Scarves and Miracles

I feel I would be ungrateful if I didn't write about my experience last week. I forgot to take a picture so I will try to explain the best I can.

Last week we received an email from the Relief Society (women's organization in our church) that we were going to put together Christmas care packages for 25 of the missionaries serving in our area who were not receiving support from their families. One of the things on the list was scarves. Now, I love to crochet but it usually takes me almost 10 hours to crochet a scarf and I didn't want to go buy more yarn when I already had three medium size boxes of yarn from various projects I needed to use. I decided last Thursday I would get started and see how many I could get down before the following Thursday without neglecting my family or other responsibilities.

I finished about 1 1/2 scarves each day in between doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, running errands, doing carpool for the bus stop, homework with children, volunteering at the school and local food co-op, showering, exercising, church, and other family activities. I used up most of stashed yarn (I now have one box instead of three) and completed 10 scarves in one week. The last time I attempted that many scarves it took me six weeks while doing almost nothing with my family or for my house. I know I couldn't have completed all of those scarves without some extra help from my Heavenly Father and I am grateful for it.