hi my lovelies,
yes, it is me. i am alive and well and finally making my way back to blogland.
i really did mean what i said at the beginning of this year, about how i wanted to be here often and share what was happening.
and that want never left, but i found myself dreading to open the laptop and connect to the internet.
instead, i found myself drawn to the art table, to the kitchen where i worked on developing my baking and cooking from scratch skills. i was drawn to the windows to watch the amazing amount of snow that we had this past winter, or even out into the snow to take walks or photos.
i was drawn to turning my bedroom, the cove as i call it, into a sanctuary that i love to spend time in, awake or asleep. so much so, it has inspired me to do the same to the rest of the house.
i was drawn to a beginner's sewing class in the lovely mountain town of Asheville where i met wonderfully fantastic women, learned how to use a sewing machine, figure out how to measure myself for a pattern and how to create a pattern. it was fabulous!! it even snowed while i was there and i was able to take a walk in the snow in downtown Asheville.
i was drawn to a local to home stitching group where i have met some lovely women and am expanding my abilities and my social skills.
i even fully embraced my latest birthday! when i ordered my cake the sweet lady asked who it was for and i said it was for me. she looked at me and started grinning. i told her the older i get the more i'm regressing to childhood wants and wishes. she loved my cake so much she said she would order one for her birthday this year. (i actually added the sprinkles myself. it was quite plain on top, which was fine, but when i was looking at it i remembered i had purchased a packet of unicorn sprinkles in the same colors the cake was decorated in several months ago.)
and the other thing i've been, well - not so much drawn to, but have been helping with - my new nephew.
look at that face. isn't that the sweetest face? he's had a hard time learning when and where potty time is, so i go down about midday during the week and let him and his older brother out to have what i call puppers potty patrol.
he's learning and doing much better now. and i hope my patrol will come to an end in the next couple of weeks. he's much larger now than that picture shows.
while his older brother is calm and quiet, this one is a wild man and is quite the talker. if it wasn't for all the barking, i'd have brought him home with me from the first. then i think about all the fur, and the poop walks, etc. nope. i'll just get my pet fix from visits with the nephews. :-)
well, that is just a little bit of where i've been and why i haven't been here. i know i said it before, but i really am coming back on the regular now. i do have so much to share.
alrighty. it's late, and i need to get to bed.
see you soon!
love & kisses & magical wishes...
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