas Kinkade puzzle, and soon after I opened the bag and started sorting pieces, I was completely positive it was. I was not sure how many pieces the puzzle was as there’s no box or anything to give…
Besides the Nicky Boehme and Thomas Kinkade puzzles I purchased right after getting the puzzle roll, I also got these other two puzzles as well. The Vegas, Baby! puzzle was actually the second puzzle I started on after I finished the You’d Better Be Good puzzle by Nick Boehme. I was about three quarters of the way done with it when we moved from our house in Lake Mary, FL to a rental house while we were waiting for our…
When I got my first puzzle roll back in 2009, I immediately went on a puzzle buying frenzy as it had been so long since I’d been able to do any puzzles due to space limitations and usage of dining room table as mentioned in earlier posts. For some reason, I went on a Nick Boehme Christmas puzzle spree and bought five of them! I just love his artwork as much as I love Thomas Kinkade’s. I ended up buying…
This morning I was able to get in about 45 minutes with the puzzle before Derek woke up. It was nice to get a little longer length of time to puzzle at one sitting. My secondary goal of having Section 2 finished before baby Cole makes his appearance is looking less and less likely. I think I am getting close to the 50% finished mark, but we found out yesterday that Cole will be arriving a week earlier than the…