Monday, March 15, 2010

Knitting Update - Week of 3/14

Got a bit of knitting done, not bad for such a sucky week.

Owl Love You Sack - 75% done, hope to finish this up asap...not sure why it's taking me so long
Ellyll soaker for Bitty Fluff - done
Gaia II soaker for Bitty Fluff - went with a scrappy soaker instead
Mosiac Moon Scrappy soaker for Bitty Fluff - done
Item for Fundraiser 1 - soaker casting on today
Bunny Hat - casting on after Fundraiser 1 item
Laurel Love Cocoon - 10% done
Woodland in Spring Hat for Finn
Woodland Tale Sweater for Finn
Copper Patina Soaker Finn
Double Chocolate Lollipop Soaker for Finn
Guppy Longies for Finn
Blanket for Shaun
Dragons Lair shorties for Garrett
Mosaic Moon Cestari Srappy shorties for Garrett
Woodland In Spring shorties for Garrett
Woodland In Spring shorties for Finn

Mosiac Moon Scrappy soaker for Bitty Fluff
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Ellyll soaker for Bitty Fluff
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Owl Love You Sack preview
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Lazy Weekends

I love spending the weekend quietly at home with my guys.
Big boys are playing wii (Lego Indiana Jones), little boys are taking turns pushing each other around on Mater (a ride-on toy Garrett for for Christmas), and the baby boy is napping quietly in his bouncy seat.
Life is good. <3

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The death of a dream...or two.

How do you get past it?
How do you move on and just be happy with the status quo?
How do you have faith when trusting almost always ends in diappointment/loss?
Can you actually choose to be happy?
If you choose to be happy does it ease the pain?
Does it make watching your dreams come true for others easier?

I hope so.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Ironic by Alanis Morissette

"Ironic"

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...don't you think
A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Knitting Update - Week of 3/7

Got quite a bit of knitting done last week as well as some design work. I hope to be posting for testers for my new "Owl Love You Sack" later this week. The pattern will have a few different designs to it. Can't wait to get it published!!

This week I'm going on a soaker knitting binge. Love how quickly they knit up and more than that I love how well they fit/work on Finn. My goal is to get three soakers and the first Owl Love You Sack complete this week.

Surprise boyish soaker for drawing winner - done
Woodland in Spring Soaker for Finn - done
Owl Love You Sack - 45% done (my new design...will be unveiled next week)
Ellyll soaker for Bitty Fluff - 30% done
Gaia II soaker for Bitty Fluff - casting on tomorrow
Item for Fundraiser 1 - soaker casting on after Gaia II
Bunny Hat - casting on after Fundraiser 1 item
Laurel Love Cocoon - 10% done
Woodland in Spring Hat for Finn
Woodland Tale Sweater for Finn
Copper Patina Soaker Finn
Double Chocolate Lollipop Soaker for Finn
Guppy Longies for Finn
Blanket for Shaun

For spring/summer....
Dragons Lair shorties for Garrett
Mosaic Moon Cestari Srappy shorties for Garrett
Woodland In Spring shorties for Garrett
Woodland In Spring shorties for Finn

Finn in is Woodland In Spring Soaker...
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Preview of the Surprise Soaker...
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Rave for Radian Carseats

We own a Durango...which seats 7. Not comfortably but it works for how often we're in the car as a family, which isn't all that often.

The backseat looked like a row of sardines with carseats lined up and overlapping at some points. They fit in that they were all securely bucked but not well enough that we were comfortable living the way they were. And worst of all we have to pick the baby carrier up so high to get over the other seats we were killing our backs just getting our still pretty tiny baby in and out of the car.

So with our tax money I splurged on two new much lower profile seats (Radian 65 SL's from http://www.albeebaby.com).

The boys were so excited to see their seats come in the mail they wouldn't get out of them after we adjusted the straps.
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But we finally got them out of them and installed them in the Durango and took them for a test ride.

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I'm telling you...these carseats are awesome...even our 7 year old fits in them...
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Monday, March 1, 2010

Breastfeeding Elmo

Ben was looking all over for his baby Elmo yesterday. When I questioned him as to why he said "Becaue he has an open mouth!". He wanted to feed a baby and only baby Elmo would do...so he looked and looked and finally found him. I was busy with the baby in the living room and it was quiet so I went looking for Ben (because quiet + Ben = TROUBLE) and found him at the kitchen table...breastfeeding Elmo.

I about died with pride and laughter. My sweet little boy...breastfeeding his baby was quite a site to behold.

It was one of those moments you'll never forget but it would be nice to have a pic to share so I asked him if I could get a pic of him feeding Elmo today. He said yes (he loves the camera)....

bf'ing ben

Baby + Wool = Love

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Finn smimming in Mosaic Moon wool scraps.
What a lucky boy huh?!