Zelma Wertner

My Grandma is the tiny girl with the giant bow. She was the best Grandmother. Grandma Boo Boo was my father's mom. He was an only child, and his father died when he was a young man, 15 years old. My dad was a bit rowdy. I have a profound respect for the way my Grandmother raised my father. My grandma was the youngest of a large family. She nursed each sibling in their old age. We all saw this. We all learned from this. She was raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, where she learned how to work and cook.

I learned to cook old fashioned things from her. Well more from her recipes then by her side. She lived in Arizona and we lived in California. She made jam, the hard kind. You know it takes all day and tasted like a slice of heaven. She made the best fudge. You know good fudge is not hard to make..its just a matter of having the right ingredients.

And man on man could she spoil her 5 grand kids rotten! When we moved to CA she took my brothers dog..and fattened him right up. The when we would come to visit she would fatten us up too. Whatever we wanted we had. Spoiled rotten.

My grandma was stubborn, I don't want to imply she was perfect. Lets be honest I heard more profanity from her then from most sailors. She scared off the bullies in the neighborhood, protected the innocent and at one time she ate so many cherries from the tree that she made herself sick, only to go on to eat more with all the new room.

You know my grandma never took us to church or really even talked about God or Jesus Christ. But I can honestly say she taught me the meaning of Christ like service. How many people would nurse all their siblings through the later difficult years. Well and my dad was pretty neat and I think he learned his generosity of Spirit from his mother.

My daughters name is Morgan Zelma, named after her Great Grandmother. When people make fun of her very unusual and old fashioned middle name I tell her to tell them with pride she was named after a strong women; who I am sure is watching down from above just thrilled with her namesake. I only wish she were here to teach Morgan how to be a strong women.

Simple Sunday

Proverbs 3:5-6

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart;

and lean not unto thine own understanding.

In all thy ways acknowledge Him,

and he shall direct they paths.

Baby Shower Presents

My friend and neighbor Melody is expecting her first baby. Well she and her husband! They are so excited, and today her family gave her a baby shower. I wanted to make her a cute baby blanket, and I did. Only it is tiny. So being the clever girl I am acted like I inteded to make a tiny baby blanket. I said it's for over her car seat. Everyone thought sounded good, either that or they were too kind to tell the truth! So it is made out of that "minky" fabric on one side and cotton on the other. The flower is made out of cotton, and I pinked the edges so that it will fray all cute in the wash. I guess its ok, but I HATE working with "minky". I am going to stick to cotton and flannel from now on. Except for that my other neighbor is expecting and she requested a blanket just like this one only for a boy. Her exact words were "like this only blue with a monkey or something"; hhmmm a monkey!!

Breaking Dawn

Ok, I know I am not the only on to have waited anxiously for the release of this book. I was even planning to attend a midnight party, and get my copy! Chad and Charlie had a campout for scouts and I thought it might be a little wrong of me to bring Morgan out 'til midnight...so my neighbor Dawn also wanted her copy last night, her and her husband, Todd went out for the book! And because they are nice neighbors they brought me one back!!! I only managed to stay up until 1am. So I am on page 498 and for the most part this book just pisses me off. I really hope it gets better because as of now it just drives me crazy. Anyone else feel that way?

Dress Making

Thank you to Magnolias and Sunshine for showing this cute dress pattern on her blog!! It is so easy and Morgan loves it! She picked the fabric and and the hair style. The pattern is from youcanmakethis.com and is called tiered flouncy dress.

This picture is just to show you how very cute Morgan is! She is growing so fast. Morgan wants me to make another dress for her, and it was so fun that I think I will!
So I have a new purse pattern, I hope to have it made by the end of tomorrow. Check back to see. Only my camera broke so I had to ask my neighbor for help! Thank heavens for neighbors. So I have hope that they will help me again if I do finish my purse. Who knows maybe I'll even finish Sarah's diaper bag, but lets not hold our breath. The good thing is that she and Doug will have more kids of that I am sure.

Simple Sunday

One of my favorite blogs is located at http://asoftplacetoland-kimba.blogspot.com/
Go check it out. This new post is a blatant rip off from Kimba's blog. I love it, and I think that it starts my Sundays off in just the right way.

1 Corianthians 13

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 Beareth all thinks, believeth all thinks, hopeth all thinks, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth:

13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

4th of July

This is actually what it looks like. YEP, a snowman!! On the 4th of July.
I was driving down the street on a quick errand and saw this great big guy, I quick ran home grabbed the kids and a camera. Morgan was thrilled with the whole thing, Chad said "cool, lets go home". He thought taking a picture was silly. He would not smile. I was able to get him to smile with a promise of an apple pie. Oh boy, he is an almost 11 year old boy for sure!