“Time flies” –a quote everyone has heard, but was brought to my mind this past week. I finished a baby pattern—one that I have used many times—for the first grandchild of wonderful friends of ours. The yarn is Cotton Tots which is available nearly everywhere (even places without a good LYS). One thing about living in the same place for a long time is the relationships that go back decades. Wow, that makes me sound ancient!
It seems like yesterday that our friends Sue and Chip were having their 4 daughters. There were plenty of jokes about poor Chip surviving in a household of women. Actually they all turned out wonderfully, and the first daughter just had her first baby, a darling red head named Jacob.
We have photos of the mom as a little girl at a fishing derby we had at our house and it brought to mind what fine people her parents were (and are). They are the most interesting people: Sue is the nearest thing to Martha Stewart you have ever seen. Every single holiday is unbelievable at their house. Full sized mannequins dressed for every holiday, huge Christmas trees, decorations in every nook and cranny. The decorations take days and weeks to put up and are just astonishing. I have told their girls that they really should appreciate what a extraordinary upbringing they have had. . Dad Chip is a fantastic dentist but also a fantastic cook—which gives Sue time to do other things like work, help with her mother-in-law, school activities and making the individual needle cases for Signature.
We all know families like this—just going along busily helping their children to grow up into loving, responsible adults. By the way, the little girl who liked fishing is now a dentist too, except that she is in the military along with her doctor/soldier husband. So, little Jake has landed in another generation of a wonderful family.
I have lots of other projects going right now which I will tell you about soon, but we are getting ready for Stitches Midwest in Chicago. More about the “rest of the story” of having a booth in a big show that you might be interested in later this week.