Figuring out Knitting

First, the Fun, a quiz Question for you: What's the best knitting gift you ever received? Weather outside: Warm, but I do belive that it will soon be fall. What hurts: My heart. I am sad about the loss of my FIL on Monday. What I want to eat: Nothing in particular, my appetite is pretty much gone. What I'm wearing: Tinkerbell What I'm crafting: two sweaters, Mermaid Socks, traveling woman shawl What I'm watching: HGTV Best thing that happened this weekend: Volleyball Worst thing that happened this weekend: Barely slept at all - FIL was dying What I'm most looking forward to this week: getting to the end of it What I'm least looking forward to this week: a funeral Last thing I bought: Yarn Something I want to buy: nothing in particular A link to share: nothing in particular Now, the not so fun. I have lost a special person in my life. This last week my FIL took a turn for the worse and sadly, passed away on Monday. Our family is doing well thanks in large part

A LB Homespun Country Beret Originally uploaded by karyn_settles I finished my beret. It is going to go with my Splendid Triangle Shawl. It was made from the leftovers of the shawl so the colors will match perfectly.

This weekend will be spent taking care of things about my house and for my family. I am cleaning closets, DD #2 room and boy do I have a lot of stuff that I'm getting rid of. I am in a good mood to be cleaning. I want to be rid of clutter right now. I need it. That means its a perfect time to be doing what I am doing. On other family front . . . my FIL will be moving to a nursing facility soon. He has been in the hospital and not doing very well outside of the hospital. I know that it will be very hard for my MIL to be without him at home but he will be much better off going where his condition can be monitored. I know that he wishes things could be different. It is hard for me to imagine how hard it must be to want to do so much and not have your body working for you. He is a wonderful man and I hope that we as his family can make what we can see as the end of his life with us as wonderful as possible. I have decided that I am going to finish a shawl I had in hibernation

This weekend will be our last weekend of summer vacation for my girls. They start school again the day after labor day. We have gone school shopping for them and aside from a few things that we have to get in supplies for DD#2 we should be set for the start of school. Both the girls will be playing Volleyball this fall and we hope for some fun. DD#1 has made her HS Junior Varsity girls team. DD#2 is playing in an outdoor league to begin learning the basics.