Blogging Friends and More Cleaning At My Dad's

Blogging friends are so wonderful aren't they?  

I have a friend, Faith, that lives in the UK. 

 She sends me the most thoughtful and fantastic gifts! 

 Here is the latest gift send to me from Faith.

I have not eaten the chocolate yet but those little coconut babies on the left? 

Freaking AWESOME!!

I went to my dad's on Friday instead of going to work. 

 This is my life every other Friday. 

 I took him and my sister to see my other sister because he has not seen her in awhile. 

 She lives in a group home and has a lot of mental problems 

(born mentally retarded, cataracts on both eyes, schizophrenic and bipolar).

 I have not seen her in a very long time either. 

 Unfortunately, she did not really know any of us and did not talk to us.

 We stayed and visited as best we could and then I took them home. 

 She is on a lot of medication to keep her psychosis under control. 

 She also has to have ect (electro convulsive therapy) 

every other week, so I understand her not knowing us.

 I'm glad I could take my dad to see her though. 

 Then we came home and started cleaning his dining room table.

 See that clean half? 

That took  3 hours to do with both of us working!!

I also cleaned some of the front closet out, still more to do there but it's a start!

Lest you think I didn't do anything quilt related, I did. 

 I got the binding sewn on the Halloween Quilt. 

 Aiden approves!

I also worked on my dad's quilt some this weekend. 

 I got half of it sewn together. 

 I only have 1 more snowball to rip apart and re-sew then I can begin putting the last 4 rows together.

I hope you had a productive weekend too!

~XOP~