Home again, Home again

I'm finally home! We got stuck in PA for 2 days, after not being able to leave NH for 2 days later than planned--so it all washed out. Both times were due to snow, etc!
I'm pretty exhausted, so for now here's some pictures!

Five Questions.. and Five Things...or...

Angi is crazy, one of the these!!

here's how this works. For the first part, 5 Questions--my dear readers can ask me five questions--either in comments or feel free to email them if you'd prefer. I'll answer them in the blog as soon as time allows.

For the second, Five Things About Me:
Here are the rules:

1. Get tagged
2. List five things that have not been revealed on your blog
3. Tag five other people

Wow, I am not sure what all to list. I found this on Jenna's blog, and since I still owe her not one, but TWO PIF's, I figured it'd be nice if I took a tag! :)

1: I used to desperately want to learn to dance. Real dancing, not just the stuff I'd make up in my bedroom or the attic and pretend with. We're talking around age 8 here, and no I never had lessons.
2: I've been engaged twice before finding and marrying my husband!
3: My maiden name is actually my adopted name. My mother's husband at the time adopted me, and no I have no idea who or where my birth father is.
4: I had mononucleuosis in my senior year of high school and missed 4 months of school and had to be hospitalized for it. Lemme assure you--NOT Fun! LOL And I didn't even KISS anyone !
5: I grew up in a teeny town, and graduated high school in 1989. There were 89 students in my class. We were the biggest graduating class in 5 years.

Okay that's my five! I tag Jamie, Cathy, Belinda, Sue, and anyone else who wasn't tagged!

Best Valentine's ever, sorta :)

What a lovely day--for the most part! Mostly because it happened the day before! We got hammered with a snowstorm on Valentine's Day, and so DH was stressed and tired. We didn't really spend any time together. However, the night before was lovely! I got my hair done, and I LOVE it! Then I got home to my Valentine's gifts from my hubby and daughter.

Tory got me a faery statuette. The most touching thing about it is that it looks like her in such an uncanny way that I burst into tears. It will be my most treasured rose forever:



My husband-who has a huge jewelry backlog after 5 years together and no real ability to buy anything other than our wedding rings, bought me earrings. They are small, but lovely and I again was in tears from the cards and the gift. I am so blessed!



been stitching away on the models, although I'm missing 2 colors of Anchor (not sure how that happened!) Hopefully with packing et al today I can move further ahead on the other model! Otherwise I'm just getting ready for the trip!

Peace..

I remember sleep...

vaguely...

When the kiddo doesn't sleep, neither does the mom!! She did sleep better last night, so I got more sleep than I have lately.

I finished up Zoe's Spot RR last night-- I did most of this at the hospital! Zoe stitched the top row and the deer, I did the four spots!

Nebs and inhalers, oh my!

Well, if I liked doctors, I wouldn't by now. We just got back from another wonderful afternoon spent in the Emergency Department due to Tory's asthma. She has been coughing horrifically for over a week, and this morning she started coughing up blood-laced mucus. So off to the ER we trekked, and got there around noon. At 4:30 pm we were finally finished, after x-rays and many tests--her asthma has kicked into high gear, but no pneumonia or any infection. I'd have been surprised if there were since last Monday her Dr put her on zithromax and prednisone. We have a script for some heavy duty cough syrup and a direction to find a pediatric pulmonary specialist.

So the only stitching I did this weekend was in the ER LOL. I crocheted 2 rows on my gramma's blanket, plus did 2 full spots on the Spot Sampler RR I got in the mail yesterday. That's about it *blah*! LOL

Peace

This'n That

Not much new today--I shipped out my Spot RR, finished an ornie for Cathy's JN RR, and I've nearly got the green wrap done on Autumn Faery Spirit. I'll finish that up tonight and rotate away from it :( It's such a gorgeous piece!

Tory is back in school, and catching up again. I dropped all sorts of stuff at the nurses office--inhaler, nebulizer stuff, aerochamber, instructions etc. We have a great nurse!!

Well here's my Spot RR. I didn't do much but the border, which is from Indigo Rose's Catherine Agnes. I'll fill the specialty stuff in when I get it back! The purple varigated is SNC Wild Violets,the green overdye is Dinky Dyes silk Rainforest. It's 4-sided, but I couldn't get a great picture of the whole thing, at least not that you could *see* it. I greatly enlarged the border as charted, since it was just 100x100.

Baby, it's cold outside!

Well we're in the middle of this deep chill, with more to come apparently! Not a good time for Tory to be struggling with her asthma again. She's home from school again--yesterday and today. Dr. put her back on prednisone and zithromax, and did a strep swab--the rapid test was negative. We're stepping up nebulizer treatments again, and I've got to take some stuff to the school in case she has problems there. Though nighttime seems to be her worst time!

I've been stitching, and I've got my Spot RR ready to go out, and I've finally figured out a layout for my Mirabilia RR. I need to get a HUGE piece of fabric for it though, 28x35 at the least. That's one massive piece of fabric!! I have planned to do the top part of Mirabilia's Rose Celebration, and then there are 8 sections around her for the other RR members. Hopefully I can get the fabric soon, so I can have it ready for the April 2nd maildate.

My other love right now in stitching is Passione Ricamo's Autumn Faery Spirit. The colors are absolutely stunning! I'm stitching her on SMF's Snickerdoodles, which is perfect. I've found it VERY hard to put her down, but I forced myself! I may up my goal time on her to 10 hours though, she's so pretty!

Hopefully everyone is warm!

adding some pictures for update on the Autumn Faery Spirit WIP and my kitty!

February Stitching Goals

I got out of the habit of setting goals lately, and I can tell! So here's the ones for February:

1: Finish Shop Models!!!! Both of them.
2: Ship out Spot RR on time
3: Stitch JN RR
4: Stitch 5 hours on Autumn Faery Spirit.
5: Stitch 2 ornaments
6: Start laying out Mira RR

Tagged!!

Well I said I wasn't going to do this, but I've got some time on my hands so what the heck. I was tagged by Jamie to list 6 weird things about myself. Huh.. I have to narrow it down to six--this should be interesting!

1: I am totally territorial about my kitchen--to the point that I have to leave the house sometimes if someone else is cooking.
2: If a food doesn't appeal to (or smells icky) my sense of smell, there's no way I can swallow it. Period.
3: I have zero interest in watching black & white movies, or most old movies.
4: I won't burn candles if my house is messy
5: I eat mayo on almost everything, including hot dogs.
6: I am obsessive about the order of my bookshelves. I group by author, genre and perhaps size. But I NEVER mix genres on the same shelf. This is a source of slight stress in my life at the moment, as DH just adores a hodge podge. No sorting, period *shudders*

Okay I'm sure there are TONS more, but that's all I'm admitting to!! Consider yourself tagged if you want to do this!