Tag: Grandmas

• Fleeing For Our Lives…

  Mom and I enjoy walking. Thankfully we have gotten back up to a half an hour routine. Of course we do walk in the local cemetery. I have mentioned before it is where a lot of family and friends stones are standing tall. The reason we walk there is because it’s really just a nice…

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  July 2, 2024

  American Heritage, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  barking, calm, cemeteries, cemetery, Covid, death, dogs, Family, fleeing, Grandmas, grandpas, gravestones, highway, history, travel, unnerve, walkers, walking

• Why Sewing Matters

  Growing up in my family on both my parents sides were not just the agile crafters, but women who had essential skills to provide for their family. Crafting and making pretty or simply functional clothing is not an extravagance or something that is not useful. Sewing was a skill in the American past that was…

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  June 25, 2024

  American Heritage, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Women

  brother, crafts, DIY, encouragement, essential skills, Grandmas, handmade, Home Ec, humbleness, needles, Parents, Pfaff, projects, quilting, reputations, senior, sewing, sewing machines, skills, talents, threading needles

• Wonderful and Unusual

  My summer has officially begun as of last Friday. Somehow my niece has shaken up our usual schedule and we don’t know what’s going on except for a couple of facts. One being that my Dad and brother head to work at nearly 4 and Selena knows she wants to be out if we are…

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  June 21, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  aunts, birthday, cake, conversation, elders, Family, genealogy, grandma, Grandmas, grandparents, history, intergenerational conversation, party, stories, time, uncles

• Play Time… Learning

  Technically I still feel like I am an amateur myself. Using a machine is much different than the sewing I have been doing with cross-stitch using my hands without a machine. Yet I was fortunate enough to find some paw print and Americana dog fabric lately, in the hopes to have some fun with my…

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  June 18, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  accomplishments, art, aunts, cousins, effort, empowered, energy, fabric, food, girls, Grandma’s machine, Grandmas, heat, learn, love, lovingly teach, nieces, pedal, pillow, quilting, sewing, sewing machine, sewing machines, teach, time

• Father’s Day Sunday

  Last night I was kind of thinking about the day’s events and it hit me how blessed I am. I have 3 church families who are so vastly interconnected through interactions of family and movement of friends going to different places. I would never have thought that last week I would be talking to a…

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  June 17, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  cards, Christian, church, Family, Father’s Day, genealogy, Grandmas, grilling, hamburgers, homemade cards, memories, mental-health, messages, receptions, religion, Sunday School, writing

• Words Cannot Do Justice…

  Since Friday so many things have happened. A tidal wave almost completely knocked me off my feet that evening. Between the exhaustion of dealing with my ongoing allergies and trying to decipher some unique circumstances I have personally been dealing with and all these darn appointments… Friday I just couldn’t type my words, my thoughts…

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  May 26, 2024

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Bible Reflections, Modern American History, Women

  actions, allergies, appointments, articles, blessings, choir, church, death, families, Family, grandma, Grandmas, grandparents, life, love, medicine, music, short-story, Sunday, talents, words

• Tuesday: 2nd Appointment… Another Memory

  This appointment was made and it was said my uncle could get in within a week. That was back in early to mid April. There were no cancellations to be switched in to get him in early at all. It had been way over a month of waiting for this appointment. The night before we…

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  May 23, 2024

  God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Uncategorized

  accidentally, appointment, backtracking, Chili’s, emotionally exhausted, Epson salts, Family, Grandmas, great-aunts, Gutfeld, Interstate 70, lane closures, laughter, life, Maher, memories, Moms, phones, photos, physically exhausted, Plainfield, snafus, story, travel, uncles

• Mother’s Day Methodist Style

  Have you had to deal with a relative as a caretaker? Sometimes its not always easy to find the right way to remedy a some situations. Fortunately in this case God put me and my parents at the Methodist Church to make sure this family event was not forgotten. This may even go as far…

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  May 17, 2024

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Women

  Christian grandparents, death, diagnosis, Family, glam, glammed up, God-fearing, Grandmas, grandparents, grateful, life, Methodist, miserable, Mother’s Day, Mother’s Day Program, music, music for the soul, pure joy, raining, still small voice, symptoms, time, tune, writing

• Birthday Card #9

  Grandma Rosie was an artsy lady. I have known that looking at everything in the house that she touched. I do not remember seeing this card before. She did write for both her and Grandpa so it was while he was alive it must have been when I was younger though. This card really caught…

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  January 19, 2024

  Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Women

  artsy, Birthday Cards, emotional, Grandmas, grandparents, handmade cards, signature, special