What I've been doing with my time --

I've heard from some of you over the phone that I don't have anything new on my blog. Well.... This is part of the reason and I'll try to post more things in a couple of days or so that will explain what else I've been doing. I have not been making new art or dyeing or discharging fabric. But I have been sewing a little, and loving my family a lot.

Here's our girl when I got to take care of her for a couple of days last week and I got to take care of her again today!(She's actually napping as I write this.)

"Oh Grandma, is that the camera again?"

Yes, she's pulling herself up now very easily and regularly! That means being sure everything is out of the new arms length. She's been crawling for sometime and has that perfected. Which makes for very interesting playtimes at my house! I use the furniture and various stools and rubbermaid containers to keep her in a fairly contained area, but there is one area I leave open to get in and out for myself and we always have to have a big discussion about that spot before she gets herself busy working with her other toys. She's a very serious worker and I'm thinking an executive level position someday for her the way she's very happy handling paper, magazines, and cards.

Here is Faith taking a short pitstop from her playing to give herself some juice. It's a cup with a soft flexible straw that folds back down into the cup. Wow! So many new things since mine were little 25 years ago! How did they ever survive? I just love seeing the new gadgets and toys. You'll notice some of the old standbys that I saved from when my children were little. I put them away carefully to use when I had grandchildren, and Yay! now I'm getting my money's worth out of those for the second time around! There are a few new toys as well, who can resist, certainly not a grandmother! Every toy we've purchased so far (I think) makes noise and requires a battery to operate it. Most have come with the batteries included because that way they make the sound while on display in the store. The battery compartments all have screws to keep them shut so kids don't swallow batteries, now that's a good idea, but my tip is to check to be sure you've got a toy with the batteries already installed or otherwise install them before you give it to the child because it takes a while to get those batteries in with all the screws! And children can grow very impatient waiting for us old folks to figure things out!

Now if you've read this far here's a quiz for you! In the picture of Faith taking her juice break, from all the toys can you pick out her favorite one to play with when she comes to Grandma's house? If I've already told you verbally hold off on answering and let the long distance readers see if they can guess. Put your answer in a comment and the winner gets a big Yay Woo! Way to Go! for your efforts.

7 Months and Growing Fast!!!

My stint at taking care of Faith seemed to fly by! My goodness where does the time go? I certainly can understand the Bible when it says that to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day! That's eternity waiting for us and as we grow older I think we begin to understand that God has a whole other way of looking at time than the way we humans do! It seems when there are children involved time just spins on it's end!



So here is our precious granddaugther at just over 7 months old and she is developing a strong personality for sure! She knows what she likes and she doesn't mind indicating her desires or lack of desire when it comes to some foods!

She just keeps getting more and more fun! She's sitting up very well on her on and I think on the verge of taking off crawling and oh my watch out when that happens! She's very good at reaching out and grabbing things and I knew the day was coming when I'd have to hold her without wearing my glasses so for a while she may look a little fuzzy to me, but that's ok. She's also feeding herself finger foods and they've certainly come up with many new things in the 25+ years since I was raising babies! No longer are there the plain Cheerios, now there are special baby puff cereals and they actually taste pretty good. She even got to nibble a little of her Grandfather's BBQ Ribs (her mother is the one who fed her that by the way) but she did wrinkle her nose a little. We're not exactly sure how to interpret that, but I'm sure she'll be a good southern girl and learn to love BBQ Pork Ribs and all of the other things her grandfather cooks up.

New Resident at the Harwell House!

Yikes! I didn't realize that it's been so lonnnnnnnnng since I posted on this blog. Well I never promised to be regular about it, but if you want regular readers I guess publishing on a regular basis would help! I'll certainly try to get some new things up here very soon!

I'm using Photo Shop Elements 5.0 to edit my pictures and I'm not really sure what I'm doing so... I'm trying to make the images smaller in file size so they load up quicker. If you have trouble viewing any of the pictures please email me and let me know!

So here is our new resident - Molly the Watch Cat! She comes to us via our son's house around May or so of this year. She was one of two cats in their house and after a new baby and moving to a very brand new house (you know the new house smells...) she was a bit stressed out. Let's just say she was having bladder issues and this was not going over too well with our son. Rather than ship her off to complete strangers, I (Debby) insisted on having her move in with us. She was very scared at first, but after Don sat and talked to for a couple of days while he was here, she especially warmed up to him. She's now pretty much the ruler of the roost. Here she is sitting at her post holding down the fort, or rather the junk on Don's desk in his very clutterd office, a cat's heaven, she just loves all the stuff to investigate, chew on and toss around. This cat does not have claws and it's a good thing, she can really use those paws to bang on the door if she wants to go through. She even chases small balls if you throw them and she happens to be in the mood to play fetch (the "being in the mood" definitely makes her a cat!)