Recent Reads

I recently finished this book "Yearning for the Living God" by Enzio Busche which was recommended by a friend. This book is filled with his personal experiences as a child and finding the "Living God" as he puts it. I loved to read how he lived by the spirit and followed his promptings, lived life with honor and love for his fellow man. I loved that he highlighted people who others would not think anything of, but how he learned deep lessons of loving God and others through them. What a beautiful story about loving God and loving others.

Sewing strike...ya right!

So I told myself about 2 months ago that I was going on a "sewing strike" because I did so much sewing I found myself really not liking it at all. HAHA, well it worked for about 2 months give or take a few days. I'm starting to feel the sewing fire building under my creative soul after going to a few quilt shops with my mom last week. My favorite shop for ideas is a little nook of a shop in Gardener village called Pine Needles. They have a lovely array of adorable patterns along with the best selection of fabric I have seen. They don't have a lot of fabric, but I would use pretty much any fabric from that store. With Christmas fastly approaching, I am getting the desire to make home made gifts for everyone, but then I remember that I have 5 kids and I am homeschooling them and we might possibly be moving in October and have all the other tasks a mother has and so my list of sewing begins to shrink.

I did have a lovely time visiting with my mother for a week. We had many great conversations about life, religion and family stories. We went to the Salt Lake cemetery, pioneer museum, we went thrift and fabric shopping, to the Utah State Fair, we went on a fun bike ride through our little town, my mom had more energy than myself (for those of you who have known me since childhood would know that my energy was a little on the high end so this is saying a lot for my mom) I'm so proud of my mom and am so grateful for the loving kind woman she is. For all that she taught me and loving me when I wasn't a lovable person.