Goings On

I'm just going to start will saying how pleased I am that the weather is finally starting to warm up. I've been so tired of the dark cold winter that I was starting to go crazy. This past weekend saw the start of 50+ degree weather, which is wonderful. I was finally able to open up the house a little bit today and the fresh air is just amazing. I'm really honestly planning to start trying to go out for short walks soon (after the three days of rain we are to get pass at least). I found yesterday that my back is really unaccustomed to bearing the weight of my expanding belly, which looks as though I'm smuggling a basketball. Andrew is taking a class on building and painting minis for Warhammer 40k at a hobby shop at the mall, so I decided to take the opportunity to also get out of the house as well as pick up a couple things from Motherhood that I'd been needing. I was kind of surprised at how quickly I was experiencing so much back pain I absolutely had to find a place to sit. Thankfully there was a free table at the Starbucks where I spent some time before heading to books-a-million, where they also thankfully had reading chairs. I decided after that experience that I really did need to finally alter my mainly sedentary daily routine. If I don't build up my back strength at all I'm either going to be in a lot more pain or end up hurting myself or both. :-P

In other news I'm a very close to being finished with the baby blanket I've been crocheting. I just need to do the border, which I'll be doing in white (the body of the blanket is in light sage green). I've not done crochet in likely a decade and never anything as large or as nice as a blanket. This is also the first time I've worked with a printed pattern or used any pretty stitch variations, so I'm quite pleased with the results. I'll post a picture of the blanket once I'm finished with it. I'm also very close to being do with the cross stitch pattern I've been working on. It's something I started years ago. It's taken so long because I've never really worked on in consistently. It would sit untouched for six months at a time sometimes. There is a very little bit of stitching left to be done the the lower right hand corner, then all the outlining on the lower half needs to be done. It's a garden gate scene with lots of lilac in it. I plan to frame it and put it up in the living room once I complete it as it will go nicely with all the light purple I put out in the spring and summer time.