So glad that the news is good for your mom; I've been there with my mom and it truly does suck -- no doubt about it. But, we'll all be thinking of you and sending the best, most positive energy your way.

Sandy, I am so glad to hear the news about your Mom! I will be praying for a safe and successful surgery, and a speedy recovery! Enjoy a blessed Christmas!

Fig is a beautiful cat - and I think it's great that he's passively ignoring the camera. (I hope you're feeling better and the airborne helped; I love my jelly glass collection so much that they're packed away safe and sound, waiting for me to use when I have a place of my own again.)

Wonderful news about your Mom, and I think that gray kitties are the very best.

Glad to hear the good news about Mom.

Sandy! I'm with you on the hatred of The Math. :-) I laughed aloud at Fig giving you the finger...yes, I'm sure that's what he's doing! I'm so happy for your family with respect to your mom. Great news.

Good for your mom. What a relief that must be.

Got a mitten question for you. I'm at the two-wick decrease on my Estonian pair, and as I knit my way merrily around, I continued stranding the yarn loosely all the way around the inside. Then when I had a few rounds of decreasing done, I found that there were also huge, loose floats between the paired decreases on each side, so the mitten top wasn't "closed" at all. Do you know what I mean?... on each "edge" of the mitten I had a decrease, a long float, and then the other decrease. I guess that when you start shaping the tops of the mittens, you have to pull HARD on the yarns as you turn the "corners" by the index and pinky fingers. This sounds like a real pain--stranding loosely across the front and back of the mitten, then extra-tightly at the sides. But that IS what you have to do with these kinds of mittens, right?

That's great news about your Mom!! :)

I didn't catch the math either. I guess we know my shortcoming too... that and housecleaning.

And wonderful news about your mother! I'm so glad!

That is great news about your Mom! It's maybe not the ideal Christmas present (hard to wrap and put under a tree), but it definitely counts as a good one.

Oh, and the math? I skimmed right past it and didn't give it a thought until I saw your addition at the end of the post, then I went back and looked again, and it still took me a minute . . . Obviously I've been using my calculator way too much lately and should give my math-braincells more to do!

What great news about your Mom. The best Christmas present ever. He is one cute kitty. So... a new mitten in the works, can't wait to see.

That is good news about your mom. I hope the surgery goes smoothly and the recovery, quickly.

$600 in 60 minutes?!? Dang, woman, that's fast!

Awesome about your mom. I hope the surgery goes well. I have had one myself and it is a blessing in disguise. One less thing to worry with!

Love the kitty - and yes, I believe that is the kitty equivalent of da finger.

I've just started the shopping this morning. Why does it always add up to three times the amount you think when it's time to pay?
That's such good news about your Mom. Keep positive.

So glad you got positive news! I'll be keeping warm thoughts for your mom!

And with math like that, you can't be held responsible for what you spend, right? Head for a yarn store, woman!

Clearly I am a math stooge as well, because your calculation made perfect sense to me!

I wish your mom a speedy and full recovery.

ps...I have a Math shortcoming too...oh and an attention one.

I have recently started reading your blog. I'm glad to hear you mom's news is good. Sweet kitty. Your ability to powershop frightens me!

Great news about your mom!

I'm about to cast on some mini stockings with the Jamieson's yarn, I got it in all kinds of fun colors. They'll be my ornament gifts this year.

I'm also about to dive into the 3rd pair of mittens for the warm hands knitalong. Hopefully I'll have more pics by Monday.

That is great news. YEAH!

Such good news about your mom! Enjoy the season.

Great news on your Mom! As for the math part a) I didn't notice, and b) I'm still impressed with your speed shopping, no matter what the amount/min actually is.

Could there be better news? I am so delighted and relieved for you and your mother. Hooray.

I love all the projects you have going on. I also love some random posts. It worked for me!

Good news on Mom, let's hope the news keeps getting better, huh? And, Norma's right, dearie, recheck your math!

Great news about your Mum! Wow......I am impressed with the shopping!!! LOL

I haven't done my X-Mas shopping yet. $600? For 60 minutes? i don't know if I've ever spent $10/minute.

I bow down to those who are clearly more experienced shoppers than I. :)

GREAT news on your mom. And also great news for you: You didn't spend $60 a minute. Redo the math, hon. :-D

Excellent news on Mom - I hope the onc. is correct. Love the cat attitude, I think he might be flipping you off!

Good news on Mom - I hope! Forget Xmas! It's all about the birthday over here. Although that shopping is quite impressive.