Chinese Whispers

[Charae H.]

Wow, Nancy. I haven't been on this thread for a while, but you have been busy! Great stuff!

[Nancy R.]

Thanks! It seems like a lot since it all got finished at the same time, but looking back over the year I don't feel like I got much done. Hopefully, next year will be better!

Nancy

[karen f.]

Hurray Rosemary! I'm so excited for you guys to get to see all your quilts together. I hope you ALL can go!

[Maureen A.]

May your troubles be less, your blessings be more,
And nothing but happiness comes through your door.

Happy and a healthy New Year to everyone

[wendy w.]

Thank you Maureen and the same for you but I'll add quilts coming through your door.

[Maureen A.]

Thank you Maureen and the same for you but I'll add quilts coming through your door.

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[Rita C.]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Same to you Maureen, all CWers and CW lurkers too.

[Lois B.]

Happy New Year everyone. I just spent the past 2 days taking care of a very fisty, very difficult 92 year old MIL. I love her to death but there were times in the last 2 days I wanted to…. I shall not say what I wanted to do. I am so glad to be home. Snow is predicted and it will be quite fine with me if we have 3 ft. I've not yet gotten a treadle so the electricity better not go off. I need to quilt, quilt, quilt!!! How wonderful it was to come home and fine all this great new stuff on TQS. It may make me forget how frustrated I've been with a certain person. Who knew! I just wonder how many lives TQS may have saved. :? I know of at least one! :wink:

[E.M. T.]

Boy ! does that sound familiar ! I remember when.....Rrrrrrr :twisted: I have always said I was "taking lessons" when
my mother acted out and made things rough ! And I don't miss it now she's gone. Like you...I'm sure...I tried to always
think of the good....while I was ripping something to shreds !! :mrgreen: It'll pass...try ripping some yardage...feels
great !

[Susan B.]

Maureen, thank you from a CW lurker!

Lois, please, gurl, just fein (fain?) illness with MIL, we don't need 3 feet of snow to avoid crabby people. A dusting to make the world pretty, but nothing that needs shoveling, please! And why do DIL's get stuck with MIL's???? Where are the DS's? As a southern belle would say, "Oh, I just really couldn't"

Peace to all.

[Susan B.]

I just wonder how many lives TQS may have saved. :? I know of at least one! :wink:

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I understand, Lois. We almost all have one of those in the family. Hope you get the time to quilt quilt quilt!!

[Charae H.]

Lois~ I understand your frustration, but you did make me chuckle. I really believe this hobby keeps us sane and out of bell towers and when we are kept from it we get pretty testy :evil:
Happy New Year to you all. A dedicated CW Lurker!

[Catherine S.]

Lois, sorry about your ordeal with your MIL. Yes, I think we all have people in the family who can drive us crazy and I guess we drive them crazy in return. I love my difficult relatives and I hope they love me in return. Luckily my MIL was extra special. She is the one who showed me how to quilt. I loved her dearly. She also taught me to cook. OK, I knew some basic stuff about cooking, but she made everything taste great. She made the best pies and cinnamon rolls. I can do that now, but don't because we are overweight. It sure sounds good. Thanks MOM, love you!

[Lois B.]

Cathy, I think in all fairness to my MIL I need to say that the characteristics that I find so very hard to deal with are the very characteristics I love the most. Her fisty-ness was causing her to make some dangerous choices in regard to her health which contributed to a few days stay in the hospital. We are doing everything we can to make it possible for her to remain in her home and then she monkeys with her medications using reasoning like, "I think I'll skip my diuretics today because I don't want to be bothered with having to make frequent trips to the toilet." Just like your experience, Cathy, I learned so much about cooking from her. She is very appreciative of everything I do. She had three sons. I am the daughter she never had and she always introduces me as her daughter. She is also quite alot like the princess in "The Princess and the Pea". It' was hard to be patient with her whims when her currant decline is the result of her own poor choices.

[Susan B.]

Dear Lois, I hope I wasn't insulting about your family, just trying to make you laugh in tough times. Believe me, I'd give anything to have just one more healthy hug from 3 parents, long gone, and you gave me a few tears this morning remembering those difficult last days of their lives as they passed on. It was a gift to be able to help them.

How much snow do you have? The Arctic blast reached us in Maryland. I even took pictures at midnight because the snow came down & just stuck to everything. The wind chill of zero degrees is something we're not used to! I hope you are safe.