Random Thought Day!

  

Changes

 This is a time in my life I feel things are changing...for one I became a Mother-In-Law last weekend, quite suddenly actually.  What an exciting time it was to hear my oldest son was married.  The first of our five kids to tie the knot.  We are truly happy for them and wish them a long and loving life together!  In the last few months I have really gotten to know his sweet P and she is a joy to be around.  She has come over to the house several times, spent the night, made us spring rolls, and even learning to quilt with me all the while our son is off in the Army. She did not have to spend time with us but she has.  What a joy to have a new daughter in our family!  Welcome to our world P!

Retirement

My husband has been retired for over 6 years now and we are finally settling in to a routine that is more comfortable to us than an old pair of shoes.  We are learning to communicate in many new ways and sometimes I think we even read each others minds.  I guess that is the way it should be after 36 years of marriage.  He still works part time, as I do, but it is just enough to make us excited to come back home to each other again!  Life is good when you are married to your soul mate....

WIP'S

W-I-P'S...this is a term we use at the quilt world that stands for works in progress.  I have many "wip's" in the works and I have decided I like it that way.  Some of my projects are quick like the purse I made the other day from the pattern I got at the Expo recently.   And some projects are going to take me years and possibly a life time like my cathedreal windows and flower garden quilts.  I enjoy them all for the challenges they give me because I really get bored just working on the same thing for days and weeks...

Children

You can have One you would rather live somewhere else when they turn 18 but how do you get them to move out???  This is one topic of discussion the hubby and I have daily.  This One is a rule breaker and every time we draw a line of behavior or our set of house rules...he sticks his big hairy toe over the line...

This Old House

We used to watch This Old House and dream of buying an old house to fix up.  We used to read adds in the paper and make appointments to go see the houses and take lots of pictures.  We drug the kids all over the countryside looking at some big old lovely houses in various states of dissrepair never finding one we felt we could handle.  We are now living that dream in the house we have owned for almost 25 years now...ok, not as much fun as the dreams said it would be....

Fall Leaves

They never fail to make me smile!  I love to see them turn colors in the cool evenings, fall softly to the ground, and I still love to play in them...well in the front yard where there is no dog poop.  I don't much like raking them up...maybe I will, if I ever have small grandkids to run though and play with me in the freshly fallen leaves...