Bless Your Heart

Wow- being heavily medicated means that I seem to lose pockets of time. So- what’s been going on… Thursday Jon and I took Ike to visit my Mom at work. I had to take pictures of her employees with my digital camera so she can use them throughout the year. While there I had to use my inhaler which prompted Jon to comment to my Mom: “Now doesn’t that sound like a death rattle?”. All I’m saying is it’s hard to concentrate on inhaling drugs when your loved ones are laughing at you.

Then we ran some errands including buying my Christmas present! Normally it is a surprise but Jon didn’t know which one to get, and neither did I so we went together. 10 years ago if you told me I’d be excited that my Christmas present would be a) not a surprise, 2) come from Sears, and c) that I’d be so excited about getting a sewing machine I’d say you were on crack. But I am and it is!

We stopped by the library after that to pick up a couple of books on sewing. I made a pillow in 8th grade Home Ec but that’s the extent of my sewing capabilities. I’m sooo excited though! I could hardly sleep last night thinking of all the projects I can do now. Jon’s so sweet, he asked me to make him a blanket. Aw! A blanket is really just a big piece of fabric. He says “but it’s hemmed! You can hem it.”. So my first project will be a blanket for my boy.

Then we came home and watched a movie marathon. Being awake for just a few hours out of the day doesn’t give you much time for anything besides movies. I’ve got some last minute Christmas projects to make today and I have to get out to the Post office to mail Christmas goodies out to my girls in Baltimore. I’ve got ginger snaps to make for the neighbors and if there’s time I’d like to go buy myself a sewing starter kit. Any suggestions as to what I need to get started?