To ship or to take?

My mother has been building up a stash of her own apparently, and is very happy to unload it onto me upon my next visit- in about a week from now.  She’s developed a wool allergy and can’t knit with most of what she’s got.  Since I prefer wool and alpaca,  she’s giving me all of her wool in exchange for most of my cotton and bamboo and anything else I might have in my stash she can knit with.   I pulled a very large bag for her, and now I have to decide whether to try and pack it along with all my other stuff or just mail the whole thing to her… but it’s heavy.  Will it cost me more to put it in the mail?  I think I’ll have to find out.

Of course, I’ve been obsession over what to take on this visit to my mothers.  She’ll be in the hospital for a bit and I’ll be waiting for her in the waiting area, so I’ve been thinking that I might actually be able to do some of the lace I’ve been wanting to do but never had the odd spells of long time to concentrate.  Still, I’m not sure I’ll be in any state to concentrate if I’m waiting to hear my mother’s made it out of surgery!

Unfortunately I’ll be leaving behind Keld and Thwaite because the yarns are quite heafty and take up loads of space.  Keld is almost done!  I’m starting on the sleeves.   still I’ll be southern Texas, where there’s not much call for wool at the moment- thought my Texas friends say it’s actually cooled down a bit.  I just hope I don’t get caught up in some hurricane or other.

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