Long Time No See

I didn't realize that it had been so long since I had posted. My goodness!

Well, I have been busy with school-mine and the kids'. Steve helps with a lot, but I'm too much of a control freak to hand everything over to him. He has pretty much taken over cooking supper and making sure the kids do their homework and Gideon does a lot of the house work since he's not working or going to school. It has been great to have so much help. My baby girl is so proud of me going to college and likes to do her homework with me while I'm doing mine. I'm taking the summer off, however. I was getting burned out. I started out with straight As and had every intention of keeping my grades up as high as I possibly could. This last sememster I found myself not really doing my best and when it came down to cases, I found that I didn't really care as long as I passed. Not the attitude I want to have. So, I decided to take the semester off. It may put me a couple semesters behind in graduating, but at least I'll still have a happy marriage and children who feel loved instead of feeling like their playing second fiddle to my school work.

I have made sure to make time for crocheting. I decided to make matching bath sets for Dorinda and all her friends for Christmas and I officially finished the last one today. I used Pricilla Hewitt's pattern: Five Piece Bath Set and added a bath mitt of my own design. I used Peaches and Cream yarn with each set being in a different variegated color. Here's the face scrubbers in all the other colors I used:

I'll try to look up color names if you're really that interested, but I can't guarantee anything.

I also made afghans for the kids of a friend of mine that is going through a really ugly separation and I'm afraid it might turn into a bad custody battle. I did a crochet version of a knit afghan I found called Gotta Touch It Baby Blanket for the 6 year-old and the 2 year-old. I used a double strand of Lion Brand's Homespun instead of the Wool Ease. Unfortunately I haven't got pics of those. I did those a couple of months ago and the kids absolutely love them. The older one said she loves stuff like that because it was made just for her and nobody else has one like it. The baby won't take his nap without his, I'm told. My friend also has a 16 year-old girl from his first wife and I made her afghan with a plainer yarn, but a more of a pattern. I used the Adoring Hearts pattern that I used to make my cousin's baby afghan when his son was born, but it is in worsted weight yarn and in colors a teenage girl would like. I wish I could have had this afghan when I was a teenager :D

It turned out so great. She hasn't been to her daddy's yet to get it, but she knows she's getting one. Before the break-up, my friend had been married for 12 or 13 years. It's been hard on everyone involved.

Since I have a bath set for the little girl, I'm working on a Learn Your Colors Fish Counting Toy for the little boy.

I'm not sure about the teenager yet. I would like to do an afghan for my friend too, but I've promised my younger son an afghan and I need to do it first. He's been patient for over a year and has even changed his mind now about what he wants it to be. He did want keyblades from a video game called Kingdom Hearts and I even looked up his favorite ones and graphed them out, but lost the graphs before I could make the afghan. Bless his little heart. He's decided now though that he's moved on. Kingdom Hearts was a phase and he wants something different. He wants now pictures of symbols from horror movies: Freddy's glove, Jason's hockey mask, Pinhead's puzzle box. I just don't know if I'll be able to graph those. That's always assuming I can find good enough pictures of those things for me to graph from. Wish me luck!