Happy June

We are halfway though the year. Can you believe it? I do love turning the calendar over to a new month. All filled with new possibilities, adventures and new goals to keep. I spent last week, rearranging, and de-cluttering. As I get to this morning, I keep trying to think what I want to clean and de-clutter this next week. I think I will work on my pantries. 

Our son Ben was a keynote speaker at a Homestead Conference.  Megan sent me a picture. I really loved seeing him speaking and thinking of how much he has changed.

One thing with them living all the way across the country from me, its so much different to go for a visit. I am so glad we live in a world with phones and face time. I can't imagine how it would be to have to wait on letters. It never makes it easy to see the kids grow up from a distance.

 We had a surprise party for our youngest son. Peter, our youngest is now 30. He is the one to the right, with his wife Belle. She wanted us to all go out to dinner. It was a fun time and nice to celebrate without me cooking. I think its a first time. Next to Peter is our son-in-law Nik, our daughter, Emilie.

Ron and me. Then Elliot and his wife Karren. 

 These are the four that still live here. The oldest two live out of state. I really need to figure out how to get a new family photo. Yesterday, I got Kessie's latest book. I have no idea how on earth she manages to get books published. 

She writes young fiction. Her kids think its really cool that their mom writes the books they read. When ever I am there one of them will be sitting and reading one of her books. I asked them what it felt like to have a Mom who writes and they all thought it was pretty neat. Her finest work that she is most proud of is her family and her new baby.

She sent me this last week, right after the baby had her bath. I am sure she has changed so much now. She weighed 7 pounds something at birth and she was already over nine pounds. She is a little chunk. 

Okay, enough bragging. Well maybe one more thing. A photo of my rug. I almost got to the sky. That is the plan this week.

I think the thing that is hardest for me is to leave it. I could sit and reverse hook, and then I would never get it done. So that is by far the hardest thing I fight while hooking. I have to remember that while I would love to be a perfect rug hooker. Its the beauty of rug hooking that says, " Its your rug, do what fits your style, because after all its a rug." That is why I don't paint, well, for one thing, I am not a painter, and have no want to, because as with anything you have to have, "the want to." That is why I love rug hooking. I have a jillion rugs in my cupboard, and each one represents a milestone in my life. 

Its hard to describe that to someone when they see how many rugs I have.

This swallowtail, waited for me to run in the house and get my phone so I could take its picture. I just think summer is the nicest time of year, truly, I never can decide what time of year is my favorite. Each one has its own beauty that I like when I finally get there. 

Have a lovely day, this first day of June.

~Kim~

“It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.” – Mark Twain