Crochet Me Crazy

We've killed 4 scorpions in our house today plus 1 on the porch!! Alison is SUPER creeped out and I'm pretty creeped out myself actually. Those things sting! I've never lived anywhere that I've had this problem before. I guess we're going to be super careful and check things. Jeff thinks its because of the big rain we had but I don't know.

Michael is gone for the week staying at the stables and working so I'm cleaning stalls. When I'm home it seems like all I ever do is feed things -- I'm either feeding people or animals! If I'm not doing that, I'm cleaning up after people or animals... Guess I better get used to it because we plan on having our own animals some day. Today I took it easy....Jeff was home.

I'm still having fun crocheting flowers.




The flowers are pretty but they look even prettier once Alison gets done working her magic!



Alison asked me to make her a new water bottle holder so I made that today.



Good news! Jeff had an interview yesterday for the Field Service Manager position where he works and now he has to go be interviewed at company headquarters in Oklahoma. He's flying out Friday and comes home Saturday. Hopefully, he gets this and life will get less demanding for him.

The water bottle holders are coming along quickly. I can practically make them in my sleep now. I'm getting to use up some of my yarn that I only have small amounts of left.

Alison wanted me to make water bottle holders for all the girls in her ballet class for Christmas presents. I wasn't sure if I could do it in time. I only have a month to do it. I started on them and now I'm sure that I can have them done in time. I'm not making anything fancy. I wanted to add beads or danglies of some kind but decided against it. I didn't want to spend the money on those extras. If I could get to my supplies that are in storage, I already have that kind of stuff.




Well, the holiday season is here. I am determined to try my hardest to make the holiday season as normal and good as possible for my kids. It's going to be hard for me because I am getting very, very weary of living in this RV. None of the normal traditions that we have been doing for years will be possible this year. I miss having any time as a family anymore. We will put our Christmas Tree up outside at least. Finding the time to dig it out of storage will be the first challenge. If I could do it by myself, that would be helpful but the storage is so full you can't really move around in there and there's all kind of heavy stuff I can't move by myself. We're thinking about moving all of our stuff to a different unit...that way we could organize it and get everything we need to be able to get to up front where we can get to it. I do believe its starting to get to everyone a little bit living in the RV. No one complains too much but I am starting to see and here signs of the stress from everyone. I know a house and a horse is at the top of Alison's dream list.

We had an appointment to get the little goat Alison is going to try to show castrated today. Alison got up and went to the stable with her daddy this morning to help him catch the little guy. They had a hard time catching him. They came home all hot and sweaty and tired. This particular goat is not one of the tamed ones. Anyway, they got it done and Jeff too him to the vet. Alison spent $80 dollars on the little guy. They say the kids make about $600 showing a goat. I hope she get does or at least gets the return on her money. She's spending her own money on this.

I really can't wait for the day that we have our own land and our own animals. We've had most kind of animal you can have as city folks from ducks, to rabbits, to rats, cats, dogs....once we have our land, we can expand our horizons. We'll definately have at least two horses, chickens and rabbits to start with.

Alison had two sisters from her dance class over today so I've been hearing the sounds of girls giggling all day. They played ping-pong and the Wii over at the game room. Alison is happy to have a couple of friends. They are nice girls.

Well, the cupcake purse inspired me so I started on the cupcake water bottle holder last night and finished it up today. Here is the end result.


I think I could use the same basic concept and come up with a hat.