sherriknits

We have been on the road again since Wed. night.  I had no access to internet til tonight and no way to post pictures.

I’m still knitting up a storm and tinking some….but no concern about that, I’m enjoying the journey.

Have a great and safe Labor Day weekend!

It was a fun time and we hated to come home.  I guess it’s best to come home when we feel that way rather than waiting for it to be time to get home!  One little boy started getting homesick yesterday.  It’s funny that he does that, but he does every year about the day before it’s time to come home.

We’re off!  This is his spot and I don’t even try to sit there.

We had an eventful time getting there.  The RV worked great until we were 5 minutes into the trip.  We had to stop by hubby’s workplace to get something, he left the engine running but when he jumped back in to start it…it would NOT go into gear.  We sat there for at least 30 min. and made several phone calls trying to find someone who might know what was wrong.  No help.  Finally it just jiggled in to place, something is loose in the ignition.

We drove an hour and stopped at Walmart to do our biggest shopping.  Then to the gas station….did it again, but hubby is on to it now and it didn’t hold us up.  We were maybe 10 min. down the freeway and he notices that as it gets dark we have no dash lights.  We pulled over and this is where I found my few min. of wireless connection, my last time for a week.  (yes, I survived!)  This time it was a fuse blown because some wires had accidentally shut in the Jeep door behind us.  It wasn’t too easy changing fuses under the dashboard in the dark.  Thankfully I’d found a flashlight in a drawer when we were moving in to the rv or who knows how we’d have fixed that one.  I don’t think my iPod or cell phone would have put off enough light…they are what I use for a flashlight.

We stayed our first night in a rest area.  After our nice breakfast, we discovered the battery was dead.  This used to happen frequently and hubby unhooked the Jeep, jumped it, and hooked up the Jeep again and away we went.

We stayed the whole week at Blu-Shastin RV Park .  We had one spot for 4 nights, then had to move to another spot for the last 3.  This spot was in the open but we had this nice little yard and we were one space away from the restrooms. 

Before the kids started arriving, I got some serious knitting accomplished.  MS3 is finished! 

And put to rest until I have time to block it….

I am so glad I did this and I really needed this challenge to kick me out of a difficult spot I had been in for way too long.  This project for me was way more than the knitting…it was all about persevering and pushing through obstacles and seeing it to the finish.  I always seem to be able to measure what is going on in my life to what I am working on creatively.  Knitting has been that thing for the last few years and I have learned a lot about myself through it.

I also made this from Cat’s new book.  I’d tell you the name of it, but all of my knitting is still in the Rv and it’s too late to go out there and get it.

I used Lorna’s Laces that I bought from Cashmere Cottage.  I also got some fun sock yarn from Wooly Bully in Leavenworth but haven’t taken a picture of it.

At Stitch n Pitch, I got this lace weight yarn and was really eager to get started on it, I don’t think the needles were cooled off from MS3 before I had this one out.  I’m farther along than this now, but don’t have any pictures.  The pattern is fun and easy.

When it came time to move to the other spot, we had to wait for the current tenants to move out so we could move.

  Hubby was a bit anxious because he didn’t want someone to have to wait for us to move.  He tested the RV to make sure it would start and then turned it off and we waited. and waited.  Finally, they left and we all piled in.  (By now the oldest daughter and her hubby were with us.)  Click. Click. Click.  The battery again.  It would not start.  I finally went for a walk and prayed because it was getting so stressful and when I came back, it was running.  The little boy rode his bike over and most of us walked.

This spot had trees and grass leading to the creek.  Even though we had a little more space and it was shady, it felt like the neighbors were right there with us.  The water was fun, though.

Later this day, the other kids plus one showed up.  We had a tent set up in back and our oldest son and daughter’s boyfriend came in the first morning rather frozen.  We put blankets over the top of the tent and gave them extra for each of them and they did fine the next night. 

We had birthday breakfast for our oldest daughter.

I think we’d have had it outside but the boys hadn’t warmed up yet.

We got her this for her desk at school….(it has her full name and these things are so cool!  She had one for her first years of teaching with her maiden name on it but needed a new one for her new job and new name!)

We all ventured to town and drove up the highway at various times.

Someone hates shopping

But he did enjoy getting a phone call…

We enjoyed our campfire

Do you see the blue ball?  The newlyweds got it for a gift…it’s an ice cream maker!  We filled the outer section with rock salt and ice and the inside with cream, sugar and vanilla.  Here the little boy gets a lesson on what we’re doing.

We tossed it around and around for 10-15 min.  It was fun but we got barely more than a bowl….wow!  It was so good!

I haven’t remembered to do Saturday Sky for a few weeks, but here was the end of the day Sat.  It was nice to get some clouds because the days were so hot the first part of the week.  I don’t do heat well and was kind of glad when it rained one evening for awhile.  (never thought I’d say that!)

Some of the kids left Sat. and some on Sun.  The 3 of us got to enjoy one more day. 

This morning, we were loading up and I went out to help hubby take down the bug tent we got part way through the week because we couldn’t eat outside without entertaining bees.  We found a cheap one in Wenatchee and ate most of our meals outside from then on.  I had barely started helping take out the legs when I felt a sharp pain in the palm of my hand…. a BEE STUNG ME!  Youch.  It wasn’t terrible, but I did not get to knit on the way home today because it aggravated it.  grrrrr

I finished getting everything in place inside while the boys worked outside.

When we checked out, we asked about reserving the spot we had last year for next summer.  Can you believe this? Most of the camp was already booked up for next year.  People tend to like to get their regular spots and we did see several people moving through the week from one spot to another because like us, they got a few days here and a few days there around those who had pre-registered.  It’s a great place for big families and multiple spaces.  We saw many 3-5 spaces taken up by large groups.  We booked our favorite spot for 4 days next year and he told us the 2 open spots for the rest of the week.  We need to figure out which we will move to…kind of a bummer to move from the favorite spot later in the week…but we’re happy.  The only problem we had was one night from 12:30 am until 3 there was a LOUD party across from us.  They came in late, partied loud and in the morning there was a lone tent there and no activity.  The tent was there all day and by the next morning it was gone.  I have no idea what that was all about but it was weird.

I did get a lot more knitting accomplished this week, but forgot to take pictures.  I knit and re-knit two different yarns usimg Cat’s book.  I guess it was more of an educational venture than something that ended up being something.  I am not the least bit upset over knitting, frogging, tinking, re-knitting because I am really just trying to get the concept in my brain.  I wish I’d taken pictures of some of the progress but was just having too much fun.  Some of the attempts just didn’t suit the yarn or I hadn’t gotten the fit quite right.  It makes a little more sense each time I do it, though and it’s pretty exciting!  More on that to come!

I have lots of work to do tomorrow and then we’ll see what the rest of the week holds for us…

Go away on vacation and look what happens!  I have really enjoyed getting to know people I may never have had opportunity to meet.  I am humbled that they would choose me!

Liz surprised me with this.  I happened to get her message when I was on the side of the road on the first day of our vacation.  We were having some minor problems with the motor home and hubby was changing some fuses and I noticed when I turned on my computer that I could get online for the 5 minutes we were parked there.   lol

These awards were started by Roberta Ferguson, and now I am supposed to 1) give her credit, 2) put up the badge and 3) add 5 other rockin’ girl bloggers to the list.

Every time I see someone receive this, they say how hard it was to choose someone to pass it on to.  Now I understand why.   This is hard for me, but this is why Liz nominated me….”who knits beautiful things and has a beautiful outlook on her faith and family”.  Thank you, Liz.  I have said this before and I will say it again, I am ever so grateful to have gotten to “know” you.  Here are my choices in alphabetical order because they are all great:

Diplady … she is a real life friend and I enjoy her enthusiasm for every knitting project she takes on.  I have watched in astonishment over the past year and a half that she has been knitting, nothing scares her.  She’s also a great friend.

Hasbu … she knits such fun things with style and photographs them so beautifully.  I’m so glad her blog is in English as well as Finnish.  She is the first Finnish blog I found.

Heidi … another Finnish blogger (Hasbu’s sis).  Not only do I love her knitting but her photography and her decorating style.  She has helped me understand a lot about Finnish culture and I am so grateful for that.

Lauri … another real-life friend who is a fearless knitter.  She knits 3 or 4 things to everything I start!  We’ve had great times knitting together.

Mary … I’m not exactly sure how I found her blog, but she has entertained me not only with her knitting but her fun way of sharing what she’s up to.  I especially loved her Aug. 16 post! 
 

I got this from  Hasbu…I have thoroughly enjoyed her and her sister’s blogs.  I am Finnish and it is so fun that they post in Finnish and English.  I can actually recognize some of the words I used to hear when I was growing up!

I am going to pass this on to Liz .  This past year has been pretty overwhelming to me at times and she was one who really picked up on it and cared.  I disappeared for a very long time and when I came back, she was right there.  She’s an incredible knitter and how she does that along with all the other things going on in her life, I don’t know but I’m sure grateful to have gotten to know her!

We are leaving for vacation in the morning.  I thought I’d do a quick update and when I logged in to my server, it is all new.  I uploaded pictures but can’t find them, everything is totally foreign.  I may try to find them later, but I’m thinking hubby wouldn’t be too thrilled for me to be sitting here trying to learn something new at a time like this.  We have barely started packing.

A nice thing about going in an rv is that all the kitchen stuff is already in there.  I just need to carry our clothes out and some seasonings and then all our toys that we can’t live without for the week.  I have been making sure I have all my chargers for my iPod, camera, phone…it’s funny how many things I have.  Hubby will take his guitar and his iPod.  I fill my drawer with all my electronic toys.  He only has the iPod because I bought it for him. 

Anyway.  I spent most of yesterday sitting by the window in my shop watching them take the awning and theater sign off the building.  It was so fascinating I couldn’t rip myself away.  They took 10 (!!!!!!) wheelbarrow loads of pigeon ‘droppings’ away from just one side.  Gag.  The poor pigeons, though, they are so uprooted and tonight I saw them hanging on anything they could hold on to.  I wonder where they will find to go, they have lived inside and outside that theater for years.  I took 35 pictures yesterday of the whole process.

In knitting news, I am about 20 rows in to the final clue of the MS3 stole.  I have seen some of the blocked finished ones and I am wondering if I am going to like it.  It’s sure been a lot of work.  Hubby is quite convinced it will be beautiful.  I’ll finish hopefully tomorrow and then move on to something else.  I have to really figure out tonight what I need to take with me knitting-wise. That will fill a whole cupboard in the rv, it always does.  Thankfully we will have more room than we are used to since it will be the 3 of us for most of the week.  The others will come later in the week.

I am also working on a pair of little socks for Afghans for Afghans and hope to also make a hat.  Then I will be free to work on New Pathways (Cat Bordhi’s new method) and I’m excited about that.  I think that will drive me to get the rest done because I think about it all the time.

We won’t have internet in the park we will be in, but may go find a connection at some point.  It’s kind of a hard time to be away from email given some things going on in our lives, but that’s ok.  I’m sure we can use the break and it sure doesn’t stop the phone from ringing.  Sometimes I wish it would. 

We may have some company part of the week.  Some good friends were going to camp locally but it is supposed to rain and everything else kind of fell apart for them as far as their kids and their schedules so they may come find us.  That would be fun.  As some know, we have gone thru some very difficult things this past year and it just doesn’t seem to go away…and these friends are also involved so we could all stand to spend a day or two just having fun.  We plan to have fun no matter what.

Last year, we got to stay in the coolest rv site…it was so private and I really spent hours and hours praying and knitting by the river and felt secluded and peaceful.  They told us this year that they call that site the ‘honeymoon suite’ and it has been occupied all summer.  We may tentatively reserve it for next year.  This year we can’t have a riverside spot, but we’ll be right across the driveway from it and the park is nice no matter where we are.  I really don’t care this time.  I plan to enjoy whereever we are.  Hubby is just happy we are going over the mountains where it is dry.

Sooo, when we get home, I hope to have some knitting to show after I figure out how in the world to access my pictures.  lol

I have spent some time on Ravelry.  It gets more intriguing the more I look into it.  I uploaded some of my projects and book titles.  Haven’t had a lot of time to do much more than that.  I have been able to join a few groups and a few people have hooked up as friends so I can see what they’re up to.  It’s pretty cool and I certainly recommend getting on.  I think the waiting line is only 15,000 at this point.  I got in the day before the wedding (June 23) and haven’t really taken time until recently to see how really cool it is.

I got as much of my real job’s work done tonight but get this.  My flash drive broke so I went to Walmart to get a new one and while I was gone, hubby couldn’t get the mouse to work on the desktop.  We had to go to get the main computer from my job and bring it here so I could do the work.  I did leave a note in case they thought someone stole it!  I need to return it in the morning, that was a little more work than putting the info on a little jump drive though.  I hope to remember to ask the programmer if we can drop off our desktop and our new one that he has never been able to figure out how to get the program I use on to…he is going to clone it and I just haven’t taken time to take it all to him.  He is never in a hurry to get it back to us and one small boy then has nothing to use.  This is the perfect time for that although when I get home, I have to do more bookwork before we can finish our vacation. 

With that, I better get packin’!  I plan to be up much of tonight.  Have a great week, all! 

I have to say, it has been so much fun to have my little shop.  My customers have become my friends and constantly bless me just by being able to get to know them.  The other night we had our knit night and look what one of my friends brought me!

She knit me a bead bracelet and I just love it!

It’s so beautiful, I would have worn  this to the wedding!  All day yesterday, I just kept looking at it and enjoying it so much.  Thanks so much, Amber!

This is my latest sock using Cat’s new method.

Next sock, I think I will do single strand and make it for normal wear.  It’s just nice to do something quick so I can work through the different parts and try to get the concept to stick in my head a little more each time.

Last night we went on our mini-date.  We were on a quest for shoes for the little imp.  Who knew it would be so hard!  I couldn’t find any locally so we went to Olympia.  The first store we went to had nothing for him, but hubby and I both ended up with new shoes…it was buy one get on half-off and since I have found I can’t wear any cheap shoes but my Crocs any more, it seemed like a good deal.  I actually could have bought 3 pairs, but I resisted.

The one good thing is that I wear my shoes for years and years.

Then we went to Barnes and Noble and I could not believe what I found!  I was restless and couldn’t find anything to look at so I was wandering around and came upon a table of audio books.  I have looked and looked for this book on audio but could never find it for less than $30.  I could barely contain my excitement when I found this for $15 after our membership discount and an extra coupon!

I read this last summer, a few chapters at a time at B&N.  I knew I wanted to buy it but I wanted to savor it by reading bits at a time.  When we left on vacation last year, I finally bought it (the same copy I had been reading there) and made myself make it last.  I don’t know why it affected me so deeply, but it really did.  I will listen to it while on vacation this year.  Hubby and I listened to it on the way home last night and he actually enjoyed what he heard but I bet I can’t get him to listen to 16 hrs but we’ll see.  We have listened to books before together in the car and loved it.  He just can’t do his channel surfing that way.

This weekend or early next week, we’re taking off for a little bit on vacation.  The little imp is pretty excited because look what’s sitting in front of our house waiting to take us away.

We have some great friends who lend us this almost every year for the past 6 years or so.  This time it will just be the 3 of us taking off and then the older kids will come when they can.  Some of them will have to set up a tent because our family is growing.  We love getting to do this.  The little imp is hilarious, he thinks he owns this.  When we go to our friends’ house, he goes straight into it and sits in *his* seat…the passenger side.  Good thing I hate sitting there.  I get to do whatever I want, watch a movie, read, knit…and they navigate. 

It’s always fun trying to make something to eat while we travel, usually sandwiches…and not lose it all over the floor.  Our funniest experience was when we were trying to get to Ka-knee-ta (sp?) and it was so scary winding down or up on the narrow road.  I was just about to scream “slow down!” (we were only going about 30 but it was so rattle-y and steep) but before I could get the words out, the refrigerator door flew open and we had pop cans and fruit rolling everywhere.  The kids and I were laughing so hard and trying to gather it all up that we didn’t have to endure the rest of the trip.  I loved the campground there but never want to do that again, it was awful.

We leave this weekend and have 2 weeks off altho we won’t be away all that time.  Woo hoo!

We took our family to the county fair yesterday.  Our very generous friend bought our family (9 when you count the add-ons) and several other people front row tickets to see Lincoln Brewster.  It started out great…except the little imp only made it 3 strums in to the warm - up and put the hood up on his sweatshirt and covered his ears as tight as he could.  We moved way to the back and gave 2 good friends our seats.  We still had a great time and he participated in clapping and singing along.  I didn’t really think Lincoln would enjoy seeing him holding his ears like that, might have been a little distracting, we were front row center.  lol

The unfortunate thing was towards the end of the concert, the rain cloud we’d been watching just let loose.  It was a downpour of grand proportions.  I had an umbrella and shared it with a friend and the little imp.  We all got wet in some way, but it was definitely better than nothing.  He did get an encore in spite of the rain and since my friend thought it was over and had gone up front to find her hubby, I put the big boy on my lap and we stayed drier, but he was really annoyed with his wet shorts so we skedaddled over to the agriculture building to wait for dad….who was drenched when he found us.  All he could say was how cool it was, dripping wet and all.

I’m glad he enjoyed it so much because he had really bad news when he got to church yesterday.  He was leading worship so he went early.  He discovered his bass had been stolen!  It happened in a 20 minute period after everyone had left Sat. night. The church is often a hub of activity for various things, hubby always goes out Sat. night to get ready when he’s on the worship team.  When he left, a friend was playing guitar while waiting for someone else and he said yes, indeed, the bass was there.  We have church members who live right on the edge of the property altho they have to drive down the driveway and over to their home.  They heard the alarm and went up there to find a policeman standing in the foyer trying to find contact information. 

Here’s what happened…someone kicked in the side door and you can only make it 4 feet before the alarm system activates.  They must have dashed in and grabbed the bass (a fair jaunt through the sanctuary) and out the door.  The doors have all already been re-inforced. 

I appreciate his attitude because he has chosen to keep a good attitude.  I’m sure it’s not easy as he has to make phone calls to all area music stores, some pawn shops, etc.  We know it will all work out, but there was sentiment attached to that bass because of some emotional things he had worked through in life … he bought it at a time that he was re-focussing on what God was doing in his life.  It will be interesting to see how it all works out.

Back to the fair before I start crying because I am so proud of him.

We didn’t really look at the animals as we could have because we were wet and uncomfortable.  This little boy begged me to take his picture.

The little guy really enjoyed the train, especially when the engineer sent him a gift.

Candy!  However, he had quite a time understanding that the train dumped it into the little chute, so big sis got in there and showed him.  He laughed and laughed. Yea for sisters!

And last but not least,  I am done with clue 6.  I have all week to practice Cat’s new sock method. 

It’s really hard to photograph at this point.  I am intrigued with what it is going to look like.  It has really been fun and I may just take part again next year.

Today I finished that quilt block ~ got it attached to the fabric and got our name on it.  Feels good.

Last night, I started my first full-sized sock from Cat’s new book.  I did the Tibetan Sock and got the toe increases done before I went to bed.  Today, I didn’t get to start knitting until probably 2 pm….and I am wearing a finished sock right now!

The sock is done double-stranded on size 5 needles…but it is all so strange compared to knitting socks the traditional way.  I think it is nothing short of amazing!  My sock is a little loose and I will make adjustments for that, but it is so comfortable, I love it!  The sock is intended to be a house sock but my friend said hers fit easily in her crocs.  

Look at how different it is.

Cat is a genius!  My book is already looking used.  I have post-it notes and tablet paper scattered through it with all my equations but she says you will come to a point where you do not need to keep referring to it all.  It is making more sense to me now, but I’ve got a way to go.  I do remember how confusing making a tradional sock was, though, soI’m must going to enjoy learning.

The weekly mystery clue will be posted by the time I get up in the morning and then I’ll be back to that.  I’m so glad I got to feel like I accomplished something fun, though.  We only have 2 more clues, so next Friday will be the final and then we’ll see where we all end up.  It has been a fun experience for me. 

A few months ago, my niece asked each family member to make a quilt block for her daughter’s first birthday.  I was just getting caught up in wedding plans and told her there was no way I could get it done before the wedding.  She said she really didn’t need them until early August.  For the last few weeks, it has been eating on me.  The worst part of it for me is coming up with an idea.  We each have a square piece of cotton, mine is pink.  Last week, I thought maybe I’d knit a sock shape or a sweater shape and sew it to the square, but it just wasn’t clicking.  Yesterday, Lauri  suggested just doing a square.  Bingo.

The lighting isn’t great and it is not really blocked yet.  Tomorrow I will attach it to the cotton square and try to write our name on the cotton.  (gosh those pens are expensive, I hope it works!)

What do I really want to be doing?  Knitting a sock using Cat Bordhi’s new pathways method.  Tomorrow I will do that since I only have one day before the new clue comes out for the stole.

I had to share this little picture.  Melissa sent the dear boy a belated birthday card.

Thanks, Melissa…he loved it!

And while I’m at it, we just got the pics from the photographer.  The kids bought the digital rights.  There are over 700 to sort through..and their album is just beautiful.  We have this skinny little white book…they have this  huge black incredibly laid out album…and then this disk with tons more pics.

How could you not smile at these?

He’s on his way to get me after walking the grandmas down the aisle.  Someone right in this area got his attention every single time.

And his favorite food in all the world?  Vanilla ice cream!

And the moment that brought the big gasp ~ the bride and her daddy.  (imagine the sound those huge doors made when they were opening!)

And now I am going to steal a few minutes of knitting before I go to bed!

Today I finished clue 5…the first time since this whole mystery shawl started, I have time to spare. 

There are so many pictures around of what the whole thing looks like that I am just going to show the pattern.   Once you get the pattern, it’s easy.  (until you tell your friend that you can recognize when you make a mistake now….and 2 pattern rows after that statment was made, there was a glaring error.  I didn’t think I was in danger of getting too proud of myself….lol)

So, what am I going to do with my time?  Study my new book….New Pathways for Sock Knitters.  The concept is still new and I want to practice a little.  I got to try on my friend’s sock and I LOVED how it felt!

When I went to work today we had some real entertainment.  The theater work across the street continues and it was getting a little scary watching these fellows work.  When I arrived today, the lights were getting pulled off.

I took it through the window because there wasn’t time to get outside.  It’s all quite a mess.

Add to it the fact that it’s raining…yuck.  It is fun, though….

Yesterday was therapy.  The little man and I went alone…which wasn’t a problem except I had to use the restroom.  I was considering how to handle it, and realized all I can do is take him in there with me, which flips him out because it’s the ladies’ room.  I just can’t risk leaving him outside, it doesn’t take much to distract him and he forgets all he knows to go after what’s in front of him.  As I made the decision and was dreading the fight, I saw coming towards me from the other end of the parking lot my sister-in-law and nieces!  What timing.

Anyway…he worked very hard yesterday.

When he has to do the writing, his breathing radically changes…very labored and he starts sweating.  He hates it.  Ah well, tis life.

As usual, I had a rough start to the new clue…it just seems to be my way.  The pattern is fairly simple but it’s short rows and I had to learn how to tink back without losing the purl 2 tog at the end of the purl rows….they get away so fast!  I finally got smart and put a lifeline in the last row of clue 4.  I wore out some of the yarn and ended up just breaking it off and starting over.  I had the brilliant idea of changing needles and ended up with quite a mess on my hands.  Oh well, it’s just part of the journey.

I know it’s all over the internet, but in case you don’t know about the mystery stole, we did find out last Friday what the theme was…Swan Lake.  The last part of the shawl is a wing…it is asymmetrical.  Melanie gives the option of repeating all of the clues over and making it symmetrical but I think most are going with her original design.  I am hoping I don’t regret shortening it, but personally, I just don’t want to go back any more.  It should be about 66 inches and I hope that’s enough.

I seem to be sailing smoothly now.  I’m on row 71 of 99 rows.  It was my hope that I’d finish the clue this weekend so I could knit on something else, but it wasn’t to be. 

Tomorrow we go for the little boy’s therapy.  We have only gone once this summer so far.  This will be the only visit this month because we hope to take a little bit of time off later this month if I can figure out how to do it.  I think it would just be the 3 of us this time since the other kids are working now.

The little imp got a job at church morning.  We give mugs filled with candy to any first-time visitors.  A few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend and I saw him take some of the mugs to the front to hold them up when they asked if we had any new visitors.  I am not a mom who sits back smiling when her child does something like this, but somehow I saw he had a need to have a part.  So did the the head usher and he went up with him and sat in the front row.  When some people raised their hands, he steered him to them and they were pretty tickled.  I was talking to them this morning and they said they could certainly arrange to have him help.  He needs to understand that he can’t do it every week, no one else does… but he can have a part.  It might keep his thoughts from being part of the worship team. 

I was blessed so much during worship this morning.  Hubby was leading and during one of the songs, I heard a beautiful (young lady’s) voice singing this song:

Amazing grace, How sweet the sound
Amazing love, Now flowing down
From hands and feet, That were nailed to the tree
As grace flows down and covers meCHORUS:
It covers me
It covers me
It covers me
And covers me 

and it took me a minute to wonder who it was…when I looked up there, I could have fallen over…it was my #2 daughter who was the only female on the platform! (I did know she was playing keyboard).  We’ve always known she had a beautiful voice but she hides it from us all.  She also has a heart of worship.  She’s been leading worship in youth church for a few weeks, but we’ve respected her wishes to not go until she is more comfortable.  To hear her voice come out so strong and clear during Sunday service was so incredible.  Hubby and I have been humbly grateful the past few months over our kids and what we are seeing.  So, my heart just sings today.  I am the only un-musical member of our family, but I do love worship just the same…I just need someone to follow.

I totally forgot Saturday’s sky yesterday and can’t even remember what it was like…pretty exciting, eh?

Back to knitting a few rows on this crazy stole!