Whew! What a week! I would say I'm so glad it's Friday, but Saturday is going to be jam packed also! Here's a condensed list of all I have accomplished so far...

• I gave my Shih-Tzu a haircut. He's 13 years old and impatient and has (had) long hair, 'Nuf said.


• I steam cleaned all carpets in the house. Every room has wall to wall carpet, even the two bathrooms.


• Cleaned my closet and tried on every article of clothing I have, and got rid of about 1/4 of it.


• Met with a new business marketing person to help promote my embroidery business and the pizza restraunt.


• Yesterday we had our first trial run of pizza making. We are not good pizza cooks. Yet!


• Met with a sanitation inspector and went over every teeny detail in the pizza shop.


• Made a $1200 shopping trip to Sam's Club for the shop and home, home was $100.


• Put away $1100 worth of food and supplies in a teeny pizza shop kitchen.


• FINISHED 6 quilted purses and SHIPPED them! (I forgot to photograph them!!))


• Daughter took her science midterm (late!) and scored 100%!!!!


• Completed an outline for a ladies discussion at church about praying for our husbands.


• Other big news, I dropped a pound the day after my weigh-in day!

I am not a person who likes busy-ness. I crave peace, tranquilty, bluebirds twittering in the appletrees. When I have prolonged stress, my hair falls out. About 10 years ago we were foster parents. Including our two children we consistently had 7 children in our care. I worked full time as a special-ed teacher, my husband was the stay-at-home parent. I was up at 5 am and went to bed around 11 or 11:30. I was tired, but I functioned well. We loved having a busy household! But now I just need calmness. I have no calmness. Is that a word?

And, since every post needs pictures....

Taken 2/6. We found a lovely new trail!

We rounded a bend and look what we saw! It was breathtaking.

I fell in love with that scraggly tree. I copied the photo and made it into a hand-embroidery pattern and am putting it on a sweatshirt with birds on the branches.

This is the trail we took. Every month we seek out a new hiking trail and load up our backpacks and spend the day on the trail. This was four miles each way, it ended at a waterfall that was about 40 feet high, nothing at all like the one in the above photo. Most of the trail was uphill over rocks. More strenous than what we usually do but we did suprisingly well and were back at the care in 9 hours, including breaks and a short detour to avoid what might have been a black bear. I did not take many photos because I needed my hands free to climb.

Time to get going. I pray everyone has a wonderful, peaceful day.