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.