Endings and Beginnings

Well, I sewed my last stitch for That's Sew Sweet this afternoon. Bittersweet. I really enjoyed appliqueing and working with Jessica, but with three kids now, it has just gotten too hard. I have been having to let the rough end drag, and my priorities are not where I wanted them to be. So, I am going to use my free time (HAHAHAHAHA - I'll let you know when Audrey decides I can have some of that again) to do some cleaning out. Keep a watch out for BIG yard sale! :) Peggy is right there with me. She turned in her buttons and we are going to try to work together to get our homes back in order. I think everyone around here is going to be a lot happier....less stress. I know it will help me to not have sewing in the back of my mind all the time, and Jeremy (and i, and the kids, I am sure) will feel a lot better with a less-strowed house! Just gotta get the ball rolling.

At the same time, I am working to strengthen myself spiritually and walk closer to God. It seems sort of like He's been more at arm's length than rubbing shoulders the past little while. As part of this endeavor, I am starting a devotional blog. Probably not going to write in it every day, but a few times a week, anyway. I hope that it will help me, and maybe someone else will read it and be uplifted by it, too. I thought, I sit down here and never really see or talk to much of anyone, and don't really feel like I have much opportunity to minister for God. So I am making this my ministry effort for the time being. Hopefully somewhere along the way some good will come from this project...or at least some good besides what I know it will do for me. :)

Ending on a funny note....We have a DVD that is the Gaither Vocal Band and Ernie Haase and Signature Sound Together. Troy loves it. He asks to watch it all the time, and sings with almost all the songs. But he especially loves the first song, "Holy Highway." This afternoon, I took my laptop into my sewing room and was going to play it while I worked (Troy had had it on in the playroom all morning). He heard it coming on and came running, stopped, and then started walking out of the room, very sad, with his head hung. I called him back and and asked him what was the matter. He just almost started crying and said, "But that is very my favorite song!" I felt bad for him, but not so bad that I gave him the movie back! lol. He ended up in there with me watching it anyway. :)