Folk Art Flowers

Rose Marie finally received her giveaway prize from me. It took about 6 weeks! Longer than I anticipated, but I put more into it than I expected also. It is hand appliqued and hand quilted with double crosshatching. I LOVE double crosshatching. Someday, I want to do an entire quilt with it....maybe my Masterpiece quilt will be double crosshatched!Anyway, it is done and received and I am happy.

Today we visited a private school for Zachary. We loved it and it is a pretty big certainty that he will attend in the fall. It is also connected with a home school co-op so one day a week Charlotte and I will go for a few hours and she will take some classes. They have a summer camp on Wednesdays throughout the summer and Zach will be attending that also. You should have seen him today when he walked into the full sized gym...."I never saw a real basketball court before." He was so excited. Both kids participated in the gym class....dodge ball, and also the little devotion they had before the class. I got to meet a couple of home school moms. That was thrilling since the only ones I know are online. I look forward to that one day a week there myself.

Charlotte is just about done with her 6th grade curriculum. Zach is just a tad behind in a couple of subjects, but I told him he could work til it was done and then his summer break would start. The private school is a year round program so he will go part time from 8-11 even in the summer starting next year.

My garden is looking good. I have watered it everyday except yesterday when it rained in the afternoon. I was not too clear (figure that!) about my soil. It is a rich, nice soil, but when I said it was like sand, I meant it was "like" sand.....so dry it was a powder. Once it was watered, it was like potting soil. We have great soil in Northern Illinois for growing gardens.....lots of great farms around here. Let's see if I can become one of those farmers!

Today I am getting caught up on housework. Washing rugs and hanging them out. I have the hardwood floor to wash. Tomorrow is Sweetheart's birthday. He will be 50!!! I told him I would officially be married to an old man! Of course I reminded him that I am still in my 40's for several months and he would have to wait to know what that feels like to be married to someone "old". I figured I would get all the housework done today, so tomorrow we could enjoy his birthday. Actually I am going grocery shopping tomorrow and have bunco tomorrow night. He would not let me change anything, but we are celebrating his day on Saturday with our kids, oldest son and the grandkids. I hope it is a nice day for him.

Well, I am off to get the floor done!! Have a blessed day!