It truly has been a long time since I last visited here.  I have no excuse other than I have been setting my house in order and am please to say I am, once again, a SAHM.  I've been spending my time in prayer, cleaning and re-acquainting myself w/my dc.   In the process, I ended  up taking a little break from the blog-o-sphere.  I'm back.

I've been visiting some new blogs, taking note of new pursuits and reading alot.  I found some wonderful new blogs on knitting that I can't wait to add to my sidebar.  I even was motivated by one of them today to take inventory of my yarn stash.  I didn't even realize I had one, well at least not one in my current home being that I have one in storage.   I managed to sort it all, put them in some semblance of order since I have various projects underway but nothing finished.  I am not too happy about this but am now able to see what I have, what is available and how to proceed.  I am considering joining a couple of these  wonderful sites but I'm not a knitter, yet.  I love to crochet and cross-stitch but there is hope for me to become more of a knitter in time.  My oldest dd simply loves to knit now and can whip up a scarf in no time.  It is a pleasure to behold.  I also must confess that I haven't finished my beloved socks I began so long ago.  Hmm, I am not sure that I'm interested either but I have placed the project in plastic for later.  I think I will create an "in progress" listing for my projects and may even create a progress marker.

Yesterday, I spent time listening to a book on cd that I began in Jan and started a new project.  I was trying to make a preemie hat but it turned out to be an adult size hat that my oldest dd loves.  When I get the camera working, I'll upload a pic.  Its done and I am beginning another one and hoping to make it the right preemie size this time.   I choose a smaller needle, a D but I've never done this before so we'll see how it turns out.  I'll upload a complete pic of this one too.

Well, I'm off to update my other blogs and return to my book.  Hope you all are having a wonderful evening too.

~ at our homestead ~

smells ~ homemade pizza ~ vanilla caramel coffee

my hands ~ preemie hat in royal blue

sounds ~ crackling fire, most lovely ~ sense & sensibility