A Labor of Love

Yesterday, I was listening to random selections of songs on my phone while I was on my way to drop some things off at my daughter's house (you know, the daughter becoming a mother this week!). A Christmas song played and it floored me, "Labor of Love" by Andrew Peterson. The song is about Mary …

The Waiting

Easter came and went this year, different than ever before. Churches were empty, no sunrise service on the hill with our community. Nothing, just another quiet day at the house and I think it rained, again. I'm a little weird, or rebellious, but when everyone was getting on-line for their Easter church service, I kept …

The Slowing Down

Since February, I feel like I've been disconnected from the world around me. Early in February, I was in the hospital with kidney stones that went sepsis. I was laid up for about 2 weeks healing from that and then getting the kidney stones removed. In the midst of that recovery, I was hit with …

Jumping on the Bandwagon

I shared this on my Facebook page, but decided to come back and add some instructions for a non-filtered, cloth face mask that I came up with. The basic measurements and instructions seem to be floating around the internet for all to see, but I changed mine up and liked the outcome. First....this is non-filtered. …

Another Year

I decided yesterday to take today off so that Ken could take me out to lunch for my birthday. I turned my 4:45am alarm off and let the dog sleep outside so that I could sleep late this morning. So of course, I've been awake since 2am. I've been chronicling my quilting journey, trying to …

Deborah & the Tree

Mom said that she had planned on calling me Debbie but when the nurse came with the birth certificate, she was told she couldn't use a nickname, so I was named Deborah....like the woman in the bible. I never was called Debbie, except by other people that didn't really know me. I was introduced this …

2019 ends 2020 begins

Wow, a decade is ending! I hadn't even thought of that, another decade gone and another one beginning as we enter into the 20s again. 2019 was exciting with my husband retiring, opening our home as a bed & breakfast, welcoming a granddaughter into the family, and finding out we'll have a grandson coming next …