Sunday Working?!

After church this morning we celebrated our friend Alyssa's birthday by going out to lunch. :) She and her husband are starting the adoption process again, so soon I will have two little ones to take to Avila Valley Barn! This time around I get to be a reference! Probably because I hang out with Josiah so much. :)

In church this morning our pastor encouraged us to use our gifts to bless other church members. Our new nursery director is due in october, and I am now going to make her a baby quilt! The first small one I've attempted. I'm excited! I'm going to use green and yellow (it's going to be a boy), and I ordered a free motion quilting foot, so I'm going to actually quilt this one rather than simply tying it! Trying lots if new things. I am also committing to praying for little Jed as I work on his quilt. :)

Tonight is the Hot House final dinner, and Andrew has to present his work, so we are busy in SLO working. No quilting for me today. :(

New blog...

Since I have been reading blogs and enjoying them, I am inspired to continue my blogging. This lead to wanting a different kind of blog, and it seemed easier to start fresh than to try to change everything around. So to anyone reading this blog, my new one can be found at...

http://cookquiltlove.blogspot.com/

Thanks!

Quilt blogs

I have recently been obsessed with quilting.  I have five quilting blogs that I am now subscribed to, and whenever I have give minutes, I go back into the post history and read old posts (since I read faster than their talented and busy writers can keep up with). I have about ten new quilt ideas that I want to try.

All this blog reading has had one drawback. A few of the writers claim to be fabric addicts and constantly part pictures of their adorable new fabric...which has made me very...excited about fabric myself. Spending $60 on fabric this week was probably not a good idea, given that it will probably take me a few years to go through the fabric I already have. :P

But I also have actually been working on quilts. I finished my sisters (that I'd started almost a year ago) black and white
Log cabin. And picked up the crazy quilt that I started even before that for Brett. I'll post a picture and write more about that later. Also started a red written sized that I bought fabric for probably the years ago now. There are so many blocks I want to try that I am throwing them all together for this one. Will part pictures of that later as well. :)

Busy busy! I work on it whenever I can. Andrew is so great...he let me take over the livingroom. :)

Time is Not Just Money

And another two weeks disappears in the craziness of life!

Had a surprise birthday party for Andrew on saturday. :) His mom and Michael, came down at about two, and we went out to run errands with them, then my parents (conveniently) arrived at a little before 5:30, so we had to hurry back to Atascadero from SLO. I was going a little crazy with how long it was taking him to get out of the car and head up to our apt, but when he finally did, the house screamed happy birthday! :) It was wonderful to see how surprised and happy he was. :) Everyone brought food to share and it was a wonderful evening. :) He felt very loved.

I finished Chrissy's quilt the friday before. It was really big, and she loved it! :) So now I am working on Brett's quilt. :) But then my sewing machine started making loud noises yesterday. I'm going to a if I can get it fixed tomorrow.

This past weekend was great, though it ended rather mopy. Sat night I admitted to Andrew that I'm burnt out on working with Jenny. It is a rewarding and growing job, but it is also very challenging. She tries my patience and I have found myself more and more just trying to kill time during my shifts. She deserves better than that! Burn out. And then Sunday night Andrew got into a funk as well because there is just so much waiting right now for his business and he still doesn't have any prospects for people to work with him. He is frustrated and its trying to be more organized because he has so much going that sometimes he gets home and can't even remember what he accomplished that day, which its very disheartening. So we're just trying to figure out a balance or something. We are trying to get back into reading the bible and praying daily. That will help the most! :)

Andrew is going to Rob's bachelor part next weekend. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with myself. So weird. And this past sunday I had a meeting before church, and then I had some time before Andrew arrived, and I just kinda stood there, not sure what to do with myself! And Andrew is also going to be out of town the first weekend of October as well, and I just don't know what to do! should I pick up some shifts at work? Offer to babysit sometimes kid? Sigh. Use to love free weekends. But relying on always being around Andrew for the past two years had near crippled me now that he'll be gone! I'll have to work on that.

I think thats it for now. No news on that new job. No letter from Mateus.

I _am_ beginning to dream more and more about staying in SLO. SLO might be my Santa Barbara (my parents lived in SB
when they were first married and always dream of moving back). I hope we can stay, but only Good knows or future, and it is better than I can even begin to dream, so I guess I'll leave that to Him.