A lazy Sunday and a prayer request....

Today has been a lazy day, We did pretty much nothing other than go to Target to pick up a few things. Since Friday was Roger's last day at work my weeks are going to be so totally different from now on. Jennifer stopped by today and we were talking and both Roger and I said at the same time (jokingly of course) I was tired of him being home and it's only been a weekend so far, and he said that on Saturday he was already bored from being at home and it had only been one day.....so we will have to see where this new adventure for us takes us. I am not relating any details but please keep us in prayer this coming week.

One of the good things is that I don't have to get up at 5AM anymore Yahoo!! I am not a morning person so this will be just wonderful. I do much better if I can sleep until about 8AM I know that sounds kind of late to some but I rarely get to sleep before Midnight or even later. Roger and I are both night people.

I haven't been here to blog lately mainly because I just don't have any thing exciting to say. I have been very lazy lately and not much homekeeping has been done. Luckily it's just me and Roger and things don't get to bad.

Our grandson Dylan will be turning 7 in March, I can't believe it has been that many years since he was born. He wants a new bike for his birthday which of course I want to buy for him and Roger says did you forget I don't have a job??? This is going to be hard to get used to. We are not rich but having to think about do we have the money for this or that will be something new.

Well I have already run out of things to say so hopefully I will have some more to blog about later in the week.

Blessings,Joann

Life gets in the way!!!

Don't you just hate it when life seems to get in the way of your plans. Lately this has been happening more and more for me. I mentioned in my last post that I would be back blogging this coming week, but I lied, well I didn't know it but I won't be posting and don't know when I will be back maybe never??? I need to deal with some issues before I can come back and post.

Blessings,Joann

Birthday greetings for my son

I am enlisting the help of my fellow blogger friends to make my sons 21st birthday a happy one. Mattie will be turning 21 in April when he is in Iraq, so no celebrating with him. I was thinking about this today and thought how nice it would be if my friends would send him a birthday card, maybe it would make his day a little brighter. If you are interested in sending him a card his address is under his picture on the right side bar. Please don't send any gifts that is not why I am doing this I just know it would be a wonderful suprise to get lots of cards from all over the place. Right now it seems to be taking about 2 weeks for mail to get to him and his birthday is April 24th so make sure to mail early probably by the 1st of april just to make sure it gets there. You may also want to mention that you know me through my blog or he may wonder who in the heck is this from.

Thanks in advance, I plan on blogging again come next week. I took an unexpected break for a while.

Blessings,Joann

After a long wait at the airport last night.....

My son Mattie finally got here last night right before Midnight. I left my home on Thursday at about 2pm and went to pick up my Mom, then we went over to pick up Jennifer and the kids. We got to the airport at about 5:30pm and just when we are pulling into the parking area we get a phone call telling us that Mattie is on a different flight, a later flight...a much later flight!! He was originally going to be coming in at 6:55pm and now he wasn't going to be there until 10:50pm and then that time turned into 11:45pm. So we waited and waited and then waited some more and finally he was here.


The gate where he was going to come out of, very empty~


To be able to get to this gate you have to have a boarding pass and go through securtiy, so guess What I got!!

A boarding pass(my special ticket)~




His plane arrived at 11:42pm and when he came out I made sure to give him a great big hug, he is the best hugger there is

Me and Mattie~




We left the airport after paying the outrageous fee of $27 for parking and started on our long journey home. We dropped Jennifer and Matthew and the kids off at Jennifer's house then I went to drop my Mom off at her apartment and I made it home a little after 4:30am. I was strangely wide awake and decided to stay up and get some laundry done. Now it's a little after 1:30 and I am starting to get so tired.

I may take a nap later but right now I am still doing laundry.I am putting off grocery shopping till another day other than bananas we have enough food to last for a few days.

Praying that everyone has a very blessed and wonderful weekend.

Blessings,Joann

Mattie is on his way home!!!

Just got the call, Mattie comes home tomorrow night. I am so excited that I just want to drop everything I am doing and just think about tomorrow. I can't believe that he is finally coming. Seems like we have waited for so long.
don't know how much I will be on the computer in the days to come but I will certainly be back with pictures.

Blessings,Joann

One down and one more to go!!

Yesterday the carpet installer came and installed our new carpet in the craft room, now we are still waiting to get Mattie home.

I have a picture of what the carpet looked like before~







The craft room with new carpet and trim~




I really like the color of the carpet and the style, it's called Lasting elegance in Saddle color. It doesnt' show up very well in the photo but it sure makes the room look so different. The last carpet was dark and made the room look small it is a small room but now it looks very large and bright!!


This week so far I have been working on finishing some embroidery things I had started over the summer. Two of the pieces are in redwork, I love doing redwork, but the last piece I did in two colors, Red and blue.




PLedge of alligience~




I think they all turned out nice and am happy with them. I will be getting one of those black bookcases that we bought for the living room for my craft room and I was thinking of making one of the items I got done into a small pillow to set on the bookcase for a decoration. Not sure yet what I will make of the Pledge of alligience one, maybe a small wall hanging. So now that the carpet is in and the trim is done it is now my turn to put everything away in it's own place. I have a big pile of stuff sitting on the back patio that came out of the craft room. I have a few things that will be going on the bookcase, but I haven't gotten it yet.YOu may have noticed that we took out one side of the table top, seemed like all it was ever used for was to pile things on, I think I have plenty of room for my computer and my sewing area. Roger very nicely put up my thread holders and bobbin holder, now to just get my rulers hung up and that will get them off of the table top.You can also tell in the photo that I have plenty to do in the craft room at least organizing things will help a bit.

I was very happy to have my internet back, but have to say I really didn't miss it as much as I thought I would.Mattie called from Iraq yesterday morning but not today so that may mean he has gone to Kuwait, then we just have to wait for him to fly to the states. I am really getting excited.


Have a wonderful week and thank you so much for stopping by, Blessings,Joann

Now we wait....

We are now waiting for two things to happen this week. Monday morning we should be having the carpet put in the craft room, spent many hours getting it ready this weekend and of course the most important thing we are waiting on is Mattie coming home. We are thinking he may be here by Friday!! I am so excited for him to come home. But Friday seems like it is so far away. This weekend went by very slow.Today while watching football with Roger I looked at him and asked "is it still sunday?' sadly it still was.

I have taken some pictures of the craft room and will take some after pictures tomorrow after the carpet is in. Then I will post them all so you can see what it looks like right now.
I will have no internet plugged in tomorrow but will be back in a few days maybe even tomorrow night.

I pray that everyone has a wonderful Monday and entire week.

Blessings,Joann