What a Life!

I’m deep into preparations for new baby. I kind of held off doing much of anything until we had the ultrasound and found out (hopefully) if we were having a boy or a girl. If we were having a boy, I had a couple things that I thought I might knit, but most of my [...]

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Remember my pledge to complete one UFO (unfinished object) per week? I’m thinking I need to revise it to “work on” one UFO every week.
This week? I finished machine quilting the second twin quit for the boys’ bunk beds [whenever we get them].
Ah, yes! No more safety pins that might rust in my quilts. It [...]

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If my news yesterday about having our taxes done spurred you into action, you actually have a day of grace. I didn’t touch my taxes yesterday. It’s not that there’s some glitch I need to deal with; rather, it’s that I was tired of sitting at the computer.
Instead, I spent my day doing this:

It all [...]

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Yes, Christmas is over, and we got some really nice gifts.
A quick disclaimer: we appreciated all of our gifts, and just because something you gave us isn’t mentioned on this list doesn’t mean we didn’t like it.
Steve got a nice Christmas bonus from work, which we used part of to buy him a notebook computer. [...]

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Yesterday I had to go to town to return a library book for Steve. Of course, while I was in town without a long list of errands to do, I made use of the opportunity to spend some time at my favorite store, Barnes & Noble.
One of the sections I visited was the Craft section [...]

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I finished Grandma’s quilt and gave it to her for her birthday while we were in Oklahoma.
I tried very hard to finish the other quilt before we left as well, but the tension on my machine went haywire so I had to take my machine in to be serviced.
Grandma liked here quilt, though. They keep [...]

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