The problem with autistic children is they grow up to be autistic teenagers and then, autistic adults who no longer seem so cute when they are stimming, avoiding eye contact or simply displaying any ...
One in every 88 children in the US has some form of Autism. I cant write anything positive about Autism, not a single thing, so please do take the time to make yourself "AWARE" of what ...
Three weeks. Has it really only been three weeks since we unpacked those trucks? It feels like a lifetime. A lifetime of challenges, struggles and tears. Its been so hard. I would have never imagined...
Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and take the plunge into oblivion. You cannot procrastinate forever and although you might want to, you have to "Just Do It!".I started preparing GP for ...
My search for a new house has finally come to an end. How long and arduous a task it has been. When I began my search almost a year ago I thought that by Fall I would have been in my new house and al...
This morning my beloved grandma, Mama Billa as we all called her, passed away in her sleep. She had been in the hospital for a week now and I started mourning her loss then. We all knew it was inevit...
Pepperdog on 02/28/2012.Some days are harder to face than others... our beautiful Pepperdog suffered a ruptured aortic valve yesterday (just 24 hours after this pic was taken), and I chose to euthani...
The ever so crafty Terry Giet has won the Girls in the Garden pattern bundle. My most sincere thanks to all who joined in the fun, and to Traci Marvel of Bigfork Bay Cotton Co. who so generously dona...
Happy New Year! I hope your new year is off to a great start. Mine started slow but Im picking up speed as it goes along. Its so hard for me to slip out of holiday mode... I think I might still have ...
Its that time of year again. Can you believe it? Seems like just yesterday when GP taught us who trumps Mom and Dad in the gift giving category (Santa2010).. and although this year his list is so sho...
Ive been house hunting for months and with the arrival of Fall I feel my hopes and dreams dissipate. The reality that I will probably remain in this house another Winter brings a feeling of disappoin...
Ever have so much stress you think youre having a heart attack? Ever live in such stress that you dont realize it really is stress??? Early on when GP was a little boy and he was diagnosed with Autis...
I am not a "real" quilter. Most of you already know that, but some of you are a little confused so I thought Id put that out there. My quilting days can be traced back to just a few short yea...
As a young woman I had heard over and over again, "I remember what I was doing when JFK was shot. I was ..." Somehow I didnt get the significance of that. I didnt understand how something tha...
I saw these fabrics at Spring Market and almost keeled over. I am such a Whimsicals Fan I border on groupie. How bad is that? I know, its bad, LOL! Anyway. I had to order them and have been harassing...
My friend Linda Lum DeBono posted a great link on her FB wall this morning and I just couldnt stop thinking about it. Its not that I havent thought about dying, I think about it all the time (thats a...
Its been so long since I actually completed a project it is almost anticlimactic. I started my October Scare months ago, and I am so not kidding. I bartered with my niece who is a piecer and after I ...
At forty five I feel I have lived a life far beyond my years. I feel that lifes turns have tumbled me to where I am nowhere near what I thought Id be "when I grew up". I studied hard, played ...
Are you lovin my sweet Nellie? I think shes the bomb. If youre not a primitive lover, you probably wont understand the love of primitive portraits. The little kids with the small bodies, thick necks ...
I cant believe I finally finished cutting these. OMG! What a task. For some reason I had not thought of how long it would take to cut all those fabrics and where all that time would have to be found;...
If this month doesnt end soon I am going to have a nervous breakdown!Thats all Im sayin...
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