A Little Positivity 2023 & Happy Mother’s Day!

I’ve stepped away from blogging for a little while but not from participating in a quilt-along that is near and dear to my heart. Well, not as close as our littles to my heart but I am very fond of it. The quilt-along is Positivity 2023. It’s hosted by Bernie and Preeti benefitting Mercyful Quilts. All the fabulous details can be found on Sew Preeti Quilts and at Needle and Foot. My plans to add a link on my sidebar fell by the wayside when my website won’t let me update it. Since I’m still pushing all stress away, I gave up and instead choose to share a post!

While you can read all the details on their website, I feel I need to share the start date. Memorial Day weekend! Actually, the Sunday before Memorial Day or May 28th. While I haven’t seen the actual pattern for this year, I did see a fabulous picture of Preeti and Mari (Academic Quilter who used to live near me in Wisconsin!) on Instagram. There might have been a small hint shared. Those two are fast friends and were probably up to only good things when they were together. We are definitely participating while a quilt that we’re about to get started on. Maybe you’d like to join in? If not, cheer all of us on from the sideline.

Happy Mother’s Day!

May 14th! Time to celebrate all the mothers, the soon-to-be mothers, the wanna-be mothers, the almost or stand-in mothers, the women in your life, or just the fact that it’s a great day.

How will we be celebrating? Sue’s Mom comes over most Sunday mornings for coffee, chatting, and sometimes a treat. We can count on that. The rest of the attendees is a toss up. Our open door policy means we never know who might pop in.

Here’s a picture of me, Jeannette, and Sue a few years ago (my hair was dyed so pre-COVID) one Mother’s Day. The second picture is me, sweet baby Chase, and my almost-mom older sister, Carol. This was taken last summer. Carol loves Chasey almost as much as we do – she tried to bribe him with blueberries but he was having NONE of it. Stranger danger, I guess, because he held tight to my t-shirt. I love that baby.

A Little Littles Update

Our littles are growing and learning so much every day. They are 5, 4, 3, and 2 but they’ll always be our littles. Dominic still enjoys chicken nuggets with Ranch dressing, especially at the zoo. He won’t wear anything Disney-related – those are for babies. He allows me to read to him, especially How to Catch a Unicorn. Addison likes that story, too.

Addison is living her best life. She has tap and ballet lessons once a week with a recitial coming up soon. Her younger brother, Chase, adores her. It’s good to be a princess. When Chase isn’t following Addison around, he is very busy. “No” is his favorite word followed closely by “Nope” and occasionally “Yup.” He is Mr. Independent with his ever-present stuffed Chase pup from Paw Patrol. Finally, basketball camp was attended by Colt and Dominic. The two on the right side of the last picture, they both knew they had to look at Auntie Rose for a photo. The young coach was trying to wrangle the rest for a final picture. Good luck, buddy!

A Little My Mommy

This doesn’t need any explanation. It’s just plain adorbs.

Take care, my friends. Bye for now.

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