Happy Saturday!

I finally found a picture of Life's lesson! Happy dance for sure. You will find it on my progress area. Now you can see what it looks like. Not the best picture but it will have to do

And this is our plan for the day. Yep, lots of relaxing before things get really busy starting tomorrow afternoon. Ugghh!!!!!!!! i am tired already thinking about it. Anyone want to come and help move? I will even feed you! LOL! Bribery!

I want to share a picture of Jack and our neice Tina. This is when she first came home from Kansas in November of 2005. She is now in a facility north of here. I can not believe that child turned 27 in January of this year! She is my pride and joy with all her issues and behaviors. I love her just as she is! Not to say I don't wish she could have a normal life and be like other young women her age. Sadly Tina will always be a child in a womans body. You see, her mom chose to use drugs while pregnant and then abandoned Tina when she was only five years old. My brother never wanted her either and none of them including my dad even told Jack and I about Tina until she was nearly 10 years old! We would have gladly taken her and raised her if only given the opportunity. But we have made up for lost time and we are the only mom and dad that girl has. Her parents are out of the picture for good now. Makes me sad but their take on the situation is that everyone would be better off if Tina had of been aborted before she was even born. Not in my books! That really upsets me to no end! So before I go on and on I will stop there. Feel free to ask me more about her and I will gladly tell you.
Oh and lastly, I have a shoutbox on here now if you just want to holler at me real quick.

All about me

I got this meme from Connie. I figured since I did one on Jack, I should do one on me so here goes!

MORE THAN YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ME :)

01. What time is it? It is 5:10 P.M.
02.What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Don't go to the cinema
03.Diamonds or Pearls? neither
04.What is your favorite tv show? The Gaither Hour
05.What did you have for breakfast? cereal with strawberries
06. What is your middle name? Michelle
07.What is your favorite cuisine? I like chinese
08.What foods do you dislike? greasy or salty
09.What are your favorite chips? prefer crackers
10.What is your favorite CD at the moment? The Preacher's Quartet.
11.What kind of car do you drive? Chevy Cavelier
12.Favorite Sandwich? turkey breast
13.What are characteristics you can't stand? lieing, rudeness or being mean
14.What are your favorite clothes? My sweats and a comfy shirt
15.If you could go anywhere on vacation, where would you go? Great Britan
16.Where would you want to retire? Right where I am or Heaven will do nicely when I pass from this earth
17.Favorite time of day? Evenings
18.Where were you born? San Angelo, Texas
19.What is your favorite sport to watch? None
20.Coke or Pepsi? I like water or herbal teas thank you!
21.Beavers or ducks? ducks
22.Are you a morning person or a night owl. I am a night owl mostly
23.Pedicure or manicure? Neither
24.What did you want to be when you were little? A mom
25.What is your best childhood memory? dancing when i was 6 with my mom on a freshly waxed floor.
26.Ever been to Africa? no.
27.Ever been toilet Papering? No!
28.Been in a car accident? Yes, several, the last messed up my back and broke a bone in my neck.
29.Favorite day of the week? Every day!
30.Favorite Restaurant? none
31.Favorite flower? Morning glories or sunflowers
32.Favorite ice cream? Bunny Tracks
33.Favorite fast food restaurant? Don't like fast food
34.How many times did you fail your drivers' test? Once.
35.From whom did you get your last E-mail? My friend Cherokee
36.Which store would you chose to max out your credit card? Hobby Lobby
37.Last person you went to dinner with? My sweet hubby
38.What are you listening to right now? The news
39.What is your favorite color? All shades of blue, lavenders and greens
40.How many tattoos do you have? Unfortunately one
41.How many are you sending this e-mail to? I am putting it on my blog
42.Favorite Magazine? Cross Country Stitching
43.Coffee or Tea? herbal tea
44.Do you tan easily or burn easily? Burn, baby, burn!
45.Do you color your hair? Streaked with gray by the Lord
46.What was the first car you ever purchased without the help of your parents? I bucked hay bales for a 1969 Pontiac executive!
47.What is your most dreaded household chore? Can't think of any
48.Do you like life? I love life ( thank you Lord for giving me one)
49.Is there anyone that you just can't stand? Not any more!
50.Are you anxious about tomorrow? No, I am excited about another day of life!

Word filled Wednesday

This is my scripture for this week. With Easter just around the corner I thought it fitting. Why wait until Easter week to be reminded of this Glorious Truth?

Happy Tuesday!

Just news

Well, we went to our house in Kansas yesterday. we had to get the water service started and it has to be done in person. The hardwood floors have been redone and look much better without all the scratches! We were also surprised to find a new outside door on the side porch. The landlord said the other was just too far gone to salvage. Jack helped him finish installing it plus we unloaded a bunch of stuff we brought with us. Then we got to visit a friend I met on one of my forums. That was a nice little visit. It was a very tiring day but we enjoyed it anyway!

Stitchy news

Now here is the good part. I have managed to get quite a bit of stitching done last week. Right now I am working on my fariy and I am pleased with how much I have gotten done! Here she is!
And here is Life's sampler. Got quite a bit done on it as well. Only have the top part of the border on this section to go and it is on to finish the other side of the top. I just love the morning glories! So there ya have it!

How we spent our Sunday afternoon!

Thought you would like to see how we spent our Sunday afternoon! No big excitement here but we all were happy as clams! Jack was on the computer. Daydreaming about models again! Not only does he cross stitch but he builds wonderful models as well. His blog is here.

Next is little Miss Katie. Enjoying a snooze on the couch! A friend says Katie and her dog BJ were born upside down because they sleep that way so much! LOL! Works for me!

Next is little ole me sewing away on my fairy project in between making homemade chicken and dumplings. Happy as a clam and working away. I have been working on her the last couple days after a spell of working on my sampler for a few days. Updated pics tomorrow!

So that is our afternoon. Welcome and glad you came to visit!

Book meme

I got this from Esther's blog.
I don't read as much as I used to but I did a lot of reading as a child and still do enjoy reading but not as much!



Look at the list of books below:
*Bold the ones you’ve read
*Italicize the ones you want to read
*Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
If you are reading this: tag; you’re it! Post this on your blog and link back to me.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible - all at one time or another
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down(Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Circle of friendship

I got this from Velda's blog. Feel free to copy and paste and send it on! Just leave a comment to let me know when you do!

Holding Hands

This picture shows a line of little girls holding hands facing the immensity of ocean waves.

Alone they might be washed away, but together they stand strong.

Thank you for holding my hand somewhere along the way when I was facing a wave of my own. I hope you will reach for my hand when your own wave threatens.

All of us girls...

Old and young...

Near and far...

Hold special memories of good times we've shared.

We've had our share of hard times when our friends were there to make us feel better.

We've shared...

our hearts

our time

our secrets

our fears

our hopes

and our dreams.

Let us never break the chain of friends!

Strictly for laughs!

I am in a really good mood today and I want to laugh and share a laugh with you my friends! That I will do with pictures!

First the latest litter from a friend at Hotdogblog! Is this not the cutest thing? You can see more pics here.

Next is our silly little Katie! Trying hard to give dad the "goo-goo" eyes. She does it hoping for lots of petting and lovings!

And last but not least, my thought for the day! So there! LOL!

Word filled Wednesday

I hope you like the verse I picked out today. May it bless you!

Stitchy update!

Well, here is my stitching for the week. I don't think it is a lot of progress but some is better than none! LOL! I have just put down my fairy and picked up the sampler. I really like having two projects going at one time. Don't get bored with them when they are so large!


On a non stitchy note. My but we had the rain last night and most of today. Overnight we had nearly 2 inches. There were flood warnings all over the place as some areas got even more than we did. I for one am not complaining over the rain at all. We have been in a drought for 2 years at least. This last summer farmers had to feed hay to their livestock. They were scrambling to even find any as the hay crop was pretty much gone too. And most farms around here also had no pumpkins for halloween due to a couple factors. Most farms cancelled fall activities because of the drought. I pray and hope this rainy week is the end of the lack of moisture.