Back Among the Living

Shortly after my last post the flu caught up with me. I got to spend a fun filled week doing nothing. About 4 of those days were spent doing not too much more than sleeping. After I started to get a little better, it managed to catch up with Cassie. She had a flu shot this year, I didn't. That just goes to show you that just because you get the shot doesn't mean you're home free. She's feeling a lot better but is still not herself. I'm still trying to get all of my strength back. I'm almost there. Not quite but almost. I've really not wanted to go out and do anything at all. After I became fever free and felt like I could actually move a bit, Mike took me out and about to get some fresh air. We've had some really gorgeous days weather wise lately. There have been a few days that it got up to around 70 and it was just glorious. It made me forget all about that little rugrat, Phil seeing his shadow last week. I'm ready for winter to be done.

I got a phone call from the framers saying that my sampler was ready to be picked up. I LOVE how it turned out! He did such a wonderful job framing it, it's perfect! I can't wait to get hanging. In the meantime, it's all wrapped up and ready to go on a journey. I'm entering it in Woodlawn's Needlework Exhibition this year. The entry days are this weekend, so we'll be driving up to Alexandria on Saturday to enter it. I'm SO excited! The exhibition runs the entire month of March. Laura and I went together last year and decided that we shall go together every year. I'm especially looking forward to going this year since I'll have something hanging on the wall. After we drop it off, I'm going to swing by In Stitches to look at the new goodies they picked up at Market. After that we're going to head over to the Shops at Mount Vernon to do some browsing. At some point I'm sure we'll have a nice Valentine lunch some place.

Speaking of Valentine's Day, this year Cassie and I decided we'd make her Valentine cards. Since this is her last year of elementary school, and probably of Valentine card swapping, I thought it would be nice if we made them together. She loves crabs and we came across a really cute crab paper punch from Martha Stewart. We made little pink cards and punched out little red crabs and glued them to the front. She loves how they turned out and I think they came out really cute too. They just scream "Cassie" and I know her friends are going to love them. Joshua opted for some store bought puppy dog Valentines with some Sweetart lollipops for his pals.