Life With Jules, and other stuff

I'm an historian. I'm an historian not just by what's on a piece of paper from a university I attended. No, I fell in love with history at a young age. I cannot pinpoint when exactly this happened. Maybe it was grammar school when we learned about the pilgrims at Thanksgiving. Or maybe in Sunday school learning about Jesus and his time. All I know is I wanted to know more. In high school, I especially enjoyed world history, learning about the early civilizations. Mesopotamia, Byzantium, Greece, Rome, even early Europe and Prussia. At university, I began my studies in Middle East studies. More of an Interdisciplinary Humanities degree that I had to create myself. I was able to incorporate some of my varied interests into the degree such as Byzantine Art, Philosophy, and such. I even took a year of Arabic after completing my French language requirement. Thus earning my Bachelor's degree from Michigan State University.  I completed my ...

In honor of my service in the United States Navy... My niece called me yesterday wanting to come over to learn how to cross stitch. Of course I said yes. She also brought her baby. We all had a good time! Here is a picture of my niece learning the craft: Here is a picture of my start on Anchors Aweigh (a Candamar design): I actually took this after starting the lighter blue stitches this evening. The dark blue is all I completed last night. I was a bit annoyed with this kit when I first started sorting the floss and prepping to stitch. It did not contain all of the correct colors. There was no white whatsoever. It gave 3 or 4 different shades of brown, none of which are even charted! Thank God for my well organized floss as I was able to convert the Anton floss into DMC equivalents and get the needed colors from my stash. The undesirable floss that came with the kit: Here is a picture of where I am now: I leave you with "A Mother's Love" (and baby hugs): It's hard t...