The Quilt

I LOVE to sew...   LOVE to make quilts....  No, I am not trained to sew....   NO, I don't follow instructions well...   My quilts look like NON OTHER for sure..  AND I don't mean that in a good way....   I always take the easiest road....  of course I don't want to make something difficult...   THEN I would just fail horribly...   So, I go about cutting the quilt squares out..   Getting them all organized the way I want to sew them...   then commence to sewing....   Over the next day or two I enjoy the progress I am making ...    Then I get it the top done and start to quilt all 3 pieces together...   I don't have a quilting frame so I do everything on the floor....  My back starts to ache...   as I get closer and closer to being done...   THEN the finished project...   something I have made from scraps with no instructions has become A QUILT...   AN item to keep someone warm...   A USEFUL ITEM..

Now let's take what I have just said about the quilt and use this information for child training...   I LOVE my children..  and I really do mean LOVE!!!!   My children are like non other for sure...  lol  AND I mean that in the best way...   They are rowdy, ornery, tough, sensitive, funny.........   I could go on for hours about them...  BUT I bet your children are the same as mine so you get the picture..   Now when they were babies and toddlers I took the best care of them..  Making sure the nails were trimmed, hair combed, fed...  made sure I sang to them and prayed over them always...  Then they became  young CHILDREN...   One's that wouldn't sit still to get a bath, combed hair...OK wouldn't sit still for anything even in there sleep...   I started at this point to start cutting them out into quilt squares, so to speak...   And organizing them in such a way that would protect them but yet still give them freedom to change....    Now that they are older 9-12 years of age, I am re organizing them constantly...   I am almost afraid to sew it all together just yet.... This is where my back starts hurting so to speak....   struggles, trials, stress occurs...  Once I do sew it all together, quilt it, it seems so permanent..  Which to me seems that would be the age where they leave home.   You hope and pray that you have raised them right to go into the world and be productive, respectable adults..   (THE FINISHED QUILT)....   My oldest son who is 22 years old is an amazing man...   He is the perfect BEAUTIFUL quilt...   So, I suppose my quilting theory works just fine in raising kids..  

My tip to mothers out there is to STOP and STEP BACK and look at the QUILT often...   Modify it every day if need be...  God intends for families to grow together and to bond....   Take each moment as it comes and be a blessing to your children through love, kindness and laughter ALWAYS...Don't fret over if your house is dirty or if laundry is piling up... You only get one opportunity to raise your children...  This day will pass and you will never get it back again.   Enjoy your QUILTING....  

GOD BLESS