It's a beautiful Christmas Day!

Merry Christmas!  It is truly a beautiful sunny day here in Virginia!  The presents have all been opened and much food and family time has been enjoyed!  I feel truly blessed!

Wishing all of my followers a most Blessed Christmastide!

Blessings!

God does answer...

Well, here it has been weeks again since a post...thought it was time to update about what is going on in my little piece of the world.

My beautiful, oldest daughter graduated in May from Blue Ridge Community College with her Vet Tech Certification degree.  We are all so proud of her for her 3 years of hard work all the while working full time along with taking classes part time to accomplish this.  The last several months of school were especially hard since she was pregnant and had morning sickness for the whole pregnancy.

Then with her LVT in hand she knew that it was time to find a job closer to home. You see she lives across the state from us and we don't get to visit as much as we would like and when we do it is only for a day or two.  She delivered her son in August and those visits are even more important now and needed.  Babies grow and change so fast and it is hard to try to raise a child with no other family around to help out as needed.

Now on to the point of this post.  I have been praying for months that God would bless my daughter and her little family, bring them many blessings according to his will.  I asked that he help her make her dream of moving closer to us possible by providing a job opening in her field of LVT, one in large animal not small.  There are only a dozen of so equine vet clinics in our state so there are never very many openings for the job she wanted.  Well God does hear our prayers and he answers in his time.

Two weeks after having her son, a job opening was listed for a LVT position at an equine vet hospital, not just any equine vet hospital but the one I use for my horses.  This clinic is less than 10 minutes from my house!  Well she applied for the job, came in for two in house interviews and was offered the job!  Not only that, last week her husband was offered a transfer of his job with the company he works for even though there were no openings listed!  Praise God!  He is so generous and loving!

So as of November 25th, all my living children and their families will all be located within a 45 minute drive of us!  And guess what!  This grandma will be babysitting her cute little grandson while his parents work!

Can you tell I'm excited!  There's more to the story but I will save it for my next post.

Blessings!

Finally A Stitching Update!!

It has been quite a few weeks, even months, since I have done any cross stitching. My mojo must have been on vacation, lol!  Well, I am happy to report that my mojo has made a return and I have managed to get some real stitching time in this past week.

This is one of my 2011 Crazy January Challenge starts. I don't think that I have worked on it since January of 2011. I stopped with only the birds head outlined, part of the wings outlined and a couple of rows of the bird's breast completed.  Wish I had thought to take a before picture of this but I didn't.

Here it is after this week's stitching progress!

Feather Your Nest
With Thy Needle and Thread
32 ct linen; DMC threads; stitched over 2

I am pleased with my progress. There wasn't much time for stitching but any progress made is good.  With some dedication, I should be able to get this one finished this year!

Blessings and Happy Stitching!

Great Family Weekend!

It was such a great weekend!  We all got together to attend the State Fair on Saturday...what a beautiful and fun day it was!

What should we see first?

There was a great petting barn for the children to have a chance to touch and feed the sheep, goats and pigs and other farm animals...The grand-daughters really loved this area...grandma really did too!

Owen and Elyssa...can we take it home grandma!?!

Elyssa and Owen...beautiful girls!

Owen and grandma!

There were some chickens and bunnies to see in the animal pavilion...

Elyssa loved the chickens

Elyssa loved the rabbits

And of course there were tractors to see...

Owen wants to drive a tractor!

All in all it was a fun day filled with memories to cherish!

Riley, 6 weeks old!

My Family!

Hope your weekend was fun too! Bye for now!

Blessings!

Grandma Again!

A big hello to anyone out there still following my little blog!  I see I have lost a few followers in my absence So glad the rest of you stayed around!

Life has been busy these last few months and I have been in a cross-stitch slump...On the other hand, I have crocheted several baby blankets...there seems to be a population explosion in my neck of the woods with several new baby boys born to friends of my children and myself and one precious little girl born just yesterday.

One very special little boy born on August 20 belongs to my beautiful daughter!

He looks just like his daddy! What a sweet baby he is!  I spent 3 weeks staying with my daughter and her husband to help out and of course to spoil this little one rotten!!  Grandma sure enjoyed the time spent with this little fellow!

I hope to get back to stitching soon...I have one more baby blanket to finish crocheting and then I plan to pick up my needle and thread once again.


Blessings to you....

TUSAL April

Can't believe how much time has passed since my last post!  I have been busy these last few weeks and not much stitching has been accomplished as you can tell from my TUSAL picture...

TUSAL April

On March 30th we made a trip to see my oldest daughter.  She lives about 4 hours away from us. It was time for her 20 week ultrasound and we got to go with her and her husband to the appointment....and....it's a boy!!  The baby is healthy and boy was he kicking and moving around when they did the ultrasound!  This will be my first grandson and I have had so much fun shopping for him!  Cannot wait for August when he is due!

My daughter, being pregnant, has not been able to ride her horse and it seemed silly to continue to pay for boarding at the barn so we offered for her horse to be moved to our house until she can ride again.  So on March 31st we trailered her horse to our house.  She drove the truck and trailer and I rode shot-gun and my husband and son-in-law followed in my daughter's vehicle.  I need to get some pictures of her horse to show but haven't done so yet.

When we got home we unloaded the horse into her own field until my horses get use to having a new friend. Then I went to work preparing dinner for my family.  We celebrated Easter a week early this year since everyone was home for the weekend!

The girls enjoyed their Easter Baskets from Grandma and Grandpa!

The next day was Sunday April 1st and my oldest granddaughter's First Birthday!! She was so adorable opening her presents, of course after opening the first two gifts she only wanted the tissue paper and her mom had to finish opening gifts for her!

Next there was the cake!

What's that Mom?

Yummm! Marshmellows!

3 Happy Babies!

Since then I have been busy weeding flower beds, taking care of horses and planting a few vegetables...by the end of the day I don't have enough energy left to stitch. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks the outside   chores will be caught up and I will get back to stitching.

Until then.....

Blessings and Happy Stitching!

Liebster Blog Award!!!

I am so honored to be nominated by March Ann of STITCHING AGAIN for the Liebster Blog Award! Thank you March Ann!  I really appreciate you thinking of my blog and I accept the award!

Liebster is a German word meaning favorite, dearest or beloved and is awarded by bloggers to newer bloggers with fewer than 200 followers.  By accepting this award I:

     1.  Choose 5 blogs to award the Liebster to.

     2.  Thank my friend and link back to her.

     3.  Post the award on my blog and list the bloggers I pass the Liebster on to with their links.

     4.  Let them know by leaving them a comment.

     5.  Share 5 random facts about myself that people do not know about me.

My 5 blogs to pass on the Liebster to are:

     1.  Mimi at The View From the Stitching Chair

     2.  Natasha at A Stitchers Ramblings

     3.  Lynn at Kernel's Korner

     4.  Peg at Lightening Fingers.........not!

     5.  Katherine at Regaling From Windy Ridge

And 5 random facts about me are:

     1.  I love, love, love chocolate eclairs

     2.  I dream of starting a horse farm to raise Holsteiner horses

     3.  I would love to visit the Holy Land one day

     4.  I love to cook for a crowd

     5.  I love to grow organic vegetables for family and friends

Thanks again to March Ann and I look forward to reading all your blogs!