Mom's birthday present

I've been trying and trying to post something to the blog for a couple weeks now. I get started on this wonderful epic post, get interrupted and never get around to finishing. So, forget all that. Short post. Then maybe in a few days another short post. It's not like I have nothing to say. I've got tons to say, so much that I can't seem to organize it all into a post. So I'm gonna save all those other ideas for later and just tell you about my mom's month-of-May present.


Mom's birthday is in early May. Then there's mother's day shortly after. And a few weeks later is my parents' wedding anniversary. So I spend a lot of time in May thinking about mom. Truth is, I think about Mom all the time, but usually it's "when's the last time I called Mom?" or "I wonder if Mom heard about this?" or "I need to get that recipe from Mom." In May I'm a bit more sentimental and I spend a lot of time thinking about how lucky I am to have such a great Mom. I think about what a hard time I gave her when I was a teenager and I'm thankful that she seems to have forgiven me. I think about how much I enjoy spending time with her now that I'm an adult and I think about what a warm loving and wonderful person she is. Then I think again about how lucky I am that she's my Mom. And then I wonder if my brother realizes how lucky he is...

This year, way back near the end of February I thought about the fact that May was just two short months away and I decided I wanted to do something special for mom. So I spent March and April knitting this lap blanket for her:


I had lots of fun picking out 20 different stitch patterns and learning how to knit them all. I improved my mattress stitch skills tremendously while stitching them all together. And I recalled my meager crochet skills adding the little border. My favorite square is the green one near the middle with the leaves on a vine.

I forgot to tell Mom the best feature of this blanket: It's made out of a superwash/acrylic blend so she can just toss it in the washer and dryer and it'll come out just fine.

I hope she likes it. It's not terribly big but it's stitched full of love!