I'm back!! Did you miss me?

Sam and I went to the library today..I felt like I needed to get out of this house..desperately! We actually did a little school work. We've been studying ants. We did some notebooking and then Sam played and I went looking for books to sooth myself :) I actually found some too! I picked out several home decorating books..4 I think. We've been doing some painting on the outside of the house. The foundation was a very ugly faded red. And the shutters were just faded out to an unrecognizable color. I decided on gray for the foundation and shutters and black doors. I think Mark thinks I've cracked up on picking black for the doors. But I love it! I will try to post some pictures of that tomorrow..The house is just white but needs painting too...So now we're discussing that. That will be a long time off, but I'm thinking a cream color would be pretty..
I found a book at the library that I just LOVE! It's all about aprons. It has the most beautiful pictures of vintage aprons..and shows how to make some of them too! If you have the opportunity to check this out at your library, you would definately enjoy it..
See what I mean about the pictures!! They are gorgeous!!
Last winter we had a terrible ice storm here. My bored self made a feeble attempt at making an apron from scratch..It has straps that go around your neck with the little red hearts that my sewing machine makes where the straps are attached. It also has 2 large pockets at the bottom. I put a raggy heart with big stitches on it too...I love old vintage looking fabric..
Here is what the heart stitches and fabric look like up close...

And this is the raggy stitched heart..

It's not anything wonderful...but it kept me from going stir crazy..and it turned out kind of cute I think ;)

One of the decorating books that I got at the library had this picture of a cute kitchen that made me think of Eileen! Eileen can you guess why this would make me think of you? Sorry for the glare..I tried a couple times and it still looked like this...But, I could definately work in this kitchen..I love the little pink shade on the lamp and the little pink hints here and there..I love the polk-a-dot dishes too! Marcy...these are for you!! Mickey absolutely loves the chew bones that you sent..he doesn't like sharing them with Teddy either..If Teddy grabs one, Mickey takes it from him the minute he lets go of it...then he goes and hides it. He keeps one close to him at all times though. I have to take it from him when he goes out to the bathroom...This is him napping...with his bone..
Here he is chewing away with delight! Notice how he holds on to it too..
This one is him chewing it on the side...while laying down... He really does love it..if he could talk he would definately thank you!

Poor Teddy trying to sleep...Mickey is on cat patrol...He hates cats...sorry all of you cat lover's...
But Mickey thinks they are the enemy...He spends his day looking out the window and when he spots one of them...he growls and goes crazy!

Well...here's a couple of last photos for you....What do you think of this? I kind of like it? I think it's definately colorful...and I think I could work in it...what do you think?
Here are the last 2 pictures for now...Mark told me he saw a house like this in the town near where we live. I kind of like it...But I'm not ready to do something that drastic...I definately think you'd have to have the right roof and all the right little extras to pull this off...But I do think it's kind of pretty...Any thoughts?
I think everyone would definately remember visiting if you lived here!

"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters." ~Thomas Jefferson~

~We are angels with only one wing...we can fly only embracing each other~

Thanks for all the kind words and prayers...it means the world to me to know that you care!!

My Mom reminded me today that the phrase that I always use on my children also applies to me...That God has a reason and knows exactly what he's doing and why things happen the way they do...Sometimes I guess, I just have to be reminded of what I actually say...I guess we tend to forget when it actually applies to us personally...Thanks for being there!!

With Love, Jerelene

P.S. I will try to get something together tomorrow for pen-paling....If everyone that wants to do it could leave me a comment...I'll put everyone's names down and then maybe everyone can just pick someone for this month...I feel like I'm probably not thinking straight so bear with me. Just comment me and I'll name you tomorrow and then everyone can comment tomorrow as to who they pick for this month...Does that sound ok? Talk to everyone tomorrow!! :)