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Dear Friends,

Thank You all for your kind words of comfort. The memorial for my Chrissy will be next weekend, and I will be away a few days before and a few afterwards. It has been a week of agony and heart ache, and I can't say that I feel better (especially because I'm crying right now, and will for the rest of my life) but I have started to push myself to get back into life - like my Chrissy would want me to do. She was not a crier - mostly cause she never wanted to be like me. I cry watching toothpaste ads.  I'm fat, she was always beautifully thin. She always shared her sunny side, I'm trying to learn that. I can cook, and tried to teach her, but her brothers were merciless in their teenage teasing. She didn't learn at home, but from her hubby, who was a cook when they married. She never learned knitting or crochet, or any of the old granny pursuits, that I like to do. She did start to quilt, mostly because I found so much peace with it, and because she liked to do volunteer work and wanted to make things to donate. She made a few beautiful items for her kids and the pets, then her illness shut that down. She was waaaay more social than I am, she had lots of friends in all the places she has lived.  And we all are missing her so much.

I got all kinds of pictures of her together this week. A friend of hers lives quite near us, came to get them and will put together a video for her memorial and we will all get a CD, so I don't have a picture to put here, but I will try to get some on in a week or so.

I have started to sew again.  There are more blocks of the palms (on the banner) done, but I didn't want to futz with a picture of the new ones. I still don't know if I'm picture-abled again. We'll see in a week or so. 

Thank you for your loving comments. I appreciate your time and the soothing words.

Hugs,

Terri

My Chrissy has passed

I know a number of you have been praying for my daughter, Chrissy. She passed in her sleep this morning at 8:30 AM at the Hospice where she was admitted yesterday. (She would have been 40 on her next birthday in May.) We were lucky to see her for a few days before the New Year. She was talking and sitting up and seemed nearly like her old self. It was wonderful...
Thank you for your prayers. I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Hugs,
Terri

To You All

Merry Christmas to you all! And may God bless us, everyone!
Hugs,
Terri

No trip - but a find!

Chrissy decided we should come for New Years instead of Christmas... Now we are just waiting.

So in the mean time we went for a little tour around town, only on the back roads. I hate the crowds and built up areas of cities. So we went out to the fields - saw some nurseries - ponds and little rivers full from the past rains. It was quite rejuvenating. Then we ran across what I thought was ugly fruit. Lots of the fruit having fallen from the trees along the side of the road. We stopped to pick some just to see what it was, and maybe reproduce a few trees to offer for Halloween next.

It's about the size of a grapefruit.  I went to the computer to make sure it was an ugly fruit, but it isn't. This one looks like a green pineapple with seeds inside. So I kept looking and found out that it is an Osage Orange... Not Edible! It has some super traits to the wood, and it's only mildly toxic, but not something you'd want to eat. I do love the quilting pattern on the peeling, don't you?  It is quite random, so unlike nature to be so random. I did cut up the smaller one, and saved some seeds to plant. Something different.

So no quilting done, just relaxed like crazy and read some blogs.  My blood sugar went way down after the tequila. I'm almost normal this morning.

Thank you for all your prayers and words of encouragement. I love you guys!

Hugs,

Terri

     

MC & HNY to you all

We got a call to come as soon as possible from our son-in-law at 8 this morning....
So we are gone for an undermined amount of time.  (Edit: Sorry to missinform you, but we were called off out travels. Chrissy wants a quiet Christmas with her immediate family, and is quite decided that we should stay home and come after Christmas. So I figured out that it was 5:00 somewhere... )
Thank you for your prayers and your loving comments.
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hugs,
Terri

Latest news from my Chrissy....

Just got off the phone with Chrissy.  She is getting worse. She is having another round of chemo in order to stay alive until after Christmas. (She has 4 kids - one is only 11.)  Doctor says without it she would die before Christmas...  Maybe we all will, there is that EOW thing coming.  I'd ask you to pray for her comfort now. If she keeps taking the chemo this time - she may make it to summer.  That's all. Her liver ....

Thanks for your prayers.
Hugs,
Terri

Testing 1, 2, 3....

Here we go...
Okay, so how come I can get pictures to load today?  I haven't paid yet (haven't really tried). Anyway these are from the day before Thanksgiving when our oldest son and newest DIL were here with our newest grandson, Mason Scott. (at about 3 months old)  Here we are holding him so that we can use the MIL tongue plant that is behind us to look like horns or bunny ears. (We are naughty, but don't tell Santa.)

 

Now the bunny ears are working, but M is not cooperating. Somebody must have yelled "Squirrel!"

Below: Doesn't he look traumatized after seeing granny's quilt?  LOL

Since then I've been making for Christmas. Can't show the scarves I sent off without a photo shoot. Here are the only initials I still have here. I figure they could be tree ornaments in the future, but for now they identify the recipients of the packages.  They are made like a quilt, but I used paper on top of the fabric/batting/fabric sandwich and top stitched once and removed the paper and then stitched around again 2 more times. (The ribbon was caught in with the stitching from the start.) Each is in their favorite color (as I remember them) and they all have the same green on the backs.
Spoiler Alert: Don't look if you are one of my kids or kid in laws or a grandkid... if you want to be surprised.

 

And a big Thank You, Melanie! Melanie of Houseelf Doings sent me these fun buttons! I love them. Aren't they sweet?!!!!!!!!

 

So that is all for this time. I have all my Christmas packages sent off and just a little shopping left to do. I'll get back to sewing soon.

 

Hugs,

Terri