How time flies...

Our youngest daughter is now 29 years old.  Although both of her sisters have passed this milestone, it was only with her approaching birthday that I recalled how my mother was 29 for several years!  I guess she really did not want to grow old, so she hung on to birthdays like this as long as she could.  I wish I could ask her why she felt that way; did she have an older relative or friend who aged poorly?  Had she heard stories about old people that worried her?  Did she connect aging with approaching death?  I don't know.  Mom died at age 65.

On a happier note...Our girls wore OshKosh B'Gosh overalls as they began to walk, so when I saw a pair at Kohl's recently I bought them and sent them to e.  I was glad to see the overalls are still around; I didn't save any of ours.  She looks so cute in the denim with the cuffs rolled up.  Her walking improves daily.  I expect she will be running when I visit her next month.

I attended a shower yesterday for a friend who is about to become a grandmother for the first time; her daughter and husband live in Chicago, so this was a shower in absentia, though we did Skype with them, introducing ourselves and congratulating the couple.  The hostess/organizer suggested everyone bring a book for the new baby's library.  How clever!  Not only did I buy three of e's favorite books, I picked up suggestions of other books she might like.  We all talked about books we remembered from our childhood or books our own children enjoyed.  I think everyone there was a grandmother, except one young mother who is a friend of the mother-to-be.

Last night I finished a quilt top; working title is "Raggedy Bull's Eye." The colorful circles are sewn down without turning under the raw edges and thus will fray a bit when washed.  The circles are left over from a previous bull's eye quilt which called for trimming out the underlying layers of the circles, which left these smaller circles of fabric; this time I did not trim the layers.  The background fabrics are black and white prints. I like the cheery feel of the quilt.  The next step is to decide if a border is needed, so I will "audition" a black border and also a white border to see if either enhances the quilt.