This weekend may be my favorite weekend of the year. I’m going to TNNA, a trade show for the yarn/needlework business.

I am lucky in that Lansing does have a decent handful of folks on the national designing/teaching scene. However, few do this full time as I do (unless they own a shop).

At TNNA, in Columbus, Ohio… there is a convention center full of my peers. It lightens my heart to be among my own.

Right now I’m in the predictable last-minute panic mode. I have food and yarn and computer ready to go. I have most of my clothes ready. So of course, now I’m trying to cram ten more skeins of yarn and a few more outfits in the packed stuff, while I surely will forget something that is essential.

I have me, I have yarn, foods, meds, needles, computer, a few clothes. I have funds. We have reservations for the conference and for a hotel. I guess I’m ready enough.

Oh… gratuitous picture showing off a special kid. Isabel drew this butterfly in Kindergarten. She and one of her best friends learned to ride bicycles yesterday, thanks to my friend April. I predict an incredible summer!