"More Than Ever" By Russ Taff & The Isaacs

This is a song I listen to and I find that it calms my spirit as I travel this journey called life, while living daily with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. There are times that the valleys get very low and the hills are like mountains that I can't seem to climb. When those days hit me, it is at the foot of the cross I turn to, as nothing else can replace what I find there in Christ JESUS.

Design Wall Monday

This last week I was not in front of the sewing

machine much only to work on a binding, so here

is a picture of a project I have started and

plan to work on after the first of the year.These are blocks made from Judy Laquidara's

star block of the month pattern.

Oh To Live a Cats Life, Free of CFS and Worry

This is how I feel.....I'd like to just stick my tongue out

at illness.Look it straight in the face.....without fear.

Crawl in my box....in the sun. Turn my back on the worries and stress.

But, can't do that, must go forward.

I've lost almost a whole week bending to the

demands of illness.

Missed Thanksgiving with family.

Missed the laughter of my grand kids....and

their squabbling.

Missed eating things I love.

But, I will go forward one day at a time and

CFS and illness may be in my life but

it does not own my life.

Design Wall Monday

My 6 1/2" nine patches are an ongoing

project for me. I thought I would

show some of them by the Beatitudes that

are actually what I have on my wall.I am sure there is a way I could work them into

a top with the 9 patches, but the example I saw

at the shop had them placed within a

3 strip rail fence block.

This is how I set my last batch of 9 patches. If you want you can look back on my post and see the whole 9 Patch Scrappy Quilt.

(Link below this picture....not really sure

how to do all this blog stuff yet!!!)

http://thenappingquilter.blogspot.com/2010/09/nine-patch-scrappy-quilt.html

Cousins

This is another of my favorite pictures.

My two middle granddaughters.

They are cousins, now in kindergarten and

first grade, born 8 months apart.

Their homes are around the corner from

each other and their back yards attach.I hope they grow up to be close.

Right now they are either fussing with

each other or they are best friends.

I think it is because they both want

to be the boss. This day, a few years back, they were

best friends playing after church one Sunday.