Gardening! I don't know if I love gardening because I get to play in the dirt, or if it's because it reminds me of my grandparents, or being in the sun, or what but I love it! It has its ups and downs of course. Finding a new weed that looks easy to pull out and so incredibly innocent only to find out it is obnoxious and terribly prickly is a down. Eating a salad that consists of lettuce you grew, a definite up!
I blame the love for graves on my mom... and Corey... and myself. I don't just love grave sites and cemeteries, I actually really love family history and the word "graves" is just more catchy than family history. I have been doing a lot of organizing of files, searching for ancestors, and reading to get to know my heritage and by background. Here's the update: I'm a Mexican, Canadian, Scottish, English, Irish, 6 generation Mormon, with a long family history of baptist on the other side of the family, who's ancestor's kicked my other ancestor's butts out of Missouri. I've learned a lot more than that too! Like I have family buried in the town and all over the county that I am living in now! And! One of my ancestors had 29 kids! And about 20 lived to adulthood! See! Family history is exciting! :) And graves are exciting too! Especially when your mom drags you along with her on Halloween night to sneak into a locked cemetery to look at all the pretty graves... when you're like 10!
Quilting and Gilmore are two loves that go hand in hand. Whenever I quilt, I must watch Gilmore, Gilmore Girls that is. It is a must. The only bad part about quilting for me is I get distracted and obsessed. I can spend hours watching Gilmore Girls and quilting and get a lot done and still want to keep going, completely disregarding the fact that I need to eat, or pee, or clean, or pack (since we move in less than 3 weeks). But, this quilter now has a baby in her tummy and not eating or peeing is a big no-no so this go-a-round with quilting has been a very different on for me. But very good! However, this 4th of July quilt has been hanging over my head for years now and I am happy to finally be working on it so I can use it this year instead of just looking at the fabric, but the distractedness in me has now changed focus to other quilt ideas, such as an autumn quilt, a girly cute quilt with scraps from aprons I made, a country Victorian quilt, a Halloween quilt, and a room themed quilts, like a kitchen quilt. Focus woman! Focus! I will get this one done, and then once I am moved in to my new house in 3 weeks I can decided which quilt I want to work one next!
