My New Years Journey

I have not posted many entries over the last year and I hope to change that this coming year. 2006 was a wonderful year but I have not taken the time to record the wonders large and small of my year. I spend a great deal of time reflecting on my life in my head (while I am cross stitching) and never commit my thoughts to paper or to this electronic medium. Most of my reflections go unshared hence my husband's complaint that he never knows what I am thinking. So this year I am going to make a bigger effort to share my feelings and thoughts through this journal and perhaps by writing them down I will also be better able to share my thoughts verbally with those I love. In order to be successful I will initially have to make an appointment with myself each day to record my reflections until it becomes a habit or ritual.

I often wonder what my children will remember of me and realize that in many ways they will not really know me beause I haven't taken the time to share myself in any detail. They know I love them and take care of them but do they know how they took my breath away when I first looked at them? Do they know how I swell with pride at their every accomplishment?

My younger son never ceases to amaze me. He quietly sets goals and procedes to accomplish them. Perhaps in this way he is like me. I am never quite sure how seriously he takes things and then find that when it counts he takes things very seriously. That although he doesn't always tackle every situation with as much time as I would like him to he is taking care of it.

My daughter is finding out more about herself and her talents everyday and it is fun to watch her blossom. She shares her optimism and enthusiam for life with anyone who wants it. She lives life energetically. She's dramatic. She's shy. She's more talented and wonderful than she knows. She can also be very direct and blunt. She's a wonderful artist and a great storyteller. I am enjoying watching her move with great deliberation toward her goals.

My older son has recently become a father and launched me into grandparenthood about five years earlier than I expected to be there. As I watch him with his son I can see how he has matured and taken on this awesome responsibilty with grace and enthusiam. He is crafting his adult life around his family and as the circle of life continues we have pulled closer together. After the years of pulling away to become his own person it is wonderful to have him back again.

I am so very thankful for my wonderful husband and children and so very proud of all of them. What a great way to start out the new year, reflecting about those people closest to you and giving thanks for all the love in my life.

Where am I going?

Have you ever stopped to think about where your journey through life is taking you? To meet new people, to make new friends. To learn new things and practice the old. To be a good mom, wife daughter, sister, neighbor, parishiner, employee, role model. To lead and to follow. To be the best person you can be each and everyday. To love and be loved in return. These are some of the characteristics of my journey. I am happy to be able to say that I am having a most wonderful journey thanks to all the wonderful people I come in contact with. I wish all of you as wonderful a life as I am having. May you travel through your journey of life sampling all the wonderful gifts of this life and be a blessing to everyone you meet. Have a wonderful life!!!

Where did I go?

It has been almost 5 months since I have posted anything here. Not because I have been away or lost access to the Internet (actually I did for a while) but because I don't make it a priority. I get concerned that I won't have anything interesting or catchy to say. So what have been doing for five months?

Stitching wise I have been participating in two RRs and three exchanges. Personally, the school year was very busy, my DD came back from London, and I am enjoying having her home for the summer. I am working this summer both teahing and in my new capacity as an undergraduate coordinator. I am also doing household projects I didn't get to do during the school year.

I have gotten a book on how to modify your blog so I will look to update the look of mine in the next couple of weeks. I also am doing the 101 things to do in 1001 days and will probably publish my list soon and track it.

I signed up for three BNU courses and realize that three is too many so will probably only do two. When they offer the third one again I will sign up again and do it then. I was concerned that they wouldn't offer them again and I can tell from some of the comments that courses are offered multiple times. i also registered yesterday to go to CSNF in Toronto this coming October. I am really excited to be going because I will get to meet and see so many of my online stitching friends and hopefully take a couple of classes with TW and JAS.

So as you can see I keep myself busy. There are three weeks left to my summer then Freshman Orientation starts at my university and the school year begins again. I am going to enjoy each and everyday of the remainder of my summer and head into the school year with great expectations and a high level of excitement.

Since I have been away for so long I will have plenty to post so I will get started tomorrow with my blog renovations and showing you some of what I have been up to . Have a lovely day!!!

It's a Stitching Life

This year I am signed up for two round robins. One is the Mirabilia RR and the other is the TWRR. They are spaced in such a way that that I can get them both done each month but it doesn't leave time for other stitching. For the Mirabilia RR I have had the opportunity to stitch Autumn Queen and part of Deco Spirits-Fire. I am currently working on Fairy Roses. For the TWRR I stitched the Renaissance Bookmark as the header of my RR and I am stitching Rose Tree in Bloom on Dani's RR. I am really enjoying the RRs eventhough I do not have enough stitching time to get to any of my other WIPs right now. I currently have 12 WIPs and I hope to get that number down tofive by the end of the year. When summer comes I will be able to get more stitching time and make progress on reducing my WIPS.

I was looking at Annette's blog and I want to add a list of my WIPS and completed pieces to the border of my blog. So I will have to do a little research and see if I can figure out how to do it. Well I better go do some house cleaning and laundry so I can do more stitching this evening.
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My Quandry

It has been almost two months since I posted to my blog. This is what I feared would happen when I set up the blog. I am not a journaller of life. I much rather be doing something rather than write about it. So for the last couple of weeks I have been thinking about whether I should give up blogging and delete my blog. I appear to be the only one who reads it anyway so why bother. Part of the problem is my expectation that I need to be clever and amusing in every entry. I am a techie and don't really enjoy writing but as I get older I would love to have some record of my life even though it is not a extraordinary life in any way. But maybe recording the very ordinariness of it has merit. So I have decided to try again. Instead of expecting to write daily I am setting a more realistic expectation of writing here at least once a week.
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