A Sneak Peak At The New Baby Quilt

These are the blocks, all laid out on my bed so I can see how they look together. I still need to sew the sashing and borders on. I am loving it! I tried to lay them out approximately as far apart as they will be with the sashing strips. I go in the bedroom and sew when I get frustrated working on the website. Yes, still working on it, tweaking things, and getting the FabGrandma Reviews side of it working. It is easier getting the review one done because of all the things I learned while doing this one, but it is still a pain in the part I sit on!

We had to go to Tuscaloosa again on Monday for yet another appointment for FabGrandpa. The VA is checking every part of him, one thing at a time. This is all good, but dang, it is soooo time consuming. He is scheduled for a colonoscopy next week, then another appointment at the end of February for the doctor to give the results all the tests.Then another appointment with an eye doctor for another test.  I think Fabgrandpa gets a diploma when he has the last test, ha ha ha ha!

On Tuesday, we went to Greensboro to get new batteries for the truck. It has been taking several tries to get it to crank on cold mornings, and after thinking about it for a minute, we decided that we got the existing ones when we were working in Texas, so that would make them six years old. No wonder they are worn out. So, $207 later, she’s cranking up on the first try every time.

Also, while we were in Greensboro, I asked around to see if they had a food bank, and they do, at the local Habitat For Humanity office. I went in and talked to them about what I items I had to donate, and they referred me to a woman in town who is on a gluten free diet and would be glad to receive them. I’m going to meet her sometime next week.

I finally got a direct deposit I was waiting for this week. It was supposed to be here the first week of January, and I have called several times over the past few weeks trying to find out what the problem was. They finally figured out what the holdup was, and I saw the deposit in my account yesterday morning. So, I could finally call the airline and get a ticket for FabGranddaughter Sarah to come to visit us in March on her spring break. I can not wait! She’s flying to Atlanta, where we will pick her up and go to our hometown. Her dad, step-mother, brother (the FabGrandson Michael), and half-brother (the FabGrandson Owen),  are all coming from Maryland. We’ll spend a week in a motel, doing fun things. It’s going to be great!

Oh, if you want to win a gift pack from Maniszhewitz, go to FabGrandma Reviews and make a comment. I’m giving away three prizes. The products are kosher and gluten free, but they taste really good. Anyone would love them. Sorry, United States residents only.

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Moving Is Such Hard Work!

When my children were growing up, we moved 17 times in 5 years. I was a divorced mother of three trying to make ends meet. A lot of the time, that meant moving to a cheaper place, or moving in with friends for a while. We learned to pack up quickly and how to load the car (No, I didn’t have a truck) so that we could make the least number of trips possible to get the job done. Sometimes I did all myself, and sometimes I had help. It was always easier with help.

Moving my blog from Blogspot to a hosted website has been a HUGE job. And don’t think I have done it all myself. I don’t know enough to do it all by myself. To start off, Gayla from MomGadget has given me great encouragement. We “met” through the internet a couple of years ago. She was one of six women who were blogging on a group site called “Seven Babes A Blogging”, which is now defunct. They had one guest blogger each month, hence the Seven in the name. I was the guest blogger over there for the month of December, 2007. Just the fact that they let me blog with them was a huge encouragement to me, as I felt like I was playing with the big girls by doing that.

Then in November of 2009, I ran into her again, (online, of course) when she was looking for writers at MomGadget. I signed up and, and that sort of opened the door for me to ask her some questions, and before you know it, we were getting FabGrandma.com built. Gayla gave me advice on how to go about purchasing a domain name and how to get it hosted (I had no idea where to start). She installed my blog and Studio Press Lifestyle Theme you see here (the theme is the how the blog looks to you, purty, huh?). And she did it all in about two days. I was soooo impressed with her service. Thank you so much, Gayla.

After Gayla got through with the initial software installation and configuration for me, FabGrandma.com was all ready for me to move in. So, I got here, and I couldn’t believe how much room I have over here! At the old site, I only had one “room”, much like living in my travel trailer. There was only so much I could do over there. Not that I need a mansion, you know, I just wanted more room to move around, more places to store my ideas. And boy do I have that here! Just look at all those pages and linky things! But, it still had some “decorating” and remodeling to do. And I had no clue what to do or where to start!

It’s not that I didn’t know what I wanted. Oh, no! I have been thinking about and planning my new website for a couple of years. I knew EXACTLY what I wanted it to look like and what I wanted it to do. I just didn’t know how to do it. So, the next step was to just start. I worked on it for almost a week, many hours a day (good thing I am unemployed right now.) And I got it looking more and more like I wanted it to. All that work involved teaching myself some basic html, from HTML Basic. It’s like trying to learn German a phrase at a time.

At the end of the week, I was at a place where I had gone as far as I could go, but it still didn’t look like I wanted it to look. As I was sitting here wondering what the heck I was going to do about it, I remember a young man I had “met” online a couple of years ago. Brandon lives with his lovely wife in North Carolina. He has been reading my blog for a while, and has corresponded with me on several occasions because he is interested in the fulltime RV’er lifestyle. I emailed him and offered to pay him to do some work for me on here, with a list of what I needed done, and asked him how much he would charge me to do the work. I knew from reading his blog that he was looking for a way to earn some extra money, and I wanted to help.

Imagine my surprise when he emailed me back, and said that someone had done him a kind deed recently, and he would do this thing for me as a “pay it forward” kind of thing. What a nice guy! And thank you, Brandon, because the work you did was exactly what I needed done. You should go into the web design business.

So, here it is, brand spanking new! I think the majority of the work is done. I am just giddy with excitement. Take the grand tour and let me know what you think!

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