Grandma O'Quilts Rediscovers Herself

What do I like to do???

  How do I care for myself??

A trip today to an antique store..

The two quilts below were tattered.

Taking a picture was free.

 This one below a bit odd...

Self care means...6 pound weights, 25 bi-cep curls a day, among other things.

I tried bigger ones, but they were too much.

Always a picture of our Aoife.  Eight months, sitting up alone!!

Cousins...without Aoife...Oh, well...

Ava turned three years old today.

She is going to preschool in the fall...OMG

My daughter spent today making this back yard swing for her girl.

Aoife's growth seems spectacular to me.  First she crawls rapidly, then she stands up in her crib, then she climbs all the way up the big stairs in their 1907 house.  Now she sits up alone. All by eight months??  How ever does this happen.????  Especially with never having seen her grandmother!!

Got myself focused to make Hourglass from scraps...

Supposed to be a bad storm tomorrow. if so, I will not go out.

If there is a break, I will stop by the grocery store.

Walking with a cart in stores has helped my balance tremendously...as do the 

exercises given to me by the most wonderful physical therapist in the world!!!

Joy Pfuhl at KCP physical therapy

This grandmother is finding the hope!!

Trying not to be nervous about the cataract surgery Monday.

Pink, Pink...You Stink!!

Just over 5 days of double Pink Eye...Hello...at my age I have never had it before and it hurt.  Rather than expose you all to my sorry face, I decided to take a look at my pink stash...wow...sorely lacking...puny...as in not much...well I do know how to remedy that one:)

 Here we have my sister showing her ZigZag with character quilt...ha..Terri quilted it for her and it will be delivered soon full of the signatures taken from her friends wedding.

A neighborhood power outage never stopped our quilting group from meeting!!

  Power was out from 4:30 to 9 pm...Marie managed to turn 65 anyway, even in the dark...the champagne helped a lot:)

I am so thrilled to have another baker in the house...

Cousins came in last night for a visit and left today...lots of love and laughter and fun down memory lane for Mr. O'Quilts and his family.  There was Mary coming in from Texas, Vinnie from New York, Conrad from Ireland and Brendan from Tampa...Well, they all come from Ireland, but live these other places now.  Can you imagine all flying in to Charlotte airport within an hour of each other like it was nothing!!!

 The construction for the wheelchair accessibility is finished.  Sigh!!  The tulips are blooming, the birds are singing and spring is here...Now, I just need someone to dig up my garden so I can put in the cukes and zucchini....

.A light breeze is blowing thru my sewing room window...

Just for today...and that is all I need.