It has been a very long time since I have posted anything. I blame it on the tons of stuff going on in my life.
First of all, my mom is still living with us. Thought it would be temporary but it seems more long term now. I am still hopeful that her Lupus will just spontaneously go into remission and she will be able to function independently some day. She does a really good job of taking care of herself on a day to day basis and she does dishes and cooks which really benefits me (it is nice to have a clean kitchen and the coffee ready for me when I wake up). I actually enjoy having her around most of the time…this is time that I get to spend with her – I get to see her everyday and evaluate how she is really doing (if she was in her own place and I was hearing her over the phone, she could lie and say she is fine just so I won’t worry about her).
Secondly, my older daughter is engaged to be married this August and I just started getting involved in her wedding planning. I have volunteered to make the cake so I shall be very busy trying different decorating techniques – I am starting to use homemade fondant soon. Rachel has her heart set on red velvet cake for the wedding. I am already checking out various websites for ideas and I think I am getting obsessed – I am even dreaming about cake decorating.
Thirdly, work has been riddled with chaos. We have several co-workers with medical problems that keep them absent a lot of the time, we have had a co-worker fired recently and we have two new hires that are in training. That is almost laughable since there is hardly anyone left to train them – we are all having to transition to a new computer system requiring us to go to training during the day thereby leaving just a skeleton crew to work. This puts undue stress on the workers left behind to do the work – they are unsurprisingly stressed, discontent, and really spread too thin. Things are coming to a head and I foresee us losing some of our better and more dependable workers. It really saddens me that the boss can’t see this happening or she does see it and does nothing to ease their burden. Actually she gets upset and takes it out on the workers that normally help out – now they are rethinking that since the only ones that get favor are the constantly absent.
My life is pretty full right now, but I am taking it in stride. Quilting is still part of my life but kind of on the back burner. I have a double wedding ring quilt I have been working on for Rachel but I have no idea if it will be ready for her by her wedding day, possibly by Christmas.
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