This week’s post is all about gifts. First I’ll start with the gift of an amazing husband who cares for me way more than I could ever deserve. This past week, my laptop that I use for doing my job died. My job is done completely online and there are several programs that I use that have to be configured just so in order for me to do my job properly. Thanks to my husband, and some awesome tech support from Liberty University (my employer), we were able to get my iMac configured for my work tasks within a few hours of the crash. The most amazing thing, though, is that my super hero of a husband had my laptop back up and running by the next day, complete with new hard drive and ALL my data files recovered. He is so amazing!!
Second on the list is a gift I made for a friend who is having a baby shower this week. Since I saw how much my kids keep my grandson in his sleep sack that I made for him, I decided to make one for my friend. She is a Bama fan, so, the addition of a patch to the front of the sack was a special added touch. I hope she likes it.
The third gift I would like to mention is the gift of doctors, friends, and pastors who care about me and were there for me this last time I was hospitalized. During my absence from blog posting, I was hospitalized again for sepsis and it was anything but fun. This time was not as life threatening as the last, because we caught it sooner, but going to the hospital once a year is not something I am interested in doing. The sepsis is an issue that, if caught quickly enough, can be treated at home with the appropriate antibiotics. I just have to make sure and watch closely for the signs. This is a learning process. This time, like last time, I really thought I had the flu or something viral. A few days into it, when we figured out that it was not viral and it was similar to last year, it was too late to treat at home and off to the hospital I went. Ugh! I am feeling much better now and back to sewing up a storm!
That brings me to the fourth gift. I have been teaching a friend to sew for the past few weeks and this week she made an absolutely adorable sleeper for a gift for a friend. The sleeper was made of fleece and went together so quickly that I decided my grandsons really needed to have one, too. So, I located some fleece on sale and a couple of patterns and have been whipping these things out like mad. I think they may be finished in time to get to them as additional Christmas gifts. Whoot!!
There is much more to post about, but it will have to wait till the next installment. For now I leave you with this quote:
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ~ Douglas Adams
The kids have come and gone, then come and gone again. They stayed with us a few days on their way to Disney World and then again on their way back through to the airport in Atlanta. Everyone is back home in Colorado safely now and life has returned to some semblance of normal. No major catastrophes to report, except for the kid’s dog (a massive Great Dane) who ate, literally, the banister railing at their home while they were away. Apparently, he was lonely.
