Welcome MrsWhite
Lucysmam I am in the process of making another one of the Hooked on Sunshine blankets, Phoenix. It’s a lovely pattern and it’s interesting but does take quite a bit of concentration. I started it in May 
and between pregnancy exhaustion, new parent exhaustion and my general crochet ADHD I’m still only about 30 rounds in. It’s for my MIL. Hopefully I’ll give it to her before she retires (she’s 58 
).
Nicecardigan glad the timing worked out well and DD is back for New Year. Hope you have a lovely time with a full house.
I’ve had my parents down to visit over two days (parents are divorced) with some other family. My grandad met his great granddaughter and my brothers are very excited about having a niece. I’ve also managed to get some crochet done over the last few days, I’m actually trying to finish some things 
I’ve finished an octopus for DD, well minus the embroidered eyes which I’ll do when I don’t have a baby permanently glued to my chest! I’m trying to finish a little pram blanket and my Tunisian crochet cowl, which I’m about halfway through. I’ve got a couple of other projects to start which have been requested or are for a friend having a baby but obviously I want to start the one which doesn’t have a deadline or even a person in mind but does allow me to play with the Tunisian crochet hooks more. I ordered some yarn to test out my hooks and my order arrived with quite a few incorrect balls. I emailed the shop and they shipped the correct balls that day and they turned up today (I emailed Wednesday) so I’m really impressed. They’ve also told me to keep the 6 incorrect balls, so got to find something to do with those now. I’m going to try and crochet tonight but I cut my finger doing dinner and my wool keeps catching on the corner of my plaster 
In other news, we are planning to move (in about 18 months but we need to work out what is worth doing on the house and what isn’t, get my job in order and save). DH asked if we could move anywhere where would I want to go, I said near to my family. I think he’s seriously considering it for the first time but there are some logistics we would need to look into. DH has no family nearby really. His aunt is about 30 minutes away but we haven’t seen her for about 5 years. His brother is 1hr 30 away but we see him about about once a year. They aren’t close but I think moving to my family will effectively kill their relationship as BIL won’t be bothered to travel. I would be fine with that as I’m not currently on speaking terms with him after how he behaved as I was having DD but it’s a big ask for DH to knowingly destroy that relationship. However, he gets on well with my family and they are all so excited to be part of DDs life. No decisions yet but looks we’ll be having a few discussions about this over this year.
Happy New Year to everyone. Hope the new year brings less time in counting corner, a dwindling project list, completed WIPs and plentiful yarn!