Back from New Orleans

What fun I had. What a lot of walking I did! I have many blisters to show for it. It was great to actually sleep through the night and not wake up to panic attacks during the night. I told my sister this and her response was, "your here, you have nothing to do but enjoy it." Enjoy it we did!

We toured the French Quarter. Wow! The houses were very cool. We ate and ate and ate a variety of food. I didn't feel bad for eating all the bad food because we were walking for about 2-2-2 1.2 hours a day! Thank goodness my sister brought extra shoes and that we are the same size!

The garden district was great too. We took a trolley there that day. It was too far to walk, though walking around in 3 digit heat index was a tad much for me. We enjoyed our last night there doing what we do best ~ knitting! YES! I finished one sock of a pair and I LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOOVEEEEE the way that it fits and feels! I started the second one on the way home and it is almost done. I am leaving for NC in the am. House hunting~ sigh~ I hope this goes good???

Father's Day

The first entry of our blog. My SIL and I are starting together about the trials and adventures of moving, raising daughters and crafting along the way.

Today was a great day. I got to celebrate Father's Day with my dad and family. What's hard is that I know next year at this time I won't be able to because we will be living in another state. Speaking of which, the move is going slow. For those who don't know my husband was offered another job with a company in another state. North Carolina to be exact. I am excited and sad at all the possibilities. When we first talked about a move to another state I was like sure, like that will ever happen I thought, HA. We are now moving. We are now in the process of selling my little 110 yr old house that I have grown to love. The 'man' starts his job next week and will be floating home on weekends. I on the other hand, will be here in Illinois wrapping up all those loose ends.

Did I mention that my son is getting married this summer? A shower to throw? A grand family reunion? My daughter has camp and a birthday? OY! Gone is my slow moving enjoyable summer now is this and that has to be done.

So I turn to reading, knitting and crocheting to calm my frazzled nerves. Not to mention, that my wonderful 'man' is sending me to New Orleans with my sister for a week! Oh, I am sooo looking forward to that! There will be tons of pictures coming!

We first thought about renting a house in NC until we lived in the area. Good thinking, until we found out that we own a 'highly dangerous dog' and only ONE person will rent to us. Hmph. I never saw that one coming. So now my man and I are planning a major house hunting expedition to NC in a couple of weeks. I feel like I am being forced into buying. I hope to find something that fits all our needs. I can't see leaving one of our dogs behind because she is considered dangerous! Though, she would lick you to death then anything else. I know you dog people out there know what I mean, my dogs have always been part of the family.

Currently I am knitting my second pair of socks. The first unassisted pair if you will. And then I got a crazy idea to crochet my munchkin a dress or tank top using solid granny squares. I saw it on a blog and thought hey I could do that but do it differently. I have yet to sit down and figure out the measurements yet! HA.