Crafting Coziness, One Stitch at a Time

February 24, 2023 - Things are about to get long! I’m looking back now at our early conversations on messenger and on 2/22/23 I’d told my half-sister that I’d done a DNA test and was waiting for the results. I asked if she remembered meeting me at Chili’s back in 1999 (oh, I can’t wait to get to this story later!) and she said she did, and this is where she told me she’d actually looked for me the week before. I don’t know if she’d found me, but she wanted to know why I was r

February 23, 2023 - As I’m looking back on all of this, I can see this was a time where I was so full of hope. (Stupid.) I thought I was going to connect with my half-sister and maybe my father and half-brother. I worried that my father might not be ready or want to hear from me, but I was going to put myself out there to see what happened. As much as it bites me in the ass, and it will, I am always the one reaching out to connect. I carry relationships even beyond their life

It’s so interesting looking back at my notes from all of this because I feel like an entirely different person. Or this seems more like a weird dream than a time period in my life. I have barely scratched the surface and even though I saved all of my facebook messages (the main way I was able to speak to my father), or texts with my half-sister, I haven’t read them since they happened. Until now. February 11, 2023 - After my first chats with my step-father I began creating hi