Stress

Have you ever watched safety glass break?  It shatters slowly when you lightly tap it.  Next time you get a chance to break some glass, try it and see.  It's really interesting.  What's not interesting is how it feels inside when you shatter like safety glass.  I should know because that is what I feel like inside.  Slowly shattering.  Why you ask do I feel this way?  Stress.  The last two weeks have been excruciating.  The last week has been nauseating.  I can't escape it.  But I have faith it will work out because there is no other outcome.

Life has a way of coming at you sideways sometimes but lately it has been coming at me upside down and throwing up in my lap.  Frankly I am just sick of it all.  I wish it would just iron back out to normal.  I'll write you later my dear when I feel more like myself.  xoxo

Lazy Days

Well here I am again folks!  Just when you almost forgot I could write!  lol  Well life just picks up and leaves me sometimes and other times it just takes me with it!  Lately I have been riding with life and enjoying my time with my granddaughter Ella Claire.  She is so much a part of our lives now we can't imagine it without her!  lol  And so smart too!  She got a hold of my cell phone yesterday and managed to do something to it.  Anywho I ended up restoring it to it's factory settings, thus losing all those videos and pics I have taken of her since birth!  I just cried.  But such is life isn't it?

Got our garden planted finally!  We have potatoes, squash, cukes, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, and lettuce planted.  So far, lettuce is all I have been picking.  By the end of May I will have cukes and squash running out of my ears! lol  But that is ok by me!  I will be canning those babies!  Love me some pickles!  lol  I love to can vegetables.  They look so pretty in my pantry.  They taste really good in the winter too!  lol

Well folks I just wanted to drop you guys a line and let you know I'm still alive!  lol  I've got to go straighten out my sewing room so I can destroy it again for my next project!  Oh what is it you say?  Why a quilt of course!  But that is a another story isn't it? 

Lately I have been finding it harder and harder to find the time to write.  I will get something started only to leave it unfinished.  By the time I pick it up again I have lost my train of thought!  So much for menopause!  lol  At any rate I felt the need to write to you all and let you know how life is here along our beautiful coast.

I keep our granddaughter 2 to 3 days a week.  This requires me to leave the house by 7 am in order to get to Leland by 7:45.  Most mornings I make it on time by God forbid if there is an accident somewhere.  Since there is only one way in and out around here there is no plan B!  lol  I love keeping Ella Claire and I can tell she knows me now!  Her little face just lights up and smiles when she sees me.  Such a sweet baby and so good!  Never were any of mine that good.  Of course we all know grandchildren are the best and most perfect right????  lol

We married off the last of our daughters this past weekend.  Such a beautiful wedding it was too!  Simple, elegant and very sweet, just perfect by my daughters standards.  She did everything herself!  All the decorations, flowers, everything!  I am so proud of her!  Can hardly wait til Keith Ketchem finishes the pics too!  You can go to Keithketchem.com and enter Client password Dorre to see a sample of the pics when he releases them.  I'm sure there is bound to be one of me dancing like a fool but who cares!  We were having a wonderful time!  lol

Found us a beautiful house that I think I would die to own but alas we must sell our current home in order to buy that one.  I'm sure by the time this one sells that one will be gone.  Isn't that the way it always works out???  lol  Oh well, who knows maybe this one will sell quickly??!!

I've been working and sewing up a storm since Ella Claire was born.  There are two local stores that I provide hand goods for sale.  I make all baby items, place mats, runners, Christmas stuff, you name it I make it!  I also make purses and handbags.  So if you get a chance and find yourself in Hampstead, stop by Carla's Too or Miss Carla's Antiques.  And let me know what you think!  I could use some feedback!  lol

Well folks, it's off to bed for me!  I have a delivery to make in the morning.  Got a batch of fall runners to deliver just in time for Thanksgiving.  Next project is Christmas Stockings!  xoxo

My Darling Ella Claire

I have waited so long for this day to come!  My first grandchild!  My first fruit of my loom has presented me with a granddaughter!  Oh and she is so precious!  She has stolen my heart and is holding it in her tiny hand.  I could just cry every time I look at her.  Her face shows the generations of our families.  Her little feet and hands are identical to mine and her mama's.  Strange how that works out!  I so look forward to teaching her how to pick things up with those long toes!  lol

When I hear her cry she sounds like my daughters when they were babies.  That tiny little sound that you can't hear in another room?  Yep she cries like that.  So sweet!  And some of the expressions that cross her face!  Why you just know sweet angels and fairies are playing with her while she dreams.  I look forward to telling her stories about everything!  Our family, our history and just stories that have been told to me by our ancestors.

My dad told me we make perfect babies in this family.  I have to agree with him but it is a shame it took us three generations to achieve perfection.  I'll take it anyway it comes!  Yes, Ella Claire is absolutely perfect. 

I wonder what my mama would have thought about her first great granddaughter?  I bet she would have been jumping hoops to be here!  I know she would have knocked me down to hold her first! lol  I can hardly wait to take her around to meet all of our extended family members.  Yes I am already planning our first road trip!  Of course we will take Baxter!  Can't leave him at home can I?  lol

Haven't introduced Baxter to Ella Claire yet, we have plenty of time for that.  In the meantime, I'm just going to sit back and saute in the juices of Grandmotherhood and think about all those Grandmothers that came before me.

Well that's what I've been up to lately my dears, enjoy your evening!  As for me, I'm planning of having sweet dreams of my little butterfly! xoxo