Hmm... don't know if there's a way to respond publicly without my personal email getting blasted all over and picking up spam - fortunately my filter is good...
After traipsing from one side of the continent and back twice we have been in Northern CA now for about 10 years. The 2 DDs are getting awfully grown up - the elder will start high school in the Fall. They're both complete nut-buckets! always funny and pert and bouncy, and they still come up and give me a hug and kiss when I volunteer at their school. Let's hope it stays that way a little longer...! Lost two fur-babies and gained a new one (current total of 2 cats). DH also developed a passion for marine aquarium-keeping, so we have an always- rotating posse of fish - they seem to like carpet-surfing... I'm still good at finishing projects (late) to give away, rarely to keep. And a good friend enabled a long-hidden fascination for quilting by giving me a gift certificate to the LQS last Fall, which I used to sign up for a class. So I've been quilting manically for 6 months and need to get back to my x stitching! Except that now I'm getting entrenched in this year's Christmas gift - 4-sided placemats for every man, woman, and child in my family. 3 each, with fabrics for each month of the year. This comes to over 100 placemats. By December. Did I mention I'm good at getting projects done (late) for other people? :-) So I'm not sure when the x stitching will work its way into the picture... Especially now that DD1 is done with soccer so I can't take my Dutch Treat tabletoppers to the fields with me.
Nice to be back! Lisa