sherriknits

What is that mess of tangled yarn?  (well, I guess you can’t see the tangles, they are out of sight)…but I am learning a new method of two stranded knitting.  Lauri ever so patiently tried to teach me how to hold both yarns but I was getting quite the tangle and twist and we both got distracted helping another friend get pictures for Ravelry that I forgot to have her show me again.

So tonight, I visited Philosopher’s Wool and watched their video and their method is really fun!  I’m just going to practice it on a small project and see what I come up with.

Gosh, my head is just full of thoughts tonight.  We went to a wonderful wedding tonight and saw old friends. 

The wedding was beautiful (in spite of the fact that the poor bride and groom both had the flu over the last 2 days…we’re talking sick!)  You sure couldn’t tell.  She just glowed.  I have watched her grow up.  When we first started going to our church, she was the cutest little girl with little french braids and big dark eyes.  Her mama and I have been friends for a long time…we did a Bible study years ago that started out being about 15 women and ended up after many months of being just the two of us.  We were friends before, but that just really cemented it.  She is a good friend and her children are beautiful. 

We visited with friends who have moved away and I just marvel at how touching it is to meet up with people and feel like you can just pick up where you left it and still feel a bond.  We’ve all walked different journeys and life has taught us a lot, has shaken up our thinking, hopefully making us better for it.  If we can’t learn from the hard stuff and let it shape character in our lives, then what’s it all about?  I hate to ever waste a hurt…but want to learn what I need to learn and move on to becoming that person I was created to be.

I feel like the theme of my day is appreciating who God has put in my life.  I had so much fun this afternoon at my shop with two good friends who I would never have built relationship with if I didn’t have the shop.  We took pictures for Ravelry and marveled at the excellent knitting.  I aspire to be anything close to these two.  But it’s not just that.  Isn’t it fun to get to know people and find that area that you share and build relationship from that?  I feel like my life is so rich with friends, good people.

And then there are the people I have met here.  It’s good.

My little imp was not interested in posing for a picture tonight.  He’s a teenager, what else can I say.  lol

I have so many busy days ahead and so much to do between now and then….gosh.  HELP!   I need to slow down, take a deep breath and take one thing at a time. 

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My lucky lurker socks are done. One is a little wonky and I may take it out and re-do the cuff only. 

That will be for another day.  The socks are going to be very warm!

The family was on tv tonight for a fundraiser.  I snapped a few pictures but couldn’t use flash so they didn’t come out the greatest but I wanted to show them all.  From left to right…

#1 daughter, #2 daughter, #1 daughter’s best friend, future son-in-law, hubby, and behind him #1 son.  If this didn’t just warm a mom’s heart.

Next we have the church youth band.  Again here are the 2 girls, the son-in-law and #1 son.  The future groom is still on the drums but I couldn’t get him in from where I was sitting.

I just love hearing this girl play flute.  We never minded the years of practicing because she is just talented.

I had a meeting to go to before they played so I dropped by to pick up the little imp  and he had no intention of going home.  I finally found him sitting out in the audience with his new brother.  He was praying.

I started on my other sock club yarn but once again am going to have to adapt the pattern to fit.  This yarn is so fine I almost wonder if I should go down to 000 needles.  We’ll see how this works out.

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We had therapy today and after we were done eating, I started digging in my purse and gosh….no wallet.  This is the girl speaking who lost her debit card last week.  Thankfully, the bride-to-be had her debit card in the car so she went to get it and refused to let me pay her back.  Kind of embarrassing.  They don’t take checks at Red Robin and the server did tell me I could just come back.

I did find my wallet in my yarn bag that I almost didn’t bring with me.  I always have some of my stuff in that bag, too…but rarely do I put something like that in there.  You know how you start desperately thinking about where you had it last.  Ahhh, well, lunch was good.

We did a bit of wedding idea shopping and that was fun.  Therapy is going to take a new direction.  We are going to continue working on what we’ve been doing (handwriting, gross motor skills) but we are going to work towards life skills, too.  In that arena, he helped take care of her plants today.

We stopped by Barnes and Noble on the way home and  he made himself comfortable.

(there is a High School Musical dvd game there and he is obsessed with looking at it.  He has a HSM cd game but he thinks he needs anything that has that name on it)

I snuck a picture of him yesterday at church before we left.  We stayed through the first part of 2nd service because yesterday was the day we had the engagement announced.  I wish I had had my camera out when they did the announcement because they asked the couple to stand up and he stood up with them.  It was adorable.  I was sitting against the wall so I got a cute perspective of it.

He was singing at the top of his lungs, it was so sweet.

And in the knitting world.  I got to ride today so I got a good bit of progress on the Lucky Lurker sock. 

I got new sock blockers!

(and I figured out why my pictures have been so foggy…the lens had some crud on it.  How in the world does that happen when it only comes out to snap a picture, then goes back into the camera?)

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