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DH and I have started discussing taking a real vacation, not just days off from work. A vacation that is going somewhere and doing something different. We have not really decided what to do or where to go. Should we take a chance by going somewhere we have never been and stay in vegas hotels, or should we go where we know we enjoy ourselves, can relax and stay in a resort on the Grand Bahama Island?
Oh, it is ever so quiet at our house, almost too quiet. I do miss the children, but when the time is up, the games must end and it WAS fun while it lasted. Some would have preferred Vegas vacations but I think my time with the children was more important. I went back to work today and am more tired than when I kept them and my feet are ever so swollen and they swelled very little if any during the time I was off.
Ok, I need to get my beads organized so that I can make a black and gray glasses lanyard.
I did not make a post last Sunday for BYB. I was still soaking it in and did not have the words to express my blessing and still do not. For the sake of those involved, I will just say that a broken fence was mended! I am very thankful for this and think that the fence may be stronger now than before it was broken.
This week my blessing is having some of the grandchildren stay with me. Yes, it is work taking care of those that are too young to take care of themselves and supervising the older ones. When at home the two older girls help there mom ALOT, here I do almost everything but change the baby and sometimes do that. All of them except the babies have volunteered to help me and I have let them do some things.
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Yesterday I made more lanyards for one’s glasses. I have more patterns in mind —- a solid red, one with green and red, a turquoise one, maybe even an orange and black for those that do halloween. I know you are anxious to see what I did.
This one is for a cousin, just because I wanted to make her one.
These are for a lady at work, she also wants the solid red and turquoise one. She has already bought 2 from me.
I have to get more supplies before I can make more. I have the beads but need to get more Scrimps and Eyeglass holders. Now would be an ideal time to work on them as they are simple to make and babysitting is not that hard, but I can’t go get the supplies.
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The hosting blogger of the ‘On Line Craft Club’ is away this weekend so I do not have a current link to give you.
After three attempts at the design of this lanyard, I finally have it finished. Stuntman upset the bead board the first attempt (told in a previous post) and Spidey upset it the second time I had it laid out, so finally just before supper tonite I finished it after the third time of arranging the beads the way I wanted to string them.
This one is already sold. YEAH!!
The two youngest GDs , (Drama on the left and DaBaby on the right) were seriously beading this afternoon with their sponge beads.
They knew that I had the camera and did not even look at me. They were more involved with the beads than they would have been an xbox 360. They can enjoy the beading but are too young for this game system. Don’t you think they are more serious than some adult beaders?
DD#1 told me her children were afraid of me and I asked the youngest boy, he laughed and said no. He may not be, but apparently the oldest boy is. I need to work on changing that. I do want the children to respect me and move when I speak but I do NOT want them afraid of me.
Last night some of the children were putting together a puzzle and in the act of looking for all of the pieces Stuntman knocked my beading board off of the end table. (I should not have left it hanging over the edge). He came in the kitchen with great big tears ready to fall saying he was really sorry but by accident he had knocked over my beading board. I started waving my arms saying “Oh my, Oh my, what is Grandi gonna do? I’ll just have to redo it.” and laughed, so then he laughed. I had already started stringing the beads in the order that I had laid them.
I do not let them play rough in the house because I am afraid something will get broken and have made them sit for punishment when they have disobeyed.
Now I need to separate the sizes of beads, and lay out the pattern again for the glass lanyard that I am making so that I can get it strung and sell it to the person that requested this particular color.
Maybe I can get it done before the day is over and post it on the Craft Club.
Til Next Time
I am keeping 7 of the 10 grandchildren this weekend while DD#1 is on a business trip. The two older girls have twins that were borne several years after them. Personalities are almost the same. The older and the younger are very much alike and so are the other two. I wonder if any DNA testing would show how very similar their genes are. We have often said DD#1 has two sets of children. Those that look like her and those that do not.
I am so very tired. My shoulders feel sore and I hurt when I stretch our my arms. I know that a good massage would work wonders. Today was another long day—-7:45 til 5:30, with 2 15 minute breaks and an hour for lunch, the balance of the work shift was spent standing on concrete flooring covered in tile.
I am so ready to retire. I am almost tempted to quit now and draw from my retirement fund. That is doable, but I am really not sure that I want to delve into it yet.
Ok, it is 8:07, time for my bath and then the bed, hopefully. Often when I am very tired and bathe, it wakes me up instead of lulling me on to sleep.
Til Next Time
