Busy day yesterday, such ups and downs! Worked on satin flowers, ready to put them together. Went shopping and to lunch with Phyllis to find baskets for our Birthday Basket project. Ended up with plastic ones from the Dollars Store, Goodwill was too expensive! Phyllis showed me the back room of the Game House with a big roll-up door that will be perfect for the cookie delivery in February. Yay! Main cookie chair job done! Phyllis is so good and so generous. I'm trying to be more like her when I grow up.

The girls had so much fun putting the baskets together. We have about 45 made with lots of cake mix left over. Probably will put together a few simple ones for the older kids. Just enough time to come home and eat, then off to basketball practice. Helen is so clueless. I can't believe she's made it to 11 and never played. I guess my hip has kept me from things like that for so long it's almost ridiculous. Planning to get out tomorrow to practice dribbling- one handed. She was dribbling two handed, as high as her head last night. Cracked me up. They were practicing layups, and she made a few (out of about 50). Like I told Paula, at least she's tall.....

THEN, I went looking for the envelope with the checks for the Nut and Candy orders and couldn't find it. Still can't find it. I'm sure I took it down to the truck, but when Helen gets in, she just throws my stuff around without regard to its importance. I didn't see it in the truck, will look again this morning. It could have fallen out, she's so careless. I get so upset with myself when I do things like this. Feel like I have it all under control, getting 37 things done in a day, busy from sunup to sundown, and then I go and do something like this. It just makes me feel so incompetent and down about myself. It would be really nice to have support and encouragement from my family, but I'm figuring out that that's never going to happen. All I get from Fransie and my mother is criticism or indifference. What I wouldn't give for a kind word once in awhile.

Free day today. I want to finish up some flowers so that I can get them on etsy. Also want to spiff up a couple of Wendy's layouts and see if I can get them sold. Do people really need a photo mat to show them where to put their photos in order to buy a layout? Sure seems like it.