A May poem

photo by Beanie

'The moon shines bright, 

and the stars give light, 

A little before it is day; 

So God bless you all, 

both great and small, 

And send you a joyful May!' 

Author Unknown

Gratefulness

Sundays...

A time for reflection and gratitude. There is no way to be crabby and mean when you sit back and think of all you are grateful for this week.


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being 3 projects away from presenting a diploma...






a garden planted with cucumbers, eggplants and lettuce...

old tomato plants growing up from our previous garden...

some new fingerless gloves on and off  the hook...

a school year almost over for my step kids so we can enjoy summer vacation with them...

a set of donated bowling balls recovered...

specialists appointments in my future to finally have answers regarding my health...

a little boy enjoying his solids... 

a birthday present for friends in the making...

a cuddlebug for when I am hurting and need it... 

Linking up with Woolymossroots  

Learning to knit

 As you may start to notice a keyboard, pens and notebooks are normally in the background of most of my crafting photos. I spend a good amount of time crafting at work as I work in a call center so there is some down time in between calls. I am not slacking I promise and crafting is AWESOME stress relief  from the yelling and crabby people I speak to daily. I have had a few coworkers ask me to teach them to crochet so there will be more of that on another day as I am teaching macho men to create crochets bunnies and scarfs.

Well during some free time I was checking out Wee Folk Art which is one of my favorite blogs to visit. If you have never been... You need to. Tons of crafty fun goodness.

For the last 3 years I have wanted to learn how to knit. I would sit down with directions from here and get a good cast on and end up with a knotted mess. Several swears later it would be in a ball and I would pick up my crochet hook for something more comforting. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't figure out: In, Around, Under, Off. Until now.

I figured I would Youtube it as Google and Youtube can teach you how to do ANYTHING. Ask my husband. He has learned how to fix nursemaids elbow, completely rebuild computers with motherboards and hard drives and rewire our vans.  The internet is wonderful, but back to knitting.

So I ended up here which had a wonderful step by step video. I finally figured out it was the wrong prepositions for me to understand it. For myself I have to go: In, Under, Around ( wrap) and (push) off. The story I tell myself in my head is quite a morbid one pushing someone off a cliff but whatever works right?

The final result. 

It is not straight or even but it is beautiful as it is the furthest I have ever gotten before.  I am very proud of myself and am looking forward to making my first scarf. Knit on!

Wordless Wednesday

Grateful Sunday

A grateful Sunday remembering my Mother and Gama who are no longer with us.  It never gets easier without them but I do hope I lived up to everything they thought I would be.

Happy Mothers Day.

Grateful Sunday

Gratitude Sunday. Looking back to the last week ( or 2) and reminding myself on how blessed our family truly is.

..... a beautiful daughter on prom day.


..... a successful lip tie revision.


..... a big smile after said revision.**see he has an upper lip now!**

..... Daddy able to fix Ryguy's nursemaids elbow after hours in the ER.


..... a diploma that is waiting to be given to a graduate.

.....a shawl that is almost finished .


..... a special gift to me that is Mother's day present of the lifetime.

.....a senior cooperating for senior photos.

 .....some beautiful weather for said photos.

..... a date night with my hubby to the Olive Garden that was long overdue.

Not so wordless Wednesday

I do apologize for the ever changing blog layout. My old layout's creator changed the file and now it looks confusing and horrid. I have put something simple up so it at least makes sense and looks a little less hectic. It will be pretty and more owly soon I promise!