Just a little something for your viewing pleasure..taken on a short drive on the 8th of this month.

I am wanting to start something in the sewing dept. and have a couple things in mind. Don't know how much I will get done though. Tomorrow we are heading to Tuscola to the outlet mall...us girls that is. If nothing happens. We were going to go Monday but it was too rainy and damp and cold...it is an outdoor mall we are going to.

I don't know if any of us are really going for anything particular...just a time to get out and do something together. Before Sarah goes back to work and while Rachel is on vacation. There is a Carter's store over there, so I bet we all want to go to it. Lorelei is going to be the best dressed kid in town....I keep thinking about making her an outfit.

I always had trouble choosing the correct size for the kids when they were so tiny. It was more fun when they were around 4 or 5. I don't know if either one of them remember things I made them or not but they each had favorite things they wore. I think with my oldest it was a pair of red plaid pajamas...with the younger, it was not so much one thing as this one pattern. A skirt pattern that had circle skirt...kind of. A lot like this one...if not the same one.

We won't say much about the poodle skirt she wanted...and she wanted it out of a specific material. Polkadots--black and white. I hunted and hunted till I found material acceptable to her, and made it...and she hated it once it was made. I honestly don't know if she wore it 2 times even. The other little skirts...I forget how many I made from the same pattern...she wore them all the time. I could honestly say I got my money's worth out of it.

So keep your fingers crossed that I settle on something to make...I feel the need to be creative!

Spring is springing....

Spring is all around us now...everywhere I look I see something bright and beautiful. Even though it is cold, dark, dreary and rainy here this day, I look out and see things blooming and the gloom isn't so all enveloping.

I cannot help but wish I had a fireplace when it rains...I love sitting by a fire almost as much as anything there is. Just something about it....when we moved to Tennessee, the little house had a fireplace. We did close it up and get a wood stove with a blower on it. But before we closed it, I sure enjoyed it. Sitting by a wood stove is very enjoyable also, just not quite the same.

I keep threatening to turn our old block garage into a room for me...with a wood burning stove in it. I know I would spend a lot of time in it if we did...I would want a stove and a comfortable chair or two...and a light to read by. But then I think about how much work would be involved and how damp it tends to get...the dampness is really the part that worries me. Roger says we could take care of it, but I am not as positive as he is.

Okay, change of subject...

Our dinner yesterday was filled with laughter from watching Lorelei. She sat and grinned and laughed and made faces almost the entire time. So much joy does she bring to our life. And she laughs in her sleep...honest to goodness. Sarah was the same way....she woke up laughing a lot of times when she was little. I honestly can't remember if she did it this young though...

Roger picked up this little rocker seat for her at Walmart Saturday...we put it together, all the while knowing that one of the cats would claim it. He first put this folded up towel in it. None of them noticed it till that night and then Puss Puss claimed it. We took the toys off cause she wanted to play with them, and we unfolded the towel and covered the entire thing with it. Puss Puss slept in it that first night, but she was back with us last night.Sarah says Otto licks Lorelei's feet every chance he gets...Keesha doesn't pay her much mind. She was a funny dog...she didn't always like kids when she was young, yet some kids could do anything to her. Otto will be all for anything that Lorelei can dish out...though Sarah will never let Lorelei be mean to an animal.

Otto and his type were at one time America's favorite dog for families...they have such a bad reputation now. Though after knowing him, it really makes me wonder how any of them is ever induced to fight. He is all about a good time...the closer he can be to you the better. He just has to sneak in as many kisses as he can...

I need to get busy and get some things done around here...I bought an extra ham and had it sliced so I need to get the slices bagged individually and frozen. I also need to put the dishes up...I tell you I am loving my dishwasher. So far, I am well pleased with it. I put a pan in it the other day that had sat for hours, it had had mac-n-cheese in it, and that had dried on it. It came clean as a whistle. It cleans much better than our old one...even when it was brand new I found quickly that it was no use to try to clean pans in it. But that was about 15-16 years ago. I guess things have improved since then.

Happy Easter!

To weary to do/say much.

Just wondered if anyone noticed anything different?

I have reloaded over 1100 photos to blogger over the past week! And most of those had to be resized/scaled down in size. I am still not totally done--if you go to a post that still doesn't have the photos uploaded and you want to see them, please email me and I will try to get that particular post done. Otherwise I am going to work on them at a little more leisurely pace. I still have a few months to do...I did the posts on the very first 3 or 4 months, but mostly I have worked backwards.