More washcloths.  I have a feeling that you will be seeing these for a wile. The blue and yellow one is the crochet "Easy Crocheted Dishcloth" pattern and the green one is the "Double Bump."  Originally I planned to make six in total, three for each of my children's teachers.  My daughter has an extra helper/aid in the class room and wants to give something to her as well so I may end up making nine all together.   These two are about the same size and smaller than the fist one.  I'm working on my fourth one right now.

I finished the baby blanket except for weaving in the ends.  Now that one more project is off the hooks I'll work on my shawl for my sister's wedding.  I wanted to use some hand spun and make the "Dahlia Shawl" but now I don't think that's a good idea.  The yarn, wile red, really has an orange cast to it and I wand a deeper red.  The "Age of Brass and Steam" shawl I was working on before has a better red so I will pick that up again and rip back to where I know the count is right.  I really wanted to make my daughter a shrug for the wedding but I'm not going to have time and no one thinks she would need it.  That's enough planning for now I guess.

:Listening to podcasts yesterday was really interesting.  I did get farther on Knit 1 Heart Too but what really got me thinking was Coffee with Stacey. She was talking about how people ask her what her secret to success is and she says there is no secret it's just repeated hard work. She also thinks it's good to have a crazy dream you want to work toward because it may seem crazy, but if you work on it a little every day it can really get done. She challenged everyone to think of some thing they accomplished by just working hard and chipping away at it little by little and getting a crazy dream.  This really made me think because I felt sort of like I had made bad choices and had to live with them and no longer had the right to dream.  Or that dreaming was too complicated because there were so many things in the way.  I didn't realize I wasn't dreaming anymore.  It took me about twelve hours to think of something I've accomplished and even then it doesn't feel that big or worthy of the title.  I really had to look hard at my thought patterns.  I made a list of some goals.  I'm kind of waffling between being inspired and overwhelmed by them. Right now I think my goal will be to put more effort into getting healthy.  I only work on it half-heartedly and I think I could make some major changes if I put some effort in.

I think that should be enough of the thoughts rattling around in my head. There is more in there but it's so hard to express this way.  I have more thinking to do as well.  Amey hasn't had a fever in over twenty-four hours and the day is nice so I will end here.  See you next time.