a tribute to Stitchin Charleston Style, and Laura!!!!

well this morning my dad took Mama to the airport, for her one measly week of escape from the world of disrespectful young adults who only want two things money and a later curfew...

Mama went to Charleston to see Laura, oh dear Laura, and BethAnne, and Mrs. Tommye, and all the other wonderful ladies that attend Stitchin Charleston Style. Two years ago i joined my mother on this mecca that she yearly takes to meet the esteemed Laura Jenkins Thompson. Oh how i wish i could be joining everyone to "stitch and bitch" as mama would say, this year. hopefully next year i can return to learn some new techniques, and most importantly socialize.

if i were there right now i would be "glistenin" (as all women do in the summer, its much better than saying sweatin like a whore in church) 

checking out all the stores and seeing the sights. getting excited about going to the market, and staying at the francis marion.

sidenote..... on our honeymoon last summer casey and i went to eat at SNOB, slightly north of broad, i would right now be recommending this to janet and all her friends insisting we go there. 

ohhh and if we walk too much down canal street i will insist we go in brookstone and get a chair/ leg massage. ohhh and hampden designs, great great clothes i would check that store out for another cute dress!!! 

oh i know everyone is having soo much fun. 

i cant wait to rejoin all of you next year. much love 

The future is looking up!!

okay here it is I GOT A JOB!!!! holy crap finally i find a delightful position that i am anxiously awaiting to start tommorrow. for everyone who has prayed for my future i greatly appreciate your prayers... especially jake and steph, hayley, emily,lauren, amanda, and erica. yall have stood by me and listened to my complains and helped me see that the lord is holding my future not me..... the most wonderful thing happened today as well Jake found a new job in birmingham!!!! we were both with miserable companies, doing mundane tasks, trying to improve our work conditions despite the miserable bosses we had.... and low and behold the lord answers our prayers all in the same week.

for those of you that dont know jake was casey's college roommate and his beautiful wife, stephanie has been one of the sweetest friends to me since we met. since being married we have made ZERO married friends except for them but for the number of friends we lack the lord has made up in the love that has overpoured from the Eldridge's. as i pray for my position at SS i also pray that Jake's position in the 'ham brings him as much fulfillment and happiness as does mine. post of the first day to follow. thanks again everyone for all your support throughout this time. casey and i have truely learned needs and wants and the differences. the only individual in our family that this mildly doesnt apply to is our pint sized princess. i mean hello we can wear old ratty clothes for the rest of our lives but our pride and joy WILL have the best.

Oh the places you will go... a tribute to high school sr. yr.

Okay so i will make a long story short. the theme of my senior yearbook was oh the places you will go... the other day i was in target perusing the dollar section and found some dr. seuss bowls to feed baby her cereal in. one had the quote on in and hence this blog post came to fruition. so a brief update with us is.... SUPRISE i am looking for a job. With Dr. Seuss on the brain I did a mental flashback to my senior year. I knew i would attend college and marry my prince charming... That was about all i planned for in my 5 yr. plan. I knew i would go cool places, ie. a bunch of sec football games, st. croix, st. thomas, and st. john, and i knew i would make the best friends someone could ask for but i never imagined being stretched emotionally, physically, and spiritually the way that i have been in these past five years.

Having ac has been such a blessing and being a parent has not been a challenging task, i guess all that babysitting did pay off afterwhile huh??? Since having her my "sewing" skills (blog with this coming soon....) have been challenged beyond imaginable means, making crib bedding, YIKES, know the lord before you experiment with this one!!! and the best has been helping my mom design ac's christening gown. working with my mom on this project has been the most rewarding thing i think that my degree could have brought me. it used to be that sewing was something my mom and i couldnt discuss without fighting about it. now it is such a joy and honor to learn under her. uhh the places we have come from. mother daughter love hate relationship to a mother daughter relationship of thankfulness, respect and longing to obtain the knowledge she does.

now i look to the places we will go in the next 5 years. I will have a husband hopefully graduated from college, an almost 6 year old. hopefully an old beagle who doesnt bark everytime the wind blows, i hope to have a beautiful garden that i can tend to while little girl is at school, and maybe just maybe my store of french handsewn rental dresses i have always wanted to own. (i will blog about that dream one day soon) Hopefully our current home will be a home of the past our "love" investment property. and we will be on our way to a long wonderful life together. i cant wait to see where the lord will take us and guide us in the next 5 years....

Scuffed up Shoes

Currently we are moving at lightning speed and our shoes stay scuffed up. here are some pics of her moving around like a crazy lady. And finally a picture of those two teeth on the bottom. we have one on the top and two more top teeth coming in. stay posted for those pics.

8 months

So she has a thing for tools. Screwdrivers, hammers, you name it and if its laying around the house she will seek it out.

Destin 2009

in to EVERYTHING

i love playing with my tylenol bottle

helping grammie swifter the floor
going through mommy's purse
yay for handprint tile!!


LOVE cantelope
wearing my beautiful christening gown grammie made me
the R on the front of my christening gown

aha!!

So, i know life is filled with wow moments and about a week ago i had mind. I was recently terminated from a horrible miserable job that i would drag myself to everyday. I prayed every morning for the lord to just get me through the day and at the end of the two weeks there would be a paycheck to reward my miserable work. now i have had some time to think since i was released and here is what i have discovered.
1. people who are old and uneducated and your boss feel inferior to you.
2. if you come up with a better idea than they had then they are resenting you
3. when you are around garbage that cusses and talks about sleeping around all the time what does that make you? a gossiping, loose-lifestyle following example of the majority of all people.
4. realizing that god has called you to live a better, more fulfilling life free of smut... ahhhhh

so then the aha hit me. PATIENCE my child, is what god kept whispering in my ear. He released me from my prison, prompted me to phone an acquaintance, and now i am waiting to find out about a job within my field of study, paying double what i was making before, and with hopefully people the lord wants to place in my life.

I have learned over the past three months that i need to have a management team around me that builds each other up, when they make mistakes guide them through them so they dont happen again, and encourages me in my faith. Now other than be patient what do i need to do most??? begin praying for my future co-workers, that they love the lord and can encourage me in my faith....

Another aha i had. when you are drained from a miserable job you become a crummy wife and a pathetic excuse for a mother. so the past week has been the best, most relaxing, most fulfilling that i have had as a mother and a wife. partially because AC began saying "memememe" which sounds alot like mommy, and "dededede" which sounds alot like daddy.

What i have discovered this week that s new about ac:
she likes to eat paper ( my little billy goat)
she loves to spill Luke's water bowl and splash around in the water
she loves to play with pots and pans
she likes to hear herself echo in my stand up shower
she can stand on all fours and look through her legs at whats going on behind her. (she thinks its hilarous if you pop out of no where and say boo while she is doing this)
she LOVES pickles..... only the kosher sandwich spears... wierd?? i know!!!

Our New Home

AC's Baby Dedication Pics

My mom's neighbor Mrs. Diane has a beautiful backyard. She graciously shared it with us to shoot baby girls sweet pics for her dedication at church!