Oh my goodness, I have been SO terrible about posting. Life has been busy pretty much from Christmas on, and with the amount of hands it takes to wrangle Callie time for fiberarts has been woefully short. She also has quite a fascination with my wheel and having fast-moving components little fingers edge towards is a recipe for a headache and a VERY mad baby, but not decent yarn.

Any free time I have late in the evening? I am taking a very difficult math class to slowly edge towards completing my Economics degree, and unlike my previous slacker days in college there is little to be gained by skipping homework in this subject. I have class day per week and a good 7-10 hours of homework in that given week to complete, and it is difficult enough that even DOING every single problem and a few extras I am just barely hanging on to comprehension. Math has such a short half-life if you're not using it regularly, and unfortunately the methods by which they teach math do not lend themselves to understanding but rather memorization, so the holes in my knowledge from too many bad classes plus too much time elapsing since my last course that followed this one has lead to quite a struggle in doing well. Fortunately I AM on top of my assignments and was one of only three A's on the last test... I am quite encouraged by that and it will be a REAL victory for me if I can complete this class with an A at the end.

All of this, plus Bible study, bell choir, midwifery appointments and generally attempting to keep a somewhat decent house keeps me quite busy. I am now 21 weeks pregnant, past the halfway point. WOOHOO! Everything on the anatomical ultrasound looks great and is linked off my daughter's site. We don't know what this baby is, nor will we announce any names until birth, but that date is slowly creeping closer.

I really have no illusions. I would LOVE to spend more time on fiber arts but my real goal, unless we hit financially hard times, is that I keep honing the hobby side of spinning and dyeing so that when my kids leave the house I can pursue industry and my own business full time. Especially since I will be homeschooling the kids there is no way I can give the proper time or FINANCES to truly running a business beyond the hobby level. Really, I'm fine with that. Of course I'd love to produce more and really enjoy the hobby but at LEAST until there are no more new babies that's kind of a pipe dream. Such is life!

An actual fibery update shall be forthcoming, I do have SOME projects I have completed that need documenting. But I figured a general update was probably in order, you know, just to explain the dead air!