A New Richland Photo Shoot

Yesterday, after New Richland's 2014 Prom Grand March (which was very well done by the way) our youngest five who went with to watch and Jeff humored me with an impromptu photo shoot.

Enjoy the results!!!!!!!

Lily and Grace

Anya, Naomi, Joel, Grace, Lily, and Jeff

We stopped by The Yellow Mushroom for ice cream cones when we got back into Waseca.

It was a fun time.

Interesting is this group of five children are our 6th grade and younger group.

How can that be??!!

Remember when all of our kids seemed so little?

Where did the time go?

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Vintage Valentine's Trip to Paris

Lily is just a little spunky model!

We had fun taking pictures of the two dresses I finished this evening.

Grant's Ghana hat and Nolan's old cowboy boots are a must as our shoot props.

Here is one I will call A Trip to Paris.

This one is Vintage Valentine It turned out very pretty.

I added some vintage looking buttons to the front as well as a last minute impulse I added the ecru cotton lace over the red hem band. It is so pretty. Too bad I missed Valentine's this year! I put it in my Etsy shop anyway.

Jeff and Elena went to a Love Out Loud concert in Minneapolis tonight and look what they brought home for me!!! So kind!!! Yummy almond bark. It is one of my all time favorite treats! They bought this at the Minneapolis store but I grew up in Stillwater and remember a candy store in downtown Stillwater. I wonder if it is was called Candyland store back then.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Going to Party...

like it's 1999!!

Wait...

Something is not right...

Sigh...

It's not 1999.

It's 2014.

It will still be a good year.

Happy New Year!!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Remember When

Remember when



the sound of little feet



was music we danced to week to week.



Remember when



thirty seemed so old



Now, looking back



it's just a stepping stone



from where we are



where we've been



Said we'd do it all again



Remember when...



Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

~ ~Alan Jackson-Remember When

Jeff Speaks

As ‘tradition’ ends, a list of Wrigley Field’s worst seventh inning stretch conductors

and #1 on the list...

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne — August 17, 2003






"I think my days of following the Cubs were the best when I could watch Harry Caray sing that myself. Just a look back at my life back then...I recall often being in my room doing something else while listening to the game, then once the 7th inning stretch came on I would come out and watch that on TV then the last few innings of the game. Maybe that's how I got in the habit of watching the end of games instead of the beginning."

~Jeff Frye


Good memories

Harry Caray in 1985



Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

What A Guy!!!

Jeff brought me home a few surprises after work this evening.

Very pretty flowers!



and four fat quarters from a quilt shop called Quilter's Haven in Rosemount.

Beautiful!!

You did a wonderful job picking them out, Jeff and I know just the quilt I will make with them.

It will be very pretty.



Thank you VERY much Jeff!!!!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

What to say?

I have many thought fragments swimming crazy like in my mind but I have such  hard time processing them into a series of understandable, intelligent sounding thoughts.

What can I narrow my thoughts down to?

What main thing can I focus on?

Ok.

I will try.

Here goes.

Gee, I fail. Oh boy do I fail.

I almost daily am reminded of how so ill equipped I am as a mom of many. Ok as a human being. My heart, my passion is to follow the Lord down this road he has me on. I am just so weak. I fail SO much. The pressure can be so great. Did I say I fail SO much?

Why did the Lord asked me and not about a zillion other women who would do a better job, I have no idea.

Sometimes I think that he really was asking someone else but me being the want-a-be I am, the girl without a social clue that  I am,  I budged in front of his intended target all obnoxious like and took his task card running away with it before anyone knew what was happening. And look what I did. I made a mess of things. Now I need him to fix things. Fix my mess. He constantly needs to fix the wounds I created and then left fester, the feelings I trampled all over, the dreams I squashed, the tiny fragile hearts I broke.

Mess. Mess. Mess.

But despite my messes.

Despite it all I need to move on. To keep doing my best. To keep going to God to fix what I have broken.

Today is one of those times.

Humbled, I want to hide in a corner and lick my wounds.

The last thing I want to do is to participate in teaching the kids about living for the Lord.

I am sure they can see the hypocrisy oozing out of my every pore.

But the night moved on anyway.

I just oozed all over but no one really noticed. At least not this evening.

Jeff started the evening reading 2 Kings 22 when the book of the Law was found under King Josiah's reign. How King Josiah humbled himself before God on behalf of himself and his people and God responded:

"Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the words you heard: Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people—that they would become a curse and be laid waste—and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. Therefore I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place.’”

Jeff encouraged the kids of how important it is to live a life in obedience to God just like King Josiah did. And when we are reading the Bible to take seriously the things God is teaching us.


Jeff then read the kids the story of the Widow's offering.


The Widow’s Offering

Mark 12: 41-44

Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

Jeff explained that there are people who give us things, maybe a can of beans here or a bag of rice there, who like the widow are not giving out of their richness but sharing what little they have with us out of kind obedience to the Lord. God wants us to have the same heart. The same type of obedience.

So we set off to make two very kind older ladies cookies and thank you cards.

Can you smell the tasty goodness?

It was a fun night.

That corner I wanted to hang out in licking my wounds...it would have not been very fun. It was kind of a cold, drafty corner anyway.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Falling Asleep

I am falling asleep right here as I type.

So tired!!

But on to my evening's dress creation!

See,I told you this was an awesome pattern!

And I just LOVE this fabric!!

Jeff's cheerful face this evening as he patiently listened to me carry on all fussy like.

So many woes...

let's see:

someone keeps moving my sewing scissors, I am fatish and have jiggly old lady arms, I think I forgot to rinse the conditioner out of my hair this morning so my hair looks like an oil factory,...sigh...too many woes to count...but Jeff listens, all the same.

He is a very good guy.

The cherry on the sunday this evening was Sam Romo from LightSwitch sent me a personal email!!!

Who cares that it was just a spam email.

You know you are someone when you get spam from a famous band member.

Should I worry that he is stalking me?

Teasing.

Actually, if you ever have the privilege to meet the Romo brothers count yourself blessed. Jeff and Elena have met them and they are great guys. Their parents raised them well.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy