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05.02.2008 :: 122. May 2nd, 20 years ago I held a baby girl in my arms for the first time
I am no longer the mother of teenagers. Bethany is 20 years old today! 20 years goes by awfully fast contrary to what I used to think when I was a young whippersnapper!
She is such a beautiful young woman, I am so proud of who she has become. She is a caring, funny, warm, no nonsense kind of girl. She is a raging pessimist just like her father which balances out the eternal optimism of Derek and I. If we were all standing on the seesaw of life, it would balance.
Happy 20th Birthday, Bethany! (Bethany on the right, picture in Austria from her Germany trip last year)
~~~
P.S. It was mentioned that the dragon scale scarf looks an awful lot like lace. Now, I might agree in the sense that it does indeed have holes which is the definition of lace. BUT. Always. A. But. The repeat is super easy peasy and repeated over and over. I think I can handle it with markers in between the repeats. Of course, I am saying that already having taken it apart after 6 rows. But, I am ever the optimist. Don't get the idea that I am a lace knitter. I am not. Pfft.
I am the anti lace knitter.
Back to the birthday celebration complete with ice cream cake!
Posted by Sandy on 05.02.2008 AT 04:52 PM
Comments
Happy Belated Birthday Bethany! Car keys? What's Norma talking about, hmm?
Posted by: Manise on 05.03.2008 AT 03:57 PM
Happy Birthday, Bethany!
Posted by: Cookie on 05.03.2008 AT 01:35 PM
Happy birthday, Bethanny!!
Posted by: Ruth on 05.03.2008 AT 11:52 AM
Happy Birthday Bethany! Hope you have a great day!!!
(YAY daughters! ;-) )
Posted by: Cara on 05.03.2008 AT 10:25 AM
Happy Birthday, Bethany! Nice job, Mom!
Posted by: Kathode Ray Tube on 05.03.2008 AT 09:37 AM
Happy Birthday to Bethany - a fellow Taurus, which indeed means a good pinch of pessimism, a huge dose of stubborn, and loyal as the day is long.
OK, Sandy. You're not a lace knitter. Keep saying it.
The Unaknitter.
Posted by: Nora on 05.03.2008 AT 07:26 AM
Happy Birthday, Bethany!!
Those holes are the first step to admitting that you are powerless in abstaining from knitting lace. Admitting that you are powerless over lace is such a big step and I know you can do it.
;-)
Posted by: Kimberly on 05.03.2008 AT 01:00 AM
Happy Birthday, Bethany! And to you too, Mom.
Posted by: Teresa C on 05.03.2008 AT 12:06 AM
Happy, Happy Birthday to Bethany!!!
Posted by: Vicki on 05.02.2008 AT 10:54 PM
Happy Birthday to your dear girl. And "I'm not a lace knitter" Sandy, weren't you the one who instituted that Charlotte's Web knitalong? It was YOU who got me into lace knitting and blogging and I'll be eternally grateful ;-)
Posted by: Li_B on 05.02.2008 AT 10:10 PM
Happy Birthday to Bethany!
Posted by: Jenn C. on 05.02.2008 AT 07:48 PM
Happy Birthday to Bethany!!
Lace is just like any other knitting...no different. You can do it!!!
Posted by: margene on 05.02.2008 AT 07:40 PM
Happy birthday, Bethany! Congratulations on surviving it all, Sandy! ;)
Posted by: Imbrium on 05.02.2008 AT 07:29 PM
Happy Birthday to Bethany!
Posted by: Karen on 05.02.2008 AT 06:49 PM
Happy Birthday, Bethany!!!!
San, are the keys to the new car in that package????????
Posted by: Norma on 05.02.2008 AT 06:37 PM
Happy Belated Birthday!
Posted by: Carole on 05.05.2008 AT 08:03 AM