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Why this?

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV)

Yesterday a friend mailed me a link to the funniest blog. Check it out yourself: mom2my6pack.blogspot.com. After reading of the mothering adventures this mom faces, I told myself I wouldn't complain about my 2 in the grocery store ever again.

Perhaps it was seeing myself in a few of her stories, maybe I was just in a reflective mood after a week filled with firsts...either way, last night I found myself so grateful for the blessings in my life. After praising God for my children and my husband, I began to reflect on his recent turn of events. I've already expressed the evidence of God's design through that circumstance. Yet, standing back, looking over the past 10 years, I can see so clearly that not only are we destined to be here right now, but we've been placed here deliberately and with a purpose. What an overwhelming and humbling thought!

Well, we made it...

...both figuratively and literally!

Our Big Girl made it through her first day of Kindergarten. I think she had a blast, and she came home exhausted! Now, if I can just get her there on time for the rest of the year.

The green top is Simplicity 3830. I finished it late Sunday night before wearing it Monday, but that's the way these things go. As for the top, Step 6 in the pattern instructions is a little incomplete. I found I had to stop stitching at the side seams and reposition the fabric to avoid catching the "sleeve" portion of the wrap in the casing. The fabric was a silkie from Hancock's.

If I were to do it again, I would be careful to choose a fabric with that was woven more evely. With the one I used, my side fringe is much wispier than my bottom fringe. I won't be making it again, but it is a simple pattern that even a beginner could use. And, it adds a splash of color into my late-spring-summer-early fall "hot weather" wardrobe.