amazing!

Emily sewed herself a small bag with handles and a pocket on the front, with rick rack trim on the top.  She did it all on a very small sewing machine that she got from Grammy, but Grammy told her she would need to ask Gramma for directions on how to use it.  It is amazing (the bag I mean)!  I wish I had taken a picture to show you.

Grace brought along some books from school and she sat down with Gramma and read all three of them.  Two of them were quite easy for her, but the other one was a struggle and she persevered and WON! She read it twice just to prove she could; what an amazing reader!!

Grace and Emmy helped me plan lunch today, which was canned salmon, "Finn Crisp" crackers (mmm), cucumber with a little no fat ranch dressing for dip, dill pickles and then they both had some fruit and some peanut butter and apple butter wraps.  It was so amazingly delicious, and we had nothing on the salmon, no mayo, nothing!

We all went to Tim and Jen's tonight for taco night, and I had a shake and some undressed salad.  Then we read books, chased and played, then the kids pretended they were watching a movie and the grown ups played "Catch Phrase", with lots of interruptions for table dancing from the kids, occasional piano playing and a few "pick me up", "put me down"s thrown in for good measure.  It was amazing fun!

I am indeed blessed, and I know that I often say that, but it continues to amaze me, and I'm so grateful, elly

"When the shrivelled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."  Virginia Woolf


"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
Anna Quindlen