Happy Home Cross Stitch

Yay it's finished! Right down to being pressed and sewn up just right. This one had a lot of little details to it. Plenty of French Knots and Lazy Daisies lemme tell ya. But it's cute and it's perfect in my kitchen...

It's been awhile...

Things are still well way up here. The weather has been great and despite rising gas prices I seem to be out and about a lot lately. Softball and concerts and church activities have us all busy. The girls are doing great and looking forward to summer vacation's arrival in a month and a half. Can you believe that?








We celebrated Em's 8th birthday last week. Being 8 means being old enough to cut and serve your own cake.









I love the fact that my child still believes that she grows on her birthday. She came down in the morning and after waking me with the information that "It's the big day!" she looked herself over and decided she was bigger. She's always done this and I'll be sad I think, when the year comes and she realizes all her growth doesn't happen just one day a year.

Next up is Ash's 14th birthday. I handled my 30th better than I'm handling their birthdays this year. I can't believe my children are this old, lol. Also not helping is the fact that Em has received not one but TWO phone calls from a boy this week.

Not crochet craftiness going on lately but I am working on finishing up another x-stitch. A few more days and it'll be done.

I don't know if there are any readers still visit here but if you see this then I'm hoping things are going well for you all and everyone is enjoying spring.

Back before crochet the only crafting I did was cross stitching. I bought a small kit the other day and then while cleaning out a closet I found the box that contained all my old x-stitch projects. I've been working on those this past week.


This was made for my friend Liz.













And this one was, not surprisingly, almost finished in the box. I added the back-stitching and cut it out and voila!


Other than that life's pretty normal around here. Spring break is just about over but we had beautiful weather all week and it was lovely.

Back from Binghamton

Oh what a weekend! Unfortunately neither of the kids teams' placed but they did have fun and they learned a lot about the competition for next year.

Emily was very well behaved considering there was nothing for her to do but tag along. We brought her Game Boy and some books but it was still a long day for her.

I was irritated beforehand by the notion that it was just going to be a madhouse of ill behaved children running around willy-nilly but all in all the kids were great. There was one mom who gained hero status in my eyes by pulling her child aside and discreetly telling him she'd send him home so fast his head would spin and I swear he almost saluted. He wasn't a little guy either. I love a mom who can command that much obedience from her child while remaining calm and composed.

We ate out a lot and shopped a little. It still added up to a ton of money even with free breakfast and packed lunches for Saturday. We're terrible spenders. But really, I think Olive Garden is so worth every penny when you only get to have it once or twice a year, lol.

And that's about all. We're all exhausted and taking today off.

I'm still, still out here somewhere. Life's been busy. Things are good here.

The kids compete in State Finals next weekend and they are both excited. It should be fun.

This weekend will be spent celebrating a friend's birthday and Easter.

Seriously, we've just become boring and non entertaining. I haven't crafted in forever so I have no yarny goodness to report, I've been reading a lot more lately. Em's basketball season is winding down, Ash starts softball next week. Hubby's working and makin the big bucks. The dogs are sort of annoying but still cute, we're having power struggles.

But I am still reading blogs and commenting here and there and trying to keep up. I'm noticing a lot of blogs I like haven't updated in a while and even when they do it's often with a "I'm still here post." Is blogging losing it's popularity? Who knows.

And now I'm off to finish getting supplies for Sunday. Happy Easter to all!!

There they are. 1st place winners both of 'em! They competed on different teams from different schools in our Regional Odyssey of the Mind competition this afternoon. Both will move on to the State Competitions. Both are immensely proud of themselves. :) They both had a great time and we're all very proud of them.

Andy and I spent the day going between the competition and my mothers. This weather is terrible and I worried we'd have a hard time getting home but, thank God, the roads weren't too terrible. The poor dogs were cooped up all day though and they were beyond happy to see us come in the door.

Everyone say a little prayer that this weather let's up by tomorrow afternoon ok? Goodnight!

Don't freak!

I'm here, just starting anew. :D