Update
Okay, II've finally sewn in all the loose ends on both the baby blanket and hat for my niece Christy (every time you change color, you're left with having to sew in the ends of the leftover yarn, which is a pain if there's a lot of color changes). So now it'll be ready for my mom to bring with her down to Texas when she visits my niece in order to attend the baby shower.
My wife's mom has made three baby blankets for her pastor who is having tripplets, and since she's having trouble with the edging I was volunteered to help, lol. I have one done, and I have to do the other two probably over the weekend. And finally, I'm almost a third of a way through the Harry Potter scarf for my niece Kara's Christmas gift. Which means that I have to pick up the pace in order to get it done in time for Christmas.
In other news, on November 8th I'm being Chrismated into the Antiochian Orthodox Church. Chrismation, also known as Confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church, means I will be sealed with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, at which point I will officially cease to be Roman Catholic and will be Eastern Orthodox. Way back when, when I was Confirmed in the Catholic Church, I chose Saint Raphael the archangel as my patron. At the time I knew nothing about St. Raphael, but being into art I knew of the Rennaisance artist Raphael, which was why I picked him at the time. Since then, I read the Book of Tobit (a book accepted as cannonical by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, but rejected by the Protestants) where the story of Tobias and Archangel Raphael appears, and I realized that I picked a pretty cool Saint after all. The priest at the Orthodox church I've been attending told us who were converting and who were formerly Roman Catholic that, if we wished, we could pick a new patron saint if we wished. After wavering for a long time, I finally decided that I'd stay with Saint Raphael after all.
So, as I said, the priest announced we'd be Chrismated on November 8th. I looked the date up on the Church callendar, and guess what? November 8th in the Orthodox Church is the Feast
of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers: the Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Salaphiel (Salathiel), Jegudiel (Jehudiel), and Barachiel. So I'm literally being Chrismated on my patron saint's feast day! Cool, huh?