Category Archives: Family History

Update on Two-Person Block Swap

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I’ve made mention previously that a foster cousin and I were making quilts together.  Last weekend, I was able to sew Lori’s blocks and this weekend, I was able to cut out mine and sew them.  Lori is using the “Oh Cherry Oh” fabric line and I am using the “Crazy 8” fabric line.  Here our my blocks for both her quilt and mine:

Next, I’ll send the leftover fabrics and Lori’s blocks to her and she can draw on her own creative inspiration for six blocks for each of our quilts!  I’m excited – a new quilt made by and for a special person in my life!

Happy Ninth Birthday Baby Girl

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It is with great sadness that I announce that our youngest daughter will be NINE today.  As the old cliche goes, where has the time gone?!

DD#3 is athletic, loving (when she wants to be), independent, demanding, very busy getting into everyone else’s business and helpful to a fault.  Some days, she says things that totally crack us up.  Other days, we’d just as soon she try to keep her lips together as nothing nice can come out of them. 

I sure do wish I had the energy she has, though!  And I sure am glad our last surprise has been yet another delightful form of entertainment for our family.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Apologies!

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My blog has been on the blitz for a week and I just haven’t had time to correct it – until this evening, when I made time.  It’s such a release for me to be able to write down life and loves, it truly IS my quilt therapy!

My middle daughter tried out for the JV cheer squad last week, and didn’t make the team…so, there’s been a little extra TLC needed for her.  The son-man had a meeting with our Pastor last week and earned his God & Family award for Scouts, so he’ll be presented with that medal at church, after the Easter holiday.  Our eldest has been on the usual teenage roller-coaster and amazingly our youngest daughter has been on the same type of roller-coaster lately, too.  UGH   I keep reminding myself that the kids are our entertainment, else I’m not sure I’ll make it through the various stages of their development.

I’ve also been working my tail off.  Lots going on in my work world.  Not to mention helping develop a fundraiser at church for the youth to be able to take a mission trip this summer, helping get a Wednesday meal ready that the youth are serving next week, doing my usual assisting with the Sacred Arts class at church that our two youngest kids take plus my usual running the kids in 20 different directions each week.  Whew, I need quilt therapy!

Lucky for me, I received my www.quiltsforkids.org package from Downy in the mail last week:

It was free and it contains not just the cut fabric, the pattern but also a tag for the quilt!  I can’t wait to make the quilt and hope the kids give me time this weekend to put it together for a special child in need of some quilted love.

You may also notice the header above.  I was able to sneak into my sewing room on Saturday morning and put those six blocks together for my foster cousin – she will then make six for her and six for me (out of our own fabrics we chose) and when finished, we’ll both have 12 blocks to put together into a special quilts that each of us can treasure for years to come.

Quilt on!

To Coform or Confirm?

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Our DD#2 started confirmation classes at our church two weeks ago, and Pastor gave her a binder to keep her work organized. 

On Saturday night, she left the binder on the table with a note on it that said, “Mom, will you please make me a REALLY COOL cover for my CONFORMATION book?”

I laughed at my daughter’s poor spelling.

Then I laughed some more, because she really didn’t know what she had written – or the ramifications that the incorrect spelling would have on the actual context of how the word was used in relation to confirmation.

I got sassy for a minute, and made this cover for her book:

conformation

Hubby and I giggled about it, because that really IS the question for anyone — do we conform or confirm with regard to our faith? 

On Sunday, DD#2 gave the paper to Pastor, without giving him any background info.  So, as I was leaving the church, I explained the note she’d left and why I put that cover together.  He laughed … and I asked what he thought the chances were of the kids conforming or confirming.  He just smiled, and as he walked away, he said quietly – “Conform?  Your kids?  Not a chance.”

hmmmm, how should I take that?!

Another Heavenly Birthday

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Had our mom lived, she would have been 68 years old today.  I can’t imagine what she’d be like, since she passed away in 1977 at the age of 35.  Of course, I can just peer in the mirror to have an inkling of what she’d have looked like since I seem to favor her looks in many ways.

Mom and Dad (Patricia Elizabeth Hickey Spencer and Raymond Lee Spencer) had six children.  Michelle Spencer Barbor (1961), Michael Spencer (1963-1997), me (1964), Thomas Spencer (1965), Jeffrey Spencer (1967) and James “Jamie” Spencer (1969-1969). 

Happy Heavenly Birthday, Mom!  You were loved.