Archive for September, 2008
Getting creative
I have decided to focus my creativity towards certain persuits. I think making pincushions will be the perfect fall/winter craft for me. I will also be learning embroidery skills as I go along. I plan to make some more cloth diaper burp cloths that not only have the decorative flannel in the center, but I will be adding some small embroidery to them. I am such a novice and pictures will be forthcoming but be forewarned. My work is in the crude stages. Getting my ideas from my head to fabric and needle will be difficult but I have some great help along the way.
I have been Googling for websites with info and have found a few really helpful sites and blogs. I was first interrested in the miniature pincushions from reading Gigglepotamus and seeing a link to Schmaltzycraftsy there. Lauren at Gigglepotamus is very creative and I love all of her work. Jen at Schmaltzy is featured in the book Pretty Little Pincushions and both have Etsy shops. I am not aspiring to have an Etsy shop but I am going to be making my items as gifts.
I recently learned about RSS feeds and am happily enjoying their use online. It’s really cool because I don’t have to wait for a huge graphic laden website to load until I have looked at the feed update that comes to my LiveMail on my laptop. How cool is that? Cooler if we switch back to dialtone!
On the job front, Phil starts tomorrow with orientation and training. We were able to take his tools to the hangar and get a look around. I could see the lights in his eyes as we stood in the hangar among the grease and toolboxes and airplanes. He is feeling much better these days.
Get ready because I am changing the template of this blog and I hope the font is larger. I don’t like the small font and I don’t have time to mess with html stuff. So I just want to switch to a premade template that suits me and my needs. Let me know if you like it.
Updates on life…
Ok, I am really sorry but I got a facebook and well, it sucked my time away from here. I think this is going to be interesting keeping up with the two things but I can manage.
Phil has a new job in the aircraft field!!! Yeah!!! This is what we have been praying for. The shift and pay is not great but workable and a starting place. We knew it would be like this. I might have to work again but I won’t go do what I was doing before. Nope, too boring.
All the kids are fine and the babies are growing. Isaiah is on a great schedule and Asher is in the beginning walking stages at barely 8 months! Elizabeth is trying to get him moving by stealing his toys to make him cry and crawl after her. She will get it back soon enough from little brother! Last week my sister, my mom and my cousin all came to visit Lauren and Isaiah and me. We had a nice time. I actually got to sit and each lunch with them and talk. Without all the guys around the place was quiet and we were able to talk.
Phil and I are spending time together this week before the new job. We have an outing planned for the next two days. It should be fun. It’s on my list of “romantic things to do with Phil” list that is in my head. I better clue him in a bit more though or he won’t know what I am thinking or expecting. lol…men are simple and just like time and place details when we want more. Right?
Ok, off to watch for the big brown UPS truck because Phil is expecting a package that needs to be signed. lol…he has been up since 8 am waiting for his new CO2 bb gun.
Monopoly…the way my family does it.
Nobody does it better than us! We are quite the crew when it comes to games. Caleb said it best when Phil, dad, said we are setting a time limit on how long we will play. Caleb replied, “Well our family is so ADD that we will barely make it one turn around the board”! How true that is.
It all started with Lauren and Isaiah coming to visit us and they ended up staying for dinner. So then Caleb asked if we could all play a game together. Of course, I knew he would pick Monopoly-Here and Now Edition. I really don’t like any version of that game.
Guess who won?
And I didn’t even try. I was busy playing with Isaiah and trying to keep him calm for Lauren. Oh well, I guess that’s the competitive part of me that wins without trying or meaning to.
Next time, we play the game I choose! And I choose Malarky!
Here’s the little man on his 1 month birthday. Look at those cheeks! Not mine!
End of summer cold…
That is what I have. And now Caleb has it too. He is home from school today. And just when I second guess the decision to let him stay home, he sneezes and grosses me out! Ewww…he was a mess. Poor kid. I was going to attend a women’s retreat but I am now rescheduling to the one in two weeks so I don’t pass on the germs. Let’s hope I am better by Sunday since I am teaching Sunday school.
Phil had an interview for a job here in our city. He is hopeful and was actually offered this same job last fall but we couldn’t accept it then due to the pay. It is still low pay but we have savings now to supplement that and should be able to work it all out if he is offered the job.
I was really hoping there would be some time between his jobs so that he and I could spend time together. The boys are now back in school and I have time during the day. That would have given us some time to work on the issues that keep getting pushed to the back burner. As it is, we have a date scheduled for Sunday after church to talk about things. I am working through the issues that hit me so hard the other day. Thanks for the well wishes and prayers.
Next week my sister, mom and sister-in-law are coming to visit Lauren and Isaiah. I will make some lunch for us. Maybe a big pasta salad or something like that. I finally mailed my sister the book about relationships that my counselor wrote. Let’s hope it’s as good for her as it’s been for me.
Ok, until next time, and let’s hope the cold doesn’t spread to any more of my family.
Difficult day
Things are coming to a screeching halt in my head. I am struggling. Today I put it all down on paper. Not easy. Life is like that sometimes. I am determined to get to the bottom of this issue and put it to rest. I have reached out to a friend to walk me through this valley. I need help. I can’t do this alone any longer.
Sorry to be so vague but too many read this now and I can’t share the personal issues. Just pray I work through this one quickly.
Happiness is…
The three grandbabies…Elizabeth, 20 months, Isaiah, 3 weeks, and Asher, 7 months.
My daughters, Lauren and Brittany, and their babies. 
