hodge podge

It's been a roller coaster week.

Enjoying time with my hubby so much.  I love him bunches!!!

We made supper together Tuesday night- I made a Cobb salad for us both and he made a loaf of whole wheat bread.  Oh supper was soooo yummy.  He scored us free tickets to the ballgame so we headed off to the ballpark afterwards.  That was fun, and corny as it sounds I enjoyed running to the car in heavy rain and getting soaked afterwards.  I felt kind of like a kid again. :)

My mom had a heart procedure on Wednesday morning.  It is more hard than I can say to not be there, and the guilt and desire to be there, well it just tears me up.  Trying to be where I am, and let the past go- I can't be there anymore, it is not the same and never will be again.  Can't change that, time to just move on.  In the middle of a little cry on Rob's shoulders about that, I got word that a cousin had been killed in an automobile accident.  Just no words.

I had already promised my daughter I would do a sleepover with her that evening and we had made plans to go to Ikea together with her best friend/my "fake" daughter as I call her.  I didn't want to disappoint the girls so I sucked it up and went on with life though my heart wasn't really in it.

I'd never been to Ikea so I had to try the famous meatballs. :) Yum!  Loved the lingonberry sauce too!

Another happy for this week was finishing the kitchen painting. This color turned out soooo pretty!  Rob and I are very pleased with it!  He finished up the deep cleaning while I was out with the girls too which was so nice for me. :)

 I'm going to try my hand at curtain making I think and make curtains for the kitchen too.  And I ordered prints of photos today for the kitchen- of flowers, the mountains, streams...  Going to get frames and put them up soon.  I found a pretty round white kitchen table and chair set at Ikea that was not a bad price at all. We may do that when school starts.  

I have been having a lot of sleep issues and nightmares/bad dreams again so last night when I couldn't sleep I just worked on learning to do a granny square.  My first attempt turned out to be more of a granny circle but I'm happy with it for a first attempt. I'll get it figured out!

We worked on turning Barbara's old room into our office/craft room this May/June.  This chair is my new addition thanks to money/gift cards from some of my students.  I found it on sale at a furniture store and only had to kick in $30 bucks for it!  It's very pretty; it blends all the colors of the room- green/grey/brown.  I can't wait to sit in there and read/crochet on a rainy day soon!!!  We're going to put some prints my pop gave us up in this area- prints of Quad City sights by a QC painter.

The stairs are finally painted too after all this time living here.  The walls are disgusting, but that is going to change in the not-too-far future.  We picked up paint swatches today to figure out that.  

stuff it all down

That's what I am doing. I want to be numb because not being numb hurts too much today.

Crochet Success! :)

So one week ago I picked up crochet hook and yarn, and started learning (thanks to a class I bought on Craftsy!!!) to crochet.  I have gone from this last Saturday/Sunday...

to this, this weekend/today.  I finished my first real project- an infinity scarf for my daughter.  She picked out the yarn and let me "practice" with hers.  I figured if it was horrible I could rip it out and start over.  She picked out a gorgeously soft and pretty yarn!

 Oh the colors are so pretty- greens, blues, purples, cream all mixed into a pretty, variegated rainbow.  And oh so soft!  She liked it too, so that's awesome! Not bad for a week's learning/practice!  I have definitely found my new quickie evening hobby!