Happy Easter!

I know I'm a few days early but we're heading to my parents house tomorrow and I doubt I'll be posting again before I get back. I think we'll be back late on Wednesday. I really like the drive to there house but I really don't look forward to traveling with the animals. Dollie is incredibly whiney and has a very high pitched one. She's usually ok after the first hour after she's given me a headache.

My grandmother's 90th birthday party was last Saturday. I didn't go for several reasons.....one was because it was a 5 hour drive and I would have had to drive up there on Saturday and then back on Sunday. With gas prices these days if I would've done that then we wouldn't be able to go back for spring break. My dad has 9 brothers and sisters. They all came up for this party along with a lot of their kids, grand kids, ect.....I really don't even know these people. Nobody expressed any interest in my or my brother's existence our entire lives until now even though we have previously expressed an interest on several occasions in getting to know them. They found out I was coming and decided to extend their stay. After some of the things I've heard about these people I actually thought about canceling my trip to my parents house so I wouldn't have to deal with them. I think we all know it would take a lot for me to want to do that. I'm feeling like they have an interest now because they think I might be able to do something for them. I don't like opportunists.

I'm really excited that we're spending Easter with my parents! The Easter Bunny has already been advised of where we will be this weekend.

Last Saturday Laura and I went to that stitching exhibition at the Woodlawn Plantation. We had the best time! Sorry, no pictures! We both had our cameras but they wouldn't let anyone take pictures. We're planning on making the trip up there every year. We had a really great time admiring all the entries and I think we're both planning to stitch something to enter next year for fun. I already have something in mind and bought fabric for it a few days ago. I don't know that it would win anything but I love the piece and have been meaning to stitch it for several years. This gives me a really good reason to. I think it would be a perfect thing to enter. It's not huge like some of the other things that were entered and it's not a complicated thing to stitch but I really do love it. I did have another thing in mind and I think I could stitch it and enter it....in 2018 because that's probably how long it would take me to stitch it LOL! After we finished browsing we went in to the gift shop and picked a couple of things up. My mother collects cookbooks so I bought a couple for her. One of them was a Woodlawn cookbook and mostly has recipes that a lot of Virginians used in the 1800's and early 1900's. I've done a lot of browsing through them and have learned a lot of neat things. After we left Woodlawn, we headed over to In Stitches. I didn't buy a lot but I did pick up a few things. I found an out of print Prairie Schooler chart which thrilled me to no end. This was Laura's first visit to In Stitches and I know she likes that shop as much as I do. We really enjoyed looking at all of the stitched models they had hanging up. It was really nice to have someone to browse with me.

I've got to run....there was a note in Joshua's backpack saying he's the student of the month at school and they're having a big thing for him at lunch. He doesn't know about it yet. They told me I should come because I'll want to take pictures. Right after that they're having their egg hunt so I'll be hanging around for that too. I still need to pack so I should have a full day. I hope you all have a really great Easter!