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FOR TODAY January 25, 2010

Outside my window… clear skys, sunny, but cold again

I am thinking… I should get on with the housework & school

I am thankful for… my sisters <3  

From the learning rooms… Slow & easy, working through the boxes at a slow rate, didn’t even do our morning basket time yet - I suppose it’ll be "late afternoon basket" instead. (LAst Week Stands! Mondays are just like that   Boys are choosing a landmark & place to do a Geography project on, that should be fun!

From the kitchen… leftover lunch, meatloaf (w/ bacon!) for supper. Ripe bananas for baking banana muffins.

I am wearing… PJs and a sweatshirt, I need to shower & dress after lunch

I am creating… Finished the January UFO last night, It is way cute.

I am going… to visit the new kittens at nana’s house, and possibly will stop by to see everyone at knit night tonight.

I am reading… Choral Society by Prue Leith

I am hoping… this week is nice and easy on the school front

I am hearing… Dora

Around the house… Kids are on their "break" from schoolwork & I am taking advantage of it for a few minutes email & blog updating.

A few plans for the rest of the week: All the normal stuff, with the added bonus of a retirement dinner for a good friend of the family on Saturday.

So it is only January but i’m doing good on my UFO a month for this month. I am on sleeve #2 of a sweet baby kimono that I started last year and then set aside for no reason at all. It is absolutely adorable and I am fascinated with the top down process of creating a garment with no seams. There is no recipient for this particular item (mostly because the baby it was originally intended for is much too big now), and I am looking forward to starting my "Baby Gift" Stash finally. I do love knitting for babies, it’s my favorite!!! Well, after hats.

I did start and finish one other item this month. Angeluna brought a half skein of Patons SWS in a pinkish colorway so I knit ms. Aaralyn some fingerless mitts. I wove in the ends last night. Now we just need the weather to get cool again.  You know it’ll happen. It’s Texas, we have false spring every winter

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FOR TODAY January 18, 2010

Outside my window… beautiful day

I am thinking… the house is a wreck and I am overwhelmed and want to bury myself in library books

I am thankful for… library books !

From the learning rooms… Slow & easy, working through the boxes at a slow rate, didn’t even do our morning basket time yet - I suppose it’ll be "late afternoon basket" instead. Maybe we’ll do it over the pancake & eggs supper I have planned to cook.

From the kitchen… leftover fried chicken from yesterday for lunch, muffin tin lunch for the smallest ones, pancakes & eggs for supper

I am wearing… comfy pants & a Canada tshirt  - lounge around the house clothes!

I am creating… nada but knit night tonight, so some kind of creating will happen

I am going… to knit & to grocery shop

I am reading… Just Breathe by Susan Wiggs

I am hoping… all the school gets done today and I don’t have to adjust the weeks lesson plans much for thngs we don’t get to spill over to tomorrow.

I am hearing… PBS Kids

Around the house… Legos with occasional school breaks The opposite of usual, but hey public school kids were out today.

A few plans for the rest of the week: Knit Night. Jeric back @ school. Tae Kwon Do back on schedule. Dance class back on schedule. Basically back to our norm.

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FOR TODAY January 11, 2010

Outside my window… still cold, but warmer than it was over the weekend

I am thinking… that bean soup smells GOOOD

I am thankful for… happy, healthy children

From the learning rooms… Back to school today! Went okay, not as smoothly as I would have hoped but hey. That is what breaks are for, sometimes you have to let a child clear their head and get ready to learn and make that decision on their own. As long as it is done I’m happy. Today we started a Morning Basket and I think we’ll like that a lot. Boxes got done. Everyone is happy. Everything is ready for tomorrow.

From the kitchen… bean soup, thrown in the crockpot hastily around 12:30 because Aa and I decided that is what we wanted today. We have fritos & cheese to go with, and will likely make rice.  We also made CUPCAKES ! Today is Eleven and a Half years since my wedding day <3 Not that we needed a reason for cake, just that the kids enjoy having one so if I can come up with one I do.

I am wearing… my fave velour lounge pants & a sweatshirt

I am creating… not much today

I am going… to Craft Circle @ church. I look forward to this all month long.

I am reading… nothing

I am hoping… the soup tastes as good as it smells

I am hearing… Eye of the Tiger

Around the house… Rockband, legos.

A few plans for the rest of the week: Craft circle, knit night, no school for the Jbear because of a burst pipe & plenty of damage, oh my. He DOES however have at-home assignments.

So often things run together and I’m not sure what I knit this year or last. I should at least do month/year on the Rav project pages so I can pin point things a little bit, if I can’t manage to do the dates. So I’m going to attempt to list the projects completed in 2009 here.

1 Sock for Aaralyn

Two Dragons (knitting mostly happened in 08 I believe, but sewing up happened in 09)

The Pokehat

3 grey crowns (so far, with 3 more to knit)

mitts for my cousin’s little boy

a cupcake

I think the beer sweater was completed in January just in time for dad’s birthday.

a tiny turtle

headphone covers

Hug scarf

a pink crown

a tea cozy

the star crossed slouchy beret  for myself

2 hats - one for me & one for my husband

a tiny bird

a tiny TINY heart

a robot (sewn up out of squares knit years ago)

calorimetry for Dorothy

2 knit sabers

FINALLY FINISHED THAT BALLBAND DISHCLOTH

earflap hat for Tobias while in Ireland 

A few coffee cozies? I think Aja’s was knit this year and so were Alanna’s and Alison’s. I need to do one for myself next !

2 bookmarks

The Baby Kimono! Finished except for the ties, but that’ll be done this afternoon (12/31)

I think I got everything that was 2009. Hoping to update this to at least 1 more crown (maybe 2) and the baby kimono to go with the hat mentioned above.

Goal #1  To finish, or frog, uncompleted items that have been hanging around my closet way too long.  (felted horse, mom’s shawl, my shawl, my purple scarf, the blue boa scarf, a hedgehog, the kid scarf i started when we lived in the Duplex, the round blanket, 2 toddler earflap hats, a baby sweater, Aaralyn’s 2nd sock, the baby kimono, my bday yarn scarf,

Goal #2 Plan Christmas Knits (probably stockings instead of toys/hats next year)

Goal #3 Organize my yarn & projects

Goal #4 Buy More Yarn

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FOR TODAY December 28, 2009

Outside my window… COLD COLD COLD COLD COLD !

I am thinking… I should get my butt moving on the laundry, kitchen, and learning room organizing

I am thankful for… A wonderful Christmas with my wonderful family. It was the best.

From the learning rooms… PLAYING PLAYING PLAYING!!!!! Exploring new books & toys, battles with knights, indians, cowboys, dragons, lego men, whatever they’ve got. And potty learning for the princess - i am SO done with this, lets go sweetheart!

From the kitchen… it’s messy. we have very few leftovers. i’ll have to peek around and see what i can throw together for dinner tonight.

I am wearing… pajama pants, my 1998 Old Navy Fleece

I am creating… Crowns for Epiphany

I am going… to get the learning room organized and ready for the new year

I am reading… nothing

I am hoping… I can make it to knit night tonight <3

I am hearing… Blues Clues and legos crashing 

Around the house… chaos rules. presents need to find homes. children are making noise <3

A few plans for the rest of the week: Knit Night, Organizing the learning room for the new year.

Finished the two dragons, the pokehat, the Tea Cozy, The sweet little bird, the tiny heart, two hats (one for my husband, one for myself), a ballband dishcloth,and I sewed up some old squares into a little robot guy, who needs a name. Oh and of course there was the bookmarks. There wasn’t really a secret project, that was to throw off my sisters on the whole secret santa thing.

Knit gifts received - the best thing EVER, the gift of time - a friend "gifted" me with 5 toy finishings. I knit em, she sews em up. Yeah!!!! I love it (thank you!). And my MIL got me a gift certificate to a LYS. Someone gave me some yarn I <3 (Thank you!) I also had a swap yarn, but that was passed on to a friend who would enjoy the color more than I did - it was SO very soft but the color was just not me and I didn’t feel like playing with the dying thing. Plus I got the previously mentioned yarn on the same night and just felt like passing it on to MM was the thing to do. 

I totally forgot to mention my other totally fave knit gift received (is it okay for the 3 gifts to be a three way tie?) and my books. The lovely Angela & Doreen made every one in the knitting group an awesome stitch/row counter. They put a LOT of time into these and it is one of the coolest things I’ve ever been given for sure. The books are Itty-bitty Toys & Fairy Tale Knits.

OH Knit gifts given, I had Alison for Secret Santa, so that was fun. She kept talking all month about how she didn’t have needles, didn’t have circs. I was able to get a hold of an interchangable kit for her for a nice price. And I purchased her a gorgeous sock yarn, Paca Peds Vampires Kiss. And some Twilight themed stitch markers   I threw a Harry Potter book in there for good measure, to offset the whole twilight theme. hah.

We had a wonderful Christmas, it was definitely one of the best I’ve had. The snow made it all that much better. And I really enjoyed hosting my family here on Christmas day, even though it was kind of crazy & my brother drove me nuts!

My knitting for Christmas plans are probably a little over-my-head considering there are less than 2 weeks till Christmas and I have 5 kids, lots of cookies to bake, schooling to do, house to clean, two birthdays, family coming. etc.

Super secret gift I can’t mention

Bookmarks already knit just need to block at least 1 of em.

Finish sewing up the dragons

Tea cozy - almost done.

POkemon Hat

little hearts, possibly a little bird also*

finger puppets*

uhm is that it? yes. no. one more kinda secret thing*

*haven’t even started it yet

I should just go to bed. There is a football game tomorrow, which means plenty of knitting time.

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FOR TODAY October 12, 2009

Outside my window… grey, wet, cold

I am thinking… I shouldn’t have assumed I was better and gone back to life full force so fast. We all know what happens to me when I do that. Relapse! ugh

I am thankful for… all the kids getting better.

From the learning rooms… planets explorations & facts, one by one. everything is slowed down and drug out so far this month, with all the illness we’ve passed around here. Moons and Muffins and MOoses for ms. Aa.

From the kitchen… still haven’t implemented my 2 week meal plan, not sure what will happen for dinner tonight - leftover chili?

I am wearing… yoga pants, my 1998 Old Navy Fleece

I am creating… muffins for counting and talking about words that start wtih M.

I am going… to rest as much as possible today

I am reading… The Accidental Best Seller (a Novel)

I am hoping… we’re over the worst of this stuff and everyone gets completely better asap. (finding it ironic that the last daybook I did was the same week we started getting sick, and I was thankful for good health & hoping no one got sick).

I am hearing…Veggie Tales Silly Songs & Jacob Two Two - yes, two TVs going at once.

Around the house… kids are mesmerized by the television. feeling the cabin fever combo of the weather & the sickies.

A few plans for the rest of the week: Celebrating Aaralyn’s birthday tomorrow, not sure what all else is going on.