I can't believe it's been over a year!

Wow, the last time that I actually sat and posted was back in November of 2007. I'm surprised that I've still got this blog page.



So I guess that I should try to sum up 2008 for anyone who is looking for an update.


2008 was a real hard year for my family. My mom and I had a big argument that we have since settled. Both my father and Scott's dad passed. One of my best friends had a stroke. I was completely deaf for 2 weeks due to an ear infection; spent my whole 2 weeks vacation in St Charles. Scotty was hit by a drunk driver while he was driving my little Miata he wasn't harmed physically, but he has been broken mentally! I'm just glad that the no good lousy drunk didn't hurt anyone else! Needles to say my car is a total loss and because of a ton of bills it hasn't been and it doesn't look like it will be replaced any time soon. Then to close out the year I was let go from my job due to the economy.

So since we had a really bad 2008, 2009 should be a bit better!

I look at it this way, I still have my mom, my husband and kids are healthy, I've still got my friends and only GOD knows how, but my bills are actually getting paid! I'm one of the luckiest people alive!

Yeah, I'm still looking for a job, but guess what, I know that the right job will come along soon and that I just have to look for it because it's not going to just call me and say hey come work here! Unless it's the job that let me go back in December and then I will gladly be back at work!

Well, like I said 2009 is going to be a better year! My friend Jennifer had a little boy in January and my niece Melissa is going to be having a little girl in either March or April. So I've been knitting up baby things.

Jennifer is getting a puppy sweater for little Brian.

And Melissa is getting a sweater for her little girl also.

My father's brother's grandson had a little boy and I'm making a sweater for my mom to give him also, but it's not done yet so I can't post a picture of it.

Last year I started a block of the month class at my LYS and I am in the process of crocheting all the blocks together. Both Scott and I really aren't thrilled with the way the blanket looks with the squares crocheted together and I'm actually threatening to just rip it all apart and just knit the whole thing over so that I'm actually happy with the way it will look when it's done.

I didn't cut anything this past year, the knitting kinda got out of hand.

Well, that's it for now. I will try to post a lot more often than I did last year, until then...Happy knitting and cutting!