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ilored it down to make it easy enough for 4 year old kids to make it s a hershey s candy bar on the inside i ve made a pact no quilting until i get my junk moved into my cabinet that i ve had since september you know how it is working full time there s always one more project to complete before you take a break what the game plan for the weekend we have dinner plans with friends new year s eve but it won t be a late night and there s always laundry to catch up on i better head out to work posted by melanie at 7 00 am 11 comments tuesday december 25 2007 i m typing to christmas music and the quiet hum of the dishwasher christmas lunch is complete the presents have all been opened i even have new quilt fabric sitting next to me definitely a wonderful christmas last night we were talking about the christmas meal i announced that i thought i d make place cards to match the dinner dishes chelsey first laughed mom don t be a dork there s only four of us then my darling 19 year old chimed in well chels we might not know which chair we sit in so we may need them yeah ok i laughed too then i laid in bed last night thinking of holidays and traditions of past christmases and i decided that dorky is exactly how i want to be remembered so i got up early this morning and made everyone a place card attached to a candy cane and switched everyone normal seating at the table if anything it made conversations of i like your chair better wow you can see out the window while you eat i think i do it every year from now on ransom got his share of gifts here he is in his christmas outfit i live 1200 miles away from relatives but our christmas was special just the four of us and i never felt closer to distant relatives they ve called and emailed us throughout the holidays holidays are what you make them stressful sad peaceful fun memorable you don t always control the cards your dealt but how you play them makes the difference i hope everyone s christmas lasts longer than just today posted by melanie at 12 32 pm 17 comments monday december 24 2007 here s hoping your christmas is truly special and all your wishes come true from our own covered porch with the wooden screen door merry christmas posted by melanie at 4 37 pm 11 comments saturday december 22 2007 documenting the first of my four day holiday it was wonderful i received a gift from a friend on friday i think she knows me pretty well i have just about memorized the new zealand quilt magazine already i have this thing about old keys she gave me a rubber stamp of an old key along with paper stamping ink and santa claus kleenex s i feel like my christmas has been pretty special today what did i do absolutely nothing chelsey and i played with the new stamps and ink in our pjs till after 9am i picked up the house a little and don and i went grocery shopping and a little furniture shopping just stocking up groceries as we are scheduled for a snow storm after midnight chelsey had to work today but we didn t want her driving not knowing when the storm would hit so we picked her up after her shift and took a nap naps are great after we got up don the kids and i did experimental cooking practicing for christmas we made a test round of stuffed shrimp tons of laughing and picture taking i better close it s 37 degrees outside and i have a pot of coffee going ransom and don and i are about to have coffee and sit outside on the covered porch it s dark now and the tree on the porch is just beautiful as we drive up at night we can see it through the woods don has it set up on a timer and it welcomes us home when it gets dark so early the temps will be dropping soon but we re all snug at home posted by melanie at 7 02 pm 9 comments friday december 21 2007 it s friday and i hit another deer on the way to work this one tore the bumper apart and ruined the fog lights that s why you have insurance i m trying not to dwell on the fact of how much quilt fabric could have been purchased with the deductible i m a deer magnet what can i say quilting gifts that went out the door yesterday here s the first a journal and book i also threw in an extra sewing machine foot that i had for free motion quilting lord knows i m not a pro with it maybe she could put it to good use the 2nd gift was a gift bag filled with ribbon spools and pecans for a girl at work when things go bad at work she s been there to talk to but she s understanding and a great sounding board it wouldn t be christmas without remembering her chelsey got saturday school which 5 hours on a saturday in a classroom for studying that s a lot better than a suspension i hope she s learned a big lesson from all of this game plan for the weekend my office party tonight it should be fun then four days off of work i plan on sleeping late watching old movies baking goodies and listening to tons of christmas music we got a snow storm forecasted for saturday night sunday bring it on i ll have everyone tucked in at home lots of tension at home i don t know if it s holiday pressure the weather illnesses going around or what i m hoping the next few days allows everyone to slow down and have some by them self time and some family time too i think it will fix everyone s feelings i ve never considered us a really sensitive family but we all seem to be wearing our feelings on our shoulders posted by melanie at 5 35 am 14 comments thursday december 20 2007 favorite bird without a doubt is the chickadee we have scores of them up here and somehow they survive the chilling temperatures i ve heard stories of people training them to eat out of their hands i ve never gotten there but i can watch them from the feeders for minutes on end i have a wallpaper border with chickadees i even have christmas dishes with chickadees on them my friend is just as crazy about them i was wandering through the grocery store and stumbled onto note cards with the tiny bird on them i dropped the cards in my buggy and they became a friendship gift to a friend i scanned in the page before giving the box away now i ve been playing with the idea of a postcard here s the work in progress i m thinking about ¼ inch buttons for the eye but it will have to wait as we have no fabric store in town and wal mart doesn t specialize i haven t done any stitching on the prototype yet but i m kicking around using that invisible thread and a tiny zigzag stitch these postcards along with the others were going to be christmas cards now becoming new year s cards but if i get under time constraints they ll be just because cards life just happens that way the quilting portion of this post is done anyone not interested in a testimony on life can click on as a parent i find every day the task only gets harder i have a 17 and a 19 year old in my opinion they are good kids not perfect you may have perfect kids but they are good kids but i m the one that seems to be continuing learning lessons on life i got a call from chelsey s teacher yesterday she cut a class you re probably grinning right now remembering the time you did the exact same thing hey i did it but she wrote a note saying she had a doctor s appointment and signed my name she had called me early in the morning mom i cut 5th hour i m sorry i ll never do it again but i took care of everything ok i busted her chops and said we d talk about it when i got home from work it never occurred to me how she took care of it now the teacher is calling she cut the class on test day a class that she has an a in by the way and lied to cover herself i didn t cover for her the hardest thing i ve done in a while she has to learn there are consequences we find out today if she gets suspended or not her dad has put healthy penalties on her at home she s just so busy she s not thinking of consequences or the depth of the wrongs she s done and i want to make this all go away with a band aid and a hug but she s almost an adult and you can t in life you have integrity calls she s got to realize that am i trying to convince you or me she s a b student she has an after school job active in school there s no drugs involved i need to count my blessings one day when s she s thundering away in a courtroom or speaking nightly news on television or maybe lecturing in front of a classroom we ll laugh and remember when but from a mom s point of view this has been the toughest one in a while it s incredibly hard letting your kid fail it would have been much easier to cover for her why am i writing this down one day god will give her three daughters and she will look back and remember this but from the other side of the fence or maybe one day i won t be around to cover for her and she has to learn to think things through on her own posted by melanie at 7 07 am 10 comments monday december 17 2007 as cold as it was sunday morning my heart was warm because left in the mail box saturday evening was this angel from a quilter the gift included bake potato bags handmade by her also i smile every time i glance at this angel resting on my fireplace mantle i wrapped up my christmas sewing over the weekend pictures will come soon eric is home down with the flu these college students stress so much during finals their defenses lower and they come down with something i was always the same way i don t think i ever took a final without a cold i ran 102 degree fever the day before i got married i just don t do stress neither does eric at least he s home the doctor s appointment is at 2 45 today don s off of work for the next eleven days vacation time he has to use up soooo i have a wife at home this week every woman needs a wife primitive gatherings displayed a picture of the finished quilt a primitive garden pretty spectacular i think i m glad when i started this block of the month i never saw the completed project i don t believe i would have been brave enough to attempt it now every time i look at it i think wow i m going to have a quilt just like this one the weather has been cold but the winds have been calm so ransom and i got in our walks over the weekend i haven t had much time for journal reading but i do hope we all can slow down now as it is one week until christmas and appreciate the holiday gratitudes my sunday school kids were wonderful in their program o christmas tree was never sang so well sunday lunch with my kids and their dates i love a full table packers were on top this weekend posted by melanie at 5 25 am 14 comments monday december 10 2007 monday morning my christmas shopping got started and finished this weekend we went to green bay saturday and anything we couldn t get we ordered online saturday night presents heading to louisiana will go out tomorrow the bear family quilt went to its new home it was the first project to quilt on my new grace frame here s a snapshot while it wasn t perfect it felt great to send the quilt on its way and i have no doubt it will be loved here is the latest completed block of the primitive garden it still has the extra edging strips for hoop room i was determined not to like this one just looking at the pattern it didn t jump out at me i even skipped it a couple of months to work on other blocks but after completing it it s one of my favorites over the process i can tell my appliqué skills have improved along with embroidery skills practice is everything i guess i made a big pot of soup yesterday watched football after church and did a little more decorating eric will be home wednesday so i want everything organized we ve got two christmas parties this week next weekend my sunday school class has their christmas program i ll have 12 4 year olds singing in harmony o christmas tree i ironed their costumes while the packers won their game yesterday chelsey goes through phases of not hanging around home i guess she s over it because we met the new guy this weekend and he even watched football with don while chelsey worked on homework nice kid posted by melanie at 5 10 am 14 comments friday december 07 2007 just like my kitchen snowman i love this time of the year tuesday i received gifts from nicolette she made a gift for a family friend that has beaten the battle hopefully of breast cancer she also included presents for me aren t quilters the best i received these ornaments chelsey wants the heart for her car i don t know if i m sharing i also got four fat quarters for my journey quilt basket that is on the list to be completed after the primitive garden she also included chocolate candy that my family devoured before i could get a snapshot they all swore she was their best friend the christmas quilts are out but with me being out of town i kind of feel like christmas is catching up to me we have a christmas party to attend tonight and a trip to green bay tomorrow i ve pretty much accepted the fact that my shopping must be completed this weekend either on our trip or on line to allow for shipping today i ll make the lists and get the game plan down sunday i ll finish decorating except for the christmas tree which we re waiting for eric to come home i did pick up a new ornament when i was in louisiana it s a sleigh trimmed with pinecone pieces i ve found it s true with most quilters every ornament means something you just can t go to the clearance rack and stock up sure you can go to the clearance rack but the ornament a quilter picks most of the time tugs at their heart gratitudes friday warmer temps it s been 6 eric s coming home on wednesday posted by melanie at 6 25 am 11 comments thursday december 06 2007 there s no place like home even with twelve inches of snow on the ground i made it home missing two separate snowstorms i got to louisiana about 9 00 pm last wednesday by the time we got my luggage it was ten o clock when we made it to the doorstep of my folks home there was gumbo waiting on the stove with strict orders from my mom not to eat airport food i settled in to being spoiled by my mom when the entire intent of the trip was to look after them i felt pretty guilty saturday shopping comfortably in 80 degree weather while don and the kids were battling blizzards my folks are doing great we decorated my mom s tree and got most of her shopping done we baked together and read cookbooks cover to cover she s a neat lady dad and i watch football every time we could find a game on i was ready to come home but i d like to visit them again in about 3 weeks i ll see them in may when they come up for chelsey s graduation there s always way too much time between visits my mom took me to a great quilt shop priscilla s quilts we pinched on everything in the shop i had always wanted an australian quilt magazine so that along with four fat quarters that were calling my name came home with me there were several magazines to pick from i chose this one because of the quilt of the front that said do one thing each day that makes you happy definitely got to incorporate that into a quilt quilting i had some really long layovers coming and going on the trip so i packe...