I LOVE SLOBOKAN and his new web design for my site!!!
I know it’s easier on my eyes – just like he is …. now how cute is that, it even does emoticons!
Not to mention it’s my favorite shade of blue in the title bar! He’s so awesome! {{{{SLO}}}}
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Mom called tonight around 6:30 – Aunt Charl was out of surgery – cancer free! Not only that – her doctor – the same one who had operated on her when they found the cancer (at which time he just closed her back up because she was too weak to withstand surgery), the same [...]

Mom came through the surgery with flying colors!!! The doctor sent her home after just a few hours. They took out two lymph nodes and that came back negative for cancer cells. They removed the cancer via a lumpectomy. She will meet with the radiation oncologist next week when she’ll begin [...]

It has been a long time since I posted. Alot has happened in the past several weeks. School started back, canning season has started (albeit a little late) and a very important person!!!! J2 “Doc” turned 9 a couple of weeks ago!
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Betcha’ wonder if I sewed anymore, huh? I was beginning to wonder that myself!
J3 grew like a weed this summer. After cleaning out his dresser, I realized he was down to 3 pairs of PJ’s that actually fit him. So I made him some more (with room to grow through the winter). [...]

I’ve spent most of this week, doing teach schtuff preparing for this coming school year. While I was working on the classroom, the kids were in the back of the basement perfecting their Texas Hold ‘Em strategies. It was too cute to pass up the opportunity for another picture! They were [...]

Remember that book, Yardsticks, I was telling you about? What are the chances that yesterday I would tell you about that book and today my 8yr. old would hand me a classic example of an 8 yr. old’s love for ‘bad’ words? I couldn’t help but post it.
When I told him [...]

I ran into this book, Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 : A Resource for Parents and Teachers (Paperback), by Chip Wood sitting by itself on a clearance table. After perusing the 8 yr. old section, I figured it was cheap enough that it couldn’t hurt to buy it. Now, I [...]

As you may have read, March heralded in with worry that my mother had cancer. She had to have an ovarian cyst removed and we all feared the worst. Just a short time before her surgery, we found out that Flash, our beloved golden, had bone cancer. He was limping on his [...]

So, what do you do when it rains in Georgia?
Why go Puddle Jumping of course……….

…. and if you get stuck you just get a little help from your friend.

I don’t think Stitches knew what he was getting into when he joined this family, do you?

Schwinggggggg!

I wish you puddles to jump, too!
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I wanted to share some pictures of my brother’s graduation. He received his Masters in Infectous Disease Control from Emory University on Monday, May 12th, 2008. We are so very proud of him! He has worked extremely hard and is so very deserving of ALL BRAGGING – BRAG – BRAG – BRAG [...]

Our youngest turned 7 about a week ago, *sniffle*. It has been a busy couple of weeks, three birthdays, graduation and Spring, complete with head colds!
Our Lil’ Entertainer wanted a ‘flag’ themed birthday. His two favorite images in life, the Cross and the American Flag. At first he wanted a [...]

Hard to believe that our sweet little chubby baby has turned 10, but ohhhhh he’s such a wonderful little boy! Pardon Me, but I’ve got to brag on these beautiful, smart, funny future gentlemen! They make life soooo enjoyable that surely my world must have been awfully bland without them!
He wanted a Dr. [...]

In trying to get pictures of the quilts I’ve made in the gallery, I had Slobo take a picture of the quilt I made my Dad last Christmas. He is an avid deer hunter, so a deer would be appropriate. I was inspired by an art quilt I’d seen called “Sisters” that [...]

If you’ve read my blog, you might remember past attempts I’ve made at pattern drafting. This time, my oldest wanted a new blazer for Easter but the stores did not have his size. Being the silly mom that I am, I volunteered to make him one. After all, I’ve been dying to [...]

I’ll bet it felt something like this….

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The boys were watching a short animation this afternoon in which a dung beetle, trolling thru some artifacts, discovers a mirror…. only to realize the reflection is no real friend to play with. After a time, the beetle sadly goes about his business gathering a dung ball. Suddenly, another dung beetle swoops down, [...]

As a mom, I hold my breath in fear of the moments our children will lose some of their childhood innocence.
If you read Slobo’s blog, you know that Flash, our 6 yr. old Golden has cancer. We will see a specialist on Tuesday morning to see if anything can be done.
When Pope John [...]

So, I get up from the computer, check the kids to see how they are before starting to cook, and I find that awful fungus, riga-boredom-mortus has set in! Oh No!
Reason #3: Will try to watch TV upside down while bent backwards over an ottoman (note to self – prepare for child [...]

We had a really nice Thanksgiving day with our family. Slobo and I had prepared dinner for 11 people and it seems to have gone okay. I don’t think tho, I’ll be volunteering to host everyone together again tho. This was a weird year. Normally, Slobo and I go to my [...]