mrs_sweetpeach | Project 52

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As the scrapbook page says, the big event of the week was a combination Christening and Birthday Party. Reverend Jebra did the honors and did his usual great job. There were two ice cream cakes, one strawberry cream cheese and the other Death by Chocolate. I tried both and went wild for the chocolate one. I have no idea who made the cake but I must find out as it was that good.

A few days after the gathering it occurred to me that there were four generations of family there (including nieces and nephews) plus Connie's best friend, her daughter, Jebra, and myself. We've been friends with this group for longer than I can pinpoint. I know we were living in Detroit when we first met and it must have been somewhere around the end of the 1980s.

The week included three online meetings (Cranky Women, Virtual SEMGS, and Stitch & Bitch).

On Friday, my mom got her new hip. The surgery went well and the doctor told my brother he thinks he managed to restore the inch she'd lost when the hip went back. Mom's walking and she starts Physical Therapy today. My surgeon told me different surgeons have different ideas about how to best care for the patient. Other than walking and stretching in bed I wasn't allowed to start PT for something like six weeks after surgery. I've seen a photo of the post-surgery x-ray and mom's new hip is gnarly. Four big honking screws plus the usual hardware, and a weird ring around the top of the femur. It looked to me like bone was splitting, like a tree branch would if you'd hit into a cut branch with an axe. Anyway, I've not managed to speak with her since her surgery but my brother tells me she's doing well and is not in much pain. I think that was my major fear, that the surgery would not reduce her pain the way it did mine.

In crafting news, I worked on a cat bed and spent some time working on my BSKG Cowl. The pattern is for both a hat and a cowl and I think the cowl may transform into a hat as I don't seem to have written down what size needle I used for the ribbed edge. Since I planned to make both anyway, no harm done if I switch which one I'm knitting.

Scrapbook papers & elements from the kit Bohemian Breeze
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