Weekend Follies

And you thought the busy-ness surrounding the recent wedding made me busy...

This week has been crazy. Don't let me tire you out. Take short breaks between each paragraph!

Sunday, busy every single minute... except for an hour and a half that I was in Des Moines with nothing to do so we mall walked for a while... Church that morning, went to lunch with my sister, niece, niece husband and new baby, who I got to hold for a REALLY long time! Until his mom made me give him back!!!We ate at the Cracker Barrel and that was great! Meri found this hat there and I'm determined to make one for her with fabric instead... Not sure how yet, but I'll figure it out.Then mall walked. Then a Reformation Rally at a sister church in D.M. with a dinner afterwards. I LOVE LOVE LOVE singing alto in the choir with so many voices surrounding me! But it was weird, because Meri, who was sitting with the hubs told me that if she focused on any one person in the choir, suddenly she could hear only them. Wow... I hope no one was focusing on me! A few of the notes were tricky.

After D.M., we visited with some friends until beggars night was over in our town, THEN went home. I think I've mentioned before, we don't do Halloween anymore. Well, apparently we're getting soft, because we made one exception. We let Meri go trick or treating on Monday night in the next town with friends. She dressed up as a ninja bunny (alas, I have no pictures...). She wore the pjs and hood from this picture. Weren't they young then??!

I made those hoods...

Then a Taekwondo helmet and chest pad and two play foam swords along with pink bear feet slippers with face painted whiskers. If you can imagine all that...

My son and his wife wanted his old dresser back, so I unpacked all my sewing stuff from it and reworked how my sewing stash is being stuffed in my office. Got another cabinet and bookshelf from the garage and sorted through more fabric than I knew I had... There are a few boxes of clothes to up-cycle too. Maybe I'll get ruthless someday and send all of those to the Goodwill... But that would be a shame. The least I could do is salvage buttons and zippers from them all, if not the fabric... Call me a hoarder...

Ok... So that was just my home life. Work has been so crazy busy! One of the other programmers is on vacation this week and everything seems to be coming at us at once. On Tuesday I wasn't sure if I'd get lunch at all, but after our phone conference call staff meeting, I decided I was going to anyway to recharge!

I've got quite a "To-Do" list, so I guess I better get back to it. I hope to stop around and visit sporadically today when I need a small breaks. Hope you're all having a good week!