For a good reason. The electricity is going on and off and I am just plain tired. Tomorrow I have a date with number one son, but tonight I am here just enjoying nothing on my agenda.
This calm will all end soon enough. Yup, one week from tonight in fact. I will be donning this little beauty of an outfit...and hitting the sparkling surface of this beauty...the pool at the club. Training season officially opens on Tuesday with Sunday being exactly 12 weeks to my next tri. Isn't it surprising how quickly time flies? Wasn't it just yesterday that I was just finishing the Couch to 5K so that I could run 3 miles? I am thrilled that being a triathlete is a part of who I am and I am so ready for the season! Bring it on!
St. Patrick's Day, Chinese New Year, and Mardi Gras all in one night. Yup, that was our experience the last time we got together with our dear friends Naya and Howard.Please notice how classy the chandelier looks covered in Mardi Gras beads. The addition of the Chinese lantern is the finishing touch. I don't know of anyone, other than Naya, who can pull off a celebration melding so many different cultures. It was such fun! Our Chinese fortunes were all read from a book which is the authority on the subject. Can you believe Naya found it for one dollar at the library used book sale?
We feasted on King Cake, Irish Potatoes, fortune cookies and a Mardi Gras themed fruit salad. We used paper plates from every holiday and we ate and ate. Then, we laughed. You know, the good old laugh til you cry kind. It was fun!
And look, Naya is the only person I know that can get me to wear green, in a hat yet. Feeling so very blessed to consider Naya and Howard among our closest friends.
This is our livingroom. This is special. For the first time since, at least 2009, there is not a Christmas Tree stored in a red bag laying on the floor. I am so excited to have our livingroom back!
My dear husband, Mark, wrapped up the last two trees while I was in bed with the flu on Friday. This is big, really. Not only did he get the trees in their respective bags, he actually found a place to store them until we need them again.
I can't tell you how surprised I was when I saw my livingroom on Saturday morning. Mark even vacuumed! How nice it will be to actually spend time in our livingroom.Wow! We actually have room to move around. That's it, party at our house! Once I am feeling better of course.
Tuesday truly seems so long ago. I have a little schedule of the way I think my week is supposed to go. Generally, Project Life is posted on Tuesdays. That's why its called, Project Life Tuesdays. This week nothing went the way I expected. That is all because of a little thing called the flu. Yuck!
But, I digress. Back to Project Life, Week 7, and a pretty good week!During Week 7, I finished the top and back of the Chocolate Hugs and Kisses quilt and boy do I love it! Now to buy the batting and take it over to the long arm quilters. I also finished the back for the New Year's Day mystery so that is ready to go also.
On Monday Jackie and I went to the 2013 Kick-off meeting of the Mullica Hill Women's Tri Club. We didn't win anything, but we really had a great time!
Tuesday, Mardi Gras and King Cake! What more can I say?During Week 7 we had a little bit of snow, celebrated the hundredth day of school and Valentine's Day. Whew - a very busy week. I was so happy for Saturday and the chance to sew again. I am making good progress on my Short List and I am really just enjoying the opportunity to spend time at home sewing and scrappin'. Life is very, very good!As usual, even though I am a bit late, I will be linking up over at The Mom Creative. Now I am off to take a nap and I am hoping that I will be able to pull Project Life together for this week in a timely manner. Thanks for stopping by!
I usually post my Project Life pages on Tuesday nights, but today I am a bit under the weather. So, I baked bread instead. Actually, my machine baked bread and I am so grateful for the smell of fresh baked bread! Ahhh. Tomorrow I will be feeling better. But tonight, tonight I am having fresh baked bread with a bit of jelly!
Lookie what's almost done. And, I might add Jason, before she is six months old.
I am thrilled that this is finally coming together. A couple of mistakes caused a few delays along with the need to purchase some additional fabric. But, at long last, the quilt is nearly done!
Currently I am tying the quilt. Next step, the binding and it is finished! Yippee! I will have to make a date to deliver this to the sweet baby.Terrific progress is being made on all my UFO's. Perhaps creating the "short list" is something that I should have done ages ago!
Yes, progress is definitely being made. The Shabby Chic quilt on my short list is on the wall awaiting the arrival of the last 9 blocks. Not sure it is looking like the sample I saw that made me buy the kit, but whatever.
I have been taking time to finish up a baby quilt that is not on the short list and I would love to have that finished by next weekend. We'll have to see about that!
So, as of today, I have two quilts ready for the quilting ladies, the last row ready to go on the baby quilt, the last nine blocks ready to stitch for the shabby chic quilt and the border ready to cut for the 30's buck-a-block. Definitely feel like I am making progress.
"Ultimately there comes a
time when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each
other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and
deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take. It is indeed a fearful
gamble. Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is
something which has to be created. To marry is the biggest risk in human
relations that a person can take. If we commit ourselves to one person for life
this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands
the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which
is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation. It
takes a lifetime to learn another person. When love is not possession, but
participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling."
