Family...

Well it has been a while.  Years to be exact.  So much has changed.  Children have grown up.  Gone are the days of high school!  Still have one in college.  

I've moved.  With my David's passing, in 2022, the need for a large house no longer existed.  A lot of my group live in different areas of the country and get to come visit once a year.  So, I sold the "big" house and moved into a smaller home that will be much more manageable when my last two are out on their own.  

I love my new home.  It has just what we need plus extra space in the back yard.  I have big plans for this yard.  My only complaint about this community is very few people have planted trees.  I'm definitely a tree lover and this year will see the addition of trees and different bushes to my new yard.  Looking forward to what I hope and plan on as being a beautiful transformation.

We're in a small community kind of out in the country, so to speak.  But its growing out here and in a few years it'll be built up and busy.

Still knitting.  Still spinning.  Life goes on!

Half a Century or more...

Started this post on August 14th and I guess with age comes the realization that its ok to do something at my leisure...

Yesterday was my birthday..... so, Happy Birthday to me!  56, yep 56 years old.  AND for 38 years I've been married to, David.  We celebrate our anniversary on my birthday.  We're pretty happy and I don't mind saying that we still have a good chuckle most of the time.

We've been back in Texas for 2 months now and slowly but surely the house is coming together.  Olivia's room is painted.  Jolie's room is painted.  I'll be starting on the downstairs powder bath soon and I picked up the paint for all the trim in the house and I've purchased material for the family room curtains.  Slowly, slowly I'll do what I can to make this house a home for all of us.



August 21 - Yep I can take my time ..... (refer to the beginning of this post)

School is starting soon, very soon... Monday, the 24th, to be exact and I'm just a bit excited, actually truth be known it can't come soon enough.  Whew!  I was almost out of breath spitting that out.  I actually got all hyped up about it.  Yep!  School is starting.... school is starting.  Sing it with me!!!







Knitting a baby sweater for C. Martin and a pair of socks for myself.  I'm sewing again!  A cushion cover for Jolie's room.  Curtain's for the family room.  Throw pillows for the couches.  I'm also getting ready to start cross-stitching for fall which will add some primitive samplers to the mix for me.  Quite the eclectic mix we'll have in the house.   Just imagine how much I'll get done when the kids are back in school? Wow!!!  (sends shivers down the spine, just thinking about it! He! HEE!)

The piano room is Asian influence and doubles as my craft room.  We're adding a Chinese screen this next week that David has inherited from his family.  My hope is that it will encircle the piano, which should help protect it.  The dining room is country southwest.  The family room is country southwest  as is my bedroom.  I guess I could post pictures for everyone.....  Ok.  So I'll do pics this weekend and get them up on the blog for everyone to see.

New Beginnings!

Its been a bit over a year since my last post.  I can't believe all the changes that have occurred.  Most for the better.

All my precious chickens are in other homes now.  (Had to place them in order to get the rental home ready for viewing, or so I thought.  At any rate... I no longer have "my girls" and I do miss them terribly.)  















I started packing up the house 6 months in advance of our projected move. (I succeeded in getting everything packed.... just not everything made it with us.  Our move consisted of 2 - 26 foot trucks with daughter #4 driving my Excursion and leaving her own car in Colorado, to be picked up later.  After the movers loaded everything they could into the two trucks we were scrambling to store the remainder somewhere!, anywhere!, we could.  So on June 13th, 2015 we drove out of  Colorado in 3 trucks with 8 people (as we brought our beloved Sydni with us.  We weren't ready to leave her just yet!), 4 dogs and one very cranky Lovebird.)

We found a new home for our brood that, I think, fits us nicely, in a little town, outside of the Dallas area.  I love that I drive through the "country" to get home from shopping in nearby larger towns.  We're enjoying dreaming of all the decorating (and making this home ours) we'd like to do in the house and will be starting some very shortly.  But I'm learning that a little decorating at a time, will make the fun last just that much longer.  So I've pulled back on all the projects and have decided to paint Olivia (orange, yellow and hot pink walls) and Jolie's rooms as the first projects.  I cancelled all the other paint and will try to do just one project
every month or two.  The next project will be getting the exterior of the house painted and ready for the winter.  Definitely don't want leaks at that time of year.  Amazingly, for a house this size, there is little to no storage space in the powder baths or "game room" area.  So we need to construct shelving.  We'll be starting in the main level powder bath.  I really want to do the floating shelves in there and keep with the open appearance of that room.   I think I'll stop here for the ideas.  Those projects will make good reading material down the road and probably show just how rusty we are with DIY's.

David is still commuting for his job.  Just now its between California and Texas.  The drive to the airport is shorter for us now, just not as pretty, and a whole lot more crowded! :)  I used to enjoy the drive to DIA on Hwy. 83 from Colorado Springs. 

So for now we're still adjusting to being Texans, again for some of us, and for the rest of us..... well we're lovin' the air-conditioners!