Side Effects....

These are the side effects of being a quilter sick in bed all weekend with laptop and a stack of quilting books and magazines to read.....


They really need to put more warning labels on cold medicine....

I'm just sayin'.....

A Rural Jardin layer cake....

and a little Verna for a Schnibble I think....

Sunday musings

My time is up for being sick. I'm sure you all have the same issue; there is a certain amount of time that I can be sick before my household devolves into chaos, litter boxes need cleaning, crunchy floors need vacuuming and sweeping, laundry needs washing, and the Earth may actually stop its rotation if I am not better and out of bed.

For me, it's 2 1/2 days and my 2 1/2 days are up. I knew this yesterday while I was popping cold medicine every four hours and drinking 50-11 cups of tea with honey. Tick tock, you must get well because two- and four-legged creatures are depending on you. That's just the way it is with "moms"--using the broadest sense of the term--the person who keeps the house going--making sure everyone is fed, watered, vaccinated, and eats fresh fruit and vegetables, that furnace filters are changed, bathrooms are cleaned, and birthday cards are sent. It's not the banks who are too big to fail that keep the world going, it's the great uncredited "moms" that are too necessary to be sick.

So when two- and four-legged creatures wake up and someone remembered to buy bandaids, gives you hairball medicine, knows where the instructions for the six-year old lawnmower are, has shirts ironed on Sunday for you to wear on Monday, retrieves favorite toys from underneath the stove, and oh yeah, the Earth is still rotating, remember who is behind all this and give a little thanks. Purring is accepted.

Send Kleenex!

I am home sick today in bed with a nasty cold. Foo! I hate being sick! I have too much to do to be sick! Whine whine whine! Well at least I have Morpheus to keep me company; he is very happy to have me home in bed. In his advanced years, Morph spends most of the day sleeping on the bed, snuggled in quilts and pillows with his toys. S. was so sweet last night and made me soup and tea. Well at least I have my laptop and can surf and read blogs and answer emails. Oh and plan new quilt projects and check out new fabrics. That always makes me feel better! Any suggestions? What new fabrics are you drooling over?

A Cereal-for-Dinner Kind of Night

It's one of those nights when you have already had a really busy week, worked late every night, it's only Wednesday, and you immediately dump all your stuff on the floor, put on your pjs, and crawl into bed. Time for some blog surfing and cereal and an early bedtime.

Two New Roles

This new year brings two new roles for me. In March, my dearest and only brother and his wife are expecting their first baby. I am so excited about being an aunt!!! I wasn't able to be at the baby shower yesterday but of course, I sent a big box of goodies to Michigan for my future niece (nothing pink though, I don't do pink).
Yes, there was a quilt in that box. A sweet little 30s nine-patch.
I quilted it myself too.

The second new role was unexpected. I was promoted to a newly created management position at my day job last week. So now I am officially middle management and officially a Dilbert cartoon. In keeping with this economy, I got a very itty bitty raise with the promotion, so am still stuck working two jobs. But I am grateful for the opportunity and the challenge.

We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Stella Bella Blog...

Hello! Do I still have any readers left out there in blogland? I have been absent for too long and I apologize for being incommunicado lately.
I wish I could say I was out being wicked....

Or on vacation to some exotic place...

Or dogsledding with Jack and Shiloh...

Or that my laptop was hijacked by Morph...

Or that I was hibernating with Edgar and Stella...

Or solving the world's problems with Gomez...

But really, I have just been busy with life and taking care of people who needed my attention. So I am back in blogland

AWOL

Yes, I have been AWOL from blogland this week. It's been a busy week--not much sewing done, not much of anything done, just busy with work and life. Saturday was our Silver Thimble Quilt Club. I grabbed whatever project was in my bags and worked on it. I made the pieces for 130 3" nine-patches for the Double Delight quilt and that took most of the 5 hours. Check Pat's blog for some photos (I forgot my camera). I need to get caught up on everything and post some photos. Hope to do that soon.

Today was a day off for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. I have a million things to get done today. One project (ordeal???) was taking Gomez
to the vet for his annual check up and he is now rather annoyed with me. Here he is looking sweet. I think I will get snubbed for the rest of the day.

OK must get back to chores...