Good People In This World

This time of year is CRAZY!! You know it is. We all feel it. A years worth of gratitude stuffed into two months. At least that's what I feel. A years worth of showing your love for others stuffed into two months. I don't think of feeling grateful in May or even October. The grateful bug hits at the beginning of November and travels through December. Then in January I am so exhausted from feeling grateful that I don't think of it until November again. Stupid huh?

I am so very grateful for everything I have ---family, job, home, husband, children, church, etc, etc. etc.---but this morning I realized that I should be grateful for strangers too. Now this thought came to me as I went into my morning pit stop before work, QT. This isn't any QT. This is MY QT. My Lindsay and Baseline QT. In this chilly weather I have to go to QT before work every morning to indulge in their fabulous hot chocolate. They have the best hot chocolate known to man. You can add extra flavors that make it.....whoa, getting off track. Sorry. Back to being grateful. So anyway, when I enter my QT every morning the door is always held open for me by some stranger. Woman, man, child. Every day is different. Not only is my door held open for me but there is usually a thank you and a you're welcome with a smile. These people don't have to smile at me. They don't even have to hold the door for me. BUT THEY DO! That small gesture of kindness really brightens my day. There is still kindness in the world at my QT. For this I am grateful.

Erik Look-A-Like

This reminds me of somebody I know. He happens to be married to my Amber.

Do you see the resemblance?

Under Construction

I'm making some changes to my blog (nothing too drastic. Just me trying to figure out the background. haha). I'm also going to be uploading pictures that we had taken this weekend by my husband "the photographer". Give the man a camera and a tripod and he can actually do some pretty good things. Check back tomorrow. See you then!!!

New Post

Okay. So Erica was teasing me last night about my previous posts. I said that I should quit blogging because I don't keep up with it regularly, I don't know how to upload pics and I really don't have anything exciting to say. So before I give it up completely, I'm going to ramble for a few lines here and just tell you what's been going on. Just follow the bullet points.

* Sew. Sew. Sew. If you need to come and see me I will most likely be in my sewing room. I have a ton of projects that I am working on. Well, that was before I BROKE my sewing machine last Thursday. Now I am actually having withdrawals. It wakes me up at night. I have been working on baby quilts for my sister in law and Erica and another quilt for a special nephew. Also some amazing Christmas presents. So now I am...

* Stressed. Stressed. Stressed. The quilt for my nephew has to be done by December 6th for our family party. We celebrate all of the monthly birthdays at a family dinner on the first Sunday of the month. Anywho, I need to have this quilt done by then. It is my most challenging quilt so far. So please pray that my sewing machine gets fixed sooner than the two week time frame they gave me. So in the mean time I will be...

* Sewing. Sewing. Sewing. I am going to pull out my old machine (and hope it still works) to try and start/finish some of these projects.

So basically that is my life. I sew. I think it is a stress reliever for me. Patrick thinks I stress about sewing but actually I don't. Creating something calms me. Even though while I am creating it I am stressing about it. He's probably right about my stresses. Dang!! He's always right.

Still here

Still here. Just super busy. A new post should be coming but I won't promise anything. haha

Pity Party??

I am down and I don't know why.
I might be sad but I'm not sure.
I don't want to do anything but stay home.
I want to quilt baby quilts and read Harry Potter #7.
In my pajamas.
I get this way sometimes and it makes me crazy.
Not really feeling much of anything.
But at the same time worried and stressed and
overwhelmed about everything.
My husband is very patient and loving
when I get in these moods.
I love my husband. Even though
he thinks I'm crazy (not in a bad way).
That would make me more sad.

I am trying to feel better.
I am going to read Pres. Uchtdorf's
talk: The Infinite Power of Hope.
Then go to bed where my husband
will hold me and tell me that all will
be okay.

I do have other children. Promise

So after the long hellacious blog, I realized that all I do is blog about Aubrey. Sometimes I throw Erica in there, you know it's because she's the slow cooker for our new granddaughter. So I have decided that I need to introduce you to all the other wonderful girls I have in my life. So stay tuned for that post to come. I promise it won't take forever.....just a couple of days.