The Chaplain Blog Post

Several times today I thought about the blog posts I had written about the Chaplain I mentioned earlier so I went back on an old blog and found this post from December 31, 2006. Told you it was a long time ago.

Today was really not the day to go back and read this old post . . I’ve been on the verge of tears all day. I realized this morning that every time I’ve been at the Missouri house alone was when I left Texas alone, excited to be going to Missouri. I’ve never been here when Vince was with me, then he left me here. I’ve been kinda sad today. The night will be hard but I’ll get used to it. I love being alone . . like when Vince goes to town and leaves me at home, but I don’t so much love being alone for days and days. Hopefully I’ll get Addie this weekend and I’ll have her a lot over the holidays but even when she leaves, I have to get used to being alone again. It’s always better having family around!

Here’s the blog post about the chaplain.

I’ve mentioned here before that I’m making a quilt for a chaplain’s wife. I started reading the chaplain’s blog after reading about it or hearing Hugh Hewitt talk about the chaplain’s blog entry on December 21, 2004. Our family has adopted several soldiers through the Adoptaplatoon program. At the time of the incident the chaplain wrote about, our adopted soldier was stationed at the area he had written about. Thankfully, he is now home and safe and we received a Christmas card from him this year. So, the whole incident kinda hit home for me. Even though our adopted soldiers are total strangers, I pray for them daily and send as much stuff as I can possibly send. After reading the chaplain’s entry for that day, I just felt he was such a great guy. Then I spent a little more time on his blog and read several entries he had written about his wonderful wife and family. So, to make a very long story (that doesn’t need to be long but I talk too much) short, I wrote the chaplain and told him that I wanted to make his wife a quilt and he told me her favorite colors. I went to the quilt shop, with pattern in hand, bought the fabric, came home and washed it and it is on my January list of things to do. Tonight I was going to start cutting the fabric and for the life of me, I cannot remember which pattern I was going to make. I have spent several hours trying to match up yardage requirements to what I have! Nothing fits!! See why I need lists! 🙂

I did get the quilting done on one of the heart quilts. As is often the case, I like the front but I love the back!

 This quilt (and its companion) will be in the American Quilter magazine so I’m not going to post a picture of the front of it yet. All the fabric from both tops and both backs came from my stash!! I hope you all have a very productive and happy 2006.