Happy April Fools

Hi everyone, today is April Fool's day. I got my son Ian good, told him that spring break was cut short and he was to go back to school tomorrow, He freaked, Ha, Ha, ha. :)

In a little over two months i will be in Wisconsin working as a camp nurse. Am i excited? you betcha. I have started a countdown,
10. Start and finsh quilt for camp room
9. Study, Study, Study, I need to brush up on stuff like basic first aid and lyme disease.
8. Get supplies, you know like sheets, towels, little table, bike rack on my truck etc.
7. get in shape this actually number 10 i have signed up at a gym near my house.
6. study study
5 get liecense changed to Wisconsin
4. get Ian ready
3. prepare myself mentally for Ian to go on the airplane by himself.
2. prepare myself for leaving my puppies
1. Get ready to have fun.

So stay tuned as the countdown begins.

Days are getting warmer here, i am listening to the waterfall on my pool again, my doors are staying open all the time. Yes spring is here in Central Florida.

Did get to see my son Matt and Kristen last week it was a short but nice visit, this week i have my youngest grandson Henry. He is four and every bit of 4.

I also got to see Jeremy and his other two charlie and Jackie they are staying with the other grandparents while i have Henry.

I will drive them back on Saturday, and then my Daughter Pegi, Waylon and the twins Dylan and tyler will be here. Yes this more than made up for Feburary , although March has held other great dissappointments.

In April i will find out if i have my job still or not, the budget is coming out, sometime this next week and there is not as much money as they had originally thought there would be so we will see. What will be will be.

I bought these plants from QVC i had a weak moment. Anyway they came to me in twigs and they are still like that, i am hoping that they get some blooms on them soon, i was really excited about them. They are supposed to be liliac trees, I also bought strawberry plants from QVC and they are doing great. so, I am hoping there is hope for the Liliac trees as well.

My garden at school is doing great i even got a compliment from the garden lady who use to run the garden. A couple of my plants had a hard time with the winter this year but two plants out of 10 is i think great.

Well i need to get going, we are going to a movie today "How to train your dragon" in 3D. oh yeah it is going to be great.

I am enclosing pics of Henry at the M&M store, my poor plants and the good one and one of my garden at school.

I hope you have a great Easter, peace, Vicki

Hi from cell phone

the trials of Feb

It is February the month of love, heart awareness, and dental health month. For me February has been the month of trials one after another. I got home from my parents 50 Th anniversary to find out my debt card had been charged twice for everything i had put on my card. Hotel payment, misc payments at various stores and gas. So i spent the next week getting that straightened out. The fact that this happened is in itself another blog all together.

Work has not been so fun either, parents have complained that I have either called them for everything or not at all, this here is a perfect example as to you cannot please everyone. Why oh Why do parents send their kids to school sick is beyond me, i really do not understand that one. if your child is sick please keep them home that kind of sharing is just not accepted at school. :0

The one thing that just put all over top is my son could not come to see me due to snow in the south. You know global warming and all will do that cause snow in Dallas and other places in the south. Yeah well you know all those people who think there is global warming can take Al Gore and his Oscar, and shove it in the place that the environmental kooks tell us we can only use one piece of toilet paper to wipe.

I have got excited about making my bears again, i have a great place to send them too, The problem is yes there is always a problem these days is that i cannot find the pattern. My sewing room is still a work in progress, i don't know how i got everything in my sewing room in Nebraska, it was smaller than the one i have now, One reason may be i have a bed in my room now which i did not before , anyway i need to find that pattern. So tomorrow that is going to be my sole objective is to find the bear pattern i should go buy one that may be whole lot easier.

One day i will post on this blog about how i have a complete organized sewing room. dream on. :0

My puppies are doing good, Taz is beautiful and is finally completely house trained a fete that i thought would never happen. There is hope for my bear pattern. Gidget is my little alarmist, she is always going around making sure things are okay around the yard. little pixie is still cute as ever she is a little gluten i have almost got my finger bite off twice when i tried to give her a treat. ( we are going to have to work on that) She is little and cute. Pixie stays right up there with the big dogs when we go walking she holds her own.

This summer i get to be a camp nurse in Wisconsin i will be close to the Canadian border. I am looking forward to this because 1, i have never been to Wisconsin, 2. I think this will be a great experience. 3. My son Ian will get to go to the camp too and be a camper. I will have my own room i have to share the bathroom with the other nurse ( i know that part i do not like) . Here is the good part i get to bring my sewing machine and laptop. Just when you thought there would be no blogs from me this summer :0 I wanted to ask if i could bring my puppies at least one of them but i guess that would have been pushing it. :) I will be there all summer and Ian will be there for half of the summer. I think this is going to be a great experience for both Ian and I.

I did get my sewing room clean enough to make a quilt for my great niece Sophia, Also i am posting some pics of my parents 50 th anniversary got to see some relatives i have not seen in a long while . all my dad's brother and sisters were there. There was also this cousin sister Michael Ernest. she also celebrated 50 th anniversary. She was celebrating 50 years ago when she took her vows as a nurse. She is really neat to talk to , she was a mother Superior which is a big deal in the nun world. Pretty impressive. somehow i always felt as long as she was praying for me i was going to be okay. she comes from a family of 14 and my dad said she was as ornery as they come. :) I am including pics of that and one of little pixie . I hope everyone is having a better Feb than i am . My bad luck will hopefully turn soon. you have to have some bad times like this so that you can appreciate the good ones. until next time Peace. (/|\)

more quilt pics

Happy 2010

Hi Everyone, Happy 2010. I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. Ours was quiet, no company this year. I have to say it was kind of nice, although i did miss everyone. What was really nice was having two weeks off and not have to worry about anything. Although you would have thought i would have got tons done , but no , i was really lazy. Sunday night i decided to make rice bags for my clinic and so that i did. The kids at school like them except one he wanted the bag of ice instead. I guess you cannot make everyone happy. :)

I cut out a quilt for my new great niece and so i am hoping this gets me going i have two unfinished quilts now, i have not made a quilt in almost a year. I know what is wrong with me. This move to Florida is what. I don't have my quilting buddies and my resources here that i did there. So i decided to get the pics out of what i had done before and maybe this would get me excited to start quiilting again.

My sew room is still a work in progress but it is slowly getting there. I just remember in the past come Christmas holiday i would cut out like 3 or 4 quilts to work on during the winter and spring. Believe it or not i miss nebraska and all my friends, and my quilt shops and my quilter. I miss the snow right now i would be home sewing up a storm in my cozy little sewing room with my music blasting out of my Ipod.

So i am going to get the pics out and post them on here of my past quilts and maybe that will help me get in the mood to get busy again. I need to get out of the funk i have a job i love here, and i am starting to like my house and i have found a couple of quilt shops so i really need to get going.

I need to make new resources and new beginings here. It is just these things take awhile and this time it is taken longer than in the past. So bare with me if you have seen these pics in the past it is just part of my therapy.


catch you later, Peace