tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49421752692100096802024-02-19T02:36:12.392-08:00Elaine's (Gluten Free) SpaceElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-49550211279866654792010-04-05T11:28:00.000-07:002010-04-05T11:33:18.426-07:00Good News!!Yesterday the Christian community celebrated Easter. What that means to everyone who categorizes themselves as Christian I cannot say. But, here is what it means to me: The tomb is empty. Just so you don't miss that: THE TOMB IS EMPTY!! Shout that out loud: THE. TOMB. IS. EMPTY. Now there is a lot of history that goes on between God speaking the Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-29618999475376942092010-01-27T18:31:00.000-08:002010-01-29T08:07:20.768-08:00Gratitude ListIt is January in Kentucky and that means cold weather, gray skies, and a lot of stuff falling from above--snow, rain, sleet, freezing rain. In January, it is easy for me to forget what a wonderful life I have and how many ways God blesses me. And this January, the misery and suffering in Haiti lurks just under the surface for me. Earlier this week, my dear son, David, Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-61276138033254537152010-01-24T19:34:00.000-08:002010-01-24T20:29:57.959-08:00Haiti on my heartThe people of Haiti and those who have responded to help the earthquake victims are always on my mind and in my heart these days. It has been a little over 10 years since I was there but I have vivid images that live in my memory of the beauty of Northwest Haiti and the beautiful people who live there.When I was in Haiti I learned that when advanced medical care is not immediately available, God Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-91561197169147869082009-05-25T10:45:00.000-07:002009-05-25T11:19:07.885-07:00Celeste arrives in PeruI will update my own happenings and ramblings in another post. This one is to let you know that DD (darling daughter) arrived at 2 a.m. today in Lima, Peru. Here is a picture of her happy face when she got there. You can follow her work there at http://www.cmleone.blogspot.com/. Today, I covet your prayers for her safety and for her knee. She will be hiking a lot and carrying a heavy backpack. IElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-55744744646854558932009-02-08T13:52:00.000-08:002009-02-08T17:20:20.758-08:00Finally--UFOs to FOs UFOs are common in the knitting world--UnFinished Objects. These are projects started enthusiastically, knitted on furiously and laid aside for many reasons. The buttonband needs to be sewn on. The ends need tied in. A mistake discovered 10 rows back needs a bit of attention. It needs to be (gasp) "finished" (aka, blocked and sewn together.) Christmas is pressing in (well it was). The most Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-23116041892068319212009-02-01T22:04:00.001-08:002009-02-01T22:23:06.428-08:00Ice Storm 2009Beautiful, terrible, dangerous. Freezing rain. I'd never experienced anything like it until I came to live in Kentucky. Liquid falling from the sky that instantly turns to ice when it lands; it encases everything in a sheet of ice which grows thicker and thicker. It started early Tuesday morning and by 7 a.m. everything was a glaze of slick, beautiful ice. As the trees became heavy from the Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-59455161722949374962009-01-11T07:51:00.000-08:002009-01-12T08:51:38.871-08:00Fall 2008: Work, school, knitting, & vacation Here it is, January 2009--how can six months go by so quickly? The title sums up what I did with those days...work and school consumed most of my time.Knitting, for me, is so restorative. As my hands move in the repetitive motion and I feel the yarn slip between my fingers, a calmness and centeredness slowly creeps back in...my head clears and my thoughts organize. The past fall I reached for myElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-67131758125103492752008-07-27T09:03:00.000-07:002008-07-27T09:45:30.851-07:00Don't Miss This One!!I have a most delicious Sunday morning routine. I brew a cup of coffee, open my Bible and my journal and listen to a podcast sermon. Last posting I told you about Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll from Seattle. This posting I must tell you about possibly the most important sermon I have listened to this summer...you will find it here under the date of July 20, 2008. I urge you to set aside an hour, Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-19956393614810936992008-07-19T20:28:00.000-07:002008-07-22T19:48:01.489-07:00Ahhh...The WeekendSaturday and Sunday...these are the two days I long for M-F and they go by so quickly. I give so much in terms of time and energy at work that my evenings during the work week are pretty nonproductive. I often have phone calls I need to make to students after I get home and and these days I have papers to grade. In the "old days" I would say I have stacks and stacks but now that I grade almost Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-30830354065112825312008-07-15T18:07:00.000-07:002008-07-15T20:40:53.262-07:00Back Home Again Welcome home...there was a perfect bloom on my rose bush by my front porch when I got back from Birmingham. Is there anything more beautiful than a rose? The fragrance, the colors...who but a magnificent God could create such perfection?I returned from Birmingham on Sunday evening while there was still enough light to water my gardens and inspect how things had grown in the five days I was gone.Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-3271663339712401092008-07-09T15:14:00.000-07:002008-07-22T20:32:54.040-07:00Quiet Time & Celeste Time The rhythm of my life beats to an academic calendar so when I talk of a year, it is a year that begins the middle of August and marches around the calendar from that point. So I am about to close out a "year"...a year that has flown by at a frenetic pace, packed so full of work and school and family that I can scarce believe 12 months could hold it all. I am blessed by work that I LOVE but some Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-8467854285736369932008-07-06T08:22:00.000-07:002008-07-06T11:54:50.933-07:00Magical Moments I spent the last week of June with occupational therapy students at a day camp for children with learning differences. Kudos to the incredible therapists and staff that make it happen every year. They volunteer their time all year long to make this one week of magic for children who would not be successful at other summer camps. Because of their dedication, every child succeeds. I could write onElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-52915769157310555552008-06-21T14:55:00.001-07:002008-06-21T17:38:44.182-07:00Las Vegas In my last post I mentioned that I had a 26 hour stop over in Las Vegas during my ramblings in March. (20 of those hours I overlapped with my sweet Celeste.) I would never have put Las Vegas on my vacation list but I ended up loving my time there. If you ignore the gambling and other vices, it's a pretty cool place to tour. The architecture is unbelievable!! Bellagio was my favorite because 1) Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-12295100801033120892008-06-17T17:37:00.000-07:002008-06-18T18:45:54.137-07:00After a Long Absence. . .It's summer again here in Kentucky. It is the perfect evening as I write. The temperature is 71 degrees and virtually no humidity. My gardens are growing. My furbabies are freshly bathed and I am in the hammock. This is the life!! What a year it has been!! My sweet Celeste graduated from college and has her first grown-up job (you know, the kind of job that comes with a retirement plan and healthElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-55440652166059316242007-08-25T12:11:00.000-07:002007-08-25T12:19:31.301-07:00Thoughts on knittingThe last two weeks I have been too busy to knit and my soul is feeling it. Today, I am once again picking up the cardigan for DD and hoping to get started on the sleeves. She had to go back to college without her new sweater, but I am hoping to have it off the needles and in a package VERY soon. The quote below eloquently says what I feel about knitting. It is by a reader from Knitting Daily, a Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-55641337366177213072007-08-16T19:30:00.001-07:002007-08-16T19:41:40.108-07:00HEAT WAVE!! How I long for the days of the artic blast, the need to dig through bags looking for socks, the wearing of sweaters at work in the middle of July...these days are now a dim, sweaty memory. For the past two weeks, Kentucky-at-large has reported soaring temperatures, with today peaking at 103; add the humidity and the heat index is around 110. That's hot! As the temperatures climbed, the air Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-39503279918499187112007-08-01T14:46:00.000-07:002007-08-01T16:47:01.173-07:00Journey to SamuelSamuel LiYu William is officially a member of the family. The documents are being prepared by the Chinese government and he will be "cleared for takeoff" so to speak. The process of watching the parents and brother and sister meet him and bond is a thing of beauty. Thanks to the Internet, we've all been able to share in the joy. If you want to follow along, go to Journey to Samuel and click on "Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-56991613865801246552007-07-27T08:04:00.000-07:002007-07-27T14:49:19.502-07:00Single Sock Syndrome My office building is akin to a freezer in the summer. Once the university turns on the "chillers" it is time to pull out the winter clothes again. I know this and yet in the mornings when I am getting dressed, I put on capris and shoes with no socks. As the arctic blast hits me coming into the building, I start digging in bags and looking behind my office door for socks and a sweater. Last weekElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-8144997421833685322007-07-25T17:11:00.000-07:002007-07-26T06:06:43.478-07:00What's on the NeedlesI've taken a few days off work this week and it's been wonderful!! I am supposed to be writing a paper but nothing makes me want to clean and knit like having a paper to write...so some of the chaos has been de-cluttered AND I started a new knitting project, an Eyelet Cardigan. I saw the finished item at Alliknits.blogspot.com and thought it would look great on my sweet Celeste (aka DD). I Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-76603729707483404672007-07-21T09:06:00.000-07:002007-07-21T09:30:25.602-07:00A Celebration of Life and a Book ReleaseAt the stroke of midnight, the cartons were ripped open at our local Barnes and Noble, heralding in one more milestone for my best-est friend and honorary "little sister", Julie. Five years ago, she was actively engaged in a stem cell transplant as part of the treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, facing each day as a valiant warrior in her own fight. One day she remarked that she would reallyElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-71288410630474219852007-07-17T16:36:00.000-07:002007-07-21T09:03:11.244-07:00My newest nephewWelcome to our family, Samuel William! We love you with all our hearts already, little guy. After waiting more than two years, our family will finally be able to meet and hold and hug this much longed for baby. He will be 9 months old when he arrives in the US on August 9th and will join two sisters and a brother. There is nothing sweeter than adding a new family member. My knitting needles Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-42841905404057165052007-07-16T22:15:00.000-07:002007-07-21T09:33:57.880-07:00Where in the World is DD? Yesterday, my Darling Daughter (DD) was in Seattle but today she is in San Diego. She went to visit her travel buddy, April, with whom she had great adventures last year in Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Ecuador. I thought I would post a picture of the two of them in honor of their time together this week. They just called and are buying the ingredients for Scottish Oat Scones, which is Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-61409781885665570702007-07-15T21:49:00.000-07:002007-07-16T22:54:38.857-07:00Summer Time and the Livin' is SUPPOSED to be easyLast weekend I hung my Ecuadorian hammock (Christmas present from my Darling Daughter--mine is green and white stripes.) I had to put up hooks which meant manning a drill and a screwdriver. The first hole I drilled was too big and the screw just slid in and out. Oops. A little to the left, a drill bit two sizes smaller, and one hook was up. The second one went seamlessly...well, so the hammock isElainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942175269210009680.post-39960790063890053132007-07-14T19:19:00.000-07:002007-07-16T22:56:18.890-07:00Welcome to my blog!After reading others' blogs for awhile now, I've taken the plunge into my own blog space. I'm a mom, a professor, a student and a knitter, ...so plan on my blogs being varied (and sporadic). I hope to hear from you soon!Elainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07736366330698127131noreply@blogger.com0