The Best Valentine's Day Present Ever!

Yes I know it's not Valentine's day, but I've only shared with the Facebook World my latest craze!  My husband may not be the most romantic person, but that's ok because I get what I want and not what he thinks he should get me.  I've been wanting a sewing machine for awhile and had planned on getting myself one for my birthday until I ended up in the hospital.  Anyway he decided (with a little help from Taylor) to get me the sewing machine for Valentine's day.  

It got her in time for pledge drive so I haven't had a lot of time to play.  Since pledge has ended I've made a few things.  I'm working my way up to a quilt which is what I wanted the machine for in the first place.

Here are a few things we've been making...

This is the first paper piecing from a free pattern from Sewhooked.

This is the second set of paper pieced hearts I made.  

 This is a chicken pin cushion that Taylor and I made together.  I think it's so cute!

Taylor made this bag for her friends birthday.

This is a soft cover I made for my friend's birthday.  I was waiting to put up a picture until I sent it to her so it hasn't made it to Facebook yet. 

This cute little dress I made for Taylor for her something green on St. Patrick's Day.  

My friends daughter is crazy about Duck Dynasty so when I found this pink duck material I just had to have it!  I love the way the bag looks with the black bag I made with it.  The inside lining was made out of pink too.

This is a little peep I've made for Easter. 

This is a hot pad I made tonight. It's the Amish Folded Star pattern.  It's a bit wonky but it's my first try. 

Well that's it for tonight.  I'm off to bed.

Crest Be!

Crest has a few new flavors...Lime Spearmint Zest, Mint Chocolate Trek, and Vanilla Mint Spark.  So far the boys have tried the Mint Chocolate Trek and love it.  Caiden really liked the fact that it tasted like chocolate mint ice cream.  

Taylor's tried the Vanilla Mint Spark and she said it just tasted like regular toothpaste but she's so picky so I'm going to have to have the boy's try it.  I'll write about that after they do.

Luvsome by Kroger

So I'm a BzzAgent and love getting new stuff to buy.  This post is going to be about the dog food we got from Kroger called Luvsome.  They have a wide range of foods for cats and dogs in both dry and wet formulas.   Since Mack doesn't do well with other brands of food that are mainly veggies we decided to try him on it.  We got the Skin and Coat formula for him.  He loves it!  His coat looks good and he doesn't itch like he usually does.  I think we're going to switch the other dogs over to it as well.  

Hello!

I know it's been awhile since I've blogged.  I get in moods...one day I can't stop writing, the next I don't want to talk or write about anything.  We're going back to one of those writing moods...:)

Today I'm going to do a few reviews for products I got for free from BzzAgent.  I have dog food from Kroger and Crest Be toothpaste.  They're going to have their own post but I wanted to say "hello!" before I posted them.  

I thought summer was supposed to be a time to relax, not around here!  Taylor has been to her aunt's, to her Nana's, to Gatlinburg, to camp and over at her boy friends house all this summer.  Oh let's not forget that color guard has started back for the year.  She's on the leadership team so she's had to meet with the other a couple of times too.  Next week she has band camp the whole week.  Then we're having her sweet 16 party for her on Aug 2nd.  I can't believe my baby girl will be 16.  Only 2 more years and she's off to college!!!  

Speaking of college, Nathan will be heading down there in less than a month.  We're getting excited about that.  I got his laptop for him and today his book bag, robe and some towels came in.  Still have tons of things to get for him before he goes but it's a start.

Caiden's also starting to have a busy summer.  Football has started!  He's been doing conditioning but hasn't been too happy with it...lol.  I told him if he didn't want to go we could take away his xbox and he didn't like that.  So he's been going and complaining the whole way there.

Alright that's all for now, I want to post about the free things.

Valentine's Day

While most married couples were having a nice night out my husband had to work.  Now don't get me wrong I'm so grateful I have a loving husband that is a hard worker, but I can guarantee you that the people he works with were all out with their wives.  But instead of cancelling the reservation we had I took the kids and we had a nice dinner. 

2/20/14

Today was a day of mixed emotions....for the first time in over 10 years I went on an interview.  Not a lot of people know I'm looking for something else so I haven't posted anything about it on Facebook.  I probably won't even post this one to Facebook.  I currently love my job...other then pledge drives when at least one of us ends up crying it's ok for the most part.  I get to work when I want...I like the people I work with...I just need to find something that takes out taxes.  I think however that this year we are going to take our taxes to an accountant to have them figured out.  I don't know I just get depressed thinking about it.  I did like the job I interviewed for today.  I have mixed feelings about it though.  I don't know if I want to add to my work load but I think getting up and getting out of the house will do me some good.  The job is at a local church in their office.  The hours are 10 - 2 so I still wouldn't have to get up too early, and I would be off early enough to pick up the kids or take them to practices.  That and have time to do my other job.  So I have that on my mind.  That was the excitement for the day.
The sadness part is that a good friend is going through cancer again.  She's been through so much in her life and I hate that she'd having to deal with this.  I hate that I live so far away that I can't help her.  I hate cancer!
My mother is moving...she's been in the house she's at for over 20 years.  I'm glad she's moving because I'm convinced the house is full of mold.  I think after she gets out of there she'll feel better.  But the move is bittersweet.  A lot of memories where made in that house.  I hate that she's moving right now because I can't be there to help like I want to.  She's moving during my busy time and I can't take off to help her pack.  I think I might go Saturday or Sunday depending on how much work I have.  She won't be getting the key to her new place until March 1st but that's just a week or so away.  I'm thankful my brother in law will have a bunch of young men to help. Of course we've moved all our lives, across states, across towns and the best part is the unpacking, it's like Christmas you find things you never knew you had...or you forgot about...lol.  That and you get a clean house.  I told David the other day the house was dirty we needed to move.  I actually look forward to the day the kids are all out of the house and we can move into something in the mountains.
Another thing I've had to deal with this past week is my ex.  He was actually let out of prison early by a couple of months.  He doesn't deal with me so I don't worry about him much.  But he has gotten on Facebook and starts sharing Taylor's pictures saying that's his daughter and she looks just like him.  Sometimes this doesn't help things here at home.  Taylor will put up with him for some things but then gets mad when he starts talking about wanting to do this and that with her.  She knows we can't get him to pay child support but he uses the excuse that I won't let him see her.  Which is far from the truth.  She doesn't want to see him.  I think it upsets her when he starts talking bad about me.  She knows who's been there for her.  I just don't get why it is that people think they are parents when they live so far away and never take care of the child.  Since the day my children were born or came to me they have always gotten what they needed or wanted over me.  It's been that way for the past 15 years, yet there are people out there that care more about their wants then their kids.  I just don't get it.

Well that's it for me tonight.  If you got this far, thanks for reading my ramblings.  Please keep my friend and her family in your prayers, and my mother as well.

Good Night!

Day 1 - Snow Day! 2/11/14

So today GA shut down because of the threat of snow and ice.  It snowed here...for about 15 minutes then after it was on the ground it melted.  It wasn't even cold enough to stick!  I'm seeing all these other pictures of people with snow and yet we don't have any.  Looks like the kids are out of school tomorrow too.  Fun Fun!  Thank goodness David's home so he can yell at them.  I'm just glad I work from home.  If we do lose power he's got the generator gassed up so I can at least have internet and can work.  I hate that he can't go to work though.  What happened to global warming?  Oh wait that was last week!!!!  Remember last week??  It was in the 70's!?!?!?!? 

Come back 70's...I like being able to open windows to let the fresh air in.