No Power

On Saturday night around 11:00pm our power went out. We have now learned that when you live out in the hills and have a well, with an electrical pump, you don't have water pressure when the power goes out, so sad! On Sunday we called pg&e and they were unable to tell us when the power would return. By 4:30pm we still had no power. Now to make the story even better I had not bathed my children in probably 3 days and Monday is a school day. (Bathing the children regularly has been a tough one since we added the third baby.) About that time our good friend Jon called and asked if I wanted to come see his new house. I jumped on it and asked if we took him out to dinner if we could bath our children at his house. Jon being so kind said yes.

After a quick bite we headed to his house and my three kids took Jon's master bathtub for its first test drive. Needles to say they thought the adventure was a lot of fun and we only spilled a little water over the edge!! Once baths were complete the kids had a blast in Jon's living room as there is no furniture. And Jon was a trooper to let them go wild.

Even Mattoe got to take a bath!

I am afraid he is going to get the stinky kid award because he normally gets over looked at tub time. I forget how annoying baby baths can be.

Thanks Jon for a great evening and the use of your tub!

The Shopping Adventure

For the past month or longer Serafina has only wanted to wear twirly dresses. However we have not had enough twirly dress to sustain us through the week. A few weeks ago her Noni (grandma), so kindly, offered to take her shopping to get a dress. And of course this was a true Noni experience. She allowed Serafina to pick out want dresses and shoes she wanted to try on. According to Noni she was a girl who knew what she wanted. Then they tried everything on and Serafina picked out her favorite. The choice of course was a dress that came with a dress for her doll! The shoes black mary-janes that we now wear every day of the week. We have manged to raise a true little girl. The amount of opinion she has at two, scares me for when she is twelve. Here is a picture of her in her new twirly dress with her doll.

Suzuki Violin

I said this blog would be about quilting and I will blog about my quilts but my kids are just so dang cute it is hard not to write about them everyday. On that note, we have all thought that Serafina has a natural love for music. She contently wants to listen to it , play it and or dance to it. Which lead my mom to find a Suzuki Violin Teacher for her and today she had her first lesson. The violin , the lesson, everything is just the funniest thing in the world and the amazing thing is Serafina seems to love it. Part of the Suzuki Method is that you listen to a CD of the violin music you are learning, or in Serafina's case eventually be learning, everyday and preferably all day. We got the CD a week ago and she loves to listen to it. Now that we have the violin she wants to practice constantly. I am sure the novelty will wear off but she does seem to have a joy for the violin that hopefully will continue. Todays lesson consisted of learning the foot positioning, practice bowing, and learning how to hold violin under our chins. According to the teacher we will be doing that for awhile. We really won't get to playing music for a long time. Starting this young makes progress seem slow but it builds in routine and a love for the instrument, plus I am telling you it is the cutest thing in the world!

On her way to her first lesson.

Showing us how she bows and stands with the violin at rest.

Showing how she holds the violin to play.

Correcting Others Children

You are eating out and there are 3 young boys (4-5yr olds). The boys are turning around and calling your 2month old, who is happy as a clam in his car seat, "Fat Baby" and "Cry Baby". The parents weather they know this is going on or not, do nothing. Do you believe it is all right to say something to get them to stop?

Driving with kids

Since the birth of Mattoe it seems as though we have been playing musical chairs in the car trying to find the right arrangement. We have had problems with fighting, poking the baby, anyoning one another, needing all the trunk space and then we still need to be able to get in and out with as little trouble possible. Today we tried a new arrangement where Serafina was by the side door, a place she has never really sat before. Driving home from dinner we had the country music blaring and everyone (I thought) was car dancing having a great time. Next thing I knew I could hear air blowing and Serafina trying to say something. Looking back she had manged to unroll the window and was talking about a shoe?!? We turned down the music, rolled the window up and I asked her to repeat what she said. "My shoe is broke, it went out the window." Bad mom moment - I started busting up. I could not stop laughing. Matt was telling me not to laugh and trying to tell Serafina, that is not a good thing, I could not do anything but laugh. It was hilarious. I did mange to mumble, "How sad, you don't have a pair of crocks now." After gaining composure over myself we pulled into the driveway and got everyone out. To our amazement the shoe that had gone out the window was laying on the floor of the car!

Driving Around

For Christmas my motley crew received their first power wheel from their Uncle David. As a child I always wanted one but never got one. Now my children are completely obsessed with this jeep begging to get it out every day. So this has become our afternoon entertainment. Mateo is getting lots of fresh air but the poor guy is always stuck in his stroller or moby wrap! Matt thinks it will help their driving abilities as teenagers. We will see.

This is my favorite picture. Don't worry we have not lost them over the edge yet!

Matteo in his outside home!

The Rag Quilts

The rag quilt has become a family staple in our house. It all started when Serafina was a baby and I wanted to make a quilt for her. At the time I was lacking in quilting ablity so the rag quilt looked realitivly easy. The quilt was very simple and picking the fabric out was alot of fun which lead me make Sam one when he joined our family. At that point I decide all my childern need their own personal rag quilt. So when Matteo was born (my mom, I was a little overwheled at the time) ran to the sewing room to make him a "Regusic Rag Quilt". Now quite often we make rag quilts for baby gifts, get well gifts, and what ever the reason you need a quilt gifts.

Here is Matteo enjoying his new rag quilt. He is 2 months old today. I am very proud to show off his big smile and ablity to hold his head up. Go a head you can say it, he is the cutest! (this post was really an excuse to put up this picture)

A better shot at what the quitl looks like.

Here are the big kids reading bedtime stories with their rag quilts. Sam's is dinasours and Serafina's is patterns of bright colors.

Internet Blues

I started this blog Tuesday planned on e-mailing it out to friends and family during the week and continue from there. Well the rain came on Thursday night and our internet went down Friday. Of course all weekend I came up with a thousand posts, seeing that I am new to this blog stuff I want to post my entire life story for all the read asap. Well it is now Monday night and our internet is still down. ( My husband is kindly letting me use is sprint card to check e-mail and what not tonight).

We use a local service called digitalputty, they broadcast a wireless signal which allows us people out in the hills to get high speed internet. They are a great company, so when internet went down and didn't come right back we were puzzled. Finally today we manged to get word from them that the repeater tower that sends us our internet signal was basically trashed in the storm. It sits on top of a house and according to them the house flooded and all their equipment was damage by the water. So they were trying as hard as they could to get it fixed but obviously didn't mange to get it done by the end of the day. We can see the house from our driveway, and could see them crawling around on the roof and working until about 5:00pm. We are hopeful that tomorrow we will be back up and running. Until then I will just have to hold off on posting my life story and all my fantastic dreams and schemes!


One last thing before I go:



This picture represent why I love my husband. The crazy guy was reading Mens Health and found recipe that sounded good. So the next thing I knew all 5 Regusci were head to the grocery store Sunday afternoon to do a little grocery shopping for these bell pepper things. Then Matt spend the rest of the rainy afternoon making 9 of these thing in which he plans on eating for lunch over the next 2 weeks. You have to love a man who can eat the same thing for 9 days straight. I LOVE YOU MATTHEW

Rainy Weekend Fun

When the rains come down my mom and I run for the quilting room. This weekend, for those who dont know, it rained for the most part which ment we were indoors. Hopeing to start (maybe even finish) a few quilting projects I manged to get the kids busy in their playroom and went to steal some time in the the sewing room. Here is what was acompished.



These are the squares I manged to get put together. They are part of a Jelly Square Speed quilt. They call it a speed quilt because you buy the fabric in 5ich squares and 2 1/2 inch strips making cutting quick. However they didn't know I would be running after 3 kids. There seemed to be no speed in what I was doing.

Here is what my mom did:




My mom started and finished this quilt in the same time it took me to make my squares!! I laugh every time I get a realization like this that I am a mom of 3 kids and nothing gets done like in the past. The cool thing about this quilt my mom made it using fabrics from Hawaii. My brother brought them back for her after a lengthy stay in Hawaii for work. The current thought for this quilt is it would make a nice hanging for the wine room. (Oh and did I mention she also started a second quilt, pictures to come).

So in short I thought I would get a lot of sewing done with this raining weekend however I got a little sewing done, mixed in with an arousing game of memory, a little magnet play, a drive to look at the ocean waves, and a spaghetti 'o dinner. All in all it was a fantastic weekend.

Where to Start?

So, I have never been a blogger and really don't have a reason to become one, except that it sounds like something fun to do. I get great joy at reading my friend Jeanette's blog and yet I never comment or anything. I always feel like I am lurking around reading about her life. Oh well it entertains me. Then I started reading my quilting magazines and found that there are quilters out there that blog away on their different projects and quilts they are working on. Which lead me to here, to bust into the world of blogging. My thoughts are to post my different quilting projects and write about ideas of new quilts. This way I wont forget my brilliant ideas and maybe entertain a few others along the way. However I am sure I will also spend plenty of post space ragging on my family. Because in case anyone was wondering, I have really cute kids and husband who always keeps me entertained. That is all for now. The kids need me.