Our girl ran a fever yesterday, so her mama called the Drs' exchange. They told her to get her to the nearest ER ASAP. So, daughter called me on their way to the hospital. I offered to come up right away, but she said lets wait and see what it is. Caleb had a virus last week, and we were sure that's all it was. But they ran all kinds of tests on her, and ended up putting her in an ambulance and sending her to Childrens Hospital at Barnes(in St. Louis). Her fever broke before they even got her there, but they are insisting on waiting for the cultures to come back before releasing her. I headed up here this morning, after Sara called to tell me this.

Meanwhile, she seems to be fine, other than not being able to sleep. She's a light sleeper and with all the noises and goings' on at the hospital, she got only a couple of short(REALLY SHORT) catnaps today. Daughter talked to them and got them to move her to a room which had no roommate, so maybe things will be quiet for them tonight. Son in law is working nights and I'm here at their house with Caleb. His Grandpa took him trick or treating. By the time he brought him home, he was not wanting to get his pic taken in his costume. I'll post a picture of that when I get back to my own pc and can edit his gpa out of the picture. I really don't want to post pictures of him without his permission.

MASS CONFUSION!!! So, today, I found myself with a day where I had very few obligations(doing Mother in law's laundry was the only one), so I decided to sew. One of my sewing machines is at her house, where I will stay sometimes, just so people see people in her house. I have a quilt going there for Caleb. I don't have a picture of it in any stage because I didn't have my camera with me. But......it is all cut out, one block completely done, all the stripsets sewn, and about half of them are cut and in various stages of completion. I don't work well when I have to do the same thing over and over and over again, so I change it up a bit and work on this a while, then that........as you can see from the pictures above! This morning, I decided to work on more crazy quilt blocks to go with the ones I won in our guild block of the month drawing a while back.(top picture). I have 5 mini blocks (3" finished) done and ready to trim up, as you see in the 2nd picture. The third picture shows my 2 tubs of scraps I pulled for this project. They are sitting on the floor right beside my chair. The next photo shows my papers all stacked up and everything ready to sew. Well, I sewed 2 6" blocks together and they are ready to trim, then I decided a crazy quilt is not what I wanted to make for my mother in law! So I decided to work on tote bags. I have had this pattern a while, so I cut out diamonds and couldn't find my flannel board, so I laid them out on this quilted board I have. I sewed them all together, then trimmed them up and they are ready to put with the strips to make a tote...THEN I remembered the fabric I want to use with them is up at MIL's.....lol........sooo.... back to the crazy quilt blocks I was drawn. I quilted 2 of them with a backing and cut out boxing for the sides and bottom and will make tote bags out of these blocks. Imagine how nice it will look when I go to the store and have my own fancy bags and can tell them to keep their plastic! Now I just need to make about a half dozen and remember to keep them in the car for shopping days....(then I'll probably realize I need 1 1/2 dozen instead of 1/2!!! ) Talk about a case of mass confusion. I couldn't make up my mind WHAT I wanted to do so got a whole lot of nothing done! OH wait, I did get some towels sewn to potholders.....I still have to add the buttons, will show you that later, am going to try to get the buttons sewn on tonight. I may not have got a lot accomplished(finished), but it really felt good to spend the day in the sewing room again!

Newest Baby Pictures... These are the latest pictures of my beautiful grandchildren! I have actually been sewing, too, but not photographing it yet! Will hopefully have some pictures soon, though.....stay tuned!