Well we got our first real snow here the other day, see previous post. So I bundled the baby up in the 60 dollar jacket, ski pants, hat mittens, and boots and put her in the snow. Can anybody guess what she thought of the snow? She screamed and cried and would not let me put her down. Poor thing. Her sister did the same thing too, but she was like 3 first time she saw snow. Too cute.

Mommmy and Kiki stare down. Gotta love the pink Hello Kitty hairspray. She uses it liberally LOL

We tried to take a pic of the two of us laying on the bed but little miss thing had to jump in. What a ham.

Calorimetry on Kiki

She preferred the bonnet look

I liked it but it seemed to not fit right and kept slipping back I just think I have a misshapen head. I used Lorna's Laces Bullfrogs and Butterflies in the Iris Garden colorway and I loved the colors and the feel but like I said it kept slipping back on me and I keep pulling it down over my ears. The patter in the new Knitty Calorimetry pattern which is pretty cool.

Hubby goofing off he is ready to kill me for posting this pic. LOL

OK I Know it seems I am at again. I promise to blog and then disappear. But this time I have a legitimate excuse. Ok So 2 am Tuesday morning I woke up in horrendous pain. I mean I would rather be giving birth with no drugs then the pain I was in. Had no clue what was wrong. So 8 am kiddie off to school I go to the walk-in clinic as the Dr office is not open until 9. They tell me they cannot treat me until it is approved by the Dr office due to insurance. By the time all this get straightened out it is 9:20 I call Dr they tell me they can't approve it cuz they have an appointment open at 3:15. By this point I am sobbing I am in so much pain my whole left side of my face is swollen and I think I am dying. They really expect me to wait 6 hours to be seen. Are the Fucking Kidding Me. I go to work. I call again about 11:30 . I am sobbing so hard I can barely talk (now I have an incredibly high pain tolerance. I am not a wuss) I ask them if there is anything they can do I cannot wait another 4 hours. At the same time I am trying to take care of the baby. The nurse gets on the phone and tells me my only option is to go to the ER. Now we had a pretty good snow Monday and this is Tuesday there are accidents everywhere. Where I live in Maine is one of the biggest and best hospitals that everyone gets sent to. Great. Go to ER 12:00 Get Triage at 1:00, get put in room 1:30, nurse comes in 2:30 gives me vicodin and tells me Dr will be in soon, 3:00 nurse comes in I am still sobbing gives me 2 mind you 2 Oxycontin. 3:10 I am puking everywhere and still in pain plus sleepy I have been up since 2 am. 3:15 Dr comes in looks in my ear and says Oh My God Look at this you must be in a lot of pain. (DUH!) This is the worst abscess I have ever seen and it is all backed up. Great!! Wants to give me more pain pills. No Thank you Just pop it. 3:30 nurse comes back in and he put some numbing drops in my ear and the irrigates it and the tries to cut it open slightly. I still have blood running out of my ear and it is now Friday. At least the pain is somewhat gone. My face is still swollen. I cannot move my jaw and I have not eaten since Monday. I have been doped up and in lala land the past week and I plan to remain there the weekend too. Happy Healthy Knitting to all!

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Well finally we are getting some snow. I mean it is January after all. Yup see my new ride. I joined mini-van mama hell. Funny story too I will tell it tomorrow and post some more pics. Side note last night we were all cranky and not feeling too well so while hubby was playing x-box the girls and I went in my room put on barnyard and cuddled on the bed. we all fell asleep and hubby thought it would be cute to take a pic. Thanks so much honey!!!!

As you will see I cut most of me out but you can see my green shirt and I think an ear.

Hello to anyone who actually reads this. Sorry I have been away so long. I have had major issues with my DSL and then my computer got a virus so nothing worked and then you know life happens too. I have the 5 year old and now her activities (dance, girl scouts, etc.) plus the baby is now 14 months old and into everything. Its not like I can lay her down in the middle of the floor and use the computer LOL. She is walking and climbing and very curious to all things. It seems my computer will work all day long just about but then when the kids are actually in bed and I get some time to go on the computer the DSL is down. UGH. Sorry I have been gone so long I will try to be better and blog during the morning nap as that seems to be my best bet anyway.

So what's new. Let see. I just took a class at my local bead shop on beaded Christmas ornaments. I love these will make great gifts come next year and by starting now I might actually have them done by next X-mas. I left my camera at my mothers so you will have to wait until tomorrow to get some pics. I am working on a pair of turquoise and purple Lopi-lite mittens for a friends daughter. The first mitten will not even fit Kiki so I am starting over and remaking the whole thing I did not bother ripping as it is Lopi-lite and it sucks and breaks very easily so ripping is not an option I will just give it to Kiki to play with and start again. I made the very awesome pirate hat from Hello Yarn. Black and blood red. It was for hubby he requested it and it came out so rockin' I cannot even describe it. Guess what? It doesn't even fit the baby. I could not get my hands on the yarn it called for so I subbed and got it way wrong gauge wise. I have plans to make another one but haven't quite started yet. I used the yarn I got from Jenn at http://www.jchandmade.typepad.com/ it was lime and pink striped and matched Kiki's winter coat perfectly for mittens so that is what she got. I love them too. I've made other little things here and there. I cannot quite remember off the top of my head what I have done in like the past year. So if it comes to me and when I get pics tomorrow I will be back and post.

I hope everyone had a great holiday and is having a good new year. It's good to be back lol.

WOW
Well what have I been up to. Not too much really. I tried to go to school but that did not pan out. I started but then had to take a leave of absence until January. Everything for a reason right? So I have dealt with that for the past couple of weeks and now things are getting back to normal. So what am I working on.......

Handmade Fimo clay stitch markers. Cool Huh?

Two squares that I have made for the friendship afghan. I have to put up pics of the ones I got too. I just remembered that. Sorry.

Oh this. Well I tried to make a poodle. Keats saw this kit at Target and asked me to get it to make it for her. I did and I did. I was watching a show and this is what happened. I sewed the ears on the bottom of the head so that is upside down and backwards then I sewed the head to the butt, and upside down at the bottom of the butt not the top. Then I sewed the tail to the bottom of the head part so that instead of sticking up it is hanging down. After that I put it aside and called it a night. I tried to take the sewing out but with this type of yarn you cannot see the stitches so I could not get it off without cutting it off and afraid to do that as so to unravel the whole thing. LOL. I blame it on the fact that my little purple accessory bag with all my notions in it is gone. GONE. I got home from this last trip to NJ and I have not seen it since. I had it there and now I cannot find it. My sis says she did not find it in her house either so I do not know what happened to it. All my Chibi's my cable needles my Kacha counter my fave DPN's everything even my Lantern Moon sheepy tape measure. SOB!!! I am so lost. On top of that remember the 15 cables a panel sweater for my SIL well the Katcha counter was keeping track of my rows and now that I cannot look at it I don't know where I am row wise and have not worked on the sweater at all. On top of that I am almost done with the second river rapid sock but do not want to finish it as my chibi's and needle threaders are in that bag too and I cannot bear to kitchner with anything else. SOB!!! Hence the making stitch markers and not really knitting. The poodle came with all necessities in the kit even the needles so that was really why I tackled that.
The upside down backwards sewed to the butt head with out support. LOL way too funny.

BTW not that anyone needs to know or actually be told but I totally am so very stupid. I was getting out of moms truck wearing flip flops and caught my right foot big toe nail on her door and ripped it off. Wanna talk about pain. OMG. This is where the stupid part comes in. What am I upset about, crying about, hurt about. The fact that I ruined my pedicure and now my toes look funny. Plus it will take forever for the nail to grow back and look good and I won't be able to have a decent pedicure for months. Stupid right. But this is me and I like my feet and I like my feet to look pretty. So this really hurts me knowing that I have now have an ugly nasty deformed toe that will take forever to look right. I am so stupid Not to mention such a GIRL.

Finally it is a picture of the completed River Rapids sock with the sock swap dyed yarn from Ashley. Isn't this pattern perfect for this yarn and color. I am so in love with this. These blues are perfect for this pattern, it really looks like river rapids flowing.

On an incredibly Happy or Sad note. Today my baby turned 5. 5! I cannot believe it.

I feel so old.

I cannot believe I have a 5 year old. It still boggles my mind. She had a wonderful birthday and is very happy and very excited for school tomorrow. She went one day last week for a half day, then the next 3 days for half days and after labor day it is up to full days. She is so excited.

I have the rest of the second river rapids sock to do it is almost up to the heel. Also I joined the Sock Wars. I so cannot wait for that, it looks like total fun. Plus I joined the friendship afghan. You get a list of others who joined and then make a square to send to each person on the list. Then they all send you one square as well and in the end you should have enough squares for an afghan. I love stuff like this. It lets you connect with others in something that will last forever. It will be filled with memories. Well off to bed I have to get the little one up really early to get her ready and fed before she has to catch the bus. And if I dwell on it too long I will so start crying.

 

IM ALIVE

I am alive and I am still here. It has been so so nuts. I still had my SIL kids and then I got sick and hurt myself. Then I had to do a suprise party for my MIL and SIL who turned 60 and 40 respectively within a week of each other. Not to mention that the SIL whose kids now practically live with me flaked out on me and I had to do everything by myself. Then the day after the party I left to go to NJ yet again. I got home. Crashed> got ready for today, The open house day at school. The first day, Sob!!! I am so proud of her but I do not want to imagine myself having a kid in kindergarten.

Knitting wise.
I have finished a sock in the river rapids pattern with the cake dyed yarn from my sock swap ashley. It is so cool. I love this sock. Sorry no pic today as I finished it while I was in NJ and I left it there so my sis has to mail it up to me. LOL. I started a sweater that my SIL (the one who just turned 40)gave me the pattern to as a hint last year. It is gorgous but. Each panel has 15 cables on it and it is slow going and tedious but when this is done it will rock. It is not my fault it wasn't done in time for the birthday party the pattern she gave me was incomplete and I only have the cables and then half the front no neck back or sleeves. So I do have a pic of that and once I get the rest of the pattern it will be more complete hopefully. Enough chatter here are some pics.

Look at how killer that center cable is. I love the look of this.

Biker Baby

Here is her 5th birthday present

Our first day going to kindergarten and meeting the teacher. Tomorrow is the first day alone for a half day. I know I will be crying. I'm such a sap. OK need to watch rockstar. Pics of sock tomorrow.

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.