Snowy Days and Home Sick

Yesterday we were blessed with a snow day (well, more like a "it's too cold to go out day", but whatever....). I was going to call in sick anyway, but luck was on my side, so I got a free day home and I was sick. Oh boy. However, there were benefits to this. Here is what I did all day: I'm three tiers away from the end of the bag! I am so in love with this project! I still need to do the handles, and my friend said that she'd show me how to do 2 i-cords at the same time to make it go faster. Since, I'm home sick today too, I think I can get it done today!!! That would be awesome!

On Sunday, my folks came up to help me with this:This loveliness, is my basement. What a mess!!! My parents have been come up to help me get my house in a clean and ordered shape. I've learned that if I want to clean it out right that sometimes that means making a bigger mess so that you can really see what all you have. So, to help me get in order, here is my dad building us some shelves along one of the walls down there:

My dad built us 8 feet of shelves so that my husband's train set would have a neat and ordered home (not the middle of the basement floor where it had been living!). Here it is now that the train set is all stored on our NEW shelves:It still looks a bit messy, but they are coming back this weekend to build another set of shelves, and another round of ordering our chaos. I'm really happy about all this becasue I can't spend a lot of time in the basement due to some servire allergies. My max time down there is about 10 minutes, so it's nice that they can come and help me. Mom has been the task master when they come and she gives me jobs so that I'll stay out of the basement (if she dosen't she knows I'll be down there trying to help anyway...).
Today, my plan is to call the doctor and knit. I was suppost to do a spinning demo for the foruth grade, but I called the teachers last night to let them know that it might not happen today. It looks like tomorrow is the day it will happen! I hope I can make it for that, becasue it's really something that I enjoy!