Visiting with my Bro

I really should try to make a bigger effort to post more than once a week. It's not that I don't try, I do. Time just gets away from me these days and when I do have some free time, I have to pick and choose what I want to do. Unfortunately there's always something that interests me a bit more than blogging. Once a week isn't bad but I'm gonna try to shoot for at least twice from now on.

I had a really nice visit with my brother. Well, that is if you disregard the fact that I was sick for 50% of it and then Joshua was sick the other half. He was out of school on Monday and Tuesday with tonsillitis. I was super bummed because I made plans for my brother and I but had to scratch them because I was home bound with junior. Bummer. He left yesterday morning. We did go to D.C. on Saturday though. I was really excited that we were taking him because he had never been and I love playing tour guide. I can maneuver around all of that D.C. stuff now like nobody's business :). Of course I was not pleased when I woke up Saturday morning with a bad sore throat, headache, and a fever. It would've taken more than that to keep me home so I loaded my purse up with medicine and off we went. We took him to see all the touristy stuff. If you click on this pic of my brother you'll notice that the reflecting pool is frozen. The reflecting pool in front of the Capitol was frozen too. You wouldn't believe how many ding dong tourists were walking on top of the ice. We were there 4 days earlier (see pics in previous post) and the water wasn't frozen. I was just waiting for one of them to fall in...lol. You know, there are squirrels ALL over the place here. Joshua loves to chase those things. I don't like them usually but did come across one while we were walking in D.C. that really amused me. Joshua was eating a little bag of Cheese Nips and started chasing him. The squirrel started to run away but as soon as Joshua turned around the squirrel started chasing him. I told them to toss him a cracker and he'd probably go away but he didn't. Mike walked up to him with a cracker and he came and got it. How funny is that?! I only fed him one time. He didn't even snatch them. He walked up and carefully grabbed it, plopped his booty down, and ate them while all of his little squirrel friends watched...lol. After they fed him the bag of Cheese Nips, we left. Somewhere in D.C. there's a chubby little squirrel full of Cheese Nips.

I've spent most of the day trying to get caught up on some things. Mike's got a 3 day weekend so we'll probably go pal around for a while tomorrow while the kids are at school. I'm not sure what we'll be doing. In a perfect world he'd be taking me floor shopping since Santa didn't deliver LOL!!

And she's out again....

I started her in January about 3 years ago and here she is again. Still unfinished. I do work on her every now and then, it's just that she's so darn huge! I'm talking about Earthdancer from Butternut Road. She's beautiful and I love her but she's just so big! I pulled her back out last Friday night and have put a few stitches in her here and there. I've loved stitching her but am not enjoying stitching those trees so much. I really want them to just be done so I can get on to the dream catcher and the beading. She only requires about 4 gillion beads so that should keep me busy for a while. It's a good thing I like beading!