sueisallaboutquilts

Oh Cathy!!
You should be a writer!!
Sooo funny hahaha :D

costumegirl

Cathy -LOL!!! Thank you for describing your 'adventure'!! Wow!! I know that I have done all of that so many times!!!! I hate it when things don't line up and I keep trying to make it work but just can't get it right.

sandpat

Well at least your sense of humor wasn't affected! Your day sounds all too familiar to me...and yes...I need my Mom too....(man I miss that lady!)

sidmona

LOL :lol: :lol: :lol:

pab58

OMGoodness!!!!! Have you been living in my house and watching me!!?? :shock: :shock: Thanks for the laughs!! :lol: :lol: Hope your boo-boo feels better -- remember, sewing machine needles bite back!! :oops:

amma

Thank you for the chuckles :D Sounds like a typical day at my house too :D:D:D

mawcarol

My momma never sewed much. She worked in the cotton mill and then later in other textile plants. What I am getting around to is she was legally blind by her 50's The day after her momma died I took her to get her results from a breast biopsy. She hab to have a masectomy(I am terrible speller sorry). She was put on tomoxpin and had to take it for 5 years. At the end of that she was so happy until she started passing blood.The med to keep the cancer from coming back caused uterin cancer which was a very agressive type(Doctoe compaired it to cervical cancer and said the med caused it. She lived about 6 month after we found out and had chemo and redation.
She is my hero. and I miss her so much it will be 2 years this November since she went to be with Jesus. She was a strong woman I only hope to be half as strong as she was.
I hope I haven't brought everyone down but I want to say Hug your momma and tell her how much she means to you.

Olivia's Grammy

She used the 'Here, let me do that!" method...

I tend to be that "Mommy". It's hard to watch someone (one of my students) make the mistake I can see coming. BUT how else can they learn.

cathyvv

Mawcarol,

This didn't bring me down...it did make me think more of my own Mom, who passed away this summer. She was my hero, too. My daughter claims her as a role model - a person who never let adversity overcome her, who always found a way to get things done and who loved and helped her family in any way she could.

She lived with me for the last 6 months of her life. That's when I started quilting. She was angry with me because I had 'rules' about bedtime (she had dementia and wasn't supposed to be left alone.) She didn't like that we installed a gate at the top of the stairs. She didn't like taking "orders" from her kids! One day, after one of her bouts of anger, I sat down with her and asked her did she remember the time when I was a little kid and after a punishment, I told her "Just you wait until I'm the grown up and YOU'RE the little kid!"?

She chuckled, and admitted she did. Then I said to her as gently as I could,

"Well, Mom, I'm the grown up and you're the little kid."

I expected another bout of anger, but she just looked at me for a few seconds. Then she said, "I guess you're right."

After that, she had a lot fewer temper tantrums. I know the temper was the dementia, and I know she knew it, too. That was the saddest thing.

I treasure those last few months with her - they were difficult, but they were a gift.

Thanks for sharing the life of your wonderful mother with us all. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is touched by it!

sew inspired

Thanks for the chuckles :D Hope your boo boo is better. I too miss my Mom. 14years... She taught me to sew and quilt and most everything I know. Among the many quotes she had, her favorite was "anything worth doing is worth doing well". And I wonder why I'm so judgemental of my own quilts......