ta! da!!!! (and a giveaway..)

sounding the trumpets...carrying on like a school girl...yep...WAY UNDERESTIMATED my bloggability...this summer... I thought for sure...this easy-going-got-NOTHING...(i snicker here) to do summer...i could prepare a long tall glass of lavender (is there ANY OTHER KIND??)ice tea...and bloggy for hours.... Well best laid plans quickly get whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooshed to the side...don't they?

Even as the saying goes...corn kneehigh by the fourth of july...didn't quite make it..but if you'd throw in there...AUGUST...we MADE IT!!!

My bits of time quickly were compacted and filled the hours...bits of time to do sewing...firefly catching...

bits of time to have babies come to play....

bits of time to watch the early nighttime hours thru the wired links in fences....

...AND Maddy's team is going to the championships in a game played at the Brewers Miller Park little League stadium! GO SLUGGERS!!!

Bits of time that if we pause too long...the dust will cover our feet..

bits of time to hold tiny Lavender babies as they slept...

...because as we all know babies have that magical way to grow ever so quickly and soon we witness them zipping by...unable to stop...them...from growing again and again...

and soon they are about to turn TEN...TEN!!!???? Where did those moments go??

just know that even with the tiniest fingers...learning..growing...exploring...with each and every gesture...they are saying

I LOVE YOU....just read into it!

can't promise...a post soon....could happen at any time...because we have to grab hold of those bits of time...and use them....as best we can! HUGZ...til next time!

BUT....THOSE THAT LEAVE A COMMENT...WILL BE ENTERED INTO A DRAWING...FOR A SPOOKYLICIOUS...halloween ART DOLLIE....between NOW and my impending 400TH POST!!! (and that's only 3 away!!)

i lost it.....

i was on such a roll, too...thought for sure i'd post more.....if i challenged myself...just didn't happen....last post was june 8...here it is JULY 1!!!! GEEZ...

Today is Shannon and Kevin's 11th anniversary...seems like yesterday!

It also would have been my sister, Pat's 69th birthday...miss her sooo much!

Today Danielle called me...and gushed..."i'm so proud of Xander!" before she could get anything else out of her mouth...seems he came running into the house...to grab his bucket of fishing worms...and dani asked him what was going on....he said he had found a little pink bird....and it must be hungry....(very tiny bird...baby) when he got back downstairs...the teenage neighbor boys..were messing with it...in NOT a good way.....and xander stood up to them....and said they had to leave it alone...he would take care of it...they got the worms away from him and dumped them out..."let your birdie get it's OWN worms..." well he ran back into the house and grabbed a box to put it into...and told dad...dad came out with him and upon the teens seeing damien...they gave xander the bird...and told him.."here's your bird..." damien and xander rushed it to the wildlife perserve building...and they took the birdie in and said they'd keep xander posted...SO PROUD OF YOU XANDER...FOR HELPING THE HELPLESS...

I did a bit of sewing also...for Brynberlee Designs...testing one of her latest patterns...

kaya loves it!!! i'm gonna make up a couple more...for some sweet girls i know...school will be here before we know it!!! thinking a bit of a heavier weight fabric!

rummaging...finds...found this wilton caddy...retails for 65.00 at joann's...for 5.00 and it had decorating tips in it!!!

and then from under the table at the same sale...came a plea...take me home too!!! xander will LOVE ME!

score!!! $3.00 and the machine was RIGHT...he loves it!!!

Well blogland...sorry for the long expanse of time...i can promise to come back sooner...and i will try...

big hugz til next time...