It's coming...

A new look for the blog in honor of spring. Even though we got another few inches of snow last night, even though I love snow and winter....it is time for spring. Before the latest snow, I could see daffodils just poking up through the earth and the forsythia has budded so there is no doubt. Spring is coming. A nice tulip shot from last April to remind me of what will happen soon!

Since the last time I was here....

...I have helped my "crippled but not an invalid" husband get along, celebrated the birthday of Nickulous, served an important role as adjunct to the Bloom Sibling-Weekend-o'-Fun, become a true Cake Maniac, indulged my strange obsession for America's Next Top Model, worked full time (pictured are my Huntertown 5th graders in their Mentor Program t-shirts and my Cedar Canyon 3rd graders enjoying their quilt project), finished the sweater for Sari and Paul's baby girl, and started a project for the Knitting Olympics.

(This scarf is my Knitting Olympics project. I had to rip out the first sock of Brenda's pair because of serious gauge error. It is very sad to rip out a completed sock but unless she had plans to wear a cast like Stew's and to wear the sock over the cast, it wouldn't have fit anyway. I figure I have to finish something for her sometime. So far, all she has are promises.)

I don't plan to stay away so long ever again!