Easter Weekend

Well, Easter was lovely. Saturday morning, before work, we dyed and painted eggs. The kids had a ton of fun with that. Kellen decided to paint over most of the dye work, but they were still just beautiful, and their little faces were just precious. Saturday afternoon we went to my Mom's down in Morrisonville. She made lamb (YUM), ham, mashed potatoes with two kinds of gravy, asparagus, green beans, it was all good. The kids hunted eggs and played. Then Mom, Lorenne and I played Scrabble. We had to take Gramma home and then got home ourselves by 9:30. Then up bright and early at 6:30, had to wake the kids and coerce Kellen into hunting eggs. Almost had a lost one, but Josh found it in the basket in the bathroom. The wily Easter Bunny! Went off to church. The kids wanted to stay with us for service instead of going to the nursery and to Jr. church, so we crammed them in between us. They were pretty good. Lorenne was reading the words to the songs off the overhead projector and belting out the tunes for all she was worth. It was great to hear her little off key voice warbling. Kellen was very quiet. But they both started to get tired right around the sermon. During one pray they both found that if they put their feet on the pew in front and rubbed their shoes together it would make a satisfying little squeak. Then later on, Lorenne gave a big over-exaggerated yawn and stretch. Good grief! After church we made a stop at my aunt's house then off to his grandparents for dinner. Ham and mashed potatoes, corn, green bean casserole, rolls and lemon cornmeal cake to eat. Josh's grandpa was able to eat quite a bit, but had to leave the table when he started feeling sick. The chemo he's taking to fight this cancer is really doing a number on him. We got a really nice picture of the whole family, everyone is smiling and the kids aren't pulling faces.
BUT... our clothes dryer had quit on us. Josh worked on it today and found the problem. After a grueling 12 hour night shift, he ran back to Lincoln to get the new part, and had the dryer working in no time. That man is a gift, plain and simple. We were really fretting over having to get a new dryer and using up the last of our tax return on an appliance. But, rest assured, Josh was to the rescue, and he did it all with a smile on his face. He can fix darn near everything. He's so smart. ('Course he is, he married me, right? hahaha) Anyway, the pool fund remains intact. Yay!
I worked most of the day crocheting. Finished the shawl in the previous post and worked out the pattern instructions and made the joining diagram. I think I'll try my hand at more designing. But first I have to finish the cardi and purse for me, and the cardi for my mom, before I work on anything else. No more buying yarn! No matter how good the sale at Herrschner's is.... A girl can hope, can't she?

When I got home today, Josh showed me a political sticker he had gotten from a friend to put on the ol' grape jelly bean van. It made me think about what my grandmother said about the upcoming elections. She said the only thing she can do now is pray to God that the right man is elected. No matter what party. We can only hope that the man who does win is the right one for the right time. I like that. That's all we really can ever do. Just pray. So that's what I've been doing. Praying for the leadership of this country. Not for my guy to win, but for the right guy to win.

I bought a two skeins of yarn Monday at Serendipity Stitches in Lincoln, a yarn store I just found out about. I tried making it into a hat but the style I picked out just didn't suit my head a'tall. So I've ripped it out and started on a baby sweater instead. I really like the yarn though. It's the first wool yarn I've worked with. And it's spoiling me. I've used cotton before but, this stuff is 70% wool and 30% soy, and there is just something about the way it feels. Sooooooo much better than that cruddy acrylic stuff I've been using for so long. Anyway...

Here's a picture of my latest set I've added to my collection for sale at Horsefeathers.

A little acorn hat and matching mittens. I needed to add something for boys and this actually was really fast.

Well, that's all for tonight. I'm gonna go throw a load of wet laundry into the dryer and crawl my way up to bed. Good Night to you...