I forgot about the holiday weekend until yesterday. Chris got a three day weekend and we spent our time cleaning up the house. I did get a few more rows crocheted on the baby blanket I am making but didn’t get a chance to do anything more with the tie blanket. I listen to Mom’s Morning Show each day and I think tomorrow I am not going to browse around online while listening, but rather work on the blanket. I know I can get the rest of the blanket finished in that time.

I’m working on finally starting my craft podcast! I’m seeing all these new podcasts coming out and I’ve wanted to start this for over a year – it is about time I just do it. I have a lot of emails in draft mode to various people for interviews and a huge list of ideas. I am still deciding on a day of the week to have each show come out, but I’ll keep you updated. I need to find music for this week’s show and put it together then it’s finished.

Twenty years ago today my Grandpa passed away. I grew up next door to him and I was 9 and in the fourth grade when it happened. I loved living next door to my Grandparents! We’ll get that chance again soon and I can’t wait to be moments away from my Grandma again. My Grandpa always wore those sweaters that buttoned up with three or four buttons on the bottom part and had two pockets. He always had mini snickers and though he went blind years before I was born, always knew who walked in the door, even if us kids were in packs. After he died my Grandma kept mini snickers in a bucket above her sink. I still cry when I think about him, but I suppose that is normal. I didn’t get a chance to talk to my Grandma today though, since it was a holiday all my other relatives were at her house and on the internet (my cousin lives with her and he is too cheap (yeah I said cheap! Hahahaha) to pay for a second phone line for the internet – however he stands dialup I’ll never know…) so the phone was constantly busy.

I finished one side of the fleece blanket tonight, pictures will be coming tomorrow. I’m thinking I may finish the blanket tomorrow so I can put it into my Christmas gift box, which is nicely coming along. We have to clean the garage tomorrow as well but since we do this at least every other month or so, it won’t take that long.

No craft fair for me today, we stuck to our plans of hanging out with friends. I took lots of pictures of the kids playing together since today is the last day we’ll see the babies for quite a while.

How is your weekend shaping up?

Or I should say busy and still crafting!

I did three more rows on the blanket I am crocheting – and folded the fleece nicely when I was cleaning up. I know I said I like the orange, I think i just need the pieces together a few more days before I am really used to it!

I changed my mind about going to the local craft fair this weekend – the same one (I mean put on by the same people) is going to be about an hour away next weekend. I’m trying to plan a get together with my roommate from college and that would be about meeting in the middle for us. Even if she doesn’t want to go to a craft fair, we can do dinner and visiting after I look around.

We had a friend over for dinner tonight, she is so fun to be around! Sadly – okay not sadly at all, she is separated from her husband and not living super close like she did before. Of course before she was not nearly has happy as she is these days, so it is a blast to hang out with her. I completely blame her for my coveting of Coach handbags too.

Tomorrow we plan on hanging out with friends as they are going on vacation next week and when they come back, their girls won’t be with them – so it’s the last time we will see the babies for quite a while I’m sure. We are good friends, the type that no matter where the military sends you, you keep in touch so I don’t worry about that but it will be sad to not see the babies anymore. The youngest is a year and a half and last spring it was her who got my baby fever fired up – I used to invite them over for dinner just so I could hold her. 🙂

Sunday I think we will clean up the garage. I still need to go drop off my donations but that will have to wait until next week as I’m sure most of the places I want to go will be closed on that day.

Whew! I’ll need a nap after all of that! Funny how you can have no plans for weekends on end, then when you get ready to leave and area you have to start scheduling things!