So many holidays, so much family time. (It's been amazing!) I've made several quilts, helped my son and his family move out of our house and into their new one. (Yeah for all of us...lol) They now have a very beautiful newly built home that should last them a lifetime. No, surprisingly, I don't have any pictures of it yet. How odd is that? Didn't even think to take pictures...maybe I will this weekend.
Well, maybe not this weekend. We still need to tear apart the trampoline and get it moved over there and they have some stuff in the storage unit that still needs to be moved to their house so I probably won't have time then either.
I'll give them a chance to settle in and get it decorated the way they want to before I start flashing the camera all over the place. HA!
I connected with my very first best friend during the last month. That was amazing...it's probably been almost 45 years (ahem..yeah...wow...that long) since we were connected and it has really been fun to catch up. I hope to stay connected with her as time goes on. She has some physical challenges (don't we all!) but she is one tough lady with a sweet heart.
I have given my house a good spring cleaning and reorganization since the kids moved out. I even have my own sewing room now. While they were here I had used our formal dining area as a sewing room....hated all the mess out in the middle of everything but I couldn't give up sewing...lol.
I'm currently working on a T-Shirt quilt for my boss. Yeah, it's a bit nerve wracking to be sewing for my boss....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Here is a very poor picture of a wall quilt I made over the holidays. Tom got me some quilt designing software and this is the first thing I designed. I had a lot of fun making it and what is really cool is that the software even spits out the templates for the pieces that you have to cut. I made it to hang on one of my office walls at work because the calendar that was up there had been put up by the janitor and he put these huge holes in the wall and the calendar wasn't being replaced. So....I had to get creative. 8-)
We also bought a couple of bicycles in the last month. We had gotten our grandson a bike for Christmas but he didn't have anyone to ride with so we thought we would make great riding pals for him. We used to enjoy riding bikes so we thought since we didn't have our treadmill room while they were here we would take up biking again. WOW, was that hard. The first time we went out our legs felt like weak pitiful old rubber. We are slowly (EVER SO SLOWLY) building back up those muscles. We live out in the country so it is a great place to ride the bikes.
Well, here's some Max for today...very interesting perspective:
"What if?
What if, for one day, Jesus were to become you? Waking up in your bed, walking in your shoes, assuming your schedule? With one exception—nothing about your life changes. Not your circumstances. Your schedule. Your problems. Only one change occurs! His priorities govern your actions. His love directs your behavior.
What would you be like? Would people notice a change? What about the less fortunate? Would you treat them the same? And your friends? Would they detect more joy?
Pause and think about your schedule. Obligations. Engagements. Appointments. Would anything change? Keep working on this for a moment. Adjust the lens of your imagination until you have a clear picture of Jesus leading your life. Then frame the image. What you see is what God wants. He wants you to “think and act like Christ Jesus.” God wants you to be just like Jesus!
“And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18)."
By Grace Alone -
Teresa
