I'm feeling much better now than I was a week ago. Thanks so much to those of you who emailed! Your thinking of me was very much appreciated. I've realized the past week that while things aren't going as we planned it could be much much worse. Some times things don't go as planned. When things don't go as planned and you have to cancel all of what you thought were going to be your plans for the next year, really the only thing to do is make new plans. So onward I'm plugging to make new plans. It took me about a week to shake whatever crud I had too. I had a fever on and off for about 3 days which wasn't helping either. I'm just now feeling like myself again.
Mike was given some gift cards as an award for some work he did on an audit recently. One of them was to a movie theatre so we took the kids to see Igor yesterday. They really liked it and there were some pretty funny parts, but for the most part I was kind of bored. I'm glad they had fun though. They had the previews up for High School Musical 3 which Cassie was thrilled about. It starts around the end of Oct. and Cassie's b-day is Nov. 12th so I'm thinking we might gather up a couple of her friends and go see it for her b-day. I think she's thinking on a slumber party too.
On our way out the door to see the movie I was greeted by a nice big box on my front porch. I was trying to hurry everyone along until I saw the box was addressed to me. When I noticed that I decided we had a few minutes to spare after all :). The box was from Laura, my friend in Richmond. I had no idea what it was or could be because I wasn't expecting anything from her. When I opened it up, I discovered it was my Halloween package from an exchange we're in, in our yahoo group. I distinctly remember being at In Stitches with her in Alexandria last month and asking her who her Halloween exchange partner was and she told me someone else so it never occurred to me. She did a good job of keeping that a secret :). Everyone else was fascinated with the box too and were eager to help me open in. When we did they all found something they wanted. Cassie and Joshua's eyes lit up when they saw cute little goodie bags filled with candy. Joshua quickly snapped up a pumpkin pez dispenser and Cassie snagged the witch. Mike noticed a can of yummy chocolate covered cashews and was eager to help me dig in to them last night. Laura also sent along some fun Halloween baking cups, Halloween sprinkles, and cute Halloween napkins. Cassie loves baking with me and is looking forward to helping me make Halloween cupcakes :). She also sent along a spool of orange ribbon and a spool of black. That was perfect timing because it just so happens that I needed some black ribbon to finish a little project. She also sent me a really great chart from Erica Michaels called Toil & Trouble. I LOVE this chart! 
It looks like such a fun stitch and I'll be looking forward to stitching it. The best thing was at the bottom of the box! She stitched a piece for me from Shepherd's Bush called Be a Witch and made it in to a beautiful pillow! Laura, I LOVE it! It's fantastic! The fabrics she picked for the finishing are perfect! I love that she put our names on the back of the pillow. Isn't it wonderful?! 
I finished stitching a model a few days ago and took it back to HE on Friday. I can't wait to post a link to that chart once it's published. It was such a fun piece. I think it will be this week. In the meantime the chart for the first model I stitched was released a couple of weeks ago. It's called Boo to You. Here it is. I stitched the smaller pumpkin on the left. If you choose to buy the chart you will find my name on the inside. Yay me! I'm in print :).
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