A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
Yesterday, one of the first things out of Owen’s mouth was “Go to Mall?” I’m not sure where this came from, but he said it just the same and when asked about it insisted that yes, he indeed likes the mall and wants to go. I was in the mood to get out,…
A Limerickby Mary KelsoI’m craving some Chick-fil-a chickenMy desires do nothing but thickenI could load up the carIt’s not very farThen soon to my ribs it’d be stickin’Not a great limerick, but it’s so so true.
I finally finished painting on Saturday. It only took about a month and poor Owen was back and forth in different beds at different stages but he handled it pretty well.
I worked on it pretty much all afternoon on Saturday. In the morning I drove…
Yesterday we had a bit of a long day, eventful and nice it was. I was exhausted by the end of it and had to have a hot shower to get over it, but nice it was.
We began without Joey. I had let his parents know that I would need the afternoon off and…
Kris has given his perspective on our new bed in several posts (see part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 5.1) while I have mentioned it now and then in mine. I would like to give a bit of my perspective here. I don’t wish to rehash the entire story, only to say what…
Owen has learned the art of taking his clothes off. I’ve been encouraging him to put his shorts on by himself and he’s been getting his arms in and out of sleeves but I haven’t pushed real hard on the dressing thing for this very reason. I think he loo…
Kris and I are both still waking up. Why couldn’t it be Friday? We both had the same thought…is it only Tuesday? I guess we both just had long days yesterday. I felt like I didn’t accomplish nearly what I wanted to yesterday in that I didn’t do any…
Several years ago I began writing a song called Calico Dreams, which is where I got the title for my blog. To further explain I thought I’d go ahead and include the lyrics in a post.
She has them piled in the corner of a room with nothing but a view…
I was hoping to get a post up explaining my new blog look and title before people looked at it…but I wasn’t fast enough. 🙂
I had considered “Calico Dreams” for a title a while back and thought I’d use it to record my work and accomplishments in sew…
What if I opened up a little quilting store and I sold calicos and muslins, threads and thimbles, needles and scissors, cutting boards, patterns, books and all sorts of fun gadgets large and small? Quilting frames would be a high dollar item and of cour…