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Forgot to mention that there is another BIO baking. Should be done about June 5, 2012 to be exact! Our baby is having a baby!! Another great summer is headed our way for sure!!

A moment of silence, please! My nose has died! It's true! My smeller is finished more or less! Which is excellent for changing, pardon my French, poopy diapers or cleaning up vomit for that matter! But for the most part all the other stuff is useless! Tobacco smells are still a No! No! Got to respect the rest of the family in and out! Ok! That's enough silence!

Let's see where to begin. I've been a Hoosier all my life! Same county resident, too. Hey that's over 60 years. Just a little, but still over.Married for 40 years to Ken. Graduated Indiana State University 13 years ago. I quit substitute teaching when MATT was 16 months old. Made perfect sense to me! We have 7 kids, 5 homemade and 2 storebought. We're grandparents to Matt, Jillian, and Sophia! We have 4 married, 1 special needs and 1 x-ray tech, 2 teachers (1 unemployed), and one son looking for job in communications field.I discovered swapping about five years agol.Great fun, no matter what. Swap bot has improved my produce intake! These things have such cute stickers!! Love those big squash ones!!

There are far too many tutorials to try! I'm going to do my best to get through a lot of them though. Patchwork has my attention! So I guess that I'm off and running again! I've got another 2 sweaters otn. Oh and cowls have taken me on a joy ride! I found a really neat quilt shop in Fairfax, Virginia. I've got to get back to Fairfax. This time, no yarn but I do have to see that fabric again!! Some I bought went to seed. So I do have more and more!. They never should have let me go alone. Who said a gps is needed? Poo-poo that idea. Some of my best finds have been the old fashioned way!! Did I mention I found places that I didn't know existed to store this stash!!! So much for clearing out MY stash. I love all colors except dark ones. Old eyes are different than young ones. It's true. I'm there. I really like things that are mindless, so that I can do other things at the same time. I'm not that old after all I guess. 8 years ago I was quilting. Now my yarn stash has taken over. I still have an unbelievable stash of fabric. I'm going to be an instructor at the JOANN's in Terre Haute.

My kids are really great. However I should have had 27 to keep up with my sock knitting.Let's see that would be 58 feet And if they all were married it would be 112 feet and had 2 kids..Well maybe I had better quit while I'm ahead.

The math=Ken and I only count once. Every child becomes a pair, that would be 4 feet.

I really LOVE hand made postcards. I really don't care what your disability is. (I have trouble with straight lines among other things!) I will adore and keep your work! Love to get cards cut from boxes from other countries. Cool! I like junking and sharing. I love the featherweights I have.(Singer) I like recycling almost to an extreme some say.

I dislike tobacco odors and to knit with dark yarn.

So I took a pledge to bust my stash! No timeline! So by the turn of the century 2100, I should be good to shop again!

We have a beautiful new grandson, Matthew Carleton Whitesell as of 4/10/08! Full head of hair and weighed in at 10 pounds and an ounce. First one!! Matt is three AND still muy guapo! Dh and son #4 drove him to Indiana for 3 weeks in June and July. Everyone in the restaurants stopped to talk to him. He doesn't speak MARTIAN anymore. You just have to listen! He took his first swimming lesson 11/2/10. After 10 minutes, he says, "Cito's swimming!" He said it, not me, because he wasn't, but he will. 7/18/11, Matt is a big brother! He tells Sophia "No crying" and then kisses her cheek. A pure gentleman! Matt has decided to be a pilot when he's bigger!

I hosted my first swap-Quilted Fabric postcard some months ago now. Fanfare!! I am so proud of the group. Not one no send.Aren't they terrific? I think so.Think I'll do it again. Hey, a year later I got on the top 10!! WOW!! Also not one no send in the bunch!! As for hearts. I figure that joining a swap that I host makes the package special. Afterall on any given day, there are close to a 1000 swaps that you could choose and you chose mine. Kinda makes you all misty, doesn't it!! Ah! Lighten up! and if you crave specifics.

A while ago I felt like writing, so I joined a journal swap. After all of that work I got a 5 because my handwriting was hard to read. I didn't even get a journal in return. So I hosted a couple Journal swaps. On the one I really liked, I got a three because the journal disappointed her. Oh, it fulfilled requirements, but she wanted more. At least she got one! So that's 2 journals that I'm owed! I hate 3's. I did not realize how many people like to receive but not to send. Sometimes people get buried and that I can't help. Sorry, but No I can't help. On the other hand some keep checking into SWAPBOT without sending their journal. If it's personal, make a copy and send one of them to your partner. If it's so good you can't give it away, then copy just like I said before. "3's" are not meant to grade in the sense that "I really didn't like what I got" but in the sense that "I really did not get all the stuff that the swap said that I should get!" It must be remembered that everyone is different in abilities, likes, and funding. Sometimes you just have to be thankful to get something, even if it takes a year!

I really don't understand no-sends! I did Shabby Chic purse had 2 nosends. One of them was so enthused about the swap and then was suspended. Sometimes life happens but I for one would appreciate some warning. Kimh might be out there somewhere but not swapping. Then there is reachmichellee, whatever happened to her I haven't the foggiest, I do however wish them and theirs good health. Oh and watch out for chuckholes. They can throw you. That should be in my will--contact Swap-bot.

On the 18th of July,2011, Sophia Grace arrived at 7:34am, weighing in at 8 lbs 4.9 oz. Seriously! 4.9! Matt's baby sister is terrific!!.She's got a full head of dark hair and eyes so blue, you could.....Well you get the idea! She is absolutely one of a beautiful kind. Her daddy wants to call her FIGI! Get it?!! Sophia got her first full bath. It was not on her top 10 favorite things to do! Maybe later! 11/24/11 Soph got her 4 month visit to the doctor done including her shots! Giggled at it all! What a kid!! Soph loves to shower and get her hair washed! 12/21/11-Nobody ever knew how much fun rolling over is!!

We have a grand-DAUGHTER as of June 12,2009!! She weighed in at 8 lbs and an ounce! Dark hair and a peaches and cream complexion.!! Whoa baby! Keeping her cuteness intact is a priority for Jill. She loves the mirror and new dresses!! Seems Jill skipped the crawling and went right into running. Her daddy tried, but she didn't want to crawl, so she didn't! Wonder if there's a pattern here? Now Jill is signing and talking. It's Martian. But you had better be able to understand her signs or you are in big, ear-splitting trouble.Jill knows the alphabet and calls her feet, her peet!