Hi everyone,
I enjoyed reading your comments about what you did for Mother’s Day and what you had for lunch and even what some of you received! I also enjoyed and appreciated what you said about “quitting after 4 tries on the swimsuits.” I might revisit them sometime, but I was spending too much time on the pattern tweaking and not accomplishing anything. When I tweak something, it’s always the most fun to see a progression of what you are hoping the refining will do and end up with a usable pattern and ultimately the outfit. I wasn’t seeing any of that with the swimsuit pattern tweaking.
I don’t exactly know why the Little Darlings dolls aren’t symmetrical… maybe Dianna formed them freehand and not one side copied to the other. I think My Meadow doll Kyrra was actually a mistake from Miroslava. I think I read one time she was sculpting Kyrra’s face and she accidentally slipped which caused one side of her mouth to pull up… she has a quirky little smile, that seems to have lots of followers.
My hubby’s surgery went well and he is fine except for an extremely scratched up and very sore throat. It’s been a long day as we got up at 3:00 this morning… Linda, how do you do it? Getting up at 3:00 each day? I’d have to be in bed by 7:00 each night. I’m heading that way in just a minute, but I wanted to ask a question… since there was no time for sewing, but just bedtime! :o)
I want to ask you, what were you doing RIGHT before you joined the blog post today, and what might you be doing when you get done reading it? Do you read the post while you are having breakfast and drinking your morning coffee, do you save it for later in the day? I remember Kathie used to tell me she read all of her “un-important” emails and texts and saved my blog post for last as it was her favorite! I will always remember that! Do you read it while you walk on your treadmill, when you get into bed at night? Just curious what you were doing that made you stop and read the post today.
That’s all from me today… It’s one of the few days I haven’t stepped into my sewing room. I usually go in there many times a day!
I’ll see you tomorrow!
Blessings, Jeanne
I’m happy to hear that Aunt Sally’s visit went well, Jeanne!
Well, I was up the normal time here, 3:00, and as usual, made coffee, and then decided to make some cinnamon rolls. I usually read the MSN news and check on the weather for the day and my emails, since the blog comes in my email. I read the current day’s blog, and also catch up on the previous day late additions that may show up. So I am sitting in my kitchen having a cup of coffee, and smelling cinnamon rolls, Michael’s favorite!
That Kyrra doll is darling! who would think her mouth was a mistake?
Sometimes we just have to put something aside after spending so much time on it and not being able to get to a solution. It happens. However, in reading yesterday’s comments, it looks like there were several ideas and suggestions for you, so if you decide to try a swimsuit for the LDs again, you have a starting point!
I’m glad George’s surgery went well, too. Hope he has some throat lozenges to such on, and maybe hot tea to drink (if he’ll drink it–not everyone likes it) or perhaps chicken broth.
RIGHT before I opened the blog to read it (actually I read the comments on yesterday’s blog first and then came to today’s), I had emailed my friend Jo in Hawaii, as I do almost every night. As most of you know by now, I’m a night owl, and computer time is always at the end of the day for me. I am not very “with it” when I first get up in the morning, and probably wouldn’t make much sense if I tried to read/reply first thing in the morning! And while I was reading yesterday’s comments, I was also messaging with the evangelist (Ken Lynch) who will be at our church next weekend, as to what he wants me to play for hymns and other music. He’s a musician himself, and so we have to “coordinate”. He said for Sunday morning, I could do the prelude and he’ll do the hymns. We’ll work out the three evening services (M-W).
Which reminds me, I did reply to some of the comments from yesterday–Joy, Barbara, and twice to Rosemary.
My Mother’s Day was quiet. Church stuff, then home and by myself the rest of the evening. I did hear from several family members, and Daniel called me this afternoon (Monday), and I had seen him Saturday, but he’d forgotten about Mother’s Day!
Oh, TYPOS!! That should be “throat lozenges to SUCK on”!! 🙄
Very good report Charlotte. You always have nice comments!
I admire your contribution playing beautiful piano (and probably organ too?) for church. Nice to work with the pastors
I’m not a morning person either. When I was making my appointment with the orthopedist and they said 8 a.m. I asked what else they had. She said that was it until sometime in June. Well I got up at 6 a.m. and jumped right into the shower so that I could wake up enough to get dressed. When I worked I got up at 5:30 a.m. and doing that these days ain’t gonna happen unless it’s really important. For David’s heart surgery we had to be at the hospital by 5 a.m. Thankfully his two knee surgeries were later in the day.
Good morning dear ones. I am having my second cuppa coffee.
I just went back to read all of yesterday’s comments. I did not spend much time on the computer after I commented yesterday, I just sort of did many different chores around here, it rained all day. I felt fuzzy in the head.
Jeanne, I read your blog every morning during breakfast. I usually leave the tab open so I can go back and read updates at lunch time and comments from others in different timezones.
Meanwhile 🥰 Hubbs read news on his computer. He just found an article in The Telegraph about a painting stolen by the Nazis from the Jewish-owned Goudstikker collection in the Netherlands, “Portrait of a Young Girl” by Toon Kelder, was found in May 2026 hanging in the home of descendants of a Dutch SS leader! A detective Arthur Brand recovered the work after a descendant, who was “disgusted” to learn his family had kept it, tipped him off.
We live on a huge planet. So much going on. Sometimes “I just can’t keep up”
Charlotte, I admire you that you play the piano. I really need to play every day for a half hour. Placing the snap dragons in a larger pot would be great. Just keep watering them. I love snap dragons.
Kyrra’s crooked smile looks like mine. 🙂
Lately I have been feeling spacey and forgetful. I hope I am not getting dementia… going up stairs and forgetting why I went up there.
In one room, noting something I need to add to the shopping list, 12 steps out of the room, I can’t recall. Wow. Or maybe I need a secretary.
Barbara, I want to hug you. I want to hug your daughter in law. I think I know the place where she is coming from. I have gone through a lot of trauma in my life. If last year was her first and only melt down, she is brave to seek help and understand. I had two very abusive older sisters all my life, until maybe the 80’s. Everything I did was stupid or wrong.
Then when I was taking care of my parents starting in 2013, my sister in law and my brother too, have been very abusive to me. Similar treatment, always called names and told, in very foul language how stupid I am. A lot of ugly words. I did have a meltdown in 2022 I think. Everyone in the extended family ran away from me. I just “coped”
I am grateful to God that I have a wonderful husband.
Okay, today I am feeling fuzzy too. I will either go to Homie Depot and get more dirt and some boulders… (not feeling on fire for that)
Or, do about 12 ten minute tidies around the house and make some notes.
Jeanne, your swim suit adventure into LD territory was a good one. I am sure in making other things for those dolls. Do all of them have the same body?
Yes, make a dress and maybe some pool shorts and a frilly top. I want something like that for MYSELF. haha
I just love reading everyone’s comments and knowing what you are doing during the days. Anne, I especially love reading yours, living all the way across the planet, and Joy, you are pretty far away too. I love those lemon cookies idea.
I have been eating too many cookies.
I hope all of you have a happy fun day. Jeanne, I hope George is feeling good this morning.
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Thanks, Rosemary. I felt your virtual hug. Yes it has been a tough time. Sean has always been very sensitive and he was devastated by what was happening. He couldn’t figure out what he had done to make her dislike him so much. We said we didn’t think it was him personally but she was focusing some bad things on him and we turned out to be right. But she had to see the problem and ask for help, which she finally did.
I’m totally blown away by the strength my son has shown through all of this. Since I see him nearly every day and had to listen to him express his painful feelings it was often hard for me to keep my head on straight. This boo-boo called for much more than a kiss like I used to do when he was little. And it reminded David too much of what happened in his first marriage that he was sure it was over for them and he just wanted Sean to know he’d be there for him. Which actually went the opposite way from what I was trying to do. David kept saying if it’s over it’s over and I was doing what I could to make Sean see it didn’t have to be. So you might say I was between a rock and a hard place. But all I could do was pray a lot and listen to his pain and support him every way I could while also understanding Dionne’s pain.
One day she asked Sean if I was siding with him. He said actually no, more with her. That was probably a good thing since her former mother-in-law is the one that broke up her first marriage. But mostly I was trying to make him understand she also was in pain and we needed to find out what was causing it. Dionne did not grow up going to church but she’s very committed these days so I was sure she could be reached. And, as it turned out, the help came from her church in the form of one of the women who also had childhood trauma recommending her therapist to Dionne after Dionne opened up to her one day. One of my favorite Bible verses has always been: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” I thought of that often during this past year.
People who are in pain usually inflict it on someone else, generally their nearest and dearest. I am so glad she is turning the corner
Dear Rosemary,
I’m so sorry you had such abusive siblings and SIL . No one deserves that, but I’m sure we can all relate to someone or more in our family who is like that. You are a very special person!!
My in laws didn’t like me much but I have always been grateful for my parents, siblings and my parents’ families who have always been kind and loving, not everyone in my Mum’s situation would have been supported and not many men would have stayed with her so I consider myself very lucky.
The first thing I do in the morning is delete way too many emails requesting money. Then I proofread a political blog written by a couple of Ph.D.’s who give me very little to correct. There are about 6 of us who copyread, and not enough mistakes to go around. It keeps me informed. I also check HC Richardson’s “Letters from an American” (free subscription version) — she’s a historian and provides context for current politics. Then I get to check here for a break from politics (much appreciated).
I like tea with breakfast — which reminds me that a friend puts peppermint candy in tea as a sore throat remedy. I think that cherry or honey cough drops would do the same.
The grass is finally starting to green up here. I’m hoping to get my new “Campfire” rose planted today and maybe plant lettuce and herbs. The rabbits will be quite happy to eat them. I had steps put in so I could reach the raised beds. Yesterday a rabbit ran across the lawn and up the steps.
I remember baby jack rabbits all over the parking lot planters when we stayed in Denver a few years back. The only wild rabbits that I had ever seen here were in the old cemetery not far from our house, but they are gone now. Sad.
I’m sure, if you asked nicely NZ would send a few wild rabbits, so would Australia. Lol. They were introduced here by the early settlers for meat and fur but since there are no predators they have become a terrible pest and destroy all the grazing. Just like the possums only they destroy the trees and native bird eggs.
Sorry about the aftereffect for George. I’ve found that a saltwater gargle helps heal any sore throat very quickly. Couldn’t hurt to try it. Really relieves the pain. And ice water helps too and has no calories. 🙂 I don’t know how you can get up so early, make the drive and then the return trip as well. You are so brave to do that, but getting home is the best, I’m sure.
Right after I get up in the morning, I stumble out to the dining room, open the slider blinds and check to see if Callie Cat is there. Then, I prepare a delicious kitty breakfast in the kitchen. Kibble, sprinkled with a few treats which is delivered with a flourish and a soft pet. Then, off to the computer to check the mail. First a quick check of Ebay items up today and then to Jeanne’s blog. I don’t drink coffee or eat anything at my desktop. When other person gets out of the shower, I turn off the computer and head there for a shower where I enjoy a warm water wake up and wash my hair while listening to the shower radio. Occasionally, when a good song comes on, you might find me dancing under the water to a tune I like. After a quick blow dry and a few curlers to turn under the wild hair ends, I’m back in the kitchen throwing my oatmeal in the microwave and putting some spoonfuls of yogurt into a bowl for breakfast. I eat while reading an old fashioned newspaper. We are still getting it for the time being. Although, I’m not sure how long the paper can keep going. After that, we usually take a fast walk up and down hills for about a half an hour. Of course, if we run into neighbors and chat, it may take longer. And I always carry a zip lock of milk bones for our doggy friends.
Yesterday, we hit Costco, and filled up. Gas is now $579.9 a gallon here. Picked up a few items and brought home hot dogs for lunch. After we got home and ate, I fed Callie Cat again, and then headed up to the other house. Did some watering and then headed home. Had to water here too, but late in the day, I was able to get in and hour and a half of more weeding. Now, I’m working on the paths around the raised beds. I keep switching from place to place. It was six, by the tie I was done, so we watched the local news. I do come back to the computer to check on mail a couple of times during the day, but not always. So, that’s about it. 🙂
Hope that George and Jeanne can get some rest today.
Wow what a morning! It takes me all morning just to get dressed. This morning it took longer since I spent two hours with a heating pad while watching two episodes of “Perry Mason” with intermittent dozing. Still trying to find out what and when for PT. Hope to hear back from someone today.
Hi, Jeanne…Love the doll’s quirky smile….like she is up to something! The hot tea with peppermint candy or throat lozenges sound good for the throat, but I am a fan of ice cubes, ice water and those those ice-cold chill packs I keep in the freezer. In my mind, ice keeps any swelling down, plus eases pain or at least “chills the area” so you relax and soon don’t feel the same pain. When I had the molar tooth pulled, my jaw was so sore at night when I was trying to go to sleep, that I held a small chill pack on my jaw area and relaxed enough to fall sleep. I remember when I had an endoscopy and throat dilation done years ago, and later had a delicious banana-split blizzard from Dairy Queen (which I read later on was over 400 calories!), that cold treat was the best thing I could have had! Warm things can be soothing though, too….just depends on what a person likes.
Yesterday was a complete loss for me….kept taking naps, little to no energy, sat outside on the front porch for awhile while the sun and soft breeze were so nice. Other than napping, doings the dishes, and cleaning out two kitty liter boxes, I didn’t even go into my art room or put away my Mother’s day items. I’ve had days where all I want to do is take another nap….I figure it’s part of getting older! I used to go like “A house on fire” as my mother would say, but now I watch my daughters go “like houses on fire”!
Daughter and I had totally cleaned house and did a complete L.R. furniture rearrangement on Saturday, so maybe I was just worn out from that! She came up with a new arrangement that opens up the living room and really looks nice and welcoming…a look we had never tried before…she had to rehang all the artwork too, it was like moving into a new place!
My youngest daughter and her husband had us over for Mother’s Day dinner which we combined with Granddaughter’s 1st Birthday with her parents and sister, Delilah (the 10 year old I made the dollhouse for last Christmas!}. We had roast chicken, real mashed potatoes, tender asparagus and an assortment of fancy, filled cupcakes to choose from for dessert. Baby Abagail knows how to dig into a cupcake!
Daughter and Son-in-law gave me a beautiful glass-bowl bird bath with a metal stand. She has one that I had admired this year….we both had smaller glass bird bath bowls last year but during the cold winter months here in Texas, they had some rain water in them which froze and the bowls cracked in half. I didn’t think it would get cold enough to do that, so this year we’ll be bringing the bird baths into the garage for the winter. Hoping the daughter I share this home with with will be able to put the stand together and place the bird bath in the front garden area near the bird feeder, this Saturday. Haven’t been out to finish the weeding there yet….had to apply fire-ant killer to a new mound that had popped up. I seem to be a magnet for those little biting critters, so I refuse to try and weed until we have them gone or moved away from our garden.
Rosemary….I can so relate to your thoughts on remembering what we were looking for or why we went into a certain room….and I hope it’s not dementia either!! I like to think it is just part of aging….since we eventually DO remember what we were looking for or what we meant to do! I walked from the kitchen into my art room the other day, stopped just inside the door, and said out loud, “Now what did I come into here for….I had something in mind!” I was mad at myself for not remembering, but it did come to me later when I returned to the kitchen! When I went back to retrieve the item, my daughter said to me, “just keep repeating out loud, the item you want! Well….okay, that helped!
Having more energy today and hope to get started on weeding out my old, too small or haven’t-worn-in-a-year clothes, and then it’s onto organizing the art room table and piles left from my last project. Then hoping to start cutting the fabric this week for the two baby quilts…one is needed by mid-July and the other one not until Sept. I miss working at the sewing machine when I am away from it for too long. Have a few Ruby Red doll size patterns I haven’t even tried yet and would like to work with those too.
Ate a banana, had my Strawberry Awake cereal (Walmart brand, and it is good), a tall glass of water and my first cup of coffee while reading emails…could go for a toasted slice of the Marbled Cinnamon bread from Aldi’s and another cup of coffee! Maybe a tiny nap before I get started on all of those projects….
Elizabeth, I saw a dr on TV some time ago who was talking about memory loss and dementia. He said ‘Forgetting where you put your keys is normal aging. Forgetting what to do with the keys is dementia’. I had a friend who lived with me for a while, she had sewn, knitted and done all crafts since she was very young. I didn’t realise how bad her problem was until she couldn’t remember how to use her sewing machine or how to knit. It took me a long time to make her daughter realise she had a real problem and shouldn’t still be driving! I only went in the car with her once, after that we used my car and I drove if we were together.
Usually when I get to my computer in the morning I start with the blog. But this morning I read an article on reducing taking prescription drugs when they are no longer needed. It was interesting and so were the comments. Then I went to the blog and read that so I could comment before lunchtime. If I wait too long I tend to miss the conversation. After I’m done here I will go take my clothes form the dryer and put them away. Too exciting.
But I will be meeting up with Dionne and the grandkids for supper this evening so that should be fun. I’m still hoping to get in my sewing room but there always seems to be some “have to” that needs to be taken care of and since those take longer these days than they used to I always seem to be creeping into my “me” time.
What exactly is a “strawberry pot”. Sounds like it should be a no-brainer but I’m just making sure I’m on the right page.
Basically, they look like this. Although, they can be just holes without the little catchers on the outside. We’ll see if this works.
https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-plant-a-strawberry-pot-4070276
I’m glad to hear George’s surgery went well.
I read the blog while I have lunch after I’ve sorted through my emails. Then I need to finish platinum the flat of flowers.
I’m running late today as I had a doctor appointment.
Bonjour.Ici,en France,la fête des mères est le dernier dimanche de mai.Alors,pardonnez moi,si je vous la souhaite ,avec retard. J’ai ,moi aussi, la mémoire,qui ne fonctionne pas très bien et je ne compte plus les fois ou je dois revenir en arrière,parce-que j’ai oublié..! Ici,votre mail arrive vers 10 heures ;à ce moment là,j’ai déjeuné et je ne suis pas encore ,habillée. C’est un plaisir de lire tout votre courrier,cela me prend un certain temps ! Hier et aujourd’hui,j’ai préparé les jardinières ,fleuries,pour l’été. Nous allons ,chercher nos fleurs en Hollande, ce n’est qu’à 300 kilomètres de chez nous. Elles sont surtout ,à moitié prix d’ici .C’est un petit voyage que nous aimons faire. Il y a un mois,mon mari a subit une intervention chirurgicale ,au coeur. Il s’est réveillé,lui aussi,avec ,un affreux mal de gorge , due à l’intubation.Ce sont les pastilles au miel,qui ont été le plus éfficaces. Je vous souhaite une belle journée.
I’m glad that George’s surgery went well! Usually I am eating breakfast in the morning when I tune in, which is normally cereal. I only have to type in an “i” on my phone’s internet browser bar, and your blog’s address pops up. After breakfast we try to be in the van by 8 a.m. so that we are early enough to have extra time to get to school. Leaving at 8 seems to be a good time to avoid waiting for garbage trucks and school busses. School for them starts at 8:25 a.m. After I get home I might sip on coffee as I do housework. Hope you have a good day!
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Jeanne, your blog arrives here at some unearthly hour of the morning like 1am or similar and I am usually in bed by 10pm. Of course it is also a day ahead of you all, currently it is 7.35am on Wednesday. I really only go on my computer in the morning and eat my breakfast and drink my two cups of coffee (black) while I read it. If you are interested my breakfast is porridge from scratch made with rolled oats, oat milk (I have a mild intolerance to cows milk it gives me eczema) and a little salt. I leave it in the microwave overnight and cook it in the morning then I add a banana for a little sweetness.
Today I need to do some prep for the Alice Quilt class on Saturday and at 4.30 I go to book club at the local Working Men’s Club. We discuss the book over a glass of wine (some do anyway lol) until 5.30, then we order a meal. The book we read this time was called The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall. It was very good, or at least I thought so.
I am glad George’s surgery went well. I hope his sore throat feels better soon.
Have a great day everyone