Good Morning

I was too tired last night to even think about posting. I actually went to bed about 9 and fell asleep about 45 minutes later - before the end of the movie I was watching and didn't wake up until 7:15 this morning. What in the world wore me out that way? A very full day on Saturday. Our town had it's Heritage Day celebration, but I only spent about an hour over there browsing the booths and bought one necklace for an auction I am working on in a couple of months and a little buttermilk pie and two hot dogs. I dropped the first hotdog before I finished it, so I had to get another, right?

I came back home and started sewing on a monster-project for my daughter. It wasn't that the project was so hard, just straight sewing for the most part, but that it had two layers and both were monster fabrics. The top layer is taffeta which will not stay where it is told to stay and the underlayer was tulle with glitter all over it. It behaved much the same way as the taffeta but also caused my thread to break. A LOT.

I felt like I spent the day with 2-year-old twins.

I finally got it done, and my advice to my daughter is to like it. Ha!

When I finally finished and cleaned everything up, I told my husband he was taking me out to eat. We didn't do anything fancy, just Denny's, but it was sufficient and I came home and went to bed.

Today is a difficult day. The son of one of my dearest friends leaves today for his last couple of weeks of training before deployment to Iraq. He has been before and his brother is there now, but my heart aches for my friend. I am very grateful for what each of our military troops does for us every day. I appreciate their service, the sacrifices they make and their willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice for me - a complete stranger. I am proud of these two young men and the choices they have made to take this on and serve in this manner and never complain about it. But my mother's heart is breaking as he leaves. And though my friend handles these deployments well, I know they are hard on her. And I know it is always hard on the families left at home. So please take a moment and pray for our troops and their families and their leaders and the politicians who decide where and when they will stand for America.