"a new year begins, and life once more offers the bright, pure joy of possibility." anonymous

I'm going to try to make a commitment to myself to blog this year. I started to last year, posted one blog and that was it. In my defense though, it was an extremely busy year. We were gone most weekends in the summer, then were trying to get the house ready to sell. That involved every spare minute that I had, getting things packed and moved. When the sale fell through in October, we did some redecorating and have decided to stay here. I still have about half of my household goods in storage. It started to snow, before we were able to move everything back in to the house and it hasn't quit yet. Then the holidays came and went, and now here we are in January again.

Today is the first time that I've had absolutely no commitments to be anywhere or do anything for a long time. I've enjoyed the day mostly being lazy, but I did manage to finish up a couple of projects that I had started. The first one is an afghan that I crocheted for Jeffrey. It's a sampler afghan. I found the pattern in "Vanna's Choice - Heartfelt Gifts to Knit & Crochet" pattern book.

The second project that I was finally able to finish is a crocheted top for Macy. I started this last spring and it ended up getting put aside when things got so busy. I'm hoping that it still fits, when I finally get to give it to her. This is a free pattern that I found on the web.