Home Again Home Again...

I had a little break from my family this weekend :) and am getting settled back in now.

This lovely Cutie-orange holding spider is a gift from an old friend. It actually is a tea-light candle holder but when my son first saw it without the lights, and noticed the little holders, he wondered if it was for holding Cutie oranges :) I tried it out and it works perfectly!

This is how it's supposed to look...

I enjoyed visiting with my friend this weekend. She is my friend but also my cousin through marriage. And actually we were friends before we were cousins. I met her a few days before I met her cousin - who ended up being my husband!

I met "A" when she was about 11 and I was 14. She lived in Illinois - I lived in Canada. We seemed to hit it off immediately. I didn't get to see A very often so we mostly wrote to one another (how old fashioned!) throughout the years of our friendship.

Once I finally married A's cousin and moved down South - A was married and traipsing about the world - so we still didn't see much of each other. Eventually she moved to the Midwest. We visit occasionally but not often enough - so it was especially fun to spend part of the weekend with her. Shopping, eating out and an evening of reminiscing and talking into the wee hours like old times. Well except the wee hours now end around 11:30 PM...

For as long as I can remember - spiders have been a "theme" with us...not sure why...