obsession

i am obsessed with knitting right now. obsessed. i knit all the time. i have knitting in my lap right now. i couldn't sleep this morn and got up at 4:17 am and knitted.

andy asked me last night if i "even like it" with junior high scorn in his voice.:) yes, andy, i do. it is calming, productive, and yarn can be had for cheap. what's not to love? so there.:)

right now i am cranking out wash cloths and scarves. hey, hand knit wash cloths go for about $2.50 around here and scarves for $15. i am definitely thinking of making some to sell. and, i have inspired my mom. how cool is that? she just bought a crochet hook. she knows how to knit and crochet. she is going to make herself a scarf and a sweater while she is recouperating from hip surgery this coming week. and she says she will teach me how to crochet. well, ok!, but not until after i have exhausted this wash cloth and scarf business. Christmas presents! oh, and i have been thinking of knitting blankies for my niece's dollys. wouldn't that be nice?

anybody else obsessed with knitting/crochet? or anything else? collecting those little clown dolls on qvc?:)

jack's first sentence

today i am super busy cleaning the house. i have dusted, cleaned the bathroom, folded laundry... but in the midst of all this drudgery (which i don't really mind. what can be bad about cleaning your very own house?:)), jack did the amazing. i had given him his wooden tool box to play with. he hadn't played with it before and i thought he might need a new challenge. i was in the bathroom. he comes in, holds up a wooden screw with a wooden nut on it and declares, "i did it!!". i am so proud. not only are his motor skills immpecable, but he just made his first sentence. Praise the Lord!

my mommy goes ballistic

just checking in on the internet-world. thought maybe i would add a little note about that bench i painted yesterday. apparently grandma (telephone, telegraph, tell-a-grandma-lou... the fastest forms of communication?:)) told mom about my red bench/her old green bench. mommers was a bit aghast. well, i told her i was thinking of painting it. i believed i mentioned it. i think the last consensus was that i was going to paint it black. whatever!:) it will look great in my sunflower yellow walled foyer with the black "slate" laminate floor and the my dearly departed aunt sandy's painting. the painting has a black background and has yellow, orange and red flowers. i think that color scheme sounds tied together, don't you? and anyway, mum has a red bedroom. talk about a big committment. i just painted a bench.

spankin' fresh bench

my mother gave her her old bench. it has storage under the lid, hooray! the bench is charming and i totally needed one for my foyer. i was not terribly crazy about the green color. my husband had some red paint that he borrowed to my gramps. gramps painted his chicken coop. it is fabulous. since there was some left over, i decided to use the beautiful FREE chicken-coop-red paint. i am so glad we had one last (perhaps) day of wonderfully upper-60's weather. tonight it is supposed to rain. praise God for this one last chance!

good knitting weather and... a painting in his hands!

it is about 69 degrees out today!!!!!!!!!! can't believe it. sat on the bench outside my grandparent's chicken coop and knitted while jack amused himself with the coop door.:) could have stayed out there for hours, but was starving for lunch. i opened up a ton of windows in the house. may go back out there to knit after i make some chocolate chip cookies.

today i got the postal notice that the painting i bought from my friend lauren's on-line etsy store was at the post office ready to pick up. !!! so excited. i packed jack into the car without even any socks on, just shoes. had to wait for them to open from their lunch break. come on!... when we got back to the car, i ripped open my package. inside was my painting and odds and lovely ends. i had a little flash of epiphany. took the painting (in frame and ready to be hung!) and handed it back to my son in his carseat. wow. that was amazing. i think that was the first time jack has held a painting. it meant so much to share that with him. i will have to teach him all about art this week. we'll go on a gallery tour of the house.:) maybe i will even paint something. shocker.:)

blonde nursery buddies

jack had a great time last night at the "halloween alternative sleepover". there was a lot of: kids, food, noise, games, and candy. mostly the party was in the Church's basement. at one point i had enough of jack escaping to climb up and down the stairs and i corraled him in the nursery. i asked the little boy on the right, joe, if he wanted to come play with jack. then the little boy on the left, ben, came in with his sister. i knitted while the boys played with the toys and devoured the candy from their treat bags. i think this photo is funny because ben almost looks like he has a trickle of blood coming out of his mouth like a halloween vampire. in actuality it is a stream of chocolate drool. at one point i told joe i thought he had enough candy and he might get sick. he scowled at me and shoved another piece in. i just laughed. let his mother worry.

mommy's little baker, part 2

here we go again! jack and i made 2 batches of sugar cut-out cookies yesterday for the "halloween alternative" sleepover. what a great time we had. jack really liked the dough. when i wasn't looking he grabbed a HUGE hunk and shoved it in his mouth. i thought he was going to be sick FOR SURE. nope. he also liked playing with the cookie cutters.