Hi Ruth!
-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Wendy Buchanan <=-
 RH> As Steve says about the computer, "it keeps me off the streets. (G)" 
I also add, "and out of the pool halls!"  
 RH> machine/serger.  The funny thing is, there was a time I didn't really
 RH> know how much I'd use a serger--did I ever go wrong there; I sometimes
 RH> wonder now how I could have thought that, especially with the wedding
I guess!  Tom didn't like the idea of buying me a serger, even
though the sewing machine center in Tulsa had a sale on, you 
buy one and we'll give you the other...I think if you bought
the serger you got a sewing machine free.  They had 4 lessons,
one for the sewing machine and three for the serger, free with
the purchase.  But when Tom saw that cutter on the serger he
said "NO WAY am I buying you anything with a cutter that close
to your hands!"  I was so inept with the FMS at that time, he
felt I'd be in the E/R having fingers stitched back on, all the
time!  (Probably...hehehe!)
 RH> wedding; this way we are asking friends who are specialists in their
 RH> areas (flowers, cake, etc) to work with us, making it that much more
 RH> special. 
What a great idea that is, they will have the blessing of giving
to make the wedding nicer and they'll understand what you need
without so many lengthy descriptions, because they know you.
 
 RH> the wedding.  She hasn't decided yet if the guys should be in tuxes or
 RH> good suits so he told her "I'll just sew a satin stripe down a pair of
 RH> jeans."  I had a good laugh over that; my dad threatened the same
 RH> thing but he ended up wearing a tux.
My first wedding my dad said, "A tux?  You mean with a bow tie
and tucked shirt and cummerbund and everything?  Darn!"  But
when he heard Mom say how handsome he looked in it, he sure did
change his tune!
When I married Tom we went to a wedding chapel in Arkansas and 
my family was all in Michigan.  Only guests we had were the 
couple who stood up with us, and their 4-month old daughter, who
got invited because Mom was nursing her.
 RH> the adjustment having him gone during the day now.  Did you ever finish
 RH> the tedy bear 9 patch quilt you had started?  I had every good
 RH> intention of doing at least one quilt top while Steve was gone but
 RH> other sewing projects have kept me from that. Maybe after the wedding.
 RH> (G) 
I've heard that before, every time I've said "Maybe tomorrow..."
No, the quilt isn't finished but I work on it from time to time.
Mostly when I have the whole morning to work on it.  If I take it
all out and spread things out and then have to put it away in an
hour, it gets too tedious.  I like working on it, not picking up
everything and putting it away all the time!  But if I leave it
out Tom comes in and...well, you know the story, I'm sure!
 
 WB> I guess we do what we have to...
 RH> Yes, and God gives us the strength to do that.
Good thing.  If I had to be my own sufficiency, I'd be a total 
flop!  I keep telling my friend Bernadette, "Of course it's not
perfect.  If it was, no one would ever believe *I* did it!" 
LadyBear Hugs,
Wendy
... A day hemmed with prayer is much less likely to unravel.
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