It’s 2020 already!

Who would have thought that the year 2020 would be here so soon? It seems like just yesterday we were all concerned about Y2K and now here we are, 20 years later!  I remember everyone at work being very worried that the computers were going to crash at midnight in 2000 and yet everything rolled along just the same.

Dennis is in Omaha with family, and I have to admit that spending my first ever New Year’s Eve alone was a bit strange. Of course I knitted and I watched a lot of U-Tube videos. Alex and Tara FaceTimed with me from Liverpool, England where they had taken a Beatles tour earlier in the day. It was wonderful to see their faces.

I have some very good news. When they did a scan on Karen on Monday, they found that the spots on her lungs and her liver have disappeared! It is truly a miracle and we attribute it to all of the people who are praying for her. Please keep up the prayers. She sees another doctor tomorrow and as of now she still has cancer in her pancreas, lymph nodes and bones.  We do know that miracles happen and are happening for her.  I am very grateful that Dennis is getting this time to spend with her.

He will be home Saturday night. I was supposed to drive him to the airport yesterday morning early, early, early. However, it snowed all night and he did not want me driving those roads in the dark with so much snow. So he left his truck in the parking garage at the airport.  It was snowing so hard that they sat on the plane at the gate for over 2 1/2 hours before they could take off. They couldn’t keep up with removing the snow and deicing the plane. Thank goodness we had allowed a long connection in Seattle because of this possibility.

Almost 7 1/2 hours after he left our house, he flew back over Spokane on his way to Omaha!  He had to fly from Spokane to Seattle and catch a connecting flight to Omaha. How crazy is that? 7 1/2 hours to end up just above where you started out!

Then, Neal came over and shoveled the driveway out for me when he got off work in the afternoon. We have the most wonderful friends and family you can imagine. I haven’t left the house since Monday and I’m not sure if I will go anywhere today or not. I have a hankering for fried chicken and I may just treat myself and do something I never do. Go through the Kentucky Fried Chicken drive-through!

As I said, I have been getting some knitting done. I finished the sweater just in the nick of time to run to JoAnns and buy some buttons and get them sewn on before Dennis left.

I also made five hats for the ladies at the retirement home to donate.

And I made two pair of mittens yesterday.  A pair for me and a pair for the school children.

Now, there is a story about these mittens I made for myself.  Dennis and I took a walk up at the lake on Sunday to check on the trailers. I had my mittens on because it was very cold.  I remember having them on when I got back into the car. However, when I went to put them on Monday morning for the drive to JoAnns for buttons, they were nowhere to be found. I searched the car. I searched the house. I looked in all of my coat pockets, even the coat I didn’t wear! Nowhere! I thought I must have dropped them when we stopped in the little town of Deer Park on the way home.  

I went ahead and did all of my errands including a few other stops at the grocery store, Walmart and Staples. I had been talking about making a second pair anyway, so I could have a pair in my dress coat and in the coat I wear with jeans. I had just never done it.  So, I went back out Monday afternoon to Hobby Lobby and picked up another skein of the exact same color because I like them so much. When I opened my purse to pay for the yarn guess what was in my purse? My mittens! I have never, ever put my mittens or gloves in my purse before. Plus, I had paid for things at JoAnns, Staples, Walmart, and the grocery store and I never saw the mittens in my purse. How does that happen? I went ahead and bought the yarn and made another pair of mittens anyway! I think I’m losing my mind.  That was my first purchase with my Christmas gift card. :-)

This is Papa‘s plane taxiing to the gate in Omaha yesterday. Does someone look excited to see him?  I can’t believe they had such a good view of the gates from where they were waiting.

This one is really blurry because they were both in motion but it gives you an idea of how excited they were to see each other.  I love this picture.  A moment later and she was in his arms.

I had a few other lovely goodies arrive in the mail. First of all was a sweet card with a Christmas tree framed behind a sweet window with birds. Sam who is “farmgirlsam” on my side bar, sent Dennis and I this beautiful ornament that she made. Unfortunately it was broken when I received it but I have a glued it back together as best I can and I will cherish it. Thank you so much Sam.  We love it.

I also got this handy needle sizer from Judy who is “cozythings” on my sidebar.  It is the perfect size and I can keep it right next to my knitting chair.  I can’t believe how much I have used it already.  Thank you so much Judy!

I hope that you are all having a wonderful New Year’s day and are finding some time to do whatever makes you happy. I’m wishing you all a wonderful 2020. I am so grateful to be starting the year out with wonderful friends like I have here through this blog. You have all come to mean so much to me.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”  Ecclesiastes 3:11

Blessings and love,

Betsy