The sun will come out tomorrow

Day 2 of the second surgery. He is off the IV. And with a little prayer and hope he will come home for good tomorrow. His Surgery was 25 min and uneventful according to the surgeon. Works for me.

I thought about bringing the afghan, but remembered how cramped the waiting area was last time. It was the right move. The waiting room was filled with little seating. The socks were a perfect project. I finished the second pair, today . I had to run back to Bloomin to get more. One skein is not quite enough. I needed 2inches more of work. It seemed like a waste to buy all that yarn for 2 inches, so I bought two skeins, figured I would make my daughter a pair.

I am going to get the afghan as soon as I am done posting. Will add pictures as soon as I get a few rows on.

It seems like things are looking up. I am finishing projects and my husband is healing. We have been blessed.

I told the surgeon yesterday, God brought us to you. Hows that he asked. I said, I had my gallbladder taken out sooner than I planned, we were going to wait till summer, but decided on sooner at the last minute. that's when we realized what a caring, compassionate man you were. My husband trusted you immediately You told my husband you would do his Colonoscopy, and a two weeks later you saved my husbands life. If I would have waited, or never went to the doctors, who is to say when my husband would have gotten the colonoscopy? When the cancer cells broke through the tumors? No... God took care of all that. He then looked at me and smiled. He knew too.

Woop, there it is!!!

Oh yes, it came today! My winning prize!

I walked in from school, and WOOP there it was!!! It took me twenty minutes to find the camera. It was right where I left it. But I was to excited to see it. Didn't want to open the box, till I took a picture.

Here it is, right before I ripped it out of the box. The colors looked so beautiful.

I just hope I have 11 needles in wood! I will not work this beautiful yarn on anything less.Will check the needle case as soon as I am finished If not, I will be at Bloomin first thing after work.

WOW, I mean WOW, this is soooooo pretty! The mohair is beautiful!

It comes with 6 different patterns you can make. Way, way to many choices! BUT, have no fear, I chose a pattern. I am going to do "Knitted Scallops".

And it could not have come at a better time. Hubby goes into the hospital Friday, for hopefully his final surgery. It will be a 1-2 hour procedure. Which will give me plenty of time to work on the afghan. I am much calmer about this surgery. It is just to put him back together. And the risk is very small this time. So I can pray and knit, calmly. He can't wait to get it done and over with, and I can't wait to be a normal family again.

This scary time has made some positive impact on our family. We are more loving towards each other, more patient. We spend more time together as a family and truly enjoy being with each other. The kids are calmer and not so scared. Even though they are old enough to understand they are still children, and they were afraid of losing their dad. I found being honest with them about this from the beginning was the best way. They weren't afraid to ask questions. And they were aware of everything going on at all times.

Ok, enough of that.... Let me go look for those 11 needles!!!

Happy knitting everyone who reads this, God Bless you and your hands!

Larry had to check out the box too! I couldn't click the camera fast enough to get him smelling all the yarn. Just like his owner, loves to smell the yarn!

Till next time, I still Need to knit!

butterflies

AWWWW spring! As I work on my circus peanuts cardigan, I am also working on, aaaaaaaa, 4 other projects and, many, many more I want to start. My fingers just don't go quick enough.

I will add a picture or two later of the projects in progress. The butterfly, was taken by my daughter last summer. We were up at our camp, by cooks forest. She is really good with a camera.

It was knit nite. Everyone is working on lighter things. A sure sign of summer. Helped on of my students with her first gusset. She did great. She just needs to let herself go and enjoy the sock. I am finishing up my nephews first sock. Oh, you don't know about that project. My husband and one of my brothers sons, the middle one, have this game going. He always shows my husband his cool socks. And My husband always makes a fuss about how cool they are. SOOOO, I went to the big sale at Bloomin a few weeks ago and picked up the CUTEST jitterbug sock yarn for him. If you ever get the chance to knit with jitterbug, DO IT! Its the second time I have used it and I LOVE IT! It feels so good on the needles.
O, yea, the socks. So I am knitting middle son of brother socks and vest to match for his 4th birthday next month. The yarn, well I will just have to post a picture for you to see.

Laurie said any day now for my gift! Can't wait! I still am amazed that I won!

The boys are watching the hockey game to see who will play the pens, if the pens win. I don't get it, but they don't get gussets, so we are even.

Will post more in a bit. For now, I NEED TO KNIT