Crocheting Along

So, we got the lights hung, AGAIN...and they have fallen again, so we will be hanging lights again tonight. There is a brilliant invention here to be made, I just wish my brain could figure it out. I finished all the Christmas shopping I can possibly do right now. I am planning to try to make some truffles for both sides of the family for Christmas. I have been cutting the matting for the family photos (you know, that is much harder than it looks). All angels and hearts have been crocheted, and most have been starched and laced with ribbon. They look so nice. I even got one photo and frame put together with a nice scripture and the heart and angel. It will look real nice if I can get the backing to close shut (the mat is thinck, and that paired with the crocheted elements makes the back next to impossible to close).



So, with all of that done, I am bored. The only other project I have going right now is my husbands blanket. Being a stock broker in a call center, it makes my boss just buggy when I crochet large projects at my desk. He seems ok with the small thread crochet, but let me pull out an afghan or a large granny square, he just freaks. So, I have a lovely collection of mismatched coasters, doilies, and so forth at my desk. I did make a couple of extra hearts today for a lady I work with, she really liked them and said she wanted some for her tree. Of course, I haven't seen her since I finished them, so I still have them on my desk.



I am a member of a Christian message board, and there have been a number of posts lately pertaining to child discipline. What is and what is not appropriate, to spank or not to spank. Do time outs really work, and so forth and so on. i have noticed, at work when we talk on breaks and such, that most of the people that have the most wonderful feedback on child raising have no children of their own. They have all the best answers, and know exactly what it takes to raise a child and make them come out normal in the end. I have in the past voiced some issues that I am having with one child or the other at home, and it is immediately met with a "Have you tried this?" or "You know what you should do?" Amazing that they immediately know what my child, whom they have never met, will react to and what form of discipline is best. I just nod my head and smile. What more can you do? My oldest son hates time outs, he was an only child for 3 1/2 years and finds it horrible to be in a corner all by himself, so this works for him. My youngest finds time outs to be just wonderful, as he has never known life as an only child and rarely gets peace and quiet. It all depends on the child. I hated being spanked when I was a kid, mostly it was the time leading up to the spanking, but the spanking was pretty bad. Never bothered my sister. She would just look at my dad after, so different forms of discipline were used for each of us.



Oh, enough of my soapbox here. Off to hang lights soon, and figure out how to get them to stay up once and for all. Perhaps a house of metal and a light string of magnet will do?? Or, perhaps I need to spend my time crocheting some sort of contraption that will hold them up, instead of all these dang coasters and doilies laying around!!