You are in my thoughts. You have already faced so much. I will think of you in a special way in June. I used to crochet as well, but am not sure I could do it again. It did keep my hands busy and many relatives received not so attractive shawls for Christmas. I think just the doing helped my sanity a bit. I never did knit even after taking lessons. After a lesson I would go home and try to do more. At each class meeting, the instructor ripped out all I had done because I had dropped a stitch or something like that. I dropped the class along with plans to make a sweater. I do admire those who can knit. My sister is the one who can do crafts. She makes lovely cards. She used to do macrame, embroidery, and needlepoint. I was not good in my home ec class in junior high. I despised sewing on a machine and also the cooking part. I still remember having to wear my dress I had made (with lots of help from others) as all of us modeled. The grade I made in that class was a "C", the first ever for me. Ah well, I should have insisted on not taking the class and doing shop with the boys. Maybe I would have done better at that because later in life I took a woodworking class and made a dinner table. It served for many years. As we are trying to downsize, we knew getting rid of that would allow a bookcase from my mother to be in its place. We put the table by the mailbox on a Sunday and put a "Free" sign on it and it was gone when we left the house two hours later. Best wishes to you @joycelynk. @joybringer1