My new stitching buddy

It looks like I have a new stitching buddy! I taught Cassie to cross stitch the end of last summer. She did ok with it but had trouble with using the needle threader and beginning and ending her threads. After school started she was always too busy doing school things to bother having a go at stitching again. She asked about stitching again recently so before school let out I kitted up several small & easy designs for her. I put them all in a plastic box along with her own pair of scissors and a needlecase with needles. I gave it to her this morning and she was really excited. So excited in fact that she picked one of the little kits out and started stitching away on it. She got a little frustrated with threading the needle at first but she got the hang of it pretty quick. She does really well with starting and finishing her thread this time around too. The piece she's working on now is the little fish from The Trilogy's Seaology chart. I think she wants to stitch the crab as soon as she finishes this one. She's so cute....she wants me to sit at the kitchen table when I stitch so she can stitch besdie me :). I spent a nice amount of the day stitching as well. It was a good day for that since it was stormy. I'm still working on that same piece I mentioned earlier. We did venture out to the mall for a bit and went out to dinner with my parents for my mom's birthday. Happy birthday, mom! I've been working on my Chicago plans and think I have a pretty good itenerary planned out. I'm really looking forward to that trip! I'm still really afraid of getting on that plane though......