She is Turning Eight!!!

    My Little Lily

 

How did time move so quickly?

 

 Last week you were just a tiny baby .

 

Just a wee tiny tot, yesterday.

 

And now you are eight!

 

I smile, thinking of what your future holds.

 

But my heart stings with sadness over time that has passed.

 

My little princess will soon not need me as much as she did.

 

Lily, I love you more than I can even express with words.

 

Happy birthday

 

to the sweetest girl I know!

 

Love, Mom

Christmas Play of the Adorable Kind

 

Naomi, Anya, Grace, Joel, and Lily were able to participate in the Grace Baptist Church Christmas play Sunday evening. How very fun!!!!! 

 

Grace, Joel, and Lily go to Grace Baptist's Wednesday night Patch Club. Very good program. I go through the weekly Bible lessons with those three as a part of their homeschool and I love it. I look forward to it and even though it is for grade school kids, I personally learn a lot. Maybe even more that the kids do.

 

Anya and Naomi go to Friday night teen group at Grace before Club 180 at Christ Community.

 

The Christmas program was the first time we attended a Grace service but know the Pastor and his wife a little more casually through the kids. They are such nice people. The Christmas program was a fun time meeting people and fellowshipping. We were told that fellowship is the Baptist term for eating.  Ha-ha. I like fellowshipping! Someone made this WONDERFUL buffalo cream cheese dip. It was VERY good. If I could have made it look like a natural, normal thing, I would have just hung out right next to the buffalo dip fellowshipping with a little double dipping.

 

I did not get the greatest pictures but here you go!

 

 

Anya ,one of the carolers, in the solid green hat

 

 

 

Lily, an angel, on the left

 

Lily

 

Lily

 

Naomi, a caroler, in the blue and gray stripes 

 

Grace (on the left) and Joel (far right) as shepherds...or are they wise men? Maybe a combo?

 

Joel (far right)

 

Grace

 

Anya, Grace, Joel, Lily, and Naomi (L to R)

 

Warmly,

Me

A Few More Projects

I was racing to get in a few more Etsy shop projects finished before the sewing machines go back onto their shelves. Now I will focus on homeschooling. I get very distracted when my machines are out. I took a few week schooling break with the eight youngest ones. When the Waseca County Fair rolls around, it is hard to want to keep up with school. Every year I think I can fit it all in. One year I will actually learn to not schedule school Mid July to Mid August. As my scheduling goes now, we are three weeks behind. I will just scribble out the past dates and pop in new ones. That will work.

The table is now cleared off. I will spend this week correcting the kids work books, help where they need help, finish putting the rest of my sewing paraphernalia away, and look ahead to my fall schooling plans.

Cyrus, Nolan, and Josiah have a big week head of them with football practice. It is Josiah's Sr year and I want him to soak it all in. Nolan's practices will be more intense than years past because he is in 9th grade now. It is a big deal. Cyrus might get the opportunity to play on the varsity football team with Josiah even though he is in 10th grade. It will be a big football year!!

Did I mention Grant will be moving out at the end of August? Oh, I will miss him SO very much!! Joyce is already out of the house so we will soon be down to only 13 children at home! I bet this coming year Elena will fly the nest,as well. Gee, then with Alan and Josiah graduating high school spring 2015...we could have only ten at home come next fall. The years have flown by. They have not all been easy years with this past year being one of the hardest, but we will look back and think our lives were spent well. I hope we will,at least.

Here are the projects I finished the past few weeks.

I made this bag for myself. I really like it. It is pleather. Good feeling pleather. It actually kind of smells like leather. I wonder if the manufacturers did that on purpose? I plan to offer a made to order one in my shop, because I have enough of the materials to make a duplicate.

I finished these two skirts a few weeks ago.

This dress I finished yesterday. The dress is made from a pattern I purchased from a Hawaiian company. It is a version of a muumuu dress.

Very cute! I wanted Lily to wear a black long sleeve t-shirt under it to make it more Christmas-y because that was the look I was going for but Walmart did not have their long sleeve tops out yet. These pictures are cute, though.

Happy Week!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Two Post Day: Part One

A girl who fears NOT !!!

I did go on the Scrambler with Joel, Lily , and Grace.

I decided I am a little too old for spinning around.

BUT I am SO going on the Tilt-a-Whirl tomorrow. I will spin around for that.

See you there!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

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

Now, This Is Awkward

Feeling somewhat antsy at the table this evening correcting the kids school.

Even more antsy looking at the stack still waiting for me.

~Sigh~

I feel the stress building.

Then I got snippy at my eldest for something I can not even remember now.

Sent her to her room.

Called her back down.

We did not need to be separated but together with some mom-daughter bonding time.

Over plates of homemade donut holes

As well as homemade French fries.

My youngest, who is never one to accept being excluded from anything that resembles a tea party, joined in despite her lack of being in the possession of a formal invitation.

She also wanted to demonstrate the proper way to drink from a tea cup.

As the three of us sit down to enjoy our special treats, my oldest realizes she is sitting in the middle.

The tea party place of honor.

This mom smiles.

I hear her say, "Now,this is awkward."

Sorry if I am still smiling.

She will be 20 in a few months and I think she still secretly enjoys sitting in the tea party place of honor.

I will stop smiling...

in a little while.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy