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Gosh, I just haven’t been here, have I?

All is well, I think life has been a little uneventful, but this is good, right?

I’ve been buried in trying to get my yarn mess cleaned up, what a disaster. How does all this stuff make it’s way in to my house, anyway? I can’t figure it out. I really need a room for all this lovely mess. I’m not the most organized person and tend to make a mess out of any organization I manage to accomplish …. ugh.

I guess I shouldn’t say life has been uneventful. Last week we had two huge events with my brothers. One of them has MS and it’s been so difficult watching him go through what he’s gone through. Now we find out he may need brain surgery (very likely) for a condition called chiari malformation. At first, he was devastated, now I think he is beginning to feel hope that it would help with some of the symptoms he’s been struggling with. I hurt over seeing him suffer. We would surely appreciate all prayers. He goes for a 2nd opinion on April 1 and if that confirms the first doctor’s opinion, then surgery will be soon after. Amazingly, now they are going to check his daughter for the same thing. She’s a young mom.

The other big event is that my other brother got married Saturday. I have a great new sister-in-law and look forward to having her part of the family!

I have had 2 run-ins with our cat.

Don’t let her apparent cuteness fool you.

The other night, I was almost asleep and I stuck my leg out of the covers. Instant major, major pain! I started screaming and poor Kenny, who was sound asleep was jolted awake and yelling, “”do you have a charlie horse? what’s wrong?” I was so shocked and hurt so bad I couldn’t answer. She sliced my toe with her claw (I assume, maybe she bit me…I don’t know!” Then it gets funny. Kenny got up and grabbed her, she was instantly growling at him. Skip to Ben. He is asleep and suddenly wakes up….he thinks, “Did I just hear someone screaming?” “Hmmm, maybe not.” Then he hears the cat hissing and Kenny stomping by in the hall and down the stairs, opening the back door and slamming it. “Hmm, yep. I think I heard screaming!” lol

At 3:30, Kenny managed to fall back to sleep after watching tv for awhile. I laid there wide awake and finally moved to the couch where I fell asleep around 4:30 with a throbbing toe.

Two nights later. We are home from the wedding and very tired. Kenny and Ben go to bed, I plan to follow in just a minute. Suddenly the door handle starts moving. I dash upstairs, “Kenny! Someone is trying to open the door!” He races down stairs and Ben hears this and opens his door so the dog can come down stairs. Kenny looks out the door and sees no one. He opens it and in trots the cat. “Cat Burglar!” Ben laughs. Kenny gave me a big hug of reassurance and heads back to bed. I sit down with a pounding heart and try to relax so I can go to sleep. No more of this, missy, or you may be heading off to Rebecca’s house where you belong.

Oh! I had an incredible surprise the other day. I was leaving for work and see this package in the mail for me. Imagine my surprise when I find this inside!

Here’s a closeup of the shawl pin….

I took part in the International Scarf exchange. I did get a beautiful scarf from England that I have worn many times. The rest of my experience was less than wonderful. I spent over half the swap trying to get ahold of the person who I was to knit for. Finally I was reassigned a new swap partner which meant finding new yarn and pattern. There were just unfortunately many mixups along the way so the swap organizer wanted to make it up to me and assigned me an angel. This was not necessary, but wow am I thrilled she did! The shawl is out of Kauni lace yarn and it is beautiful!

Ok….time for bed….hope life is treating all of you well!

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