It is Thursday...and I am ready to play!

Have you ever just sat and thought of all the things you want to do?  Of all the things you want to learn?  Of all the things you need to or have to do?  This can make a person crazy I have decided...stop thinking.  I rarely think like this...now I know why.  I tend to just piddle through my days...doing what has to be done first and then letting the mood take me from there, which is usually into my play/sewing room...for as long as I can get away with it. 

As I sit here in my sewing room I notice the quilt I loaded onto my frame a few days ago waiting on me to make up my mind on the pattern to quilt.  There is a colorful pile of scraps in another corner that are begging to be formed into a quilt top of random colors with no rhyme or reason to the order...they are scraps and they know it!  I have my Embird tutorials laying out open just waiting for me to dig deeper into my embroidery software discovering the little tricks of the trade my brain is begging to try out.  I need to clean up the mess I made embroidering out two names for a customer at the shop, who is making stockings for her family..I am now wondering if they are good enough for her since she said she has a bunch she wants to make!  Cha Ching!!!  Oh, and lest I not forget the two blocks of the month waiting for me to finish on the other corner table...there is not one corner of this room that is not calling me to come play.  I am happy in here...

But, I do question my life or lack of it sometimes...a customer said the other day, "well I do have a life outside of my sewing room," she said she was telling a friend.  Which made me question if I do?  I have a great husband and he really wants to travel a lot and we could be since he is retired but we have one big stop in the way right now...a teenage son still living at home that does not have a car but finally has a job!  So, we are stuck grounded for a while longer till we can see him take flight...or has to be pushed out of the nest!  As a result I am home a lot waiting on the call to be a taxi service again.  This too shall pass and when it does I hope we are still young enough and able to get in the car and go to our dream destinations.  Key West please don't go away...

I am the mother of five kids I know they eventually do fly out of the nest..some sooner and others much later.  But, it gives me a little bit of a concern when he seems this content to not look over the edge of the nest and wonder about the great big world out there or if he could fly on his own yet. 

Oh, I can't think about this now or I will go crazy...Scarlet you are so right!

So, for me it is better to just piddle through my days for now and be thankful for it...playing when I can in my sewing room ....doing what has to be done to keep the house in healthy living conditions with it's occupants full and happy!  Hey, maybe that is why he doesn't want to leave...hmmm

Motherhood is a blessing!

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I found TheMotherhood a couple of years ago by accident and I love this site!  It is just for Mom's supporting Mom's in the most important job in the world...MOTHERHOOD!  Being the Mom of five children, three of which are adopted, this is a subject very close to my heart.  Also, having one child that has been sooo hard to raise with many very hard and down times, TheMotherHood has been there for me to spill my joys and heartbreaks.  I know, some people say that it is weird sharing your soul with an internet friend you have never met in person.  But, not so...there are times when I need to write my thoughts just to see what my thoughts are... and I needed to share them with someone who would care with out a bias one way or another.  The Mothers on this web site have been there for me and through them I have gotten some much needed support and prayers....real help in my time of need.  They shared ideas, and points of view I needed to look at as well as experiences from their past and part of the world!  So, having these internet Mom's friendship has been a real eye opener!  Just like their mission to help Mom's around the world with ONECampaign!  Love these ladies, friends, Mothers!!!

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My royal crowning day!

     It is 7:50AM on this hot sticky Wednesday morning in the South!  I am thinking way too much about the dental apointment I have today.  I have to get a dental crown in the back of my mouth.  I really just want to wish it away and do something more fun like picking blueberries at high noon in this stiffling heat. 

     We have been picking berries for days and days now...sweating profusley in this heat...we now have a freezer full of plump deep blue blueberries!  Yummy, and oh so good for you too!  Blueberries are one fruit that can be pesticide free with no problems from bugs here in the south, but the birds here must be organic, they love them!  We have two fake black snakes in the bushes to deter the birds...ummm, tell that to the one that built a nest smack dab in the center of the bushes this spring and dared to pick our noses off when we got close to her nest!  Her babies got wings and flew off while we were on vacation...thank goodness!  But my Dad who lives next door, decided while we were away, that adding tape cassette ribbon to the bushes would help keep the birds at bay.  So, far I think he may be onto something with all his flashy ribbons tied to the tips of the bushes blowing in the gentle humid breezes...until I get stuck in one reaching for that thumb size berry way up high!  Did you know that cassette tape ribbon sticks to a sweaty arm?  Yep, and when you pull it away it feels very much like a spider going down your arm...but, we don't have birds in our bushes, threatening to attack us, and pecking out the seeds in the center of the berries to poop out on our cars!  lol

    I wish I knew someone who wanted to come over and pick blueberries....I am tired of picking them....oh, yeah...I just remembered I have my crowning today!  Ugh....