Have you heard the saying?

Do you want to hear God laugh? Tell him your plans.
Well that would be the theme of last Wednesday through Sunday in my life.

Update on my neighbor: After I contacted the sister from the name in her cell phone, I started receiving calls from the family that she was estranged from and to their credit, they took over and on Saturday they came and took Kelly (the dog) back with them. Not before I was calling myself the Dog Whisperer. Kelly is old and was not in good shape on Wednesday was even worse, but through water and food (I found out she really liked tuna fish and eggs) and lots of talking and petting and conversation, by Friday she was coming to the door when I called her and going into the house at the end of the day on her own. It required lots of Lysol wipes, air freshener, hand sanitizer, Vicks up my nose and many showers and washing of my hair. On Friday, Tyler looked at me and said "Grandma Cathy, what is wrong with your hair? Do you need a haircut?" Children can be so brutally honest.

John had a big delivery and had to rent a truck which required a lot of time away from the shop last week so we got behind on orders there. I had Gracelyn and Kendall on Monday, Tyler at the shop on Tuesday, Logan and Tyler at the shop off and on Thursday and Friday. We are so behind at work, luckily though Jenn is almost caught up with her end of the work.

Two jewelry parties in the evenings last week. My daughter sells Lia Sophia jewelry and while I love it and want it all, three parties in two weeks really has my jewelry box well stocked for now! If you have never seen this jewelry take a look at
http://www.liasophia.com/sites/shawneekirkpatrick

Friday night had us packing and getting ready to go to Ohio to lay a tile floor for my Mom and Dad. Saturday, 5 AM off to Ohio and we had the tile laid by noon. At that point I took the chance to do some Christmas shopping while I was there and even got it all wrapped last night.
I did manage to squeeze in some knitting. Finished this hat.

And another dish cloth. The open house depleted my stock of these. This one still needs steamed and blocked.

And this was my project in the truck on the way to Ohio. I love this yarn, it is so soft and I love the way it stripes. I made Shelby and hat and scarf out of it and Shawnee mentioned pink and gray, although this is more green than gray, we'll have to see if she likes it. Dianna. I have two more skeins, I didn't forget you!

Another project that I finished was this shower gift. At the point I took this picture, I could not find my camera so this was taken with John's new Blackberry that he is addicted to and I am jealous. I want one also. Obviously not for the picture quality though. The funny story of this project. The tavern board was all done and I was ready to put the varnish on when I realized that it said 2009 and the wedding is January 2....sand, repaint, how could I be so dumb?

And the basket for the cards. I found this basket at Hazen on Molly's first trip to Hazen. It was new, still had the tags on it. Molly wondered what I was going to do with it. I told her at that point, maybe it would be Alicia's shower gift. Well, it was actually her card basket for the shower that I had to miss on Saturday because my Mom and Dad's toilet leaked into their kitchen and that sent us into the chain reaction of a new floor.

The top of the basket.

I had big plans last week to finish the boys' quilts for their bedrooms and get my house in order from the open house and REST! I am not even making a list for this week, well maybe just a little list.

My deal of the week. There are jeans that I love from Macy's but thrifty (cheap) as I am, they are just a little too pricey for me. I watch for them to go on sale and Saturday night they were 40% off which would have taken them to about $28. Still high for what I like to pay for jeans but I thought I would splurge. I have bought these before and they are the ones that I always grab. They are so comfortable. I took them to the checkout and they rang up at $14! I told the woman that it was not right and she tried and tried to rescan them and they kept coming up to $14. She told me that she was going to have to sell them to me for that and I ran (literally) back to the rack and got another pair. What a find? I think that Kelly was sending me good vibes and looking out for her Dog Whisperer!