Lots of ~ma to you, Pix and ND.

Dad~ma, Kate. I hope he's feeling better soon.

General~ma to Pix and ND.

Love and ~ma to anyone else who wants or needs it.

We've got a number of people who can't make it to our wedding, so we're doing the livestream thing. It's pretty easy and you can set up the link beforehand. That reminds me that we need to get on ordering the tripod for the phone.

Most of my family has had cellulitis by this point (which is just weird). Generally quite treatable, I think, but scary. My 6 food tall 16 year old brother got to spend Christmas in the pediatric ward because of it.

The actual wedding is at 6:30 AM for beach sunrise so they don't expect big attendance there. Reception 6:30 PM. I'll be using one tablet for the photo booth setup and a laptop for a video display with pictures and a replay of the wedding at the reception. I'll have to get my son to do the live stream stuff because I don't want to deal with 3 tech things going on at once.

Back to the sewing room. I am making my dress and the pattern layout has several pieces where you cut on single thickness then flip the piece over and cut again. Uh, no. I am not cutting until all the pieces are laid out. So I had to cut out duplicate pattern pieces for about 5 pieces. Laying it out is going to be about 90% of the work. Sewing should be easy enough. Also, sizes are whack. I can wear a 16 off the rack, but in a pattern I have to use a 22. Apparently pattern makers haven't adopted the practice of making you feel good about your size. It is a wrap around design anyway so rather flexible. We'll see.

Timelies all!

Health~ma to your dad, Kate.

Lots of ~ma to you Pix and ND.

Yeah, sewing sizes are weird. I made (am making) my dress and the flower girl's dress (toddlers are so wee!). The cutting was a pain, but the fitting was the bigger issue for me. But I've done enough costumes to feel pretty confident, and I over-bought, just in case.

Just have to hem my lining and do the finish hand sewing on the other.

Much ma to Kate's dad.

I have found that the ease in commercial patterns is so great that is you go with your actual size, even if the measurements don't match, you have a pretty good chance! It is less annoying to build up the mannequin and drape, but I do it so rarely that I am not great at it.

So much antibiotics-do-their-job~ma for your dad, Kate.

All the non-specific~ma in my heart for PixDesign.

One of my college roommates made her gown and her flowergirl's dress. The little dress was much more elaborate than the gown. Also, she did all her flowers. Not to mention the term leading up to her wedding she was student teaching and working 30 hours a week. (College guidelines were no other jobs when student teaching, but she did it anyway.) Two weeks before the end of term, Sunday morning rolls around. Her honey calls to make sure she's awake so they can go to church together. Little while later, she comes out of the bathroom to tell me that she had taken her bath, and noticed only when she was getting up to towel off that she'd had her nightgown on the whole time.

I think I have a new standard for "too much. No more brain"

-MA to Drew and Pix

It isn't a big deal if treated promptly.

Yeah, getting my dad to go get something looked at or treated when necessary can be hard, but this got serious real quick, so at least he recognized it was time for the ER again. This is now his third bout of cellulitis in less than a year, so it looks like from now on he's just going to be more susceptible to it than most folks. Anyway, he seemed to be feeling a little better today. We won't really know until tomorrow if he's responding well to this particular antibiotic, but I'm cautiously hopeful.

So much ~ma for your dad, Kate! And one to you. It's so hard when a parent is ill.

Thanks, Pix. (And thanks to everyone for the good thoughts! I really appreciate it.) It's no fun, but it helps that for once I'm actually here instead of a thousand miles away. Rose and I went to see him in the hospital tonight, and that was reassuring.

Lots of non-specific ~ma to you too, Pix and ND.