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A flash from MY past!



This is my mom and dad around 1973.



My dad would have been 29, my mom would have been 26. I was 5 years old. My oldest sister was 9,my second oldest sister 8,and my two little sisters 4 and 2.







Here I am in 1973 at age 5.







Here I am in 1986 at age 17.



This was my Sr year picture.



Too bad this picture was not the one that was in the year book. I looked like a total dork in my year book picture. You know,permed hair and all.







Me getting my diploma May 1986 at 17.







I do not have a whole lot of pictures during my college years but I just might see if I can dig a few up one of these days.





Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

There was Once A Young Knight

There was once a young knight
who set off across the miles,
to save a sweet maiden
with whom he shared many smiles.

He road through day
and he road through night.
He traveled through the dark
and he traveled through the light.

Finally, in the distance
his fair maiden he did see,
holding on tightly
to a big oak tree.

With one brave swing
of his golden sword,
He saved his fair maiden
and then thanked his Lord.

There was once a young knight
who set off across the miles,
and saved his sweet maiden
so they shared many more smiles.

~ T.J.F.



Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

Ok, So I'm Finally Ready To Turn 41 !

It has taken a few months to face it but now I'm ready so let the celebration begin!

My real birthday is July 2nd but I thought I would postpone my birthday partly because we have eight other birthdays in a three month span. Toss in 4th of July and it makes for a busy party few months. I was also not quite ready to be 41 yet. I'm ready now. So Happy Birthday to me!

Like each birthday I go to a quilt shop and pick out a special quilt kit (yes, an actual kit not just yardage and a quilt book. Kits are real neat. Kind of frivolous but special.) I pick one out to make that reflects my year. I opted not to buy a quilt kit at a quilt shop because I saw this very pretty kit at Joann's. It is simple but very pretty. I love the colors. I want it to symbolize my upcoming year.




I picked out a great meal. It does not look appetizing in the photo but it tasted great! No birthday cake for me, though. A Tina birthday needs mint chocolate chip ice cream cones. Very tasty!



I hate to admit this but because of my school planning and sewing projects we had not eaten on our dinning room table as a whole family since the beginning of May. The kids ate outside on the picnic bench rain or shine. If the weather was really bad they ate on the floor in our family room.

Now that school started I needed to put all my stuff away because that is our 'school room' as well as our dinning room. With a clean table we were able to eat my birthday dinner in the actual dinning room! Pretty fancy.


There was one problem...the kids had grown a lot over the summer and all 16 of us can no longer fit at the table without ending up with elbows in each other's food.



No worries. We just added on and extended a little into the living room. It looks like some sort of Holiday with relatives doesn't it?

Catay's Curiosities

A few months ago my sweet long time friend Catherine sent me a bunch of jam that she makes to sell on her Etsy shop Catay's Curiosities. Catherine makes so many different flavors of jam and it is all SO good!!!!

I have been saving our last jar of raspberry chocolate for one of those hard days. I would say today was a good day to break out that special jam.

Elena made some biscuits and we enjoyed our tasty treat.




Catherine sent me this picture of her birthday party.I believe it was her 7th birthday. Catherine is in the yellow jumper.I on the left (Cathy's right) with the blue jeans and white with red checker blouse.

For those of you who remember Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour over at Har Mar Mall and the great birthday parties they had with the sirens and all,Cathy was lucky to have her 7th birthday there!

We've known each other for a very long time! We even spent our first year of college in the same dorm building at the U of M.