Chats On The Farmhouse Porch

It is time again to link up with Patrice and Her Chat on her Farmhouse porch. It is always nice to stop by for a chat.
I have so much weed chopping to do today, I won't be sitting much. Tumbleweeds are going crazy.

Here are this week's questions:


1.    What do you do when friends or family pull out a camera? Hide, pose, smile, pull out your own camera and take a photo of whatever they are photographing, or something else?

I hide, I think what always amazes me is I must just look dumb all of the time. I don't think it is the camera either. :)

2.    Did you take any type of music lesson in elementary school?

I played a clarinet. I was first chair but after I got older I just never played it again. I still have the clarinet in my closet.

    What is your favorite color of cat (even if you aren't a cat person)?

3. I love stripey kitties. I love all kitties but that kind is my favorite.

4.    What did you have for dinner yesterday?

My old standby, Chicken Pot Pie. When I am busy all day, I can throw one of those together pretty fast.

5.    Do your feet hit the floor running in the morning, or do you drag your self out of bed?

I always hit the ground running. There is always so much to do. I try to get most of my work done by 2 O'clock in the afternoon.
It starts getting to hot too work after that.

Thank you today Patrice, I didn't have a thing in my mind to blog about. My internet died yesterday and I got lots of work done, but I got behind in my visits. I will try and get caught up this afternoon.
Have a great day!
~Kim~

Finally A Finish

Today I sewed a bit. No I take that back, I sewed what seemed like for hours. I planned on hooking a rug today. I never got to it. I told you last week that one of the things I was good at was using a hula-hoe. Well I remembered something else I am even better at using. A seam ripper. Yep, I use a seam ripper so much that I am quite proficient. I wanted to finish my little pillow from Brenda Gervais called The House of Blue's and Browns. I ripped it out 3 times.

I finally got it finished and I won't put this one away because I really liked this one and I do think it is worth the work.

 I am starting to worry about all of these pillows I keep making though. In the Anne of Green Gables series of books, Anne lives for a time in a boarding house with two sisters. One of them is always making pillows and they are every where, even on the stair landings. I am afraid of my house being so filled with pillows like that. I just loved this because I love ticking so much. I just like the way it looks and I like the way it feels.

It was a fun little project. I am currently working on the June Word play like a mad woman. My July Word play should be here next week and I hope I can be finished with June. I also had to stop one of my wool projects because I wanted a lighter background for it so I had to order more light wool. 

Just a bit of fun I had in between weeding the garden and all of the other things I do. I hope to have a few more finishes next week. I would like to open a Etsy store but you have to have something to put in the Etsy store to sell. :)

Have a wonderful Sunday,
~Kim~

Odds and Ends

I really hoped I would have lots more to show you today than I do. I need to quit thinking that one of these weeks are going to be normal. I just need to get over it and enjoy each day for itself. I wanted to share a dream with you that I had.

I was standing in front of the mirror in my bathroom. I was looking at my face and it turned into my grand mother's face. As I stared, I was shocked at how bitter my mouth was and I couldn't figure out why I looked like I did, I reached up and touched my face and when I did I woke up.

I thought about it as I laid there awake. I realized that I do not want to wear bitterness on my face. Only I can choose to change the way I deal with life. Every day this week, every thing I read had to do with forgiveness, and doing good to those who spitefully use you. You know things that poke where you don't want anyone to see or know about. The Lord kept telling me why He wasn't answering my prayers. Not audible but I knew just the same because every time I prayed He would show me what He wanted. I kept saying in my heart," nope, I am not going to do it. "

Well though a series of  things only God can do when He wants to do something and I am not obeying, He causes things to happen. My kids are going to be camp counselors in July and today they were going up to take a look at the facility. I told them I would get up early and get them some snacks to take with them.

It was earlier than my normal time and the person whom God had put on my heart all week, was standing alone at a counter. No one was around but me and her. I went up and gave her a hug and we talked. She had done nothing I want to be up front about. My feelings had been hurt and I let time and hurt just let us grow further and further apart.

 I think I have learned lots this week. So much of it has been a emotional journey. It has been good, because in case I had given myself airs or anything. This week I have got to see what I am and who I am and if I don't keep a close watch on my face, it will not be that gentle and quiet spirit I want but something else.

I thought I would share this today. I had a God appointment and I can only say, I am thankful. I tell you, though, I will be glad when I get out of this woodshed.

Have a wonderful weekend!
~Kim~ 

Thankful Thursday

I haven't done a Thankful Thursday post in a long time. It isn't that I am not thankful I am, but I stopped doing them because I felt funny because there are days when I am very thankful and there are days when I am not. I thought today was a good day to find things to be thankful about. I have had a migraine morning and when I have those I try to focus on the good things in my life, not how I would like to remove my head from my body.

I watched the sun rise this morning, mainly because I am afraid of dying in the dark, by myself. So as I watched the sun rise I tried to think of things that are nice. One of those things is I started a Bible Study yesterday with my girls. The kids all get to play with cousins and run and run and run. We try to do a study with babies crawling around and toddlers being toddlers and trips to feed starving troops and glasses of water to keep them going. We started a study called " Celebrate: Discovering Joy in Life's Ordinary Moments."

I feel very thankful that I have girls who like to come and listen to my prattle. I feel very thankful that they don't jump up and run from the room when all I want to do is break down in tears every time I read a verse or share a answer. I am thankful that they teach me and let me share in their lives and the kids lives. I am thankful for this tiny moment in time for which I have been called.

Yesterday I got out my files, in the dark ages when I started home schooling. I lived in fear of going to jail.
I kept records because I never knew if there was going to come a knock at my door and my children would be taken from me. I educated them with the idea that if they ever had to go back into the public school system, they would be ahead of what was being taught in each grade. Each time one of my students graduated I would take their file and move it to the back of my box. I only have one file left in the front. I wanted to show the girls what files looked like and how I kept records. As I opened them, I was showing them all of my life's work in a neat little file. I suppose it won't mean much to most people, but to me I am so thankful that I never stopped or gave up and it shows me that accomplishing a task at the time you thought was too huge and you would never finish, does come to an end. Then as I get to have the joy of  passing on what I learned. Not to mention all of the books I read and whose advice I followed, now I know who's advice worked and whose did not.

I think that during trials I think too much and evaluate my life. I think that I have been given a life very different than I would have planned, had I been the one in charge. I can say though, I am very thankful most of the time for the joy and the tears, the laughter and the love and above all the people God continues to bless me with and today I just wanted you to know, all of you who read this blog, I am thankful for you.

Have a great Thursday,
~Kim~