A Little Help From My Friends

It is lovely to have friends who will help pull you out of a slump even when they don’t realize that is what they are doing. I was pretty wrung out by the time yesterday rolled around. Thankfully, work went smoothly and I got that out of the way. My friend Rebecca came for her piano lesson mid-morning, but just as she was pulling into the driveway, my phone rang. It was Cathy, calling to catch up. I promised to call her back as soon as Rebecca and I were done. Rebecca made great progress with her practicing last week (and that despite having a sick little one). I still feel like I don’t know what I am doing, but we’re using a couple of adult piano lesson books and I am following the lesson plans laid out in them.

I called Cathy back after lunch. We had a great conversation and caught up on cows, kids, and her job at a clinic in Kalispell (she’s a physician there). She’s got an insane work schedule at the moment but hoping to cut back to just three or four days a week. Yesterday was one of her rare days off. I was so glad she called.

The husband and I had some Amazon reward points to spend. After checking with him to see if he needed or wanted anything (he didn’t), I spent them on one of these:

I have the smaller Accuquilt Go! cutter, but I use it frequently enough that I’ve been kicking around the idea of upgrading, either to the electric version or the Studio 2 version. I finally decided on the Studio 2. The electric one would have been nice, but this model allows me to use all the dies I currently have (with an adapter) as well as the dies made specifically for this cutter. (Accuquilt says this cutter will accommodate all 600 of the dies available.) This will allow me to churn through fabric much faster. And it was on sale.

And then the mail came, with a giant box from DD#1’s future mother-in-law who is an accomplished baker. It was full of cookies, each package individually wrapped. The husband and I had great fun unwrapping each package to see what kind of cookies were inside. I am a lousy baker, so I appreciate it when people shower us (but mostly the husband, whose metabolism can handle the extra calories, LOL) with homemade baked goods.

After a good night’s sleep in which Rusty did not bark or whine once (he has been waking us up several times a night recently), I woke up feeling much refreshed and ready to tackle today. It’s snowing heavily and has been since last night. We are under more watches and advisories through Monday, but given the recent track record for forecasts, I’m not going to speculate on how much snow we will get until it’s all over. I filled the woodbox yesterday. We’ll be all snug and battened down for the next couple of days.