Again a huge amount of time has passed for which I am sorry. Kitty things have kept me busy what with a virus going through my house and several kitties getting sick. I also lost another friend, Zippy, a couple of months ago who was 16 and his old body couldn't fight off the virus. In the end, I told mom that it was time to say goodbye to him and let him go to his rest. It has been very hard for her losing two beloved pet friends whom had been in the family for a long time. We did add another shelter kitty, but it turned out he is a "pure blood." Reminds me of those Harry Potter movies mom likes watching, but he's not a snob like the "pure bloods" in those movies are. Actually, he's kind of a Baby Huey (wow, do people even use that phrase anymore? Where did I even hear that???). He's cute, sweet, cuddly, and HUGE. Mom's started calling him her "horse." Then the "old girl" (our 14 1/2 year old sister, Flutie...mom calls her "the Queen." Yeah, right. I think THAT adage should ONLY belong to me since I am the boss and undisputed ruler of the house, but mom says not. Age, I guess, counts for something sometimes!) had to have about nine teeth worked on. My gosh that was totally unexpected! It totally worried mom to have "her heart" go under anesthesia, but everything worked out fine. So, that's another good thing that happened to offset the trials.
Then her longarm machine decided to not work correctly and it's taken her a long time to get it fixed. Actually, she just got it fixed today!!! YAY!!!! I was really, really missing our time together while she works. She wasn't able to use the machine much at all unless it was with the stitch regulator (what is that?) off. Talk about trial! Even the positive of getting a new "little" brother (he hardly qualifies as little...I can't stress that enough!) have been trials in and of themselves. This got me thinking...
How many of you all use your quilting as a way to reduce stress? Mom said that she didn't realize how getting into the rhythm of quilting totally relaxed her and that she was working more the more stressed she was. She said that not having her machine was hard on her because she lost one of her stress reducers. I don't know about all that, but I know that I HATED not being in my "office" overseeing her working. My time with her alone in the "office" was hard on me too, but now we should be able to get back to work designing and quilting quilts! YAY AGAIN! I hope all of you will think about what it is that helps reduce stress...even if it isn't quilting...I CAN think of one thing most of you will probably use...CHOCOLATE!!! Mom sometimes says that she wishes she'd have a vat of it to swim in (that sounds sticky, which I DON'T LIKE!) to relieve her stress! Isn't that funny?
