Everyone has got to take 2 mins to watch this video of my 4 year old singing her latest fav song. 1985. It is so worth it to watch this. It is only 47 secs long and make sure you have your volume turned up.


  

This cat loves to wedge himself in places. His favorite place to sleep is my bathroom sink. Got to love foamy crafts. It has been the one thing they can do and will leave me alone for five minutes. I just found out that I get to have all the kids this coming week as well. I thought this weekend was the last of it but I was wrong. Was I asked if I could take them. NO! It was just assumed I would. I love being taken advantage of. I don't know what to do as I have an appt tomorrow with a school admin office to see about going back to finish school. I arranged for my mom to take my kids. I know she won't take the other two. They are quite a handful. She is taking my kids but she is taking them to the office with her so I cannot ask her to take the other two as well. I told my SIL all this and she said well figure it out. Her bf is working and so is she, and she needs me to watch them. Well I need this appt so I can go back to school and better myself. Too F-ing bad. I hate people assuming oh Barbara will do it. We don't need to ask if she is busy she has no life. UGH!! Now I guess the kids will have to go with me. How nice.

I love my June sock swap yarn. I wanted the perfect pattern for it and I think I found it in the river rapids pattern. I am so loving these. These are keeping me sane and calm with out killing a kid. Thank you Ashley
 

I have had my SIL's kids for the past 3 weeks. Her bf is working out of town and she works early mornings so the kids spend every night with me and most of the day as they don't want to go home. They go home around 1 in the afternoon and come back around 3 or 4. Sometimes they don't go home at all. So I have not been able to get anything done at all. I keep cleaning. Cleaning and cleaning. I must pick up my living room 5 times a day. The poor baby cannot get down and crawl it is so bad. I have done 3 times the amount of dishes, cooking, and cleaning. I'm starting to go nuts. I hate cleaning (who really doesn't) I mean I don't mind straightening up and doing most stuff it is enjoyable and relaxing. Once a week. NOT 5 times a day. Every once in a while I can sneak in some night time knitting in bed but that doesn't last long. I have been trying to do some of my unfinished projects. Right now I am trying to finish the simply lovely lace socks. I love this pattern. I think It is taking me so long because I wasn't thrilled with the way the color came out and plus I made the biggest one listed and it is still really hard to get on my foot. I don't really have big feet. They are about an 8 1/2 slightly wide but not grossly so. That is part of the reason why I just kinda slowed down on them. I think I will give them to my mom. I was going to try them again with a different sock yarn but my LYS doesn't have a large selection of sock yarn and I am way too impatient to order it of the internet. Maybe I will try it with my sock swap yarn. It might work as the colors are light. I just think this pattern is no good for a multicolored yarn but if I find the correct needles maybe I will try. Right now I do want to finish uncompleted projects. Yeah uh huh, sure, until I see the next one that I cannot resist :-) I love Happy Meal stuff. I wish this fit my head.
4 kids= pandemonium. I have cleaned this living room 5 times a day, and still I get this.
Since my nephew has been here he has wanted to learn to knit. At least I feel like I got something accomplished.

 

A blankie for my dirt monkey toe.Lil monkey out of Happy Hooker
It came out so cute and it looks just like the sock monkey my MIL made for Lana.
My blankie!
Lana is very much a blankie baby as she cannot sleep unless she has a grip on one in her hand. She was very happy with this latest one. I gave it to her straight out of the dryer and she hasn't let go since. I am so glad she likes and uses it. My other one wants and then never uses or wears the stuff I make her. I was starting to get a complex.

 

Anybody up for some sherbet? This is Julie's prize yarn finally on its way to her. Sorry it took so long we had some family issues.
This is the pictures of the tote bad I made while I had a broken finger.
The inside lining.

 

Since I was so very upset that I could not get tickets to see Pirates on friday. Every theater every show sold out ( not to mention that I live in the sticks and cannot do online ticketing, but that is a grip for another day) so since I had at least a 4 hour drive on Saturday to bury my father in law I made this so I would have it to take it with me Sunday since I was going to see the movie sunday come hell or high water. On the drive I made this and finished it and felted it when I got home and I did take it with me sunday to see the movie. Which btw I loved, loved, loved. It was really good. So check out my Pirate bag made using Hello Yarn's pattern and Brown sheep lamb's pride worsted. It got way fuzzy in the machine. Needed trim and shave.
After trim and shave. Not too bad if I do say so myself.
Hubby went fishing Monday. Here is his big catch LOL!
Later he did end up catching the biggest fish for the day which was a bass. He was so proud.

 

Some pretty purple fireworks to help kick off july. I hope everyone had a happy 4th. Air time!
I made a jello flag cake thingy.
I don't really think this needs words.
BTW I did find my camera (thank god!) I was hidding in one of the many pockets in my diaper bag. Finger is still hurt so no knit progress to show. Will try to show pics tomorrow of bag and stuff I sewed at least.

 

Well I made it home. For the most part the trip was uneventful. Except for falling as I was getting in the car Friday morning and badly bruising my shoulder and breaking my right ring finger. Just what I needed. On top of that I don't have any pictures because I seem to also have lost my camera while I was in NJ. It was a fun trip let me tell ya. So I don't have any pictures and there isn't any knitting going on due to the broken finger. I have been sewing. I made a cute tote bag last night. But alas I cannot show it to you. I am going to go mourn my camera now. We have been good friends for the past 3 years.