What do you get when you mix a rainy day and a girl that keeps discarded clothing for fabric?  Apron day!

It was going to be a cleaning the kitchen kind of afternoon but as soon as I began washing a pot I remembered (fortunately) watching Martha Stewart last year and her saying that if it is lightning outside that you shouldn’t wash dishes.  Something about the chance of the bolt traveling to the sink, out the water and hit you.  A smile crept across my face as I laid down that pan and ventured on to the sewing machine.  It was nap time and the sun was hiding and there was nothing better to do.

If I have a minute’s rest from work or raising kids, I almost always go to the sewing machine.  I’m not a precise sewer, but enjoy it nevertheless.  And so I would call sewing my ‘in the zone’ hobby .  The rush that I get from creating something from scraps is so similar to the rush that a laboring mom has when she is ‘in the zone’ and feels what her amazing body is capable of.

The BabyBodyBirth curriculum that I use for my birth classes at Baby Moon really uses this concept to help one understand what childbirth is like even if you’ve never had a baby or witnessed a birth.  What a high I get from wearing something or displaying something that I created… hmmm…