"Girlie Get-Away"

I started a blog the evening I returned from Mexico (Nov. 7), got interrupted before finishing it, and here it is two weeks later and I haven't had a chance to finish it. I'll bet some of you reading this have had similar experiences. I want to go ahead and write about it, anyway, since it was such a great time, and then record a couple more entries that have occurred since then and try to get caught up a little on what's been going on in my corner of the world.
On Nov. 5, I drove to Mexico (MO) to spend a couple of days with my dear friend Linda (she used to live here and now lives about 4 hours away), her mom Maxine, and her daughter Sabra and her family.
I had such fun at Linda's. She said we needed to do all the "girl things," and that included hair and a manicure. I'm not sure what was in it for her but I sure enjoyed it. She had seen this hairdo on a blog and wanted to tell me about it so I could try it on my granddaughter. When Linda saw how long my hair was, she just "had" to try it on me. We did it just before bed and didn't try to make it exceptionally neat; she primarily wanted me to see how it was done. The hairdo on the blog Linda had seen had been done on a little girl, for a wedding. It is made of 25 pony tails, beginning with one main one and then split and reconnected to form a web. Finally, the pony tails are folded "inside out" to form a webbed bun. Linda said they had used little ribbons (or you could use pearls, etc.) at each connection to make it really fancy. I slept on it because we wanted to show her mom, and it held up surprisingly well.
Maxine had a wonderful dinner ready for us when I arrived. She always outdoes herself and makes me feel so welcome. Linda and I went to St. Louis on Friday and joined friends from my Ward for their Youth Temple Trip. We hadn't been together since our trip to Hawaii a year ago last January, so it was fun getting caught up.
A couple of years ago, Kyra and I tied two fleece blankets, one for her and one for Reed. For some unknown reason, I had picked up a yard and a half of the two fleece pieces for Reed's blanket, but only a yard each for Kyra's, making hers quite a bit smaller than his. That worked okay for a while but she has really outgrown hers. I decided I would buy more fleece and take it with me and maybe Linda and I would work on it while we visited. We did just that and were able to finish it. Even though the reverse (pink) side of the blanket has a "breast cancer" theme, it was by far the prettiest pink fleece available, and besides, I really liked the "Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply" theme, and thought Kyra would like it, too. I was right. I used two yards this time, for an adult-sized blanket, and she loves wrapping up in it. Making it with my (and Ky's) dear friend Linda will also be a special memory.

We spent Friday evening visiting Sabra and her family, and thoroughly enjoyed meeting the Hyrum, the newest member of the family. Sabra is such a wonderful mother (!), and I'm so impressed with her efforts to home school the children. They are obviously thriving.

This trip was a wonderful trip down memory lane (to a time when Linda and I used to talk daily, if not get together!). She's planning a trip to Springfield to spend a couple of days with me in December and I can hardly wait to share our new home with her.