So I haven't done a good job!

Here it is January 30, 2012 and I am just getting around to updating my blog.  So much for weekly updates.  As to my other lists of things I hope to accomplish.  I have finished 3 of the 12 hats.  One pair of socks, no mittens, I haven't written a thing yet.  Nor have I done any tatting!  But I did get fired from my tatting job.  The shop owner decided she didn't want to pay me what I had asked for this time and so she has cancelled the class and requested my address so she can mail my samples to me.  Sounds like she doesn't want me in her shop for any reason.  That is okay, I have always ordered my tatting supplies online and I can order all my yarn that way too. But I do wonder if she found another tatting teacher who will teach for less than what I wanted.  It is to far away to just drive over to check.  So I now have all day Tuesdays to work on my project until the end of April when golf starts.

My daughter in Alaska has been dealing with the coldest winter on record.  She has had several days of cold temps, 50 to 60 below zero, not what I want to experience.  It is cold enough here in Michigan to keep me indoors.  She is hoping to move from the Interior of Alaska to Soldnata which is south of Anchorage and 30 to 40 degrees warmer.  Still below zero abut not as cold.as where she is now.  She will at least then be on the power grid and won't have to depend on a generator for electricity and she will have natural gas for heat instead of wood.   I feel much better already for her and the boys.

She called me tonight and thanked me for the markers I sent to her boys for Christmas.  The oldest boy was having a good time coloring on everything!  The walls, the table and himself, didn't color his little brother but was looking to.  Fortunately, for my daughter I sent them washable markers and she was pleased that they worked as advertised.  She had already washed the walls so only had the table and boys left!

The Year isn't over yet!

Oh, my, I haven't been on here since January 2011.  Must be I have been busy this year.  I haven't done a lot of tatting this year, mostly been on a knitting binge.  But, I am going to be teaching a tatting class starting next week!  How cool is that?  I was a bit apprehensive about doing it as I do not consider myself to be anywhere near an expert but we always want new tatters to join the ranks.  I will be teaching in Tawas, Michigan I am planning maybe 6 weeks of classes.  Will see how well versed the tatters I have are and how long they want to go on.  This whole teaching thing started because I dropped off a pair of tatted baby booties last April at the knit shop and she showed them off and now I am teaching tatting.

This year I also had two additions to my family, a new grandson in Alaska and a great granddaughter in Michigan.  I now have one granddaughter and four grandsons and one great granddaughter.  I am a lucky grandma.

This weekend we are celebrating my fathers 82nd birthday.  We are so blessed to still have him and 22 of us will be home to help him celebrate.  That is only about half of us.  The rest could not make it home as they all live out of state.  All five of us girls will be here tomorrow.  Only my brother will be missing and he refuses to come home without an "engraved invitation".  We don't mind anymore as we have learned to adjust to his stupidity!