It has taken me awhile to get well again.  I don't think I have ever been as sick as I was this time around.  I was so weak at the the end of it all I just haven't felt like doing much after I get home from work.  This past weekend I finally felt up to doing something.  So I worked on making some backs for a few quilts I am getting quilted and I finished up Clue 3 of my mystery I am working on.  I am really ready to start sewing some of these parts together so I can see where this is leading.  I pulled Clue 4 out and it is sewing more half square triangles together.  Well shoot, not what I was hoping to do next. 
On another note, I really like to make small quilts and I see one of the blogs I follow Canoe Ridge is offering a year of mini quilt patterns.  I think I am going to sign up.  She approaches quilting in a more modern way then I do but this should ensure for simplistic patterns and it would give me a little bit of hand quilting to do without all the applique I usually do on my small quilts. 
Headed off to work with snow/sleet coming down, yuck!

I finished my little quilt that I followed along with over at Humble Quilts That is all I have gotten done this week as I have come down with that flu bug and have been pretty much worthless. Here is hoping that I can get to feeling better for the weekend.

Today is a big day, a very big day. Today is my mom and dad's 60th wedding anniversary. Wow, I can't imagine spending 60 years with someone but they have and they are definately good at it! I have basically had a charmed life because of these two wonderful people. You see, almost 50 years ago I was their chosen child. They have been told my mama was young and unwed and surely couldn't raise a daughter on her own so they were the ones that brought me home from the hospital instead. I grew up with an older sister who was also a chosen child and my younger sister who they were finally blessed with having. We had a fun time growing up, great memories of neighborhood friends and yearly vacations then when my older sister was 18 she became really sick. She never fully recovered and my parents have spent the last 34 years dedicated to loving her and seeing that she can live the fullest life possible. They have always been there for each and every one of us and for their 5 grandchildren also. They never missed an event one of these kids was involved in and drove miles to be at each and every sporting event. The past year has been a rough one. My mom is a diabetic and it is getting worse for her, my dad was diagnosed with bone cancer and he is getting weaker but they still show the same dedication to each other and to each one of us girls that they did when they brought us home for the first time. I love them so very much and I am so very blessed to have been chosen by them.