Stitching the pieces together
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Thank you!
Spoke with PAtch on the phone the other night.
Hi, big boy, Grandma misses you! Do you miss Grandma?
Nooooooooooo
Are you shopping with Daddy?
Nooooooooooo
Are you being good for Daddy?
Nooooooooooo
Anyone see a trend here? It was still nice to hear his little voice.
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Meece, I'm not going to push...but you do know we need to hear why you were so upset at the MOH!!!
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reported
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reported???
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There was a scam post above my "reported" post. I see the mods take the whole thing out now!! Very cool. I got an email saying that they'd accepted my report.
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Wow! I missed it. Not that I am very observant anyway.
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We still would like to hear why you were so angry with the MOH.
The dresses are lovely. I hope you received special thanks for doing such a big job.
Hugs GInger
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A better pictue showing the dresses.
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Oh Meece they look beautiful!!! I sure hope you are proud of your handiwork because you definitely deserve to be.
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Wonderful picture!!
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That's a darling picture & I LOVE the vibrancy of the dresses.
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That is a beautiful wedding party Meece. Your son is quite the guy too!
Hugs Ginger
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All the pictures of the wedding are just a "BIG smile." Thanks for sharing them. Every bright moment in your lives adds to mine.
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Thank you. The sons are in positions 1, 2 and 5. So different and yet so alike.
I chatted with Patch last night and he w3as just so full of things to say. No matter what I said to him, he responded with adorable chatter. He wasn't happy when Daddy took the phone back after 5 minutes. But Daddy must have known I needed that sweet talk.
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2 is Patch's Dad & 5 is Matt?
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Yep.
Matt has gone into rebellion
after all those years in the military with no facial hair, he has more than made up for it. He couled easily need to shve twice a day.0 -
My DGD Zoe was allowed into my sewing room for the first time yesterday. DD was sewing together quilt pieces and Zoe wanted to help. Dd let her put two pieces together and Zoe put them under the feet. It all happened so smoothly that we had no chance to interact at all. I said "How do you think Zoe knows to do that?" ZOE responds by singing, "Stitch by stitch, sewing it together."
We were both stunned, when DD realizes it is a tune from the TV cartoon My Little Pony. Apparently one of the ponies is a seamstress and Zoe has watched very carefully. Zoe is 2 years and 3 months old. Obviously she will never be allowed anywhere near the sewing machine on her own. We also unplug after every use but I am not sure Z wouldn't know how to plug it in herself.
My sewing room has my dolls in it, not a big collection just a few. Z handled them very carefully. She poked around at this or that and I am sure she will want to visit again and that was the whole idea of many things I put up there. I have a few comfy chairs and a drop leaf table, some doll furniture, a tall cabinet for dolls and their furnishings to live in. I have a tea set and some other things that I hope my 9 year old DGD will enjoy when she visits in December. This surely gives me incentive to get the room organized and boxes that don't belong in there removed.
I wanted to share because I was just dumbstruck that Zoe learned about sewing from My Little Pony!
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Awesome!
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One smart and very observant little girl!
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Wow! Another quilter in the making
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Ginger - too cute! I'm going to tell that story at my next quilt class!!!
For you...
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Thanks so much! It is certainly Sondheim, I should have known.
ginger
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GREAT story Ginger!! My three grands are boys, but I hope to get them involved in my crafts. I, too, have things in my sewing room for them in later years. Right now, they don't even know that room exists as they are 2, 2, and 20 months! I find the 20 month to be the most advanced with his hands so he might be my guy....
I have drawers of buttons and beads and strings and popsicle sticks and glittery things and bling and so many cool things to keep a kid amused...like me!!
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Yes Barbe, that is why I have the drop leaf table for eventual kids crafting. I have a fabric box from back in my costuming days that is marked "Glitz" I have my Grandma and my mothers button boxes. Since zoe is 2 years and 3 months maybe those 2 year olds will be ready soon. WHEN MY 9 YEAR OLD dgd WAS THAT AGE i PREPREPPED THINGS to get her going quickly. I have two of the Grand kids arriving a week before Christmas a 9 year old girl and a 4 3/4 year old boy. Zoe is nearby, so it is going to be so much fun!
Seeing the world through new eyes is the greatest gift.
Hugs Ginger
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I always envy those of you with grandkids. But then I was never able to have the joys and tears of the perquisite to grandkids either.
On other hand there are at least 30 or 40 who think of me as either aunt B or grandma B. And at one point when our contempories were raising kids DH and I added up the number of kids whose parents had named us as guardians in their wills, well over 20.
I like to think DH was right when he said there was a reason we couldn't have our own. If we had we wouldn't have had the time for so many of our "adopteds".
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Chabba, I have always believed that kids growing up NEED an adult not their parents they can talk things ever with...it is wonderful that you could do that for so many of them..you can be proud of yourself...I am
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Chabba I second what Lisa wrote. If I hadn't had stong adults in my life I don't know where I would be now. You are doing the thing that is needed. I hope you have a lot of fun doing it too!
Hugs Ginger
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Thank you both. I think the reason DH and I have had all these kids in our lives is that they were responding to how and why we loved them. They learn that most of the people in their lives are expected to love them and so the come to expect that too. There was no reason for them to expect love from us. When they saw that we did we immediately had half of their heart and then when they realized that we saw them and loved them as people not just kids, they loved us too. We aquired our first two when we got back from our honeymoon a week after we married and moved into our first home.
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Chabba, so glad that you were available for these children/people.
I learned to sew by patterns at a young age. But, a little funny from the wedding day...DS1 saw how flustered I was trying to fix the sashes to the dresses while directing 10 other people in the house trying to do other stuff. He asked how he could help, and I half jokingly said "finish sewing these things" and...he sat down at my machine and did it. No, I never taught him to sew from patterns, but he isn't intimidated by a sewing machine. Not nearly as cute as a 2 yeaqr old sewing, but he also caught on sometime in his 28 years.
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Lisa, you are SO right!! Children need adults in their lives who are NOT authoritarian figures (like teachers) to relate to. My kids make friends with adults very easliy and I like that. They've been around older people all their lives. On the other hand, I was taught "children are to be seen and not heard" so I was afraid of older people. I didn't want my kids to be like that. My son takes care of the older man across the street from his house. He mows and shovels for him. That makes me proud.
Meece, I think guys secretly LIKE sewing but won't admit it. There are a number of Master quilters that are male out there...
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