March 13, 2012

  • What a week!

    This past week was a challenge to get through!  Actually, more than a week . . .

    A week ago Sunday, the elderly mother of a church member died.  She was also my neighbor, although I had only met her once.  She had been house-bound for awhile, and I would see her husband out walking, or at the store, but that was all.  Sad, but not unexpected.  I do feel like I got to know her family a little better through it all.

    Then a week ago Monday, a 58-yr old single woman in our church died, very unexpectedly.  She was at church on Sunday, even kept the nursery.  Monday morning she was working as usual, left work to go to her car, and had a cardiac arrest.  58 - that's MY age!  Praise the Lord that she knew Jesus as her Lord and Savior!

    Two visitations, two funerals, food to take, opportunities to be a blessing to family members . . . is how I had changed my thoughts that the week would be. . . but that all didn't happen for me.  Friday morning, Jim woke up very sick with the stomach bug that has been going around our area.  I was fine, went to the funeral that was that morning, ran a lot of errands afterwards, preparing to go to the next visitation that night. . . by that afternoon, I was sick!  It is a 24 hr bug, but it is awful, and left both of us wiped out!  First time in 34 1/2 years of marriage that we have been sick at the same time.

    There were some very nice things going on in my week, though!  The weather started perking up, and by Thursday when I had my grandchildren over, it was windy, but nice enough to go outside.  They colored my driveway with sidewalk chalk and made it so pretty!

                                                                      

     

                                                                      

     

    Charlie wrote his own name, but Megan needed a little help from Grandma -

                                                                      

     

                                                                      

     

                                                                      

     

    I finished this quilt top for Charlie - it has construction vehicles and tools , interspersed with solids, using a Turning Twenty Again pattern -

     

                                                                      

     

    For the back, I used another fabric with large construction vehicles and then pieced one of construction signs around it -

     

                                                                      

     

    It is at the machine quilter's now, and when it is all finished, and the ones I made for Megan and John are all finished, I'll post more pictures of them.

     

    Still on my knitting needles - this shawl I am making in Malabrigo yarn -

     

                                                                      

     

    I lost a whole weekend with the yucky sickness!  So, my quilting and knitting are still waiting for me!

Comments (5)

  • Hope that you are done with illness for a long time.  Wil and I never got sick at the same time and managed not to do it all through raising the kids.  But now here we are with not particularly illness but having to be at doctors all the time.  Tomorrow my cardiologist appt is at 8:30 and his oncologist is at 11:40.  Then we are going to watch James Ian play (pitch) college ball before we come home. 

  • Sometimes it seems that everything happens at once. I learned something from a friend after my accident in December: Be good to yourself. :)

  • Donna a phrase that really stuck out to me that you wrote was..."opportunities to be a blessing". Thanks for the little challenge. May I today look for those opportunities that are all around me.
    Megan and Charlie are soooooooo cute. Love the way little Megan is looking up at you for the picture.

  • I am also 58 it seems so strange when someone just leaves to go Home so quickly.  I too wonder what it will be like to go home.  Megan and Charlie are such sweeties. 

    Blessings, Christie

  • That truck quilt is just the cutest ~

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