Life has taken up all of my time

It has been a while now since I have written anything here. The fact is, I have been crazy busy with other things, and this blog has been neglected. I guess I can at least get out something tonight.

Last weekend, I had a wedding shower for my husband’s niece. She seemed to enjoy it. The guests were an aunt and cousins from my husband’s family, my daughter in law, my niece’s fiance’s mom, and her neighbor. I am not one for the silly shower games, and I had been wracking my brain to come up with something for these people to do at the shower. In the middle of the night, of course, I got a great idea!

The women at the shower cumulatively had nearly two centuries of marriage experience. So, I made the theme “How to Grow a Marriage”. I bought a small watering can, some seed packets, a small flowering plant, and some inexpensive garden tools. I used these for a centerpiece. I put a label on the watering can, “How to Grow a Marriage”. I cut small pieces of paper and placed them with pens at the table. Each person was to write some advice for the bride as to how to make a good marriage. I had a few slips of paper already in the can with quotes I found on the internet, just in case no one played along.

After she had opened her gifts, the bride read each of the slips of paper out loud to the guests.  For the most part, the advice notes were quite good, a few were fun. She said that she really liked it.

I was exhausted after that day. I had spent nearly the entire day on my feet, and my knees were so bad, I could barely walk.

Over the course of the week, I worked on a baby afghan that I was making for my soon-to-be born granddaughter. She is due on April 17, so it could be any day.  I have been frantically crocheting during any free time that I have had all week. I tore the thing out at least 5  times so fix mistakes, and had to go back to the store to get more yarn.  I adapted the blanket pattern from a pattern for a scarf, and the woman at the store who helped me grossly underestimated the amount of yarn it would need. The store didn’t stock enough, so it is a little odd looking as far as the size.  I finally finished the baby afghan this morning. No new granddaughter yet, so I got it done in time!

Crocheted baby blanket

The month of April is chock full of birthdays around here, so almost every weekend we will be celebrating someone’s birthday. This weekend it’s my brother. His birthday is tomorrow, so we went to lunch today. He has a new (quite a bit younger) girlfriend, and this was the first time she and my mom have met. It seemed to go well. She seems to be very good with my brother. We all have our fingers crossed. He is now 46, never married, and desperately wants to be married, or at least in a serious relationship.

Next weekend is my husband’s birthday, then it is my two granddaughters, my son and my daughter, all in rapid succession. And, there is likely a third granddaughter sneaking in a birthday somewhere in there, as well.

My husband has been obsessive about the Master’s Golf tournament. As I have been crocheting, I have heard more about that tournament and the men playing in it than I ever thought I could handle. At one time, my husband had every television and one computer with the tournament on at the same time. Just in case he had to move from one room to another, he wouldn’t have to miss something. I can’t think of anything I am so interested in following.

The weather has finally turned. We had thunderstorms last night. A little green is starting to poke through the brown grass. The window is open just a bit at night-the smell of spring is in the air.

Finally.

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