Virtual Hugs and a Warm Welcome

First and foremost, I want to thank everyone for the wonderful comments and personal emails that were filled withlove, hugs and prayers.  This is a horribly hard time in the lives of my husband and I and we appreciate everything that everyone is doing for us.  With each comment and email I could virtually feel the love and support that I have through this blogging community.  It helps to know that there are many others who are/were on the same journey as we are currently on.  I'm hoping that we too will have a happy ending to our story.....what ever that end may be.

I would normally respond to each and every comment or email with a personal reply, but unfortunately I have been unable to do so.  Many of you do not allow replies to your comments and/or you do not have an email address in your profiles, so I have no way of getting in touch with you.  Not only that, but with the start of tax season my personal computer time has now been severely limited.  I spend all day on the computer at work and it is very hard to pull out my computer at night when all I really want to do is shut off my brain for an hour or two before landing in bed.  So, for the lack of personal response, I do apologize.  Consider this post a "thank you" to each and every one of you for your prayers. (For those of you who did send me personal emails, please know that I have read them as well and that I appreciate you sharing your stories with me.  I will be in touch, but you may not hear anything for a few days.)

I also want to take this time to extend a warm and hearty welcome my newest followers.  I'm so glad that you have come to my little piece of blog land and have decided to stick around for awhile.  I do apologize for the glumness of the past few posts, but as you already know, this blog isn't just about cross stitch.  I created this so that I could not only share my love of cross stitch, but also to share a bit about my life.  I almost feel that this is a diary of sorts and I've noticed that sometimes blogging helps to set things into perspective......no matter how hard or emotional the subject matter may be.

At this point, I would show you what I've been working on, but unfortunately I can't.  Lately, I've been spending all of my stitching time with a beautiful model that a dear friend asked me to stitch for her.  I had hoped to finish it this weekend, but with the emotional cards I was dealt this week it was extremely hard to stitch and cry at the same time.  But, I'm still stitching through those dang tears.......I'm in the home stretch and I hope to have it done soon.  I've got lots of personal stitching/sewing/quilting waiting in the wings that I can't wait to share with everyone, so you know that my aim is to finish up soon.

Have a wonderful week!  Hugs to you all!