Wordless Wednesday - Homework

8 Years Old All Ready

Excuse me, having a mommy moment - when the heck did my son get to be eight?!  Am I old enough to have an 8-year-old?  I think not.  But somehow it happened.  Here he is in his new sweater that I knit of course.  He picked out the pattern Jesse's Flames from Stitch 'N Bitch Nation which required me to size it down for him since it was written for men (and though he may think he's fully a man at 8, he's not quite there yet).  And of course he wanted it to be a hoodie.  It came out better than I had imagined.  Even though it's a little big, he love it and hopefully he'll wear it for years!  

Wordless Wednesday ~ The Challenge

Wordless Wednesday

H really is for Homemade!

I have to come back to H.  In my world, H really is for homemade.  I love to create, but it's more than that - it's the homemade black bean soup I had for lunch and the homemade granola the kids bring in for snack at school. It's their Halloween costumes and the curtain in our bathroom and the table on my front porch.  It's functional and whimsical and it's the feeling you get because there's nothing like seeing something you've made in use.  I don't think I could not create new things.  It's just who I am.

Happy Homemade Holidays!

I is for iphone

I love my iphone!  I can't even tell you all the ways I use this thing.  There's the obvious - phone calls, contacts, calendar, web browsing, facebook, twitter, taking pictures, etc.  But then there's things like using it as a GPS or tracking my stitches on my current projects or looking up different versions of bible passages or using it as a level when hanging pictures or letting the kids watch videos and play games.  I can't imagine my life without it!

H is for Holy Shit it's the Holidays!

Seriously, when did this happen?  Apparently I missed the memo.  Today is Monday, and on Thursday is Thanksgiving.  We're hosting.  It will be fine really.  I can just serve turkey and wine right?  That's all I really want anyway... well, maybe that and pumpkin cheesecake.  Then there's Christmas - don't even get me started with that.  We did hang twinkle lights inside our house yesterday and it's very festive feeling.  I may never take them down.  If I leave them up all year, do they still qualify as Christmas lights?

The reason why I've been so distracted and not really noticing the holidays is that I'm working on a few projects for needy families.  It's taking a lot of my time and energy and while I love that I can help, I'm hitting that wall of never feeling like I can do enough.  I'm trying not to get discouraged, but what I am right now is sad.  Sad that there's so many hungry kids here in my community and across the globe.  Sad that there are children who are homeless here in my town.  Sad that so many people choose not to see all this need and choose not to help.  Angry that for all we try to do to help, it's never enough.  I love my church and I'm organizing these projects as a way to reach out to our community through the church, but sometimes it's overwhelming.

Time to pray and get some rest - hopefully tomorrow will be brighter!

"Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." Romans 5:3-5