Good very early morning!

First of all, thank you to the admins for adding me to this forum. I just want to introduce myself. I am brand new here and am excited to be a part of this forum. My name is Gayle and I live in the Big Sky country of Montana. I am my 88 year old mother's caregiver and am very thankful and blessed to be a part of her life in her later years.

I am 64 years old (the BIG 65 coming up in February and the real SS money comes in--Ha, ha!). I am single (divorced) and a Mom to 5 spectacular girls and a grandma to 14 absolutely beautiful and wonderful grandchildren with one more on the way--I am thrilled for this most recent one that is not here yet. It is my oldest daughter whom I thought was not going to have children and I had accepted that, but I got "THE" call and given the great news so I am going to be making stuff for the new one as soon as we find out what they are having. Fun, Fun!!

I am a crocheter--never could get the hang of knitting. My grandma taught me to crochet when I was about 5 years old as I sat at her knee and just watched and watched and listened and listened and i learned. I can't say I have steadily crocheted ALL of these years, but I can say it is my first love for crafts and is the one I always turn to when I want to make something. I do so much more of it now that I am retired (or, is that tired?--I get confused ). It was an early forced retirement, so am looking forward to the BIG 65! My sweet really true Grandma that you see in the old storybooks (boy have times changed--I don't look like the Grandmas from my day--Ha, Ha!!) also tried to teach me to knit, but I never got a real good hang of it, although I think I could do it if I just put my mind to it and that is one of my goals for this year--to learn to knit. We shall see. I have so many crochet projects going on that I don't know if I will be able to find the time. She also tried to teach me how to tat, but I am definitely not ambidexterous, but it is also a goal of mine to learn still this year. Not sure if they will happen--Christmas (I know-the dirty word) is around the corner and I need to be careful when I say it so sticks and stones aren't thrown at me.

Well, I have rambled on so. I apologize. I just wanted to give a "little" history (not ALL of my history--ooopppssss!) and then look at me--I get going and can't stop. I hope you all will have a great day and I look forward to being an active participant of this group/forum. Thank you for having me here.

Take care,

Gayle