Yes, I SEWED something! I was not even sure I could since I usually can't work the sewing machine without my mom! But I have a cool beginner sewing book so I decided to give it a try. Can you tell I am proud? I even measured and marked the material and pinned it. I usually decide not to sew because I am too lazy and impatient to do all those things. I was too lazy to iron the material though. Maybe if I get bored I will take them off and iron them. I still don't know how you manage to cut the material straight so your seems will be straight, that is a big mystery to me.
Before I started sewing I started making pepperoni bread. I was way prouder of that than I was the pillows! It was SO good and the prettiest bread I ever made, it looks like something from a bakery. The kids loved it. I have had the recipe for years and never tried it before. We will be having it often now!
I never thought to take a picture before I cut into it!
After the kids got home and we ate almost all of the bread, we went to TaeKwonDo. On the way home, K was asking me questions about how to get saved and baptized. She has been asking a lot of questions for the last couple of weeks. I asked her if she was ready and she said yes but she didn't know how. We discussed it and how she understands it but as we pulled into the driveway a fight broke out over something and the discussion ended.
At bedtime after we finished a couple of chapters of Junie B. Jones, I asked K if she wanted to pray and she said YES so enthusiastically that I asked if she meant the prayer to be saved and she said she did. She said she has heard people say you ask Jesus into your heart but she didn't know what to say. I helped her and she repeated after me and I was amazed. She usually gets quiet and shy but she loudly and boldly said it all. I have never heard anything like that. Then she asked me how to get baptized and if she really has to get her face wet! She wants Daddy to do it but she is so anxious to hurry and do it! We will have to wait a while for him to do it. We immediately told him on the phone.
I cannot explain how that made me feel. B and K did it and I was so proud of them too. Maybe it is her persistence in asking and how it is all so different from the way she usually acts and talks that amazes me. I can tell how much she means it and how important it is to her. I am so proud of her!
Then after all of this I had to help E pull one of his teeth.
It has been a busy, productive, and wonderful day!
2 comments:
Wow!! Sounds like a fantastic day!! Tell K I am proud of her. I am also so proud of you!! You get more done in one day than I do in a month!!! You are such an amazing woman and mother. I love you and miss you more than I can say!
Proud of ya Stef...you're like a very famous woman who has her own show out now...her first name is Martha. :) Sounds like a very interesting day! I would sew too if i had a place to put one and knew how to use it. I'd go in business and sell purses. Yay 4 you! I save all my material i cut off of clothes that are too long on me, and use it for cards and crafts. Your bread looks beautiful...looks like bread for the celebration of Passover...very pretty. Ha ha, I take pics of food too sometimes, so i don't feel bad. That's great K prayed. It touched my heart to read it. It reminded me of when my mom prayed with me. It was like how u prayed with K. Very sweet. I was 7...but did feel a difference afterwards! Enjoyed this post. Laughed out loud when u said u had to help E pull a tooth. On top of all u said, that was icing on the cake. Thanks 4 sharing! oh and you could always babtize K in the bathtub...one kid at our church did that a couple years ago. Just a thought!
AK
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