Busy weekends

I had different plans for my 3 day weekend than reality has given me.  Hopes of more drywall on the attic ceilings turned into a long drive to Columbia MO and back home Friday and today it was some weeding in the flax patch, a lesson on making brooms, register the Rebel, mow the lawn, off to Jacksonville with Jake and Ben, collect the girlfriend, watch How to train your dragon 2, home to take Ben out to pizza and up to Rushville where he is currently living, home to wash 2 loads of laundry, the first is in the dryer.

I hope my Sunday is quiet and I get some sewing on my Clayville clothing done.  I need my 2nd shift ready for the hand work and I need my cap and bonnet ready for the hand woke and made to fit my small head.  I need my waist pockets done and ready to wear/use.

With most of the other work done, with the laundry already well started, I hope Sunday is an easy and lazy day for me.

The cap still needs cut out, the shift sleeves need cut shorter by at least 2 inches, but it should not be hard to have most, if not all the machine work done.

And the trip to Columbia was the right thing to do. I took Jake down to spend some time with his dad. Sam is down at University Hospital, where the much hated stepmother is in cardiac ICU, and in very bad shape.  I don't know if I ever hated her, but I sure hated the damage she did to my sons and to the relationship they had with their dad.  I sure do not hate her for what she has done to Sam or his ranch or his financial situation.  I think he had a huge part in bringing that about or in allowing it to happen.

I am not bitter or jealous but I am practical and honest.  Sometimes those scales in life do balance out, and sometimes a person does get what they have earned, the bad and ugly along with the good.

And I thank God often for the good life I have, and for helping me through my ups and downs in life, for all the blessings and for helping me not hang on to hate, anger and bitterness.

It is way past my normal bedtime and I am falling asleep.

 

Sewing day but would have rather

I had a lot of small sewing stuff that really needed done or at least started so I worked all day in the sewing studio and would have loved to be out on the Rebel, but that does not get my sewing projects done or even started.
I now have stuff cut out to sew for my Clayville outfit and will stat working on them this week.  I also made a needle book for my small sewing kit, made the fabric case for that and made the bobbin lace bobbin holder/roll that just needs the tie string or ribbon added.  And I have 2 pair of bobbins wound with thread to start practicing with.  I have the lace board that came with the low budget kit covered and has both sides done so will be very usable, I hope and the fabric clothes made that you cover the form/pillow with. 
Last night I was up way too late watching YouTube videos on bobbin lace, so am ready to start making my first practice pricking.  But not tonight.
The scooter needs a clean air filter and that is ordered.  Jake and I spent time in Springfield Saturday and I spent too much money but I will make the budget work, have 2 pair of smaller jeans, $24+tax, some sewing stuff I could have waited on, a new mower on my Lowes card, but I did think and spend carefully.  I know the summer will be very snug financially but I will manage. 
Life here is ok, place is mowed, the rain will help everything, including the weeds grow, the sewing studio is a bit more tidy and I feel good about the progress I made on my sewing project list.
Now it is time to shut down and get to sleep as we have an early start in the morning and a long work day to get through.