sewing with my mom on Sundays for the past a 2 years. this last week, 7/4/10, we are working on a scrappy- using up all the small pieces form all the other quilts that we have made. this one is using up the longest pieces, 2in wide, or smaller. you need the longest ones for the middle of the block. you sew them from corner to corner diagonally, using dark colors on one side and lighter colors on the other side of the square, the name "sun shine shadow" you can put it together with the dark colors together to the light ones, ether way it look nice and fun to make because there is no real pattern to follow and or to mess up.
Mom said that her mom use to sew all the center pieces 1st before the children could cut them in to small pieces, so then mom and her brother, and other children of the family would sew the rest of the pieces on. so making this is fun in two ways, mom and i working together and hearing what mom did as a kid, the more things change the more they stay the same...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
make sure it's good for you
one thing I use to do... pick up donuts for breakfast on sabbath morning. I would let Chrisy pick out hers and I always got a "jelly=filled" :) I can almost taste it now. Chrisy would get a maple-bar.
Chrisy always sat on one side of the table, me on the other. This one sabbath morning, I come into the kitchen to find a bite out of my donut, so I ask, are we trading donuts today?, oh no Chrisy said I just wanted to make sure it was going to be good for you.
From time to time we would get drinks from the Micky D's drive-in, this one day Chrisy said "my drink doesn't taste good", I tasted it. It was only carbonation, no flavoring. I had to go back and get a "new drink" for her. From that day on I always tasted her drink to... "make sure it's good for you".
Chrisy always sat on one side of the table, me on the other. This one sabbath morning, I come into the kitchen to find a bite out of my donut, so I ask, are we trading donuts today?, oh no Chrisy said I just wanted to make sure it was going to be good for you.
From time to time we would get drinks from the Micky D's drive-in, this one day Chrisy said "my drink doesn't taste good", I tasted it. It was only carbonation, no flavoring. I had to go back and get a "new drink" for her. From that day on I always tasted her drink to... "make sure it's good for you".
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
dreams, what if, I want to do...
I want to go to black Hills Health & Education Center for 2 weeks, just to be pampered, I know this sound totally selfish...also 20 day Lifestyle program, and the school of message therapy and personal training. my dream is to be a massage therapist, not that i plan to quit my job right now, but... someday
I would love to go to ,Hawaii, tried talking my daughter into going when she graduated 8th grade, she wanted to go to Wisconsin with a youth group. Ok going with 2000 youth, or going with your mom :{ so this is still on my list.
I would love to go to ,Hawaii, tried talking my daughter into going when she graduated 8th grade, she wanted to go to Wisconsin with a youth group. Ok going with 2000 youth, or going with your mom :{ so this is still on my list.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
time
I just spent an hour typing, and didn't save :(
~chrisy in~ i came home and mom is so upset that her work is gone, i know that it auto saves, looked in the drafts and sure enough! i saved the day, again...
~chrisy in~ i came home and mom is so upset that her work is gone, i know that it auto saves, looked in the drafts and sure enough! i saved the day, again...
7 brides for 7 brothers
Tonight is the opening night of the play 7 brides for 7 brothers at TVCC. My daughter is the "set maker"- I know she has a "title" but i don't know right now what it is. I am here baby-sitting Bi, he is very sleepy, but it is only 6:30, so I will let him stay up longer. so as he is staying up, I help clean up the babies room pick up toys, help put away some clean clothes, run the dishwasher, run another load of laundry, boy time goes by fast, it now 5 to 8p. good, time to put Bi down, now he is sleepy and he wants to go to sleep, but he doesn't want to go to bed, but down he goes with crying for a few minutes and then, sleep comes.
oh yes back to the opening night... Chrisy took the Ai & Ei. Ei told me that she "had" to go with mom to the college and they would go in the red car. Ei is happy to be "going" I hope she can set still for the play, can't wait to hear how it went. Oh, Big papa,oma, Lisa and her boyfriend will meet them there.
I have seen this play at TVCC once before, long ago... anyway.
This story is very dear to Chrisy and I. when Chrisy was around 7 years old, I rented this move, took it back rented something different, the next weekend we had to rent 7 brides for 7 brothers again. Now this went on for quite a few weeks, got me to thinking, I could have bought this move by now! So to the store we go and buy the move, we watch it to this day. Lisa when she was younger, around seven too, she always wanted to watch the "dancing move" all the time. We have gotten our moneys worth I should say!
One year after being at a family reunion in Laural MT. oma, Chrisy, around 12yrs old, and I coming home, oma could not stay awake driving, but we did not want to stay at a motel, so we started reciting lines from the move, we started at the beginning and went all the way to the end singing and all, that was some fun times! oh ya we made it home safe and sound too.
Now 20+ years later Chrisy is putting this play set together. who would have thought?
oh yes back to the opening night... Chrisy took the Ai & Ei. Ei told me that she "had" to go with mom to the college and they would go in the red car. Ei is happy to be "going" I hope she can set still for the play, can't wait to hear how it went. Oh, Big papa,oma, Lisa and her boyfriend will meet them there.
I have seen this play at TVCC once before, long ago... anyway.
This story is very dear to Chrisy and I. when Chrisy was around 7 years old, I rented this move, took it back rented something different, the next weekend we had to rent 7 brides for 7 brothers again. Now this went on for quite a few weeks, got me to thinking, I could have bought this move by now! So to the store we go and buy the move, we watch it to this day. Lisa when she was younger, around seven too, she always wanted to watch the "dancing move" all the time. We have gotten our moneys worth I should say!
One year after being at a family reunion in Laural MT. oma, Chrisy, around 12yrs old, and I coming home, oma could not stay awake driving, but we did not want to stay at a motel, so we started reciting lines from the move, we started at the beginning and went all the way to the end singing and all, that was some fun times! oh ya we made it home safe and sound too.
Now 20+ years later Chrisy is putting this play set together. who would have thought?
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
I thought Jesus was going to come today
David and the kids came over the othe night,Ai was in the tv room I ask her about her day...she said I thought Jesus was coming today. oh, and what made you think that? I ask... oh today as I was looking in the sky I saw a big white fluffy cloud and I thought Jesus could come in that cloud. My teacher said Jesus was comig in a cloud riding a white horse, I dont know if I belive that, but I know he is coming in a cloud. we both agreed that it would have been nice. and that was that
Saturday, April 10, 2010
tell us a story
young boys "Tell us a story"they begged, myself "No not today". young boys "Tell us a story", myself "today is not a story kind of day". young boys "tell us a story". myself- I look at all the boys wanting a story, there must have been 6 or 8 of them. age 8 to 10 years old 3rd and 4th graders. As I looked at them I say "OK, today I will tell you a story". I step closer to the table, as did all the boys. I lower my head, and my voice. I start:
Once apon a time in a land...I lower my voice even more, far far away, I look at each boy standing - leaning into the table. I continue "there was a boy,again I look each boy in the eye, "who lived in a town much like the one we live in. He would not eat his fruit, as I look at the container of peaches on the table, and back at the boys, who themselves look at the peaches, You know what happened to this boy? I asked, they all said no, now waiting for the the word.. I said it, yes I said the word. You know what happened to this boy? he could not go poop. The boys all look at each other, and back at me, that's right I said he could not poop, so if you don't want to be like that boy, eat your fruit. The one way to remember is story I told them was that fruit and poop rhyme so eat your fruit and you can poop. Now take some fruit and get to your tables. They all get some peaches on their plates and head off to their tables, each whispering to each other, "she said poop" hehehe
Once apon a time in a land...I lower my voice even more, far far away, I look at each boy standing - leaning into the table. I continue "there was a boy,again I look each boy in the eye, "who lived in a town much like the one we live in. He would not eat his fruit, as I look at the container of peaches on the table, and back at the boys, who themselves look at the peaches, You know what happened to this boy? I asked, they all said no, now waiting for the the word.. I said it, yes I said the word. You know what happened to this boy? he could not go poop. The boys all look at each other, and back at me, that's right I said he could not poop, so if you don't want to be like that boy, eat your fruit. The one way to remember is story I told them was that fruit and poop rhyme so eat your fruit and you can poop. Now take some fruit and get to your tables. They all get some peaches on their plates and head off to their tables, each whispering to each other, "she said poop" hehehe
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Baptism
Is it the water? or the place? or is it what happens to you? I know that God wants us to be like him, and when we love God, we want to tell the world about it. The way we do this is to be baptised. AI is going to be baptised this Easter. Now my daughter and her family go to 2 different churches. One is on Saturday and one on Sunday. Easter is on Sunday, April 4th, 2010.
When I ask Ai if she she was ready, she said "oh yes and some day I am going to be baptised in "our" church.
When I ask Ai if she she was ready, she said "oh yes and some day I am going to be baptised in "our" church.
Friday, March 19, 2010
im glad iam a boy.
iam glad iam a boy, said Trenton today as he was waiting in my office for his grandmother to get off work, she is a co-worker, really iam her boss. any way on fridays he come over after school. school gets out at12noon on fridays. another co-worker picks him up from the elementary school, because grandma is working at the middle school across campus.
trenten has become very comfortable with all the ladies that work in the cafeteria. I have know him from day one, now he is in 1st grd. The ladies give him cookies, milk, juice, gummy bears, or any other food item that they have saved for him. He now ask for the food item that he wants, and will take most anything if want he has asked for is not available.
today he wanted m&m cookie and juice, sorry only cho-chip or coconut cookies today, fine with a long sigh.
Iam glad iam boy, oh? i say and why is that? that way i dont have to get my tummy cut open. really? and why do girls have to get their tummies cut open? i ask, now turning from the computer and looking at him setting in the other office chair, oh you know, to have babies and stuff like that. oh, I say again with a little relief, ya it would be lucky to be a boy, ya he repeats, and than, says really, iam just lucky any way.
trenten has become very comfortable with all the ladies that work in the cafeteria. I have know him from day one, now he is in 1st grd. The ladies give him cookies, milk, juice, gummy bears, or any other food item that they have saved for him. He now ask for the food item that he wants, and will take most anything if want he has asked for is not available.
today he wanted m&m cookie and juice, sorry only cho-chip or coconut cookies today, fine with a long sigh.
Iam glad iam boy, oh? i say and why is that? that way i dont have to get my tummy cut open. really? and why do girls have to get their tummies cut open? i ask, now turning from the computer and looking at him setting in the other office chair, oh you know, to have babies and stuff like that. oh, I say again with a little relief, ya it would be lucky to be a boy, ya he repeats, and than, says really, iam just lucky any way.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Some people die
people die, some people never live. Today I heard that someone that I went to school with passed away in her sleep. When this happened people seem to want to get together, why don't we get together when we are all living?school reunion is in April. I plan to go, why, the same as others, because I have not taken the time to get together when they were all living. So busy living we don't keep in touch.
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