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The sixth grader..slouches, earplugs in...all absorbed in winding bobbins!!

We now celebrate our dear Evan

Teachers report that today he has re-taken his exams and done very well.

We all freaked when our A student failed two finals...

He just did not know how to study.

Now I am getting emails on how smart, such a good worker...etc..

Bursting with pride.

Tonight, he fretted that he...does not like the "no weekday " electronic rule!

All the children take advantage of Grandma's rules when Mommy visits....

including Mommy.

I gave Evan a consequence of going to bed 30 min early tonight,

or missing the electronics on Friday night.

He chose the former...smart boy.

He was at odds.with "nothing to do".

Alas..after much moping...he decided to fill bobbins for me and use the radio to help him.

He took the radio from up stairs, plugged it into his I-pad, attached his earplugs to the I-pad, 

The radio was plugged in to the wall.

The I-pad was plugged into the radio.

The earplugs were plugged into the I-pad

The earplugs were plugged into the boy....for music....and..
Evan was plugged into his.sewing machine.

Quite a sight...

My Grandboy WOUND 31 bobbins for me on his own sewing machine as I sat at the computer.
He chose what  colors a quilter should need.

So proud..so happy...so helpful.

OOPs...time gone by so fast missing bedtime
Old grandma was totally happy with her blind eye.

Time well spent.

Big problem..
Evan said that he could not sew because I dumped all my stuff on his sewing table!!
Really, who would do that.????
Now...his table is all clean, bobbins all wound and neat.
and MY table,, MY sewing room MY fabric...is big awful mess..
Grandma promised not to mess HIS table again....
I so wish I had  bought more chocolate ice cream.
I just might have promised the impossible.

Another block made for a friend...It is called 30's Pinwheel in a square!
Fun and easy...

, I am auditioning more choices for my Civil War sampler.
I hate what I had planned before..
 I see this strip is too dark.
Sometime it takes putting it out there to see the mistake,
And to share the process with all the world.. to see.

When my Dear Man died, I took his "hospital" room for my second quilting room
I thought, for sure that I would have so much space..
I would  be tidy forever.
NOT!!!
God help me, I need organizational help.(among other things)

The spring in Charlotte...the summer for Lynsey
The fall for my love....no one knowing the winter was soon.
It is Time to Say Goodbye

 My love I miss  you so...

 My favorite photo.

Mother, with your quick wit and your beloved words, your big heart of love.
I never knew that you were old.
This picture was you!!  Yes, you....coming home from lunch bunch in February.
You fell from your wheelchair in May, the day before your birthday.
Maybe 93 was old for some, but not for my mother.

Life as I knew it, was shattered in an instant.
The Prayer

Then...The Rose
The pain of loss and the comfort of grace..

Always with me every second of every day.

The Butterfly and the Gift

Safe travels Mom...You are now the butterfly.

Alice Franzen Clemons Burt

May 5, 1921-May 9, 2014
age 93

"Wailing of the sirens

Calling after me

I can hear them screaming

"Emergency!!"

Ageless, weightless, spirit, I, 

like a snowflake in the sky,

soaring, floating, dreaming, I,

transient like a butterfly!"

The Gift:   Holding Mom's hand all night.  Although she was unresponsive, I had a good time catching her up on the latest family gossip.

Mom, you gave me your strength that night so that I would be able to carry on.
Thank you!!  I love you so very much.

Really?? Mother?? Really??

I have felt so so guilty not being able to visit my mother as much lately.  With my husband being so sick and the grandchildren living with us...poor Mom got left out...Of course, she does milk it...She misses me so...etc.

.Oh, really Mother...as I read through the mail this morning I came upon this from the Sunrise flyer.....

I ask you....Does this look like a neglected mother to you?????

And, I did not even know she had gone on an outing...to the vineyards, no less...

Parkinson's evidently does not keep her down...lately, anyway...

I love you Mom...

The mess

I published the last post too soon as I am a computer disaster...This is a pix of dear ol' Ma 15 years ago.  She weighed 157 at the time.  Today she weighs 103.  My mother has way more than 9 lives.  I wanted the neurologist to give her AD/HD medication, but she gave her Parkinson's medication instead!!  Guess she had to prioritize.  My mother is wearing a necklace I gave her that says "Focus"!!  It is not working.:)

 Today, she cancelled her hair appt so she could go with her friends on the bus to Walmart....

Today, Sunrise sent a letter to me saying that they were raising her rent at the assisted living to $7,000 a month instead of $5,000 a month.  Guess that is ok...since I have nothing else in my life to worry about....aaaaaaaaaaaaa    

Just venting....