Update on my sister

Talked to Sis last night. She had a sonogram the beginning of the week, and her doc thinks now the first test was a false positive, because the sonogram looks very normal. But, the end of the month she's going in for a different kind of sonogram, to make sure, and she's decided to go ahead and have the amnio, just in case.

Whew.

Her husband still isn't handling it very well. He freaked out when she wanted to send Jake to speech therapy, because he didn't want his son labelled as defective--that hit the button, the possibility of a Down's kid smashed his buttons. His mother isn't helping, either...now she's telling the family one of her brothers was an undiagnosed Down's case (????, don't ask me, that's what she told Sis, who says the guy was just an ass), and generally making a nuisance of herself. Have I mentioned my sister married into a family of low-rent white trash? I did? Just checking.

She's been calling and talking to Mom a lot this past week; they both sounded much calmer last night than when I'd talked to them before.

Crafty Stuff

Finished three books (all blank) yesterday, instead of folding laundry. One a chain-stitch binding, which turned out mre secure than my first one, but the text block still slides a bit in the binding. Think that's unavoidable with that style. Did a second leather-covered Coptic, with a button & cord closure rather than the strap that wraps around the book. The last, and the one that kept me up too late last night, was my first real hard-cover book--sew the textblock together, make the hinged cover with rigid spine, use the endpapers to hold the textblock in. By says it's not bad for my first one, though he said it was about as thick as I could get with that assembly style (6 signatures, 40 pages each, typing paper). And I made the spine part of the cover a bit too wide, but that was very hard to judge. Must remember to have him show me the style of stitching done all from the outside; the one I used was stitched from the inside of the signatures, so you had to have them open half the time, and it's hard to get it tight enough without the thread slicing the pages.