Swamped but happy

Sometimes I talk to myself (admit it!..you do too), and ask "what was I thinking?" One of these days, I'm going to learn to stop posting finished projects on Facebook; or at least, the ones I won't mind doing over and over and over again. It seems in my old(er) age, I've lost the ability to say "No", especially when it comes to family. I had a scarf on my needles for...hmmm...at least several months, if not a year, and I finally tackled it the other day and finished it. While the picture doesn't show its true colors or beauty of the stitch (my bad), I'm feeling such a sense of accomplishment and happiness that I can add a set of needles back into my arsenal of tools instead of buying duplicates like I'm prone to do. After I posted the picture on Facebook, my niece in Texas commented and said "gee aint (I can hear her accent there..lol) Deb, the girls and I sure could use one of them. It gets cold here!" I just couldn't refuse. I've never really made anything for this child other than a good 'ol California bbq when her and her family would visit me and my ex-husband for summer vacations. With the exception of her teen years, she has always been the sweetest child and I just didn't have the heart to tell her no. I now have four scarves to knit before it gets cold, and ship them from California to Texas...one for her, and each of her three girls. So, yesterday, I went shopping and bought the yarn for two of them, and the other two I will get later. I haven't exactly nailed the pattern(s) yet, and I refuse to start until after I've got a couple more of my own projects for me off my needles. I am happy to do this for her and her children though! I've finished my grandson's cardigan, but I've yet to get the couture buttonbands done and sew on the buttons. I'm hoping to get to that today. Wonder if I can do any of this in my sleep tonight, because I sure haven't figured out how to knit and hang onto the steering wheel of my car yet!

                                       Soft, squishy, warm, lacy, and sparkly..can't beat that!

Last  night was the last of my ukulele classes for a few weeks, and I'm sad about that, so I might just go ahead and pay for private lessons since the group class nights conflict with my knitting nights. Or, I might have to just juggle my schedule around a bit, so I can continue classes. I'm enjoying them so much! The instructor taught us how to play Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World last night. My poor husband is going to get so sick of hearing me practice! lol But hey, I gladly listen to him with his guitars. He says he enjoys it, so let's see if he enjoys having these two songs stuck in his head for umpteem miles on our road trip next week! I'm betting he will have me drive for a while so he can play with my uke. He loves it so much, that I'm thinking about getting him a travel guitar, which is loads smaller than his Martin acoustic. I may have already posted this, so forgive me if I have, but when my daughter saw my little soprano I bought the other day, she decided she wanted to learn too, so I bought her one as well. Now my grandkids want to play, so I'm talking to my instructor about going into the middle school my granddaughter attends. He does that with many of the schools in our area, and free of charge to the student. How cool is that!??! I'm telling you, this is an addictive little instrument!!! Oh, in addition to the two songs aforementioned, we also began learning "I'm Yours", by Jason Mraz...another fun song to play on the uke! Stop by your local strum shop and try one on for size. I smile everytime I pick mine up...such happy music. You might be surprised it's just the thing for you too!!