up early

Well I am up and moving. For some reason I could not sleep last night, so I let Rusty sleep in and I got up with the children. I know my butt will be dragging later on.

I am still in shock over the phone call and I am still not sure what to make of it. I am really going to have to ponder this and see if they do actually send a card. who knows, maybe they will go back into the hole from which they came?

I am going to go get started on my day. I need to do some laundry, take out the trash, unload the dishwasher..... the list goes on. I guess it is true that a stay home mom works more then a mom that goes to work.

I am off to start my day.

I need a glass of wine!!!

Now I know that Rusty is the one with the bad heart, but man after the day I have had I think I am going to be the one having a heart attack.

My day started out as a lsow day and I was going to be happy about that. I went to put together Elle's quilt and I found out that I measured wrong. No big deal, I just made Elle two quilts. Then I took a lot of scraps and made some pet quilts. This day is going good!

I was just finishing the last pet quilt when the phone rang. The caller i.d. said u.s. cell. What ever so I answered it. The lady on the other end asked for me and I said this is her. Then the lady begged me not to hang up. It was my ex husbands new wife! I about fell over. Her name is Tammy and she seemed very nice. Antway she was wondering if my ex could call the girls. ( court order says no) I told her that I would have to think about it. Then she tells me that she is calling me from her cell phone and that ex does not know that she is calling. She went on to say that he does not know that she is even calling! O.K. I took a deep breath and took the high ground on this issue. I asked how ex and his mother and father were doing. She told me. Then I said that I dont think calling is a good idea right now because he has never even sent so much as a card to them! She said excuse me? so I repeated myself. Tammy said that she did not know that. I told her that by writing the girls will have his address and then they can write back if they choose to. Then if things go good we can arrange a call through the courts. Tammy asked how much that would cost, and I told her around $50 bucks. She said that they will be writing for a while.

Then I asked Rusty what I should get my parents for Christmas. He had no idea so I called to my parents house. My dad answered the phone and I asked him what mom wanted for Christmas. He said hold and yelled to someone to take a break and that he would would be right with them. O.k. now he is back to me. Dad says to me, your mother has two closets full of clothes and more shit then she knows what to do with. Well that was not the answer I was expecting. So I asked if she had mentioned anything. My dad says I would not know because I do not talk to her. Then my dad asked if I would like yto talk to my sister. well no I would not but she was on the phone before I could hang up. So I asked her what mom wanted for Christmas. She says well are you coming home this year? I said this is my home and no we are traveling across the country to sleep on the floor! Then she wants to know if I would like to go in half on a digital camera with her. I told her no. Then she starts gripping about why not. I just hung up.

I am so glad that all of the people I have talked to today live on the other coast. Family is so over rated!

On a good note, Rusty is cooking my favorite sausage for dinner! It smells so good.!!!!

Right now I am SOOOOOO thankful thankful that no one in my family can just drop by for a visit.

not to much...

Well I finished the quilt. Now I am working on one for our friend, Elle. I cant believe that she will be leaving for Alaska in 17 days! I am going to miss her so much.

Something really strange happened today. I actually got a letter in the mail! I can not tell you the last time that someone actually wrote me a letter. So I am in the process of writing one back.

O.K. I am off to get some stuff done around here.

rainy, but busy

Well it has been raining for two days and I dont mind it at all. Today I am going to finish Ambers quilt and maybe start on another quilt for a friend. All of this rain gives me time to do some inside work.

For some reason we had just about everyone we know show up at our house on saturday. It is all good, but man was our house trashed when they left!

I had to work yesterday, but I came home real early. I felt so sick. So I called rusty and asked him to go get me something. Well come to find out that all of the cold medicine is now behind the counter. well great, I guess you can only get sick during certain hours of the day.

I am off to finish sewing this quilt and then I am hoping for a nice slow evening.

I am so thankful for the rain!

pictures

O.k. here are some pictures! yes I finally got the software for the camera downloaded!

1. is a picture of the bench

2. is a picture of the cat bed

3. another picture of the bench

4. one of the cats. This is panther and he is topping the scale at 40 pounds!

 

 

 

rusty does not get it!

O.K. it is friday and that is my running around day. So I got up and did a few things and then took off. I had to buy a birthday peresent for Nikki to take to a party, Ryan needed new shoes, and I needed to pick up some more material. No big deal.

Then on my way home I saw a sign for a yard sale, well I cannot pass up a yard sale! So I stopped. I called Rusty and told him that I scored a bed for the cats. Well Rusty wants to know what cat is going to sleep in the bed since they all sleep with us. So I am driving down the road with this "bed" hanging out both of the back windows of the car. When I get home, Rusty informs me that it is not  cat bed, but a bird cage as tall as me! :0) I thought it would be the perfect bed for the cats! Anyway I am going go grind the rust off and fix it up, and let the cats sleep in it!

Tonight I am going to volunteer for a group called soar. It is for children from 18-21 who have some type of learning problem. Tonight is the fall get together. I think that this will be fun! I said at the beginning of the year that I wanted to volunteer in the community, so now I am going to get my chance, to give back.

Well I am off to get some cleaning done, and then get ready to go.

I am thankful I can think outside the box and turn a bird cage into a cat bed!

so much to do

Well I do have a lot that I should be doing before I head off to work. I need to cook dinner fold yet more laundry, get ready to go to work, and the list goes on. Yet here I sit not wanting to do any of it.

I went to some thrift stores yesterday and scored some cool stuff. I got one new piece of Pyrex, some globes for the bathroom fixtures, and this really cool bathroom set. I just might be able to keep it all under $1,000 if I keep finding good deals!

So I was in one of the thrift stores and I saw a rocking chair that looks like one that I have. I should mention that this rocking chair is for children. Anyway they wanted $175 for it! So I called Rusty and told him about it. He said that he would never again laugh at me for pulling stuff from the trash!

Well I need to do all of the house work and I need to put Ambers quilt together so I better get going.

I am thankful for thrift stores!!!!! I love them!