My daughter has graduated from Hight School I'm so glad that she graduated and that she was able to fix her grades so well that she will be going to a University.
It was a wonderful day the whole family was crying.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Steph's Graduation
It's been a while since I blogged - I'm having a rought month of June. I just realized there's less than 2 weeks left of the month.
My daughter has graduated from Hight School I'm so glad that she graduated and that she was able to fix her grades so well that she will be going to a University.
It was a wonderful day the whole family was crying.
My daughter has graduated from Hight School I'm so glad that she graduated and that she was able to fix her grades so well that she will be going to a University.
It was a wonderful day the whole family was crying.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Steph's 18th Birthday
My baby turned 18 yesterday. It was a good day! I've been really blah for the last couple of weeks - well actually it's now turned into a month. There are just a lot of life changes going on. There good but they seem to have thrown me off my routine. I guess it's time to make a new routine!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
May Sewing Group
Well for some reason, I truly shut my brain off after May 2nd, to the point that I walked into my sewing class with a pattern I had put together a few hours before and hadn't sampled yet. I was 95% sure it was going to work. First because it was all math and 2nd because I used Garment Designer to print out the pattern Pieces so that double checked my math.
It was the sewing instructions that had only been practiced in my head that was the unsure 5%.
Well I was so happy that it worked, now I have to write up the directions and finish up the pattern, to pass it along to those that couldn't attend.
Thank you all for coming, and helping me wake up before the month is over!
It was the sewing instructions that had only been practiced in my head that was the unsure 5%.
Well I was so happy that it worked, now I have to write up the directions and finish up the pattern, to pass it along to those that couldn't attend.
Thank you all for coming, and helping me wake up before the month is over!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Happy Memorial Day
I am very blessed this Memorial Day. My husband is alive and out of the hospital. My Son is alive, out of the Army, home and making plans for college! My daughter is graduating from High School and was accepted into the school of her dreams (Cal Maritime) I'm really glad she was because if she didn't get in she was going to join the Navy.
The story of the Buddy Poppy:
Among all the flowers that evoke the memories and emotions of war is the red poppy, which became associated with war after the publication of a poem written by Col. John McCrae of Canada. The poem, "In Flander's Field," describes blowing red fields among the battleground of the fallen.
For more than 75 years, the VFW's Buddy Poppy program has raised millions of dollars in support of veterans' welfare and the well being of their dependents.
The VFW conducted its first poppy distribution before Memorial Day in 1922, becoming the first veterans' organization to organize a nationwide distribution. The poppy soon was adopted as the official memorial flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
It was during the 1923 encampment that the VFW decided that VFW Buddy Poppies be assembled by disabled and needy veterans who would be paid for their work to provide them with some form of financial assistance. The plan was formally adopted during the VFW's 1923 encampment. The next year, disabled veterans at the Buddy Poppy factory in Pittsburgh assembled VFW Buddy Poppies. The designation "Buddy Poppy" was adopted at that time.
In February 1924, the VFW registered the name "Buddy Poppy" with the U.S. Patent Office. A certificate was issued on May 20, 1924, granting the VFW all trademark rights in the name of Buddy under the classification of artificial flowers. The VFW has made that trademark a guarantee that all poppies bearing that name and the VFW label are genuine products of the work of disabled and needy veterans. No other organization, firm or individual can legally use the name "Buddy" Poppy.
Today, VFW Buddy Poppies are still assembled by disabled and needy veterans in VA Hospitals.
The minimal assessment (cost of Buddy Poppies) to VFW units provides compensation to the veterans who assemble the poppies, provides financial assistance in maintaining state and national veterans' rehabilitation and service programs and partially supports the VFW National Home for orphans and widows of our nation's veterans.
In Flander's Field
by John McCrae
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow,
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead.
Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved and now we lie,
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw,
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us, who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow,
In Flanders Fields.
The story of the Buddy Poppy:
Among all the flowers that evoke the memories and emotions of war is the red poppy, which became associated with war after the publication of a poem written by Col. John McCrae of Canada. The poem, "In Flander's Field," describes blowing red fields among the battleground of the fallen.
For more than 75 years, the VFW's Buddy Poppy program has raised millions of dollars in support of veterans' welfare and the well being of their dependents.
The VFW conducted its first poppy distribution before Memorial Day in 1922, becoming the first veterans' organization to organize a nationwide distribution. The poppy soon was adopted as the official memorial flower of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
It was during the 1923 encampment that the VFW decided that VFW Buddy Poppies be assembled by disabled and needy veterans who would be paid for their work to provide them with some form of financial assistance. The plan was formally adopted during the VFW's 1923 encampment. The next year, disabled veterans at the Buddy Poppy factory in Pittsburgh assembled VFW Buddy Poppies. The designation "Buddy Poppy" was adopted at that time.
In February 1924, the VFW registered the name "Buddy Poppy" with the U.S. Patent Office. A certificate was issued on May 20, 1924, granting the VFW all trademark rights in the name of Buddy under the classification of artificial flowers. The VFW has made that trademark a guarantee that all poppies bearing that name and the VFW label are genuine products of the work of disabled and needy veterans. No other organization, firm or individual can legally use the name "Buddy" Poppy.
Today, VFW Buddy Poppies are still assembled by disabled and needy veterans in VA Hospitals.
The minimal assessment (cost of Buddy Poppies) to VFW units provides compensation to the veterans who assemble the poppies, provides financial assistance in maintaining state and national veterans' rehabilitation and service programs and partially supports the VFW National Home for orphans and widows of our nation's veterans.
In Flander's Field
by John McCrae
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow,
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead.
Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved and now we lie,
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw,
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us, who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow,
In Flanders Fields.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Lake Hemet
Well we spent Thursday night and all day Friday by the lake, the boys went fishing (they didn't catch anything), it was still fun. None of us used sun screen so we all turn red. It was cold the first night, so we didn't stay the second night. Plus there were coyotes howling all night, which made the dog bark all night - so I didn't sleep at all, and well that just wasn't relaxing.
I think I need to plan a one nighter more often. Just go veg by the lake!
I think I need to plan a one nighter more often. Just go veg by the lake!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
I'm in a rut!
After several months of going and going, I now seem to be in a rut. I have time in the mornings especially since I seem to be getting up earlier and earlier, like today it's only 6:30 AM and I've already walk the dog 2 miles, taken a shower and checked the cochenille email.
But yet, here I sit, with a long list of projects that could get finished before 9:30 AM when I start answering Cochenille phones and I'm not doing them I've checked every list, chat group and everything else on the internet I belong to except for facebook still haven't done that one this morning (see stephanie i'm not addicted).
I need something to get me out of Auto-pilot. We are going camping tonight and tomorrow night, we have to be back Sat AM for my husbands Dialysis (His kidney's shut down a couple of months ago, so he goes to Dialysis 3 times a week).
I really hope the Camping trip help. I'll be taking some knitting, Yay the first time I'll have a couple of hours to sit and knit in a very long time, I better take my Stitch n Bitch book incase I forgot how to Cast on, Knit or Purl - I've always needed a cheat sheet to bind off - for some reason I can't seem to commit that one to memory, I guess it only comes with Pratice.
Here's a few pictures of a field trip to MOPA in San Diego a few months back that I forgot to blog about:
But yet, here I sit, with a long list of projects that could get finished before 9:30 AM when I start answering Cochenille phones and I'm not doing them I've checked every list, chat group and everything else on the internet I belong to except for facebook still haven't done that one this morning (see stephanie i'm not addicted).
I need something to get me out of Auto-pilot. We are going camping tonight and tomorrow night, we have to be back Sat AM for my husbands Dialysis (His kidney's shut down a couple of months ago, so he goes to Dialysis 3 times a week).
I really hope the Camping trip help. I'll be taking some knitting, Yay the first time I'll have a couple of hours to sit and knit in a very long time, I better take my Stitch n Bitch book incase I forgot how to Cast on, Knit or Purl - I've always needed a cheat sheet to bind off - for some reason I can't seem to commit that one to memory, I guess it only comes with Pratice.
Here's a few pictures of a field trip to MOPA in San Diego a few months back that I forgot to blog about:
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