Recycling Fabrics

Does anyone know of a place where I can take fabric (i.e. clothes not suitable for donating and a set of flannel sheets with a big rip in it) to be recycled? I really don’t want to send them off to a landfill, but I don’t sew and never will – therefore, they have no place here.

I poked around online, but just couldn't find any place that took small amounts of consumer waste.

Priceless?

I've been reading the Spiderwick Chronicles to my nearly 4 year old son so I decided to take him to see the movie. In order to get my mom to babysit my one-year-old, I had to have my cousin drive my mom to Universal City Walk. So, here's what I spent for the three of us:

• Parking (*after* theater rebate) $6
• IMAX Tickets ordered from Fandago $47
• Popcorn and drinks (no candy) $22
• Dinner afterwards (2 kids, 2 adults) $49
• Taking your kid to see a movie after reading the book: $124, not quite priceless.

It was a lot of fun though and the great seating meant that even Jared didn't have to worry about seeing over the head in front of him.

Out of Touch

So I've been out of touch for a while... It's been a little crazy.

We went on a trip to Mammoth and it snowed too much. Search and rescue had to rescue my brother after he spent 3.5 hours in, basically, a blizzard. Scary! He also got really sick, as did my husband.

My husband is still sick. It has been three weeks, and depsite a course of antibiotics, he still has a fever that comes and goes at free will. Now he thinks he has an ear infection too. And he has pink eye. And we just switched to Kaiser so you can't just pop in to see your doctor... he has to wait until 4pm when urgent Care opens because there are no appointments available. Still, I'm not knocking Kaiser yet because it has been pretty good so far and it is so much cheaper than our old plan.

Mia turned 1 on January 31st. I made the Barbie cake I practiced before and it came out great! (picture at right) My kids are sharing a room now and it is working out really great (knock on wood). Having our bedroom and our bed back is a big deal! As of my last entry, we were still co-sleeping with Mia... now I feel like we are on the endless honeymoon -- EVEN WITH MY HUBBY BEING SICK! Can you imagine when he's better again!

Jared, who is nearly 4 but going on 14, has started this really charming habit of talking back to us.

Me: Jared, go put on your shoes please.

Jared: No, you put on your shoes!

Me: Jared! Don;t talk to me like that or you are going to have a time out!

Jared: You're a bad guy mommy and I'm gonna shoot you! (makes shooting noise and guns me with his cocked finger then tears through the house at break neck speed until he finds somewhere good to hide for a minute.)

Oh, yes. It's lovely.

In the midst of all this chaos we have also been having minor repairs done around the house and are in the beggining stages of having our front yard landscaped. More on that as it gets accomplished.

I just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini -- it was excellent. I also read the 7th Harry Potter book, and that was fun.