Drat!

Can you believe that when I was teasing Allison yesterday of being the Spelling Police, just one sentence before I wrote that I actually misspelled a word and didn't catch my mistake?????? That's what I get for teasing someone, I suppose. Actually, I said it in fun, but in reality, I'm completely on the same page with Allison. I am a FIERCE advocate for correct spelling (my hubby is a terrible speller), I can't stand seeing misspelled words on my children's papers or in memos from my husband. I catch them all the time on blogs, Allison's right. But on my own blog, I'm usually in such a hurry to hit the publish button and get to the next task at hand that I fail to run a spell check on my work! Serves me right. Allison, thanks for being a sport and not pointing out my misspelling yesterday! Ladies--run spell check before you hit publish!!!!!

The last few days have been so stressful around here. We all seem to be on edge about something. Eldest Son and I are butting heads big time and it's bothering me. It's not typical behavior for us, and when we do argue, both our tempers get the best of us. It makes me sad to be angry with my boys. I know butting heads is normal at this age. He hasn't quite learned yet to not bite the hand that feeds him. Life isn't so tough around at our house, like it is in some of his other friends homes. He just loves contradicting everything I say. I'm never right, he always is. Gosh, he knows everything for such a young age.....if I didn't know better, he's a closet genius! Really, he's a great kid. And so far, his teen years have been relatively painfree. We're just experiencing some growing pains right now, I think. It's time for me to get on my knees and give it up to God.

Here's a card I made last weekend. I just love how it turned out. I'm going to be submitting something very similar for an upcoming pub call. I used the fun designer paper from Heidi Grace Designs (Harvest Flowers). I started with a base of So Saffron. I cut off a small portion of the bottom of the card and in it's place I put a scallop border using Cranberry Crisp. I placed the reverse scallop from this piece at the top of the card. The flowers on the center sentimate image is from Hero Arts. I stamped the flower in ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink in Creamy Brown. I painted the center of the flower with my aqua painter and So Saffron ink. The sentiment is stamped in Cranberry Crisp ink. A little piece of bronze hardward holds a So Saffron ribbon.

It's a busy day today! My BSF bible study class starts this morning. I do not have my own discussion group as of yet. The plan is for me to take all the intro class women that register either this week or next! I am so very excited to begin. We study Matthew this year and I am eager to begin this new journey with other women just joining BSF for the first time. This will be my 6th year in BSF, I can hardly believe it! I hope I do a good job sheparding these woman to lead a Christ centered life!

Have a wonderful day. For those of you interested, Muriel's staph infection is back, in her blood this time. We are hoping they caught it relatively early before it had time to really start wrecking havock on her body. She ate well today. Let's just hope the cocktail of antibiotics they've got her on do the trick.

One last thing.....I must have had a zillion people sign up to receive my blog updates via Feedblitz yesterday! More than ever before in any one day. Does anyone have a clue why? I mean, yippee--I LOVE that more of you are visiting my blog, I'm just wondering why yesterday was such a big day. Do you read about me at Craft Critique? (By the way, I have stepped down as a writer there. There is just too much happening in my life right now to continue on with that responsibility). Someone else's blog? If you signed up yesterday and read this far into today's post, will you leave a comment? Thanks! You guys rock!

Hugs,
Amy