"Nana, Is This Creative?"

Well, we're almost to the end of January and it has been a little busier than I anticipated.  We did go to see Unbroken on a cold windy Monday.  Neither Bubba or I enjoyed it.  It was just too intense, too much torture, and too much suffering.  I thought the main character was portrayed as a superhero, which I'm sure he would have been the first to tell you that he was not.  His dependence on God was not portrayed as predominantly as I understand it was in the book.  It was just not my kind of movie although I'm very proud of our military and their sacrifice.

Bubba and I raked leaves one day.  I actually enjoy raking leaves.  I surprised Bubba with this leaf scoop which I ordered from Amazon.  He really likes it.  Now if I had asked him if he would like to have one, he would have said "no",
thus the surprise.

While Amelia was here we talked some about the meaning of creative, probably because I told her that something was creative.  We talked about all the creative things she does like making up dances, making up songs, writing stories, drawing, etc.

 This is the "song" she wrote while she was here.

Later I heard her in the dining room and wondered what she was doing.  She called me in and asked me, "Nana, is this creative?"  She had taken the apples out of the basket and spread them out on the table runner.  I thought it was creative, don't you?

Now this is what I will be doing before we go back to Atlanta for a visit.

I can't believe that I'm going to sew again.  It looks so simple but inevitably causes me to say "Oh Crap!" more times than a proper lady should.  I'm going to try to make Amelia some dresses for her American Girl dolls. I told her on the phone that I had bought a pattern and some material for sewing doll clothes and she said, "Nana, That is so AMAZING!"  She doesn't get her enthusiasm from either Amy or Darryl but it definitely makes another sewing project worth doing.