What a week

 After being away from home

  .......

 Friday morning to Monday afternoon

Entering the house no power........................
 The fridge /freezer and large freezer had not had any power from Friday 4.20pm

so what a task emptying and cleaning both fridge /freezer.......

Tuesday

Having a grand day patch working with two friends .laughing joking as we all do when together... 
& just enjoying each ones company...................saying bye  then collecting mail from box ..................

Visa Statement...didn't look correct................ someone had access my card to the max limited

Friday

Taking Statutory Declaration to police station to put in report of Credit card ..................

Driving back to work
on round-a-bout
 young fellow didn't give way... bang....hit me
  &
 spun me around

what...............

 must say

car very sick now ....

I am hoping

from

Monday

I hope a much better week

Maybe
 just stay home and do stitching

until car is repaired

:

The History of 'APRONS'

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for

removing
hot pans from the oven.


It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold Grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old

aprons wiped many a perspiring brow,
bent over the hot wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables.
After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.


It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

REMEMBER:

Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill

to thaw.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.


I don't think I ever caught anything from an apron — but love...

Stop & Smell The Sweet Peas

My goodness

As you can see I am so behind keeping…. the blog up-to-date

Life just gets so busy

And we wear ourselves out so quickly

Each day

Each night I tell my self go and sit at the computer

Update weekly achievements

(Day to Day just isn’t going to happen)

And then walk past the inviting bed and think tomorrow the blog and bed now

Well

The painted toilet was donated by my husband

He needed to replace the boat loo

Me thinking what a great pot… for plants

A friend painted

The vine

And then the seeds of Sweet Peas

Found a home

Each day they grow about an inch

I swear

Takes me back to my child hood at my Grandparents

Also very happy with my Easter Centre piece

&

Place Mats

I am now working on

Mothers Day

Table runner

Eds 7th Birthday

Ed's Seventh Birthday

On the 31st March 2012

I turned

My Party

Was the week before

my actual Birthday

It was at Action Sports

I had so much fun

with my friends

We got to play

Football

My friend Matt was a

good goal keeper

Alex, Hudson and Hugh were very good

too

Cricket

Robert and my

neighbour Thomas

were great at this.

Dodgeball

We finished with

Dodgeball

We had to try and get

each other with the

ball

Mum & Dad played too.

we got them

We ate too!

In between the

games we had some pizza and later some Star Wars cake.

31st March 2012

On my birthday I got

up really early to

open my gifts---5am

Mum & Dad made me go back to bed.

Martial Arts

On my birthday I had

grading and got my

orange belt

Tom came to play

We played with my

new toys

watched Star Wars

We ate some

birthday cupcakes

Birthday Dinner

for my dinner I asked

to go to McDonalds

We got to have a

sundae-YUM

It Feels great to be 7!

Riley’s
Having a 2 night stay
a
Grannies & Poppies
Last month when Riley
Was
staying
With us
I ask him if he would like
to go to
Toys R
Us
For a visit
Stroll up and down the
isle’s and give me a few ideas
His birthday is coming up
soon
Boy where does the Year go
I ask!
Riley’s answer.. Sure

Grannie

Do You think he looks excited?

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.