Spring Break week

It is spring break and just about 17 days until my middle child marries. It is exciting in one way and sad in another. He is a good man and an honorable man and will make a very good husband, I think, but I may be biased since I am his momma. He was a bit earlier than his due date and had respiratory distress syndrome. He stayed in a NICU for a week and then we got to take him home. I was scared to death! I quickly got over that and just loved and cared for him. A very easy baby to care for, too. He slept well, actually too well, and had to be awakened to feed. He has always been a sensitive and observant person. He is a lot like his granddaddy Mc and my great uncle Stelvin. Both were very straight to the point type of people that tended to see beyond the surface. He writes like and has hands like his granddaddy but looks more like my side of the family. I guess I am a tad sad because I had hoped he would be finished with college when he married but he is not. Not even close. The Marine corps delayed his education by a long shot but is also help paying for it. He was and is a large eater but not a very large guy. I often wonder where he puts it all. Someone remarked that his brother is a big eater and I was surprised. Since we had the older brother, I had not even noticed that the younger one at quite a bit,too. He does not eat nearly as much as the older one! Well, I am working on some little favors for the wedding guests. They may have to wait in baskets outside the door so the guests can pick them up on their way out. They do not match the wedding colors so they might not look good in the reception area. I find that blog watching seems to cause problems on my computer. I doubt I will continue to blog for long, we will see.

On The Road Again

I am heading to North Texas tomorrow to play wonderful auntie for Zella. She will call me Mia as do my grandchildren and her brother do. My great niece's are starting to call me that as well. I have three sisters and a brother. Since there are so many of us and some of us have grandchildren but our youngest sister's family is toddlers and newborns, we decided to have this generation of little ones refer to us by our "grandparent" name. So I am Mia, one sister is Mim and one sister is MiMi and the youngest is well, I forgot. We have not started having the children call her anything beside her name, yet, so I have a reasonable excuse for not remembering. Or it could be I am getting hormonal, or menopausal, but wait that would be the same thing wouldn't it? I am getting confused and feel a hot flash coming on. I think I will go fan myself and try to figure this all out. I will try to post again, later. Once my hormones settle down!

Precious Baby

Where has the time gone? Whew! I have a new niece, Zella Ruth. She was born yesterday and we are so glad she is here, safe and sound and that her mommy is doing very well, too! 

I finally took down the Christmas decorations on the postal cubby hole cabinet and am going to deck it out with Valentines and President's Day. I love history and have written reports on Lincoln during my school days, very long ago! And I love Valentine's Day. Zella's mother used to call it Valenheart day when she was little. I am 11 years older than her so I remember these things. She was very serious when she discussed Valenheart day and she loved it as much as I. 

We have made progress on the house. We have started hanging the sheet rock in the bedroom which makes it feel more like a room. Taping and floating are lengthy processes because it is so chilly in there. It takes awhile for the first coat to dry but then the second one goes really fast. Whoo hoo! The bathroom is next and then we can move into that space which will give us much more room everywhere else. Ahh, the excitement of decorating is slowly rising but I contain it as much as possible since I have no idea how long it will take. So long for now, I am off to work on baby items and then to see Miss Zella and her family.

Poor little Christmas decorations sitting all alone....

We are remodeling the house we are living in, even though it does not belong to us. It belongs to our daughter. We have a house in another town that our brother in law is living in, that does not need to be remodeled. Confused? So am I. How did this happen and why to me? That is another issue, back to this one.....

Anyway, because of the vast remodeling, I have not been able to decorate for Christmas for the past two years. Which about kills me, I love decorating for Christmas, well any holiday, butI  love Christmas. And Valentines Day. And any patriotic holiday.   I love celebrating the birth of Christ and love that family is able to gather for the occasion.  But not at this joint this past year. My poor decorations sit out in the storage building and wish they were allowed inside. I wish they were able to come in and play but there is no room. Not for any of them. Except on this great postal cabinet from some old hotel I found at an antique joint in Llano, Texas. What a great buy, eh? I decided that I can just decorate it for each holiday and pretend that the house is in one piece and that everything is lovely. What a kidder I am, and dreamer. Not in touch with the real world at all. Do not look too closely because you may be able to see that the wall behind it is just sheet rocked, is that a word?, on one side. The other one. This is in the wanna be kitchen. It will have to be deconstructed before reconstructed but this shelf is going to take up this space until that happens. It will be the best dressed lady in the house.  I think I am going to attach some fabric or wrapping paper to the backside to hide my half wall and it will also add some flourish to the decor. Maybe. I guess I need to pack these babies up and send them to the storage room but hate to relegate them to such a dreary existence. I feel a decorating tangent coming on so I better go get busy, now! Where are the tubs of Valentine decorations?? I here them calling my name.....

Hubby finally recovering

Eddie, my husband, has had a viral sinus infection for over a week. He broke down and went to the doctor yesterday and with several doses of medicine in his tummy, he is finally feeling better. He has eaten soup and crackers and all seems to be staying put. What a blessing. He has a powerful headache but feels much better. Now I will be able to sleep, too!

We secured a location for both rehearsal dinners for our sons and have bought the wedding gifts for both so things with the weddings are shaping up, now for a dress for me...... Some say you should wear a dress the color of the wedding party, some have said the grooms mother is supposed to wear blue so I am not sure what I will do. I would like to just wear my old velour shirt and jeans but that would not be acceptable so I guess I will look for a dress or suit. 

New Years Day auction

My hubby and I went to an antique auction on the 1st and had a blast. We bought a treddle sewing machine, two oak beds and dressers, a dining table, stained glass window and desk chair, whew! They were way underpriced and we were over joyed to take them off their hands. We have them stacked all over the living room because the rest of the house is under construction. And I mean under, way under. It will be a nice place once all the remodeling is complete but what a mess! We had not attended an auction in 20 years so it was a nice change of pace. We are planning two weddings at the moment so that will be taking all our money and time. Both of our sons are getting married this spring. Our nest is already empty but we look forward to grandbabies.... We are already have two and adore them. I understand the bumper sticker that states if we had known how much fun grandkids would be, we would have had them first. I am sure the fact that we are older and wiser really helps us enjoy them so much! 

A tip for scrapbooking people.  Black and Decker tool totes on wheels. They are less than $40.00 and are made to haul tools around on job sites so I would think they would be heavy duty. They are not designer colors but a few sheets of well placed printed paper decoupaged to the sides could make them uniquely you! I think they are a much better value than the expensive scrapbook ones with onery wheels and thought I would share.

Not my ideas .....

I cannot take credit for the ideas nor for all the items in the photos. I got some of the ideas from a book that says something about Foof A Life but I cannot find the book, it is packed away and has been for 18 months. Along with everything else I own minus 10 or 12 boxes. That is another post and story, anyway, my sister Karen made a couple of the items that are pictured. She and I love to do most anything you can with paper. We are trying to do it all but do not have enough time! Anyway, these were for our wonderful sister, Janet's birthday. That is a photo of her when she was little on the inside of the blue box, isn't she a cutie?