Where do the days go?

Been kinda crazy here lately. We're doing a refinance on the house--tons of paperwork--I'm getting ready to go to Utah, and I'm trying to get some writing done and queries sent out. I talked with an editor today and she liked a few of my ideas. That is always good.

Talking on Skype with MF in Europe is great. Her baby, E, likes my panda puppet and really responds to it. Today M showed me his missing tooth and his new haircut and V showed me the new skirt her mommy had made on her new sewing machine.

I'm so excited about going to visit GL and crew. I'm taking the baptism dress and the blessing dress. Wow! The baptism dress looks amazingly good. I made it in 1984. It needs new elastic in the sleeves which GL and I can take care of while I'm there. It won't be needed until next spring. My mom made the blessing dress in 1976 so it's not an antique but it has gotten a lot of use.

My parents are doing great and we're starting to make plans for a celebration for Dad's ninetieth birthday. Won't that be something? So I have some traveling to do for that as well.

I'd really like to see some of this area. We've had to put off a lot of things because of Michael's work schedule and my bad back. The Barnes Foundation collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings is just down the road. I've seen some of the paintings when they came to Fort Worth in 1994. But their big Seurat didn't travel and I'd really like to see the collection in the building as Barnes meant for it to be seen. Maybe this fall...