It has been a while!

I've decided to start blogging again. I've been doing so much over the last year it has been crazy. I started working at the kids' school as the Receptionist and loved it. But this year I am going to be a Life Skills Aide. I'm really looking forward to this position and can't wait to work with my good friend and neighbor.

Since the last time I posted I have taking up quilting and I'm so addicted. So much so that when my friend Alanna, bless her heart, decided to help me clean my craft room/guest room, we discovered that I had 18 quilt kits to make. Plus, I had fabric for other projects. Once I get a chance I will post before and after pictures.

I've knit some but not a wholelot. I started to make some Christmas gifts hoping to be done by Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas, I've asked my husband if he would purchase a spinning wheel for me. I even said it can be for my birthday and Christmas. So I'm looking for a wheel. I can't wait. I want to go to Jacob's Reward and spin with the ladies in the Little Red Barn.

Well, Rome wasn't built in a day so I guess I can't get caught up in a day either. So I will start posting more often.

Happy Stitching Friends!!

Things are looking up!

Tomorrow I am going to spend the morning with the family attending my son's all-star hockey and my other son's basketball games. Then I'm off for a day of scrapbooking. I cannot wait. I love doing this type of thing because it brings back memories and you can get alot accomplished.

Things are looking up, I got some good news today that I can't discuss right now but I am so excited about it. I know, if I can't discuss it why say anything. Well, I just wanted to point out the fact that things happen for a reason.

Sometimes you can do something or say something that a person hears or sees and that leads to other things. So when I can discuss this I will but I'm just happy to say that I'm so happy. And no, I'm not pregnant!! That would not be happy news when I'm about to turn 40.

to be continued...

Why is it..

when I talk to people lately it isn't good news part of the time. I can't take anymore bad news. In the last month and a half I know three people with cancer. They are all at different stages in the process of healing but holy molly!!
My Mom had cancer and God bless her she was truly lucky and she didn't have to have chemo or radiation. It was detected early. Come to find out from the doctor who did my gall bladder surgery, that she is very lucky. She had to have a whipple procedure and only 10% of people who are diagnosed are candidates for the surgery. 10% survive the surgery and of the survivors 10% go five years. It will be four years this month and she is scheduled for an MRI next week. The way things have been going I don't want to know the results.

Each person deals with the situation differently. I am the type of person who loves to help anyway I can. A request was made for chemo cap donations and I sewed 10 of those in an afternoon. While making them I sewed in some good juju for the receipients. When I was purchasing the fabric the lady cutting the fabric asked what I was going to make. I told her chemo caps as per a request from a friend. There was another customer at the cutting table who came out and said "Thanks for doing that, I really appreciate it. I'm a breast cancer survivor for 14 years now." I told her I was glad she was at the store that day.

I'm going to continue to make my chemo caps as my way of dealing with this and continue praying for those who are sick to get well soon. One day at a time.

Sorry for the depressing post but I had to put it down somewhere.