5 more first time reporters, with the average number of jugs per sower holding steady at 68. About 400 new containers with total count as follows: Zone 0 ÂÂ 0 ÂÂ 0.00% Zone 1 ÂÂ 0 ÂÂ 0.00% Zone 2 ÂÂ 0 ÂÂ 0.00% Zone 3 ÂÂ 0 ÂÂ 0.00% Zone 4 ÂÂ 183 ÂÂ 2.45% Zone 5 ÂÂ 2252 ÂÂ 30.15% Zone 6 ÂÂ 3273 ÂÂ 43.82% Zone 7 ÂÂ 1342 ÂÂ 17.97% Zone 8 ÂÂ 363 ÂÂ 4.86% Zone 9 ÂÂ 57 ÂÂ 0.76% Container Grand Total ÂÂ 7470 ÂÂ 100.00% Number of Winter Sowers contributing ÂÂ ÂÂ 110 Average number of containers per sower ÂÂ ÂÂ 68

Heidi, I followed your links back to you album and can't see a way to post the individual pictures on here but am able to post a link to the album that you have the pictures you were trying to post from earlier. Without further ado, here is Heidi and her family! (see link below) All of you are adorable. I especially love your little pancake helper and Donald Duck Jr. The boys are so cute! You and your hubby look so happy in your wedding photo. you have a wonderful family!

Luvs, your counting accessment is in the "right ballpark". I will be posting what I found in a bit, so you all can compare, I just did not want to do it before everyone had finished their lessons. Yes, her tablesetting is elegant, but yet down to earth. I will talk abit more about that later too. Kareen, great, I'm happy you are joining in too, there is no pressure to "have" to do a tablescape, this is all about doing things at your pleasure. But, believe me, I am sure you will eventually want to LOL Dreamgoddess, yes that is the book, one of quite a few that she has, and she has a new one coming out next year. Don't worry, even if you are last in being able to do this, I will still be checking back on this thread, so I won't leave you behind :) Karen, you are in the upper part of the ball park too LOL, don't worry, my memory is terrible too, that is why I make lists...very involved lists LOL No problem with you not liking the table setting, that is the good thing about this exercise, you are just learning to see what is there, even if you don't like the setting you can still learn from it. I am glad you are finding things that are useful to you here.

It sure helps to vent, and what better place than here? You are trying so hard to be everything for everybody else that you've forgotten to look after yourself. Learn to say No now and then, and mean it. You might be a super woman, but Superwoman you aren't. So stop trying. Can you get occasional respite care for your mother? Try having a chat with the doctor, and the social worker at the hospital, or a local church or charity organisation. One day a week to yourself will be very rejuvenating for you. Pass the buck onto SIL if necessary. I have a friend who takes things on like you seem to, and people walk all over her with hobnailed boots. Now and then she remembers some good advice I gave her some time back - use the 'what if I were dead? ' tactic. In other words, if you got run over by a bus tomorrow, the world would still revolve, someone would step in to take over from you. They'd cope. So - sometimes, let 'em cope! Meantime, you need some free time, some space, and some freedom to live and breathe for yourself. You've earned that right.