sherriknits

Last week there was not one day that there wasn’t something going on.  It was fun, but I am sure enjoying my day off after I got some paperwork done for the little imp.

#1 son had his 21st birthday last week.  It seems like just yesterday he was a babe in arms.  This young man is my sensitive one, he loves tradition and he’s been a joy to my heart.  He’s kind and loving, creative and funny.  He’s talented in so many ways.  He was the child God promised me when it didn’t look like there would be another child and he’s been all I could have wanted.  We’ve often thought of him as the entertainer in this family with his quiet sense of humor.  When we had a Japanese student many years ago, her parents wrote me saying they heard he was very mischevious…but our student loved him and he was the one who broke the ice when we were all so nervous. 

This year we got him a Baskin & Robbins ice cream cake, yummm!

Then we had the first shower yesterday for the little bride. 

Since this was for family and the big sis now sells Sensaria, we did a little foot spa at the same time. 

My sister decided to do the shower this way since it was mostly just our family and January has double hostess credits so she gave most of them to the bride.  She is well set-up now to pamper herself before the wedding.  What a blessing for her!  Beautiful gifts and lots of new Sensaria!

The other day I got to work and found this sitting on my desk…

I could barely contain my joy!  This was my grandma’s fishing pole and many, many years ago I caught my very first fish with it…a shark! 

My grandparents had taken my sister and I fishing and there was no way they could convince us that the shark was not going to eat us alive (it was probably 18 inches long but I remember it as HUGE) so we hid behind my grandma while my grandpa puttered us around in the little boat we were in.  We had to help him bury it so we could be assured it was not going to come get us. lol  I am thinking we didn’t hear much about catch and release in those days.

Anyway, my grandma had always told me the pole would be mine some day.  It got lost years ago, but my brother found it several years ago in the garage of our beach cabin and rescued it.  He had always intended to paint it for me.  I am secretly glad he didn’t because this is the way it was.  It is a huge treasure to me now!

And yes, I have some knitting to show.  I finished hubby’s Fuzzy Feet.  We’ll see if he actually wears them, but at least he finally gets an FO. 

I’m not sure I’d use tweed to felt with again, but they felted just fine.  I think the extra money for the tweed gets lost in the felting. 

yarn: Cascade 220 tweed

pattern: Fuzzy Feet from Knitty.com

I followed the pattern as written and just knit them longer and they came out just fine.

All day today, I thought I’d get to have some sit down and knit time, but I had an eligibility review to complete for the little imp.  Every year I sit on hold for half an hour to ask how I am supposed to fill the form out because it is so unclear.  This year, the girl told me to fill it out as if it was me.  She told me she was sick and wasn’t familiar with the form but when I asked if I should just call back, she said no, no one else really knew either.  lol…yikes!   I could not believe all the things they asked for…and I waded through it but just felt like it wasn’t right so I called again this morning, sat for at least 40 min. on hold to finally get someone who I felt knew what he was talking about.  He said no, fill it out as if it was him and just carry it in to their office. It had 2 layers of white-out on it but he said no big deal.  What’s weird is, even though I have to fill out the paperwork, he is on a waiver and won’t lose services anyway.  I am always so confused.  And yea!  That’s done for another year!

We had company all weekend, the grandparents from Oregon.  They left this morning and now the little imp and I are the only ones home for a few hours and just enjoying some down time.   Maybe now I can get out my knitting!