Tuesday, April 15, 2008

My Girls!





JILL GOT A JOB!!! Jill was hired last Thursday to teach 7th grade social studies at North Iredell Middle School. She felt right at home with the principal and the teaching team and will start in August.
This past weekend Leah came home and stayed for 2 days. During that time we did some shopping for her "professional clothes" that are required for pharmacy school and she went out to dinner with Jill and Rebecca. I stole these 2 pics off of Becca's facebook. Thought some of you might like to see how they have turned out.

Sunday, April 6, 2008

FINISHING PROJECTS!!!!!!




Yes, I'm excited, I finished two projects today. Molly's quilt. Molly was born on 3/26 to Leslie (one of Mickey's cousins) and her husband. Don't know that I have ever seen a baby whose hair had to be parted on their first day!!! But she sure is beautiful

So the pink blanket is for her and the other one is for Leah. I love the Felicity Miller fabrics in it and didn't want to cut them up any smaller so that is why the blocks are so big.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Back to normal, well as normal as things usually are...

Jill is cruising along with her student teaching now and actively looking for a job. She goes to App on Monday and they are having a job fair for all the education majors attended by all the school systems. She would really like to get into an alternative school, she likes the smaller classes and helping the students improve themselves.

Leah was accepted to Wingate School of Pharmacy for August. This is a real accomplishment. She has only finished two years of college (with a 4.0, she's worked really hard) and the pharmacy school are starting to let in only people with a BS already. Another Campbell soph is also going so they are talking about being roommates. They will have to live off campus in an apt., the school doesn't have room for grad students. But it is a beautiful campus.

Leah did two Miss NC prelims this year and it just wasn't in the cards for her to go back this year. She was 1st rup at Miss Johnston County and 2nd at Miss Fayetteville, but won talent there. You can see her talent and swimsuit here http://blogs.fayobserver.com/missfayetteville
They spelled her name wrong in 2 places.

Lilly is a mess. She has so much energy. She comes in every night to watch tv with us. She loves grapes. Silly dog.

So now about quilting....took a BQ2 class with Julia and that was fun. It's pinned and ready to quilt. Still muddeling around on my old testament redwork quilt, and I've had fun with the $10 quilt from Sewingly Yours. It's in batiks and I've even made the alternate blocks. I still have to finish hand sewing the binding down on Leah's quilt. I'll get some pics up next.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

into the new year!


While most people think the new year starts on January 1, for me it starts at the beginning of each semester and getting the students into the classes they need and making sure each class has the correct type and size of classroom. There was snow last Thursday here (not enough to hardly notice), but it sends everyone here into a dither and school was cancelled, so yesterday I finally got my Tuesday/Thursday classes settled.

Leah is back at school and Jill is living at home while she does her student teaching. She's been going and observing for 2 weeks, but will finally start teaching some in the morning.

I'm taking a BQ2 class at my LQS along with Julia and have the top together, need to add the borders. I'm going to start a "bug" quilt tomorrow night.

On Saturday night we will all be sitting in front of the tv watching Hannah Kiefer compete for Miss America. Hannah is Miss Virginia and would be a great choice for this title. This is a pic of Hannah (on the left) when she came to root for Leah last year at Miss NC.

Friday, December 7, 2007

Friday............

Okay, one child is home from college, Leah drove in this morning from Campbell and stopped so I would take her to lunch. There is no Christmas tree up yet, just 2 wreaths out so I guess we will be working on things this weekend.

Lots of quilting projects to work on and maybe a trip to MaryJo's Fabrics tomorrow.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Getting started!



Well everyone has to start each project in their own time. Here is the start of a new venture in keeping up with me and my family. About me, full-time administrative coordinator at Wake Forest University, where I love what I do, I get to deal with students and professors. My husband is in law enforcement, so we have different shifts each week to get around in our daily lives. I am the proud mom of two very accomplished young women. Jill the older is a sr in college and will be home next semester to do her student teaching at a local high school. Leah is a sophomore in college and will be attending pharmacy school. The rest of the household consists of 4 legged members, 3 inside cats, 11 outside cats, and one huge lab puppy (8months old) named Lilly.

I love to quilt and sew. I have a wonderful local quilt shop and lots of really nice people who work and shop there.

well, as someone I work with says, more later..........