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Where did my baby go? This little girl insisted on sliding down the stairs by her “self!” this morning: So I had to grab my camera and take her picture!
Ugh. I either have a summer cold or allergies. Either way, it sucks. I’ve been trying to be productive – cleaning the house, sorting through boxes in my craft room – but my head is just too heavy for my body right now. Sitting down and knitting is about as much effort as I can [...]
Carrie knows the Cheerios logo so well that when I decided to pick up a box of their new fruity Cheerios today at Target, she started shouting “Cheerios!” excitedly as soon as she saw the box. The box looks completely different (colors, size, images) from our standard multi-grain Cheerios, except for the name written across [...]
I joined the Sock-A-Month 2 Knit-along last week. I figured, since I’m knitting socks anyway, it might be fun to try to challenge myself to finish a pair a month. I don’t know if I’ll manage to knit a whole pair of socks every month, but it would be a good way to get through [...]
Massive cleaning is underway over here. We’re (finally) finishing converting the upstairs office into a guest room, the basement family room into a family room/office, the bedroom into a bedroom/weight room, and the craft room into…something approaching a clean craft room. There are boxes of things I need to sort through. I won’t frighten anyone [...]
Dear Carolyn, You’ve grown up so much in this past month it’s hard to believe! When I put your hair up in pigtails I swear you look about three, and with your language skills you might pass for that! Honestly, your manners are generally better than most adults’ are – you say “please”, “thank you”, [...]
Molly and Murphy have been tagged by Oscar. Here are the rules: List 5 weird things about yourself, your children* or your pets. Tag 5 friends and list them. Then, those people need to write on their blogs about 5 weird things, and state the rules, and tag 5 more people. Don
Uh-oh. Apparently, starting my Jaywalker socks on Saturday was a Bad Idea. Now I have a really bad case of start-itis. So far I’ve managed to channel it into just making a dishcloth: This is a pattern called “garterlac” which I ran across last week and was charmed by. I love entrelac, and garter stitch [...]
This morning I tried out the incline treadmill at the gym. The trainer wants me to walk at a 30° incline for 20 minutes at 2 miles per hour. Hah! I managed to alternate between 10° and 15°, with a minute or so of 20° thrown in there – all at 2 miles per hour [...]