TaDa!!!

My goodness, I had a lot of pictures to post today! I doubled the size of March's photo album from 25 to 50 pics! If you scroll over the slide show, it'll give you options to flip through them faster. If you click on it, it'll make the show bigger. There's pics of our worm hunt and Juju's first table food attempt. Above is one of my favorite pics. I was upstairs sewing and had set Juju on the duvet beside a mirror and caught her raising her arms, as in the picture, over and over again. I got a short video of it, but she'd already been doing it for at least 5 minutes before I shot this:

The last one here, I shot about an hour ago, right before her nap. I love when she gets all giggly when she's tired. It's not very steady because she kept kicking my arm or grabbing the camera. It's another piece of grandparent candy. I think I'll coin that phrase. Be warned, if you're not a grandparent of Juju, you may want your money back after this film.

My Dad called today from Afghanistan! He said it was a morale call. Not sure if it was for his morale or mine. I miss my folks something fierce. I wonder if they sell cool afghans in Afghanistan. I should have asked him to look.

WebWorld

Check out the cute stuff on Happy Green Baby. Like this bowling set! Love it!

Wrinkle in Time...

For many years I've had a bag in my basement full of treasures and I didn't even know it. My mom had asked for her grandma's old fabric scraps when she retired from quilting and since they live overseas I'd been storing it for her. Finally, my husband said, what's with that bag downstairs? So, after my mom went through it last time she she visited me she told me I could have what was left. Well, there was a lot left and I'm finally getting to post about it. Here's what I found in the bag of fabric from my Great Grandma G. who's 96 and still going strong.

I'm not sure, but I think the yellow fabric above is from my mom's going away dress from 1975.

These two are my favorites, of course there's only enough to make a head scarf out of each.

There's been a couple of surprises in the bag too, like when I opened up this fabric, it turned out to be almost finished pants. Look how high they come up! I love it! I'm wondering who Grandma made these for!!!

There was a finished dress in the bag too, it just needs a belt. What's weird is that it fits me perfectly, could it be...genetics? Ben wants me to wear it as my Easter dress, whaddaya think?

So, I'm modeling my new dress for Daddy and Z walks in and sees me. He immediately runs to my stash of aprons and finds my Texas flag apron and wants to put it on...so he can match Mommy! Aaaaah!

There was also a beautiful quilt that just needs a back to it. Anyways, it's been really fun to go back in time. I've already made a couple of hair bands out of some of the fabric and used some for the pocket of this bag:

Happy St. Patty's Day!

History of St. Patrick

Born to wealthy parents in England around 370 AD, Maewyn Succat, as he was first named, was brought up in the Christian tradition. When he was 16 years old he was kidnapped by a band of pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. For six years he was either imprisoned or tending sheep and during this time he turned to God and it is said, prayed over a hundred times a day. Then, when moved by the Spirit he walked over 200 miles to the coast and boarded a ship going to France. He soon escaped to England and began religious training. During his fifteen years in school he reported God came to him and told him to return to Ireland to bring the gospel to the pagans there and to support the Christians already there. When he was ordained a Bishop he was given the name "Patrick" and he left to minister to the Irish. Instead of eradicating their pagan beliefs he attempted to use some of their symbos to educate in or celebrate Christianity. For instance, he used the three leaf clover as an analogy of the Trinity, and he put a sun (an important pagan symbol) behind the cross to help them more easily receive it. He died on March 17th 460 AD and was later canonized.