My World

A couple of days ago, I found myself taking my husband to emergency. He has been having reoccurring back spasms, which have been causing him considerable pain. As they have been reoccurring for the last several months, it has increasingly become more concerning.

As I sat beside my husband, it almost seemed surreal since you would never think that muscle spasms (which is what his doctor has indicated is the problem), could ever cause so much pain. I also would consider us to still be relatively young, or at least not to the point where a lot of illnesses could surface. I knew that he could not be exaggerating though, since he would never ask me to take him to emergency if it was not extreme pain. When they checked his blood pressure (which was considerably high at that point), it also showed that he was definitely in a lot of pain. In reviewing the symptoms with the doctor, it did not show that there was anything further than a muscle spasm but you cannot help but wonder if there is anything more to it. The doctor ended up giving my husband a morphine shot and we went home. We will definitely be doing more investigating just to be sure.

In reflecting on this night, it has definitely left me scared. To think that anything could be seriously wrong...I don't know what I would do. When I think of my life, my family...most particularly my husband and our baby...they are my world. If anything were to happen to them...I can't even talk about that...there are just tears. My world would be destroyed.

Making a Diaper Cake

I recently hosted a baby shower for my friend, which gave me the opportunity to make a diaper cake. I have to say that it was probably one of the details that I was most excited about. The most time consuming part for me was gathering all the materials, particularly because I wanted the diaper cake to have lots of goodies.

I actually would have liked to have taken a picture of all the materials that I used to make the diaper cake but I actually started making the cake before I had everything that I wanted to include. Here's a list of all the supplies that I ended up using:
Diapers (newborn size)- I bought a box of 82 and I used about 3/4 of the diapers.
2 outfits
Wipes
Blanket
Wash Cloths
Mini bottles of Shampoo/Soap/Cream/Diaper Rash Cream
4 Finger Puppets
Lion Stuffed Animal
Scrapbook Stickers
2 Rolls of Ribbon (Wired Edges)
Glue Dots (or a Glue Gun)
Elastic Bands (Multi pack needed since you need mini elastics for individual diapers, and larger ones around each tier of diapers)
Glass Plate
Cellophane Wrap

First, I rolled up all the diapers and wrapped a mini elastic around each one. I rolled from the top end of the diaper to the bottom making sure to cover the part with a picture on the diaper. I did not want any of the colour on the diaper to show on the outside because it did not match the theme/colours of my diaper cake.
Once all the diapers are rolled up, I began to build my cake. I placed the roll of wipes in the center of the plate, then wrapped the blanket along the bottom before surrounding it with diapers. This gives the bottom tier the girth needed so that it is wider than the tier above it. Wrap a large elastic band around the entire tier.

Next I wrapped some clothes around the wipes, then surrounded this tier with diapers.


You can also add onesies and such in the midts of the diapers. I had a white onesie included in one of the outfits so it was mixed in with the diapers; the rest of the clothes were wrapped around the wipes. Depending on the amount of tiers you would like to have, you can simply add one more tier of diapers (without anything inside). I wanted to have another tier, so I wrapped some diapers around a package of wash cloths, before the final tier. Because the theme of my diaper cake was "Jungle Animals", I put in some animal finger puppets on the second tier and a lion stuffie as a decoration at the top of the cake.

I was able to start decorating once all the tiers were assembled. I stuck in the bottom tier some little bottles of baby shampoo, soap, cream and diaper cream. I then covered the elastic bands around each tier with pretty ribbons. I secured the ribbons with glue dots, but you can use a glue gun if you don't have any glue dots. Finally, I added stickers all over the cake. I finished the cake by wrapping it with cellophane wrap tied with some more ribbon so it could easily be transported home by the recipient.