Amazing!

These men are so amazing! Bless Them!! Kari

Downtown

Let's see!! when I was 15 and in 9th grade we had a talent show...this song was #1 that year...so! we danced on stage to it..my friends and I...did the "jerk" and other fancy moves!...Now, our oldest granddaughter is 14! wow! 1965 to 2008....I ask you, where does the time go?....Alyssa is a great asset to her soccer team...she loves to do art and is very expressive and talented in it! We LOVE YOU ALYSSA!!!!!!! You will always be our very first grandbaby!!....sorry, you have to live with that! you are amazing!!
and to you we are....Love forever! Grams and Gramps!

Is This A Dream?.......Come True!

You know you can look back at a week and think, how did all those activities fit into those days? That is kind of the week I have had...I made a big mistake by not watching my thread tension on a quilt with my longarm and I have spent several hours ripping and ripping....wha wha...but it gave me time to reflect on the past few days...........
My sons' wife directed my heart to a blog she ran across on the internet. We began to follow the needs found at audreycaroline.blogspot.com...it was amazing how God used this tiny creation in our lives and in the lives and hearts of so many people. We had lost two babies ourselves in the last 5 months, our daughter lost her baby in early November and our sons' wife lost hers in February, our hearts are still yearning for these babies but through following the needs of the family on the blog it was put forth the healing of little Audrey after her birth and brief but much loved 2 hours on this planet Earth in arms of her little sisters and family..
She went on to heaven, as did our babies and years ago 2 babies in my own history of motherhood. "pink flowers and blue ones" was what I hung on to years ago...
Time is not in the realm that we see it on this earth....we put it in a capsule, like cardiac patients that take a time-released capsule of cardizem.
God keeps tugging at our hearts....this is not your time...you can not control it...it is mine...He gave breath to his creation from the soil.. he created....in the garden.....how amazing........His time.....we are living in it!.....He created time!

As you can see from the picture I added above, 4 of my grandkids are having the "time" of their lives! in Disneyworld. Never a dull moment!

Quilted Blessings!! Dobs

Time Passes!

Where has all time gotten too!! So much has happened since that warm day at the Blueberry Festival last fall!!....Shortly after that time my sister Lori came home from Florida and with our husbands blessings we started to endeavor in setting up a quilt shop in her town in Southern Ohio..we live in Northern Indiana...long story! but we had a good 2 months in the old building that we partially remodeled...we had over 500 people come through...but God led us in other directions....and we made the hard decisions to close after such a short time...we are trying different ways to quilt with others..my sister is teaching in her home..her classes are growing...I am setting up our cabin to entertain the idea of the shop being here and offering retreats of all kinds....quilting, scrap booking, Dear Jane, whatever a womans' group would want...even a gyro group if my husband forms one! .. anyways!! our grandchildren are growing..all are busy in different areas of life changes!!..some even teenagers now!..and some babies!...God took two babies home this past year also that my daughter Leah and daughter-in-law Mindy had grown already to love and adore...yes, very sad...and we are still trying to accept it too....we do feel their loss....we pray that if God allows other babies that they would be surely blessed...My husband never ceases to amaze me with his love and compassion..I love him with every beat of my heart!..He worked nights in southern Ohio so we could try the quilt shop out in a nearby ER..now he has found a position again in Northern Indiana as a night supervisor and I am so proud of him..he will be wonderful as a helpful RN...he is already trying to suggest that I could do some prn OB nursing there too..."he would put a good word in for me!" haha.....so! life changes doesn't it! I am always amazed at how God works....I will try to be more faithful to this blog...I have gotten carried away with my quilting blog and web site for quilting...God Bless You!!!!! Kari

Cora at the festival

Cora at the festival
Originally uploaded by oldgloryquilting

Can a smile be any bigger? Or a little heart be so sweet? She was enjoying herself that warm fall day at the fest!! Out with her Mama for the day!!......... Cheese anyone?

Andrew Tyler Flick=Awesome!

Our grandson is 11 today!! How can that be true!! Is this really September 7th, 2007!! The day before he was born there was a big hurricane "Fran" that came up the Cape Fear River and hit the Fayetteville N.C. area where our oldest son Steve was serving in the Army at Ft. Brag. A tree fell just beside the girls' bedroom during the wind and torrential rain that hit the city. The house was a bi level and Steve worked hours before we got there to keep the water out of that level..He was exhausted to say the least! Sweet Mama Lori went through that event without labor but the next morning around 4 a.m. she came to the room where we were sleeping to let us know that she and Steve were heading for the Ft. Bragg hospital, as were slot of other army wives that night! The barometer had dropped and then risen and it helps to induce labor..Great!!..Isn't life just grand..no really!! that was a woman speaking ! ha ha.. We have never seen so many baby boys at one time in any place in our lives!! WOW! OK, Back to baby Andrew! well, he was big!!! he was all boy from the start.. and with the hurricane and flooding and also 2 sisters that were just a couple years older than him, made an overwhelming experience in the beginning for Mom and Dad!! They did great!! as usual!.. His Dad and him had a great cake and party the day he came home from the hospital..Steve's' birthday was on the 9th! How awesome is that!! We were so fortunate to have been there in time, and for the celebration!! Our truck had just sputtered and wanted to stall out all the way across those mountains..but we had to get to Steve's', we knew the storm had hit hard...all the motels hundreds of miles out were filled up! In the end, it all worked out as it always does.! So, along with having a wonderful time with our little granddaughters too, Alyssa and Kirsten...never a dull moment then or now!! for a fact!! We held him, loved him, whispered into his tiny ear!..We had to leave all too soon!! We ended up having our truck hauled off...it made it to Steve and Loris' driveway and died!!! forever!! and we purchased a new grey Honda...whoosh!! yes, our old family saying when we would be leaving our Mom and Dads' with our kids in tow and busy time...my Dad would laugh, that would be Andrews Great Grandpa Bob, and say....just sit down now and make a whoosh!!...it always brought laughter and joy to our hearts!! As then and now, it never takes alot to entertain this family!...just fun, laughter, and lots of kids and more kids!!....so we rejoice in Andrew..he was and remains so pleasant and always a helper...He lived up to his name given to him, Andrew meaning manly!! Gods' man!! Thank you Andrew for being our Grandson, specially made for us to love and enjoy!! Kick those soccer balls boy!! Enjoy these years!! We love you!!

GO BUCKEYES!!!!

Can we ever get enough OSU Football!! We doubt it here on Hawthorn Road as transplanted Buckeyes' in Northern,Indiana. This area can only see the Irish shirts in Green every fall!! But, we are not color-blind!! We love Scarlet and Grey!
This is just sooooooooo on!!! As Manning says!! and oh, by the way!! the Colts tromped New Orleans last night! My sweet hubby screamed at one point "THAT IS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! THE WAY HE PASSES THAT FOOTBALL"!!!
OK!! GO BUCKS!!!!!