Teresa started a puzzle

  

Grandma's birthday.

Saturday we celebrated Theo's 78th birthday. It was a fun time. We took lunch out for her so she didn't have to cook. Teresa baked a beautiful cake. Teresa and I started a puzzle for them. It will be up to them to finish it. Grandad is progressing well after his surgery. Enjoy the pictures.

Today Chris's team led worship so we had an early start with a 7:15a.m. practice. Now we are hoping for naps. Teresa and Chauntel are working on the LSG project.

Grandad is looking good after his surgery. Isn't he handsome in his mustache?

  

It has been a complicated past week with surgeries on Milton and Grandma Ruth, a conference at church, our car getting broken into and work and a slowly leaking tire yesterday. But things are looking up today. I found out the tire that was going flat yesterday was able to be fixed for no charge buying us a little time to replace it. The replacement window will only be $65 from the junk yard installed but I have to wait till Friday. Grandma is hanging in there. Even tho they did find some cancer cells in the pathology of the polyp they had already taken out a portion of the colon so she won't have to have chemo or radiation. I have two days off so can spend more time with mom and get a few things done with the cars and house.

Chris started doing transcription at Sunnyside tomorrow. I haven't heard how it is going. Don't forget to see my quilt on the previous blog picture. Love Jan

my new quilt

  

I'd rather be quilting!

Well I have officially been bit by the quilting bug. I have been thinking about my next project since I finished my log cabin quilt. I’ve looked through books for designs and gone to the fabric stores. I really don’t want to spend the money that is necessary for the type of quilt I really want so will try to use up some of the fabric I have bought at garage sales last year. I have enough for a yellow baby quilt and a blue quilt that could be for a baby boy or as a blanket to take to meetings at the church since I am always cold in this rainy weather. This will help my skill level but doesn’t get me a finished product that I really want. But I must have self control and not let this new temptation take over.

I have also been forcing myself to do some things around the house instead of starting a new quilting project. I want to paint the back bathroom but before I can allow myself to do that I had to finish painting the front bathroom which I did yesterday. Then I had to go to Wal-Mart to get paint and primer and a spray bottle to spray the icky mildew with bleach or “30 seconds” which the lady at Wal-Mart says is actually 99.9% bleach. Meanwhile I am having trouble keeping the stupid flexible tubing on the dryer since I moved it to paint. I have duct taped it twice but we’ll have to see if it will stay.

Other things we’ve done over the past week include:

-Went to see the movie The end of the Sword in Battleground with Linda and Susie
-Teresa and I had to take a class on preventing child abuse and procedures for childcare workers so we could volunteer at church
-Chris’s worship team had their first time of leading worship. We had a lot of compliments and they were asked to do worship at a special conference in Feb.
-Had home group last night here (it hasn’t been here for over a month)
-Had lunch with mom and dad (aka Ruth and Larry)
-Hit a few pitiful garage sales.

Still to do:

-Class tonight for Chris and Jan. We have to present a teaching on the Joy of the Lord to be recorded and evaluated.
-Watch survivor tomorrow.
-Sewing at Linda’s on Saturday, (I get to start a new quilt!)
-Actually start painting the bathroom. Ugh!