And Sew it Goes...

 

Two beauties above.  

Then I found out that Lynsey and her mother decided to dye Lynsey's hair blonde!!

Oh, this old, out of touch, grandmother is beside herself...Lynsey is 12.

Above my native plant blooms...gifted to me by my fellow traveler, Lisa.

(I do not dare mention the name, Red Bud)

Below from a stunning zoom lecture by....

quilt artist, Paula Nadelstern

For the past 8 years, I have been out of focus, no energy. Now, the house is de-constructed due to flood.

There is a smell about the construction that pushes my asthma.  The dog is incontinent.  Without the children, I cannot get the diaper on her.  In disgust, I went to bed at 9:30 last night...Me, the one am snoozer.   Kids are home now, helping move things for more deconstruction.  The workers want to put everything on my first floor into boxes in air conditioned storage.  I want to throw up. 

Instead, I snapped a picture of my Endless Summer Hydrangea.

 Stunning by my front window.

For lunch, as a treat, I told the children we would go out to eat.  First choice, Azteca.  There we found a long line as they were short on servers.  We left for Taco Bell...all closed due to no servers nor cooks.  On to Bojangles.  No dark meat and no inside dining.  Drive thru closed at 3 pm...you guessed it...staff shortage.  We are going to figure out a way to cook at home, even in the mess.

I do have wonderful grands...so sweet and so helpful and so kind.  Lynsey is doing her own laundry tonight.  Dylan put the back seats into my car from the garage...

Aoife's first trip to the beach outside Portland.  She loved it.

Not so much having all the sand washed off..

The children have a lot of anxiety since their father left.

They are angry and hurt.

They wanted me to order fidgets for them.

How could I say no....

We got this one for me.  They came today...just in time.

Summer reading started the other night.  Lynsey read the first chapter.  Tonight I read the second chapter.  It is a wonderful book...Wahoo to Halli Gomez.  This is book is her first!!

Thank you Karen for your comment.  You are right..hard to get help

The door in our screened in porch has a hole.  I am going to get 11 year old Dylan and google to see if we can re-screen it ourselves....Stay tuned.

And sew it goes with the O'Quilt family.

A Splendid Day

The "Thank you" post card I made for Vickie.

She received it today....so I am showing it now.

Vickie sent me two lovely surprise gifts a few weeks back.

She is a retired math teacher and a leader of our band.

I glued the fabric to card stock and quilted that with my free motion foot.

Then I glued that to my postcard backing and did the blanket stitch around.

I used a school glue stick.

I was really excited last night to see Lynsey interested in choosing charms for a project.

Today was a different day.  Their father took them to the skateboard park.

She came home with several skinned areas and a sore ankle.  She said that the the boo-boos were worth it. The entrance to the park would have been denied unless they had helmets and knee and arm pads.

So, of course, Grandma got those. 

I am so trying to explain to both of them how sewing is safer...Forget the charms...evidently skateboarding is more fun!!!

I would love for the children to go to summer school.

They would not love it at all.  I made a deal that they would read 30 minutes every day with no mouth nor attitude.  They agreed....We will see.  We are going to start by reading this book...each of us together.

One of the wonderful karate teachers they studied with for four years wrote the book.

I bought it tonight on Amazon. 

 Go Ms Gomez, Mam!!!!  We love you so. xo

Tired of being inconvenienced by my age related issues, online I ordered two magnetized grabbers.

They fold up for my sewing cart. ( grabbers)

Cinco de Mayo is my mother's birthday.  This year she would have been 100. We have decided to celebrate by making a Mexican dinner that night. So exciting...so far..cheese enchiladas and guacamole by me.  Cheese crisps by her daddy. Salsa by Lynsey, dessert by Lynsey and hopefully someone will help Dylan make chicken and bean burritos...Maybe even Mexican rice....Wahoo.

Lynsey had better make our lists. She has been grumpy all day because she is 10 assignments behind in Social studies.  She got behind when she was at her mother's house for two weeks with Covid.  She was too tired. Now she keeps putting it off and being grumpy.  She did one tonight. She has two and a half weeks to go, but more assignments come every day. Sigh...Somehow Tik Tok is a more appealing task than making up work so she can pass her social studies.

Dylan graduates from elementary school in 3 weeks or so.  Each time this happens, the child goes out to eat just with his parents...It is a big deal. Maybe it can still happen for him outside at a place he likes.

Just heard from Emily.  Evidently Aoife got some soap in her eye and screamed for an hour.  Her daddy googled what to do.  The answer was to put a drop of breast milk in the eye.  Wow, who would have thought that.  Immediately, Aoife stopped crying.

I made my son hide my 3 pound bag of Dove chocolate. Now I cannot find it and the chocolate cravings are terrible....Grandma is trying to be a big girl.  It is so hard.

A good day today.  My hairdresser came to my driveway to cut my hair.

I finally went back to my exercises.

It was 84F today and will be 88F tomorrow..no humidity yet.

A splendid day in the Carolinas.