Carmen's Afghan Finished!

I started Carmen's afghan before she decided to go to Kalamazoo College. I was nearly done with it but knew she would not want to take it to college. I bet it weights close to 10 pounds!

After her time in Budapest, she has decided she is not going back to Michigan for college so... I didn't quite make it by the time we celebrated her birthday (nearly a month and a half late!) But I finished it last week.


Saturday, we went to dinner and I gave her the finished product. I was a bit worried since she had selected the colors almost 3 years prior (when I gave Kirsten her afghan). However, this morning when I logged onto Twitter, I found this tweet by her:


This is actually the second afghan I have made for Carmen. Mom died in 1987 two years before Carmen was born. When she died, the had two incomplete afghans. Carrie and I each finished one for Kirsten and Caitlin so they would have something to remember Mom by. When Carmen was born, I used some of the yarn Mom had in her stash when she died to make her an afghan. It was pale pink and variegated pink to gray. I like it so well, I make one for myself! Here is a picture of the afghan with my sweet Baby napping. Boy I sure miss Baby!

Happy Birthday, Ann

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Tomorrow is Ann's birthday. I put this together for her birthday.

I came across some of these pictures as I was looking for toddler pictures of Kirsten. As I was looking through the pictures, I kept thinking I have scanned all of the pictures. However, I have now gone through the pictures 3 times. Once for each niece. Each time, I have been in a hurry to find pictures for a project for one of the girls so I only scanned the ones for that girls at the time.

Hard to believe that Ann is now old enough to get the senior discount at some places! WTF! How could that be. I still remember the night we went out dancing in LA (in the pictures). I remember dancing with a guy who actually knew how to dance couples dancing!

Those were the days!