Overnights #7

I think these post numbers are going to get really high before I ever get to stop doing nights.

It's okay. It makes me feel better to number them.

Sometimes, when I'm in the middle of learning things from the Lord, I need to experience it a few times before I "get" it. Yesterday and today are one of those days. And it just makes me that much more grateful for a God who always wants to hear, always wants to take it, always there to care. It's so good I don't believe it sometimes, but it's true. It's truth. Somedays, I just need to sit in the sun under my window and let the truth of who Jesus is sink into my heart.

He enjoys me when I do the things I love. When I'm giddy with planning more walls to paint, pictures to sketch out, furniture to construct. He likes that, and I'm glad.

In some ways, I feel like I'm still waking up from nursing school. I'm slowly realizing that the routine I had for school need no longer be, I'm readjusting to more free time, and how to manage my time. The greatest thing of all though, is I am remembering the things that I love to do outside of work, school and church. I had forgotten. Between working full-time and school for the last 4-6 years, I wasn't sure if I even still liked those things any more.

I do. I'm excited to rediscover my passions. I'm not worrying about it either. I have the rest of my life to research, plan, paint and contruct. If you could only see the smile on my face right now. Beautiful.

I'm signing up for an oil painting class this June-August.
Thank you Lord.

up too late

I like coffee.
and I stay up too late.

"greenspeak" by k.lorenze

I sketched out a painting tonight in colored pencil that I've had inside my head for the last 15 or so months.

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(I know, that's a long time. I've just been....busy. lol.)

It just makes me feel so satisfied to see what's been in my head on paper.

This isn't quite the version I had in my head, but it's what works in colored pencil. The painting of it would be totally and completely graphic. No shading, much like stained glass windows. Blocks and shapes of color.

It would/will be cool.

But, for now, this is what I have and I like it. Mostly. :)

P.S. - I not so hot at drawing faces....I know. I do defend myself for this one, though, because the photo I was copying it from cut off the left part of the girls face, so I had to make it up. I not good at making things up. I need a photo. the end.

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this is a new post.


lalalalalalala

here you go Nikki.
love you.


bye.

Worker Bee

I've been working. a lot.
it's okay. I did it to myself.
I signed up for overtime.
So, I've worked 4 days out of the past 5.
Yeah. I know.

There have been a few highlights.

1. The difficult mother of a notoriously difficult chronic patient said that she loved me and wish she had me as a nurse all the time.

2. Cake at work. YUM!

3. Getting home in time today to catch the evening light for a quick photo session with the outdoors.

4. I got to take care of a patient with a disease I've never taken care of before.

5. Falling asleep on my pillow every night. I'm tired.

6. Dreaming. Asleep and awake. Dreams are good for you. They help you hope. And make things better. And find out who you really are. :) I like dreams.

the end.

Dreams

I went to my high school's annual art show this year. Besides seeing an amazing, cool and inspired installation art piece by Garrett (which won BEST OF SHOW! Way to go Garrett! WHOOO!!!), I was able to talk with my high school art teacher.

I love her a lot.

Art was my favorite and most frustrating class in high school. I loved and hated it all at the same time. :) In my junior year, we had to draw a still picture and I chose a variety of random objects from the art room and started to draw in soft pastels. Four weeks later, I was only a 1/3 done. Ugh. I HATED that thing. I actually gave up on the project. However, my teacher informed me that if I didn't finish it, I'd get a less-than-pretty grade. Ever the perfectionist, I decided to finish it. It took 12 weeks, working on it intermittently as I could stomach looking at it. It was beautiful when I was done (even though I rushed through the frame in it...sad.).

I eventually entered it in some local/state competitions and it won a couple of awards. I was happy. When I graduated from high school, my art teacher asked if she could keep it, and I agreed. I hadn't seen it in 5 years. I thought she might have thrown it away by now.

However, tonight she informed me that she still had it. In fact, it was part of the permanent display of artwork in the library. There's only about 20 pieces there, out of the last 20 or so plus years of students coming through the art program. Mine is one of them. It makes my heart really happy. And excited. Especially since I was able to get into the library to see it and take pictures.

It's amazing that she kept it. It amazing that she thought it was good. Even looking at it today, I see things I wish I could change, or fix, or would have done differently. A student teacher even designed and taught an entire lesson around the piece. Students had to make a sculpture of random objects and draw it monochromatically in pastels. I saw some of that artwork tonight. Again, it made my heart so happy.

I inspired that....and that inspires me. :)

P.S. - my artwork is the image in the post. Sorry it's not the best picture, there was a lot of reflection on the glass from the fluorescent lighting. yuck.

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As frustrating as yesterday was, today has been beautiful. Peaceful. Wonderful. Serene. (I really like spring.)

Slept in.
Lunch with Mom.
Prantl's.
Chiropractor.
Great magazine with breathtaking pictures.
New Lumix.
An hour spent in one of my new favorite stores, drooling.

Calico Corners.

It's a designer fabric store. It also my new favorite store. I've been in there before, but not to seriously look. I want to make some wall hanging with interesting, bold, out-of-the-way prints. These designer fabrics are beautiful, rich, and interesting. I brought home four swatches. :) They actually cut off pieces of the fabric for you to take home and see if they work with your paint, lighting, decorating scheme, etc. It's amazing. I love it. It was so relaxing just to walk around and imagine all the things I could make with all this fabric. Sigh. It's my new favorite hangout.

On a side note, I took some pictures with macro today, because the leaves on the trees were just SO green, and the sky was SO blue. I just to shoot some pictures. You can view them on the right sidebar. (I also included some from sushi making a few nights ago with Mike and Nikki!)

Hope your day is lovely.

Pollyanna Day

The good things about today:

1. I had something to go here, from earlier in the day....but I can't remember.

2. Ground Level singing happy birthday to me and 3 other people today. So funny and wonderful. And no, my birthday is not yet. Almost.

3. Hot, steaming, Lipton tea with as much sugar as I want, talking to my wonderful roommate.

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Pictures!

So my amazing roommate and I went walking around Crafton today. We each took our cameras and took some beautiful pictures. The neighborhood is full of cute little houses with sidewalks, huge front porches, amazing color choices and bea-u-ti-ful purple flower trees and dogwoods full in bloom. (happy sigh.) The day was a bit gray because it rained, but it was still so refreshing to be outside after a long winter. I love spring.

You can check out a few of the pictures I took in "Photos I like" section of my sidebar. ---->

Enjoy!

Eleven

Bethany and I went out to a fancy dinner tonight. We were celebrating. We ate at this place called Eleven in Pittsburgh's Strip District. It was fabulous and delicious!


I had Shrimp Bisque, Tuna Steak and we shared Lemon Blueberry Creme Brulee. Oh my goodness. It was so good. We had no problems cleaning our plates.

All in all, it was a glorious night, weather, food and friends.

And yes, all these photos are from my new camera. They aren't great because I haven't figured out all of the settings yet....I've only had it for 2 days! :)

Overnights #5

Well, it's that time of the morning again, and sorry to say, I have nothing interesting to report. The hospital is kind of quiet over night now that respiratory season is pretty much over. Sadly, though, that also means that we have stopped getting in the very wee babies who are SO cute.

Now we just have a bunch of toddlers with dehydration.

I did have a sad/cute moment this evening. We had to put yet another IV in a preschooler and we all sang songs to help distract him. It was funny. There we were two IV nurses, me, a PCT and Dad all holding this kid down and singing. We sang Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, the ABC's, Hey Diddle Diddle and Row Row Row Your Boat. I surprised myself by remembering all the lines to Hey Diddle Diddle. The kid wasn't so impressed with Old Macdonald Had a Farm, though. According to him, Old Mac didn't grow any plants, tend any animals or even have a pet. lol.

Some farmer.

Overnights #4

Hello.

Yes, it is true. I have gone back to work. I am on light duty though, so I'm not allowed to lift anything, bend over a ton or reach above my head. It's annoying, but the girls have been helping me out pushing/pulling/lifting people and things. SO, my back is a bit achy, but completely manageable. Yay for improving and getting better!

Nothing much going on tonight.

OH oh! The most exciting thing of the night is that I had to stick a 7 month old for blood work and I got it on the first try!! WHOO! That is VERY exciting, because I am normally not that great a stick and this was a small guy. I was very happy and so was my patient. lol.

Hmm...the only other big laugh of the night was when I took out my corn for lunch around 1am. Jill, one of the other RN's here, saw it and oh-so-innocently asked, "Want to corn race?" I didn't know what that was, so she explained it to me. If you want to know you can ask, otherwise, we'll just leave it. But it was funny, we talked about it for like a 1/2 hour.

The things that keep you amused at 1:40am.

P.S. - There is a blog in the works on a verse I read recently about salvation. It should be coming soon....after I finish night shifts. :)

Today in summary

Days never go as you planned.
I had several posts planned for today, but none will be here. Which is ok. :)

I was going to tell you about my sister's 21st birthday and how amazing she is (she is!), but I ended up driving her around to different doctors today, trying to figure out why her poor eyes became red, irritated, burning and almost swollen shut overnight. Poor lovely. What a way to spend your 21st. On the couch with eye drops.

I also just wanted to comment again, on Jim Elliot. Sometimes I get way ahead of myself, and in longing for what has been promised, what I had planned on, I lose track of the blessing and responsibility of today. I lose the simple truth of His love and who He is. What really matters here on earth and for forever, is the truth of WHO HE IS. Everything else truly is details, and should come in second place in my life. He reminds me often....maybe I'll get better at this as I get older. (smile)

I did buy my birthday camera early because it was on sale and we just couldn't pass it up. My birthday is not until May 1st. I love my birthday, because I love May. You know May 1st was a pilgrim holiday said my little story book I had when I was a kid that said something special about every day of the year. I used to read my page over and over again. lol.

Spring is here....almost. It's still chilly in the shade, but today I opened the windows. Something about sitting the sun, feeling it's warmth, hearing the noises of outside stuff, feeling the wind in my hair and the silence of the neighborhood at 2pm in the afternoon...uh. I can't explain to you how perfect that feels to me. Everything just feels right in my world when it's like that. I feel lighter. It's nice.

I love pregnant people. I love pregnancy. I love babies. I love fabric. I love color. I love drawing, making things pretty. I love making kids laugh. (How can you not love the laughter and logic of a 3 year old? Best thing in the world.) I love yellow in my kitchen and I will love white in my entry way and green in my living room....someday. I love reading. I love Jesus more than all of that (even more than chocolate and ice cream....remember that game on the bus, Ash?) I love memories, too.

pause.

Yes, I think that's all I had to say for today.

Birthday Present from Mum

I ordered a birthday present early, today!

I'm very excited! This year, my mom and I have teamed up (or rather my mom offered) to buy me a digital camera! This is very, very exciting, as I have never owned a digital camera (that worked).

<--- Here it is

Isn't is beautiful? 10x optical zoom/7.2 MP
Should be here in 1-2 weeks. :)

Jim Elliot

So, I've been wanting to write about this for a while.

Jim Elliot was a missionary who was killed on the missions field by the very people he was ministering to. His wife was Elizabeth Elliot, she's written a lot of books now. You might also know their story from the movie The End of the Spear. Anyways, Jim said a lot of wise things while he was alive, most of which are recorded and preserved through his journals and the book his wife wrote about him.

I first read this quote several years ago while living in Texas, but it's been sticking in my head recently. It's a good quote. Let me know what you think.

"...let not our longing slay the appetite of our living..." - Jim Elliot

Layout Change #2

I finished re-doing my blog!

(YAY with cheering!)

I decided I didn't need the Blogger Nav Bar, the background is fine, the titles don't need un-bolded, i found a header picture I liked off another template, and I can live with stock fonts. lol.

It took me 3 hours total laying with icepacks on my back with my laptop on my belly to get it how I want it. So, for now, this is how I want it. Hopefully, I won't be changing it up every three seconds. (But those of you who know me, know better. Really.)

Included on this blog are several nice (cool, i like 'em) features:

- Photos - Every week or so, I will post 10 new pictures to the photo slideshow of photos I love that are stored on my computer.
- Links! - You are now to privy to about 1/4 of the links in my bookmarks folder categorized
into nifty little subheadings. Yes, I like bookmarks.
- Comments - You can comment. (wtg blogger.) You just need a blogger or a Google account.
- Email it - if you especially like my post, you can click the little letter icon at the bottom of the post and email it to someone! Very nice.
- Archives - you will never miss or lose a post I wrote that you liked. Just click the month and it'll show you all the blog post titles for that month. Voila!

I am very excited about this new layout and I like it. (!)
Now, I am going to bed because it is very late and everyone should be sleeping.
the end.

Picture Post!

Okay, so I promised you all some pictures two posts ago and these are some funny ones. You'd really have to understand my sense of humor to know why I'd post ANY of these pictures at all. Really thought, they crack me up. It's a good way for me to insert humor and lightness into a not-so-funny situation. :)

This is me after my car accident with an ice pack on my neck, given to me by my oh-so-wonderful-chiropractor, Dr. Yakovac. I was not so happy. And cold.

This is me in Presby's ER the night I pulled a very LARGE muscle in my back lifting a patient, a week after the car accident. I was in active pain and everyone was ignoring me. I have the phone on my lap as I'm sitting in a chair, so the phone is pointed up to the ceiling if you need a frame of reference. Also, not very happy...at all. In fact, I was pretty angry that everyone was ignoring me. I guess I was being annoying.

This is my poor sister's eye when she came to get me from the ER. I felt bad for calling her then b/c her contacts were bothering her, but she didn't have her glasses with her and so couldn't take them out. Poor little eye. I was SO relieved to see her. I think I prayed/chanted for at least a 1/2 hour before she came over and over, "Jesus, I just need my sister. Please make her come quicker. Jesus..." I love her. She's wonderful and always comes and picks me up when I get hurt.

There you go! The End.

Laying on the couch all day.

You know what annoys me?

....the shopping channel.
it's really annoying and all their products are priced weird.
i mean, who sells rubber gardening gloves for $17.12?

odd.

the end.

Again...hmmm

So, I totally hurt my back - again. At work. MAN!

I can't sit/stand/lie for very long in any position and I am WAY drugged up on stuff so it doesn't hurt as bad. I've got ice packs, heating pads, Misty Edwards and my mom on the way, so I'm ok.

Do me all a favor though and pray for the "Get off your But weekend" that is happening this weekend with Ground Level. I was supposed to be there. I'm not leading it, but my Student Leaders are. My wonderful, amazing, brillant Student Leaders. They've done a seriously awesome job of planning and executing this entire event completely by themselves.

Vic, Katie, Myranda, Kiera, Kelsey, Steve, Marshall, Garrett - You guys are awesome. I am SO proud of you. I know Jesus is, too. :)

Other than that, I'll be home, on the couch getting better. Feel free to call. If I'm not sleeping, I'll pick up.

I might post pictures later.

Honest

I am seldom honest with myself.

Tell the truth now, are you completely honest with yourself? I'm not. It's hard. When you are completely honest with yourself, you have to admit your shortcomings, your irrational feelings, your scary doubts, your horrendous fears, in short your "ugly".

No one wants to be ugly. We all want to be pretty. I want to be pretty. (Pretty "beautiful", to be specific.) sigh.

But I've realized something today. If I am not honest with myself (and with Jesus), all I am doing is standing around in my muddy dirty clothes yelling, "I'm clean, I'm pure, I'm okay!" Um, that's sort of crazy and ridiculous, don't you think? But we all do it!

The truth is, I am a muddy, dirty, ugly sinner.
I am. I am far from pretty as it gets. This flesh STINKS.

(attitudeprideenvyslothfeardoubtfaithlesspridelackofmercyselfishnessnolove)

I NEED JESUS.
I need to be washed clean.
I need the blood of Jesus to cover me.
I need more (and MORE) of His grace to do what He's asked.
I need truckloads of His mercy (and GRACE and WISDOM and LOVE) to be honestly me.
I need Him to do it, because I can't.
I need to know He loves me.
I need to feel His love.

But mostly, I need to be honestly ME (He likes me.).
and you know what, when I'm honest, when I sit in sunshine and confess to Him that I'm unhappy, that I'm frustrated, that I don't understand and I need Him to fix it....i like me, too.

Surprising how much better you feel when the world's not resting on your shoulders.

Layout Change

I'm pretending to know HTML.

I found a layout I liked that I thought I could easily edit to suit me. So, I downloaded it, uploaded it and viewed it. I then proceeded to change one thing in the HTML, refresh the blog and see what changed. Then, if it was what I wanted, I'd change it to what I needed it to be. I did this over and over and OVER again.

Do you like the rough draft?

Here is what I learned:

No layout in HTML is "easy" to change. lol.

It took me an hour and a half to edit what I did tonight. I managed to change the colors of the links, change the font to a stock font, change the header picture to my yellow dots and change the color of the calendar dates.....yup, that's about it. (!!!)

oh my gosh. craziness.

BUT, I am enjoying myself. :)

I still want to:

1. Make a collage on a Photoshop program for the new header
2. Change the font of the blog and post titles
3. Add my old widgets back in
4. Possibly unbold the post titles (depends on which font I can get it to use)
5. Change the background color of the page (there are 3 sections and I'm tired.)
6. Make the Blogger Nav Bar come back! (!!!!!)
7. Make something GREEN on the page. (I like green today.)

So far, that's all. hehehe.

Last thought: I still need to figure out how to use a font that I downloaded instead of one that came with Microsoft Word. Any ideas?

Audrey Caroline

It's odd how we are humans are so...dichotomous in our emotions. I know that's a big fancy word, but really. I love how it's completely possible to have joy in your heart and want to let out tears of mourning in the same instant.

If you haven't read or followed Audrey Caroline's blog, little Audrey was born today at 4:31pm with fiery red hair into a family that loved her fiercely. This same family said goodbye to her today as well. She went to be with Jesus at 6:45pm.

So while I'm happy that our God gave her breath even for just those two hours, I'm mourning that such a beautiful little one was not for here. I'm mourning that there is a mom tonight, in the hospital recovering from a C-section, on a postpartum unit with no baby in the nursery. It breaks my heart and it's not fair. Events like this make me long for the Lord to just come back and make it right again.

I am filled with joy though, that little Audrey was able to hear her mom and dad's voice, be held by her sisters, and experience the love of the family the Lord entrusted her to for those two precious hours and all the long months of waiting and praying before this day. It makes my heart happy that Audrey's mom was able to hold her, feel Audrey's little 3lb body in her arms and rock her. I think every mom longs to do that, just to hold her child in her arms and let them know that she is there and everything will be ok.

So, it was a joy/sad day in my heart today.
Here's Audrey Caroline's blog if you'd like to read.

The entire blog is real, honest and open about Audrey, Jesus and the faith that comes in even the hardest of circumstances. It's amazing.

P.S. - Please pray for Audrey's mom tonight. She still has a long recovery from her C-section today.

Thankful

So, I have several coping mechanisms when things feel hard and overwhelming to me, as they do often. One is something that I started doing when I was living in Texas, working a job in a ministry that I didn't choose. I was an intern and I hated my job. It stretched me and I felt sorry for myself often, sad to say.

However, I KNEW that in order for me to be effective, I had to see the bigger picture, open up the view on my lens so to speak. SO, on the days when everything felt awful, I started to make a "thankful list". Here's how it works. You get a piece of paper and write everything down that you are thankful for, and you keep going till your heart feels better and blessed (because the TRUTH is, you are blessed).

I found one of my lists that other day and it made me laugh and smile. You'll be able to tell that I didn't totally have the concept down...there are little hints of bitterness. Here is part:

1. Praise the Lord I have a PC
2. Praise the Lord for all youth pastors (who are never in their offices)
3. Praise the Lord for Entice (our database program that was ALWAYS slow or down) and all the hard work people put into it and how much of a blessing it is to me.
4. Praise the Lord for WHITE (?? I have no idea)
5. Praise the Lord for food!
6. Praise the Lord I work in the US.
7. Praise the Lord for HIMSELF!
8. Praise the Lord for my freedom
9. Praise the Lord for a chair to sit on
10. Praise the Lord for pink wands (?? again, no idea)

etc, etc, etc....

I used to have entire stacks of thankful lists sitting around and taped to my cubicle wall.

The funny thing is, I still do it. Here's a list from a few weeks ago:

1. I hung out with my mom
2. We went shopping together
3. White Chocolate Mocha's!
4. the nice salesguy at Radioshack who let me use his internet at the mall
5. cute-hot trench coat spring jacket
6. new jewerly
7. cup of tea @ home
8. candles that flicker
9. seeing Sarah and Stacy
10. Soft pink pj pants
11. He is able

Sometimes I do it when I pray outloud...those are even funnier. I praise the Lord for oxygen, ugly carpet to walk on, lungs that breath properly, a pancreas that secrets insulin and digestive enzymes, a good immune system (because I'm not dead...just sick a lot), etc. You get the picture.

(okay, okay, so you can tell I'm a nurse!)

You get the picture. It's just what I do. It shifts the focus from "poor me" to "blessed and loved me". There is freedom in the truth and the truth is, I am saved, loved and VERY blessed in the Lord, even when I don't feel like I am.

:)

Car Accident

So, I hurt my back more than I realized in my car accident on Tuesday. I went to work overnight from Thursday to Friday and by Friday morning as I reported off, I could barely keep tears from rolling down my face.

I came home, called my doctor, slept for about 4 hours, went to the doctor, went to the chiropractor, cried as each doctor touched and examined my back, then went to the pharmacy where my doctor had called in an anti-inflammatory med and a muscle relaxer.

I had planned just to take the anti-inflammatory med, b/c I KNOW that muscle relaxers make you VERY sleepy and such, but the ice packs and the anti-inflammatory med weren't cutting it. After about an hour, I took the muscle relaxant and laid down.

That was at 4pm on Friday.

Today, I am still dizzy from it and unable to walk in a straight line. Tis a very odd feeling to not be able to feel most of your body. Now, that means I am no longer in pain, but as it wears off, I can feel the pain coming back. SO, pray for me. There are many other things I would like to be doing besides laying on the couch, waiting for the dizzyness to pass.

In more interesting and more important news, if you all remember I had posted a note on Facebook a while back about a couple I knew from Teen Mania whose newborn daughter had died at birth. Well, sadly, I read today on Allison's (the wife) site that her mother passed away after a bout of cancer. This news breaks my heart. You can read Allison's site here. The Lord is comforting them greatly, but please take a moment to pray for them. They just found out they are pregnant again.

Overnights - #??

I'm too tired to remember what number this post is in our "Overnights" series.

Definitely walking on jello and through molasses right now.

It's fever season at Children's. I'm giving Tylenol and Motrin round the clock. Really cute, cranky kids. Really cranky. But still really, really cute.

I tucked one two year old, almost three year old in around 4:00am, and he turned over and said, "Hi." We talked for a few minutes in a whisper because his mom was alseep. Finally he rolled over and said over his shoulder "tah me up". hehehe. So I "tucked him up" with his big Nemo blanket and he sighed and went back to sleep. Really. So cute.

Now, we are all fighting to stay awake here at the nurses station. :) It's a sleepy night.

My back/neck is still burning from my car accident, I have pains down my arms and the other person's insurance still has yet to contact me. I need to call my insurance today someday...when I get up. lol.

In other news, I love my chiropractor. Really, he's amazing.

Okay, now I'm done.
You've been updated while I'm working overnights.

Perspective

Sometimes, things and just life in general feel hard, because I am comparing them to myself. In those times, I have narrowed the view through the lens of my life to just include me and some other people who (obviously, lol) have it easier than I do.

Usually (and normally), that attitude is far from the truth. If I could just pause for a moment, widen the lens and see the entire landscape, my thoughts are different.

With a wider view, I think more compassionate and true thoughts. I realize (again) how blessed I am and how much I am loved.

(even though I never wash my dishes and they grow mold in the sink and it's not because I'm busy, it's because I plain don't want to, don't care and would rather sit on the couch.)

I stay up late at night reading these blogs.

Noah Steven

Confessions of a CF Husband

Georgina

Audrey Caroline


I love them.

They remind me of the truth. The truth that God and His Word are faithful, just, loving and powerful. That God is kind, righteous, holy, compassionate, full of mercy and grace. That Jesus died to save everyone. Even me. Even when I'm full of pride, lacking compassion, snotty and selfish. Even my grouchy neighbor.

They widen my oh-so-narrow view through my little lens.

What I'm thinking of tonight: Romans 8

lack of posts

Sorry for the lack of posts.
i've been busy lately.

I worked overtime at work this week
Ground Level had a missions trip fundraiser dinner
Someone hit my car
I hurt my neck (a little bit)
And I started making a scrub top from CUTE dumptruck fabric!

:)

everyone needs a cute scrub top made from dumptruck fabric. :)

This is the verse that has been running through my mind lately:

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:37-39

the end!

P.S. - I'm still in dishwasher heaven.