this weeks happenings

Colton spend last weekend with his other grandma, so I started cleaning abit. I wasn't going to change the clothes in my closet to spring just yet, but I did, so much laundry yuck. washed the sheets on the bed etc.also put up my boots & got the flip flops out. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO ready for warm weather... hopefully it is coming soon.


Now to get time to clean the rest of my room. lol needs it soooooooooo bad. I am going to be going through craft stuff, & getting rid of somethings. that I know I don't want to do anymore.(bad i know) but I have such a small space, & I need more room lol

David went to the eye dr & needs glasses, bifocals .. they said he could proably get away with just having readers, but he could really use them at work as well, so I told him just to get the bifocals. It would be easier on him. He really doesn't need them to drive, just reading etc.

I haven't done much stitching lately. why? haven't really had the time plus keeping Colton on the weekends.. that little joker is trying to stand byhimself. he has crawling down pat& is walking as long as he can hold onto something he does great. He is only 8 months old be 9 mp the 12th of next month. He is teething --- mercy is he teething. got 4 now & more are trying to come in. He doesn't sleep well either. when they bother him.

Kathy is doing great. her last PET scan was GREAT- almost no signs of cancer. there were several spots but the largest was 1.2cm.. keep in mind the cancer in her bones had gotten out of control(drs words) & now to only detect a spots on her pelvi bone, T10, L4(verterbrae) & illaca bone(shoulder) thats all that showed up on the scan & nothing in her brain!!!!!!!!!!!!! we couldn't be happier. her treatments are working.

I know I probably will not be on much this weekend

So I am gonna wish you all a Very Happy & Safe Easter.

Daily thought

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. "




~ Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

United States Army general. While serving as Commander of United States Central Command, he was commander of all coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War.

daily thought 3-19-12

"At the end of the day you can choose to focus on what's tearing you apart or what's holding you together."




~ Unknown

Happy St Patricks Day

I hope everyone had a great St Patty's day.
I know I am a day late in wishing it.
WE had COlton over the weekend, so I got no stitching done, but lots of play time in
LOL

Blog Hop # 17

What’s your favorite footwear for stitching? Or perhaps I should say your favorite lack of footwear when stitching…


if I have any shoes on at home that is would be my slippers. mostly I stitch in my socks in the winter months & barefooted in the summer.



Visit all the blogs in this round of the Stitching the Night Away Stitching Blogger Blog Hop:
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my Colton

my precious grandson Colton & his Pappy.
he is just loving those girl scout cookie boxes.

Happy Happy Baby.
now that he is mobile- he won't sit still. not even in his sleep. lol

Feb snow 2013

this is about all the Snow we have had here in NC this year.(well in Shelby anyways)
see my lovely daffoldil  in the snow. they are blooming already this was the first. found several more bloomed out already & more trying to bloom. Its early yet.  I just hope the cold weather doesnt kill them.

For Hubbys room

I made these 3 pillow covers for Davids theatre room also did 3 covers for the tables in there as well.

TUSAL JAR

cross stitch finish #12

the other frankestein towel done

Cross stitch finish # 11

this one says it all !!!!!!!! LOL
seems like this is the way things go at our house.

I want one.

Jerry JOnes new ride
gotta get me one of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wed update 3-6-13

GOOD HUMP DAY EVERYONE


I hope this finds everyone doing well. I hope those of you getting ALL the snow are safe. Here in NC we are getting just rain, now colder temps & really windy, however our mountain counties r seeing the snow.

but this weekend they are calling for 60 degree weather. who hoooo can't wait. I have to say I am really ready for spring.. just so I can get outside & work. we have someone coming to trim our trees this week(this hasn't been done in more than 10 years). & hopefully they will remove the holly bushes(without much diffucilty) in front of the house as well, those bushes are just hateful.

We have a little section out front that when 2 of the bushes are removed it is going to become my rose garden as well as planting my Iris & other 'bulb' plants & lilly's there as well. I need to prune up some azalea bushes- but it has to warm up first, before any major clipping goes on. my rose bushes are putting out new growth has me a little worried. I may have to cover them on colder nights

Considering that for the past 2 years I have not been able to have a garden or even get outside & do yard work. I am chopping at the bit to get back to it. 2011- was because of breast cancer & radiation treatments, 2012 because of the hystercomy.
not getting sidelined this year.. got to have fresh veggies in the garden. esp now that memaw has passed. the past 2 years she keep me in fresh tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash even cabbage. So I have to do for myself again this year. Nobody ( in the family) cans & gardens like me & memaw.
I'll never forget the year my uncle bobby planted corn for her... & harvested it all at one time.  she gave us all (that helped a dozen ears of corn). Then we shucked, silked & washed then cut corn for 3 days or more. Plus cooking on top of that -- we ran out of containers to use & had to use ziploc bags. We put up more than 80 quarts of corn-- remember would of been more- if she hadn't give us at least 10 dozen ears away.
oh the memories...
SO I get to go shopping for new bushes sometime soon!!!!!!! yeah

GREAT NEWS: on Kathy(my sis-in-law)

she had a PET scan done on Sat got the results yesterday... the cancer is almost gone- not showing up except for a few spots on her spine(T10,L4), illica bone & her pelvic bone. the biggest spot was1.2 cm. THe biggest spot 1.2CM-- this was completley covering her skeltal system including her brain(no traces in her brian either).

so the McSwain family has been truely blessed.

now if we could get the kids to behave lol

Colton is growing by leaps & bounds. He is crawling better now, still not quite right, but he can get to where he wants to go. but put him in his walker & he is gone.. he will be walking before to long.

Keeping him on the weekends- cuts down on my crafty time, but it is so worth it.

thats a little about what has been going on lately at our house... more to come..

LOVES Rhonda

Monday update

I din't get the chance to get online this weekend.
I was playing granny - all weekend.
I kept Colton all weekend & had a blast doing so.

I did get 1 think started finishing. my Happy Halloween witch that
I stitched a few years back-- I am making a quilt (lap) with it
I did get it put together & sewed a little bit. I need to finish the
binding on it.

thought for the day

Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try."




~ Unknown