First of all, I’ve heard from the Woolery already this morning, and they said that Majacraft is going to ship a new drive wheel (the green, smashed part) to me ASAP, and I can use the wheel as is in the meantime ’til it arrives. This is happy news. Thank you all so much for your sympathies. It helped last night.

If I had any spare time today at all, I’d be assembling my new wheel. But I don’t, and that’s a different story.

The deadline for Mary’s Mitts is today. I received mitts from Katie yesterday. They’re completely awesome. I don’t have time to post a picture now, but you can see them on her blog. They’re made from Silky Wool, and they feel soooooo good! I’m seriously thinking of making some exactly the same for myself.

Since we’re such a small group of mitt knitters, I’m going to wait for a few days to do the drawing. There are 3-4 more pairs en route and we’ll wait for them to come in. Thank you all so very much for knitting for my friend. She sent me an email a couple days ago expressing tremendous gratitude for the green gloves I gave her, and I grinned to myself. She has no idea what’s coming. That’s so cool.

Health Group has promise tomorrow. Be sure to stop by.

Finally, the girls and I have started something fantastic, and I wanted to share it with you. It’s called Girl Party.

It all started several weeks ago, when Veronica asked me to paint her nails. As I looked at them, her cuticles were growing halfway up the nail, so we moisturized them and pushed them down. A day or so later, Nate and I were in the Body Shop (love that place) and I saw their hand and nail treatment. Then it came to me.

Every night that we get to bed on time, the girls and I do Girl Party. We get in pj’s, put our hair back in headbands, wash our faces, moisturize our cuticles, push them down with orangewood sticks, and rub this yummy stuff on our hands before going to bed.

It’s all contained in a pretty cosmetics case that one of them goes and gets when it’s time. It’s the BEST! Once we run out of the Body Shop face wipes, which are fantastic, I’m going to look for something less expensive because that’s the only thing that makes this costly. My internet-shy-friend said that Costco has good ones. Does anyone else have a suggestion?

The girls just love Girl Party. I hope it sticks and that this is a great bonding time and memory for them.