Texas

I have been in Texas since Tuesday evening. My son in law won a trip to Orlando and took Stacy with him - they left Wednesday morning. They return tomorrow evening and I will head back to Kansas on Sunday morning - bright and early so I get home in time to watch the last NASCAR race of the year. What will my weekends be like now until mid February! I will miss the last Nationwide race - go Clint!

I brought a couple of sewing projects to work on while the kids are in school. A friend has a friend that wanted a stuffed animal made from her deceased mother's clothes to give to her baby. I finished a bear and it met with great approval by Jessica - she is 11 but loved hugging it. Now I am working on a small patchwork quilt made from the lady's t-shirts and jeans. It isn't coming out as well, but hopefully will be ok.

I brought Jessica the sweater for her American Girl doll and am now making a matching stocking cap for it. I finished a hat for either Isabel or Audrey. Now have started another so there will be two. Lily already has one.
Lily has a cold but Jimmy took her to the doctor and we are very happy to find out she is really gaining weight. She is over 17 pounds now (with clothes on). The tube feedings are very successful.

Things have gone well - took the dog for a walk each day and he did great. I wish he wouldn't bark outside as if he does I have to bring him inside. This area has a lot of rules and one is no barking. Also can't take the trash out to the street before 6 in the evening. I started to take it out in the afternoon yesterday and realized no one had theirs out so figured there must be a rule about that too. The cat finally let me pet her today so that was a big success. She is the true "scaredy cat". I have gotten the kids to school and swimming practice on time each day. Tomorrow we have swimming practice then a soccer game and then we are going to a movie. Each night we had homework, practice instruments, etc but they did great. I am sure they will be very happy to have mom and dad home.

Dennis is deer hunting - so far has one doe but still trying for a buck.

Laura has a new blog - if I knew how, I would link to it from here. :) I don't know how she thinks of all the things she writes on all her blogs and twitter too. I have trouble thinking of things to say. I think she has three blogs plus she does the twitter and flickr and probably others.

The kids will be home soon. A friend has brought them home each day so I baked cookies for her. I will run them out to the car when they pull in. The weather has been beautiful - in the 70's each day. I have really enjoyed sitting outside knitting.