tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10917261375102062292024-02-07T01:17:22.320-07:00The Berry BunchJessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.comBlogger503125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-87384080067783380782019-07-08T00:11:00.001-07:002019-07-08T00:11:30.338-07:00Why to RSVP: Sickness {Parenting}Do you usually RSVP for a birthday party? Do you usually RSVP on time or late if you do? Do you rsvp only if you are a yes, or for regrets as well?
Two days before my little girl's 6th birthday party and she comes down with a fever.
A. Fever.
Not just any 99.whatever fever. Like, almost a trip to hospital fever.
2 days before her birthday party.
It's almost like a parent's worst Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-82779284924158937712019-03-15T10:00:00.001-07:002020-10-29T20:47:28.148-07:00Sometimes, More than a Vacation Sounds Wonderful
We get our taxes done the moment we have everything we need together. So that means we are some of the few that have them done by the beginning of February. We don't do them ourselves. We have a guy. He's done them since we were married. He'll probably still do them until he retires.
This year, we came in with all babies in tow. All. 4. Babies. To the tax office. "How we do it with 4?" I haveJessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-17659758044929076972019-03-08T06:00:00.000-07:002019-03-15T21:20:46.543-07:00Boys Can Wear Pink Season 5!
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"But, Pink is a girl's color" ...
Oh, my son. Have the previous 4 years not taught you anything? Pink is just a color. It does not belong to either gender.
After all. If Jason Momoa can pull off pink, and not just pink but pink Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-65384639530017222872019-02-14T21:45:00.002-07:002019-02-19T21:41:03.047-07:00To Be Like a Child with Your Relationships {Faith & Homelife}To be childlike. What does that mean? So many different interpretations! Sometimes I feel lost when I hear that statement.
A lesson, not just in faith but in relationships as well...
My *almost* 3-year-old came into the room in which I had just taken a seat, having just woken from a nap, and asked me to hold her. I had a bunch of things I still had yet to finish and I had just sat down Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-68823270869073391972019-01-13T22:14:00.005-07:002019-01-21T22:05:23.973-07:002019 finish a long: quarter 1 goals
A goal this year is to have my sewing machine grace us with its presence out of its carrying case. And, not just during Halloween!
Samara's Quilt
This is my main priority. Gosh Golly, Gee Whiz. It needs to get done. I am such a sewing slacker!
What still needs to be done:
finish the last border (green fabric)
baste (the backing is a pink minky she had picked out)Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-51262700246513824872019-01-06T05:00:00.000-07:002019-01-06T05:00:04.168-07:00Happy New Year: Goals {2019}
I look into the mirror trying to avoid looking to see if the lines around my eyes are becoming more prevalent. But where else is the to deflect my gaze as I was my hands in the sink? My countertop in the bathroom is a cluttered mess. The mirror itself is covered in water droplets. I could list a handful of other things not right in that room
After all. It is the new year. Time for reflection.Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-6011112330466005882019-01-04T05:00:00.000-07:002019-01-04T05:00:04.919-07:00Happy New Year: My One Word {2019}Another Morning. The sun has not yet fully risen. It's light is casting a glow in the sky as it starts creeping up to rise above the mountains. The baby is starting to fuss in the bassinet by the bed, hunger and the need for a diaper change have woken him up. I can hear the kids clamoring in the kitchen, their noises of excitement for the new day growing louder as the baby's cries Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-10991674118567057802018-11-28T22:37:00.000-07:002018-11-28T22:37:18.547-07:00Back to School Wardrobe: Planning Update {kids clothes}I know it's not back to school anymore. It's already nearing the end of the semester! But... Back in August I talked about the kids' clothes for going back to school and looked at different planning tools/worksheets with which to build their capsule wardrobe for school. You can check out that post here.
To be honest, that post super stressed me out. documenting what the kids had and trying toJessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-17357555050235824612018-11-19T19:42:00.001-07:002018-11-21T21:59:37.150-07:00Read A Book: In This House We Will Giggle by Courtney Defeo {Parenthood}I am the type of person who will fill up my holds list from the library with books I want to read and still not have anything available. It doesn't help that my husband and I share the library card for the electronic sources. Once my hold list is full and I need a new book, I scourge the database for an available book.
I came across In This House We Will Giggle by Courtney DeFeo and Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-63163119711614021602018-10-25T09:15:00.000-07:002018-10-25T09:58:18.124-07:001 Thing to Make Life Easier After Baby; Preparing for Baby {HomeLife}
Something about the impending arrival of a brand new baby can send the minds of adults into a tizzy. And, rightly so. Babies require so much work to take care of and often the regular needs of a house can get set aside. At least, they do in my home. There is nothing like having your 8-year old coming up to you all stressed out, while you are nursing a baby because he has no clean Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-32405898242331849892018-10-11T05:00:00.000-07:002018-10-15T13:29:34.071-07:002018 Finish-Along: Quarter 4 Goals {2018 FAL Q4}
How are we onto the last 3 months of the year 2018!?! Did you accomplish sewing last quarter?
Guess What?! I Didn't!I have been so busy with having and taking care of a baby that I did no sewing what-so-ever last quarter.
That's a pretty decent excuse, right?
I wanted to have Samara's Quilt done by the time she turned 5 (didn't happen) and then I wanted to have done before the baby wasJessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-76059352404410482272018-08-03T09:52:00.000-07:002018-11-27T19:52:10.493-07:00Back to School Wardrobe: Planning {Kids Clothes}We have been in school for 3 weeks. Already it has been 3 weeks! I am stunned it has been that long. It has gone by so fast.
I was worried about my little one starting kindergarten, and I still am a little worried. She is loving it though! I am sure she feels like such a big girl going to school like big brother.
I'm sad she is spending more time away from the home. I loved having my bouncy Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-40660180494755672942018-07-25T05:00:00.001-07:002018-07-25T05:00:13.142-07:00I Don't Like "Rainbow Fish": I'm Not Alone {and} Why We Will Still Read It {Parenthood}I was first introduced to "Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister for Virtual Book Club for Kids. The library wait for the hardback was forever and a day, so I decided to go with the board book. After all how different could the board book be? That was my first experience with board books being a slightly condensed version of the actual book. My impression of that book was less than thrilling.
Fast Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-85735240199151532492018-07-18T05:00:00.000-07:002018-07-20T13:18:00.916-07:001st day of School {parenthood}When you walk your child up to the kindergarten playground for the first time, how did you feel? Excited, sad, nervous? How was your kindergartener?
I think having been a teacher help facilitate my excitement when I walked my first up to the kindergarten playground for the first time. Though this year, with my second, I was apprehensive. So many concerns ran through my head. Will she Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-69269573587075761312018-07-10T05:00:00.000-07:002018-07-10T05:00:01.128-07:002018 Finish-A-Long: Quarter 3 Goals {2018 FAL Q3}
Motivation is a good thing to have but so hard to come by! My motivation to do anything is extremely limited.
Having accountability through friends, link-ups, you, my readers, is great too. On something like the Finish-A-Long, it is very one-sided. We, the crafters and bloggers, post and share what we are working on, making, sewing, creating and that's it. We hope for comments and Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-28289892925076231442018-07-05T10:50:00.001-07:002018-07-05T10:50:28.293-07:002018 Finish Along: Finishes {18 FAL Q2)Can you believe the year is halfway through already? The kids start school in about a week and a half!
This summer has been crazy with the kids losing their minds inside because it's just too darn hot to play outside and the only time it's cooled off is ... never! Usually, by now we have had a monsoon storm or two, but not this year. So we have not even gotten the respite from heat a storm Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-65427603647662454582018-06-27T05:00:00.001-07:002018-06-27T05:00:15.119-07:00Organizing PDF Sewing Patterns {Self Care}Organizing our things. How do we do it, how to get our plethora of junk squared neatly away in tidy places so we can find it when we need it and put it back when we are done with it? I am not the greatest at giving my things homes. I have too much stuff. And I am definitely not great at putting things away when I am done with it either, but I have been working on it and getting better.
But,Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-74907431353708980592018-06-19T05:00:00.000-07:002018-06-26T13:54:32.814-07:00The Meal Planning Hassle {Home Life}The never-ending necessity... It's like Laundry; you do it one day only to have to do it again the next. It's exhausting. Especially when you have to fit it into a budget.
It makes me tired just to think about it.
What's for dinner?
If you can wing it with contents of your cabinets, freezer, and fridge then power to you! I need to have a plan. I cannot just wing it. It stresses me out.
Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-79213142819535505092018-06-15T15:15:00.002-07:002018-06-15T15:15:49.607-07:00Tear Paper Craft: The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli {Read and Play}"Mommy, can you read this book to me?" ... or from the toddler ... "Read a book?"
Day after day after day, book after book after book.
I love my kids' enthusiasm for reading.
I just don't love doing it all the time. the same book after book, over and over again.
And now that it is summer, it is the perfect time to get some crafty, playtime ideas together.
Our MOPS groupJessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-80687976577466285022018-05-30T05:30:00.001-07:002018-05-30T05:30:03.972-07:00Sewing a Mini-Capsule: Update {Self Care}At the end of March, I shared with you my plans for sewing a mini capsule. Or rather, filling in the holes of what I currently have. Now that it's the end of Me Made May, I'm ready to share my updated mini capsule.
And, now you know our big news you can understand my need for a mini capsule! One of the reasons I have been kind of working on the wardrobe is I had gotten rid of a bunch Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-55261966688360458662018-05-23T06:00:00.000-07:002018-05-23T06:00:00.159-07:00Read a Book: Curated Closet by Anushka Rees {Self-Care}You walk into my closet in the morning and look around at all the clothes hanging, waiting to be worn. You blink a few times before deciding on something to grab. Only thing is, you don't want to wear any of the clothes in front of you. Or you go through multiple combinations before finally deciding on something to wear for the day, feeling completely dissatisfied with the selection you Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-31319511020560241282018-05-18T18:30:00.001-07:002018-05-18T21:31:41.087-07:00Making an Announcement {Motherhood}
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I have managed to keep this secret (kind of) from the social media world. Mostly my general facebook account and other media outlets. Yes, it has come out in some of the groups! It is so hard keeping something like this a secret! Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-30710796752893832882018-05-16T05:00:00.000-07:002018-05-16T05:00:02.228-07:00Labyrinth Lap Quilt: Finally Finished {Quilting}I have about 4-5 posts scheduled to go live on this blog. The only thing those posts are missing is the pictures to go along with the writing. Sadly, my little boy is not cooperative after pick-up from school. I am assuming he's just overtired. After all, it's been a long time since they got a break even with the recent teacher strike that went on. And some of the things I have to share are Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-67685665716862440662018-05-02T05:30:00.001-07:002018-05-02T16:43:01.636-07:00Budgeting Back to School {HomeLife}I kind of have been working on the back to school budget. Woah. Back to school what?!? It's only May!
I know. I actually worked on the budget back in February.
It was the "kinder round up" which prompted me deciding to start it then. Especially since Samara starts kindergarten in the next school year!
Our school year here in Arizona (and I am fairly certain it is most of the state) starts Jessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091726137510206229.post-60164660586985550582018-04-25T06:00:00.000-07:002018-04-25T06:00:04.660-07:00Sewing Summer Tees: GYCT Bowmont Tee {kids clothes}
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The thermostat on my car yesterday said 96° outside. It's hot here in the southwestern desert, and looking through my kids' wardrobes I can see they are missing some hot weather clothes!
GYCT Design's Bowmont Tee was the perfect solutionJessi Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11515746074030542633noreply@blogger.com0