Happy New Year

Usually on Mondays I meet with friends at the local Panera Restaurant and we knit. Yesterday I got a call from one of the women saying she had lots of lasagna and lets meet at her home to start the new year. Six of us met and had lots of chatter but not much knitting. I meant to take a picture of the group but forgot.

Christmas is over

It is time to take the tree down and pack away all the little houses and the stockings. Yesterday I took down the air mattresses and put the trundle bed back. All the children are safely back in their own homes. We ended the year with a little excitement.  We got a call from Mom's residence that the aid who gives her pills at night, gave her the wrong ones. They wanted to send Mom to the hospital and she was having no part of it. It seems that they had given her a dose that had been missed a morning earlier in the week. Mom was fit to be tied.  She was already in her warm bed and wasn't going anywhere. She really pulled the 100 year trump card several times. "I am 100 years old and you woke me up." I decided that she was better off at home, she was being very lucid, and as mad as she was, her blood pressure was fine. I called her this morning and she was dressed and ready to go to church.

Christmas

Christmas came and went with all the fun and food and good times. All but one of our children came home for the holidays. Hubby cooked up a beautiful feast.  We certainly had a white Christmas and soon the last of the kids will leave and we will get back to ordinary.

Mom's One Hundredth Birthday!

One the 21st of December my Mom, Dorothy, celebrated her 100th birthday.  We had a party for her at Henry Ford Village where she is in an independent apartment. We had in attendance her sister-in-law with her two children from Ohio,  and lots of her nieces and nephews and great nieces and great nephews.  She also had my brother and I with our spouses along with grandchildren and great grand children.  There were several friends from the village there as well. We had a wonderful time, Mom was going strong and we kept suggesting she should maybe sit down.

Two new Quilts Done

I finished two quilts. It seems I never learn.  I tend to do my quilting in the fall before Christmas. I have to get the frame down in time to put up the Christmas tree and I don't want to stay inside during the summer. However, hand quilting two queen sized quilts back to back is hard on the old arthritic hands.  The leaf quilt was especially big and took four spools of quilting thread.  I don't like the quilt.  The picture on the pattern looked a lot nicer.

Pattern

Actual Quilt

 But my daughters liked it so I am giving it to Martha  The other sampler quilt started as a quilting class project.Gretel liked it so I am giving it to her. However when I put it on my bed I had second thought but she will get it anyway.

City Scape Wall Hanging

In 2011 I made a wall hanging for over my bed. At that time we had a wonderful cat, Arnold, who liked the look behind pictures on the wall. He did this during the night with the picture which hung over our bed. For our own safety, I replaced the picture with a quilted wall hanging. 
              Arnold passed last year and our current cat, Fervor, has other vices.  But we painted the bedroom a different color and it was time to update. I saw this picture on Pinterest and resized it and made this hanging.

Cataract Surgery

Well, I have reached that age. I couldn't read the signs when I was driving. I had the right eye done last Monday and will have the left done next Monday.  I am stunned by how much better I can see already. Everything I see with the untreated eye is tinged brown. I have too admit I was terrified to have them work on my eye but I am thrilled with the results.