Well yesterday afternoon I spent it with Carl. The kids were at daycare and I wanted to get the chance to talk more with dh before he'd eventually come home.
Being that we were downtown I suggesteed we go to a yarn shop that I'm been meaning to go at. WOW! That place was full of yarn, even saw some Plymouth Galway 100% wool and some funky Regia sock yarns. I was impressed by all the colors on each wall. But, there's always a BUT, right? LOL! For one there was this HUGE dog in the door when we came in. Thank goodness dh was there. LOL! He played with the day while I was drooling over the yarn. That dog was big, a St-Bernard I think it's called. Anyway I'm not really dog friendly, especially with BIG dogs. We asked the lady about bamboo circular needles, she has none, she feel they aren't worth the money. Well at least she knew what I was talking about! LOL!!!! I was tired of having people look at me as if I had 3 eyes because they never saw bamboo circ. needles. SHEESH!
Oh oh OH!!! Did you know that on tuesdays, Second Cup (that's a chain of coffee shops) has a special. An ever so yummy special too. Vanilla lattes are the price of regular coffee. Man, I sure wish I knew about this promotion before, the lady at the counter said that yesterday was the last time. Oh well, she said soon there will be another promotion. I just love vanilla in anything I can get my hands on.
I didn't buy anything at the yarn shop, I felt intimidated in there. There were people in there that had their knitting projects and would ask questions about them, it was impressive to see sweaters about the finished. I'm ot making sweaters yet! ;)
Carl knew of a yarn place and he wanted to bring me there, he was sooooo excited. We walked by a huge park and the fall colors were so beautiful. As we were walking I told him how anxious I was of his "new" life was making me feel. He is working on himself and I'm afraid that might not include me... He said that isn't what's happening that he wants us to become a stronger family than before. He wants to invest time in rebuilding a better family base and build strong relationships with the kids. I suggested that he waits until at least next monday to start looking for a job. He needs the time off and the kids need daddy home. They can't just see him running off right away.
Oh yeah, that other yarn place, was the BEST place!!!!! I fell in love as soon as we got in. It's a place where you can choose the fibers of your yarn and they roll it up for you on cones. These "yarns" are not twisted together, it's more like many threads together. That makes it easy for them to create the yarns in any color and content combination you want. I bought some 50% acrylic/50% wool yarn. It's for 4,5mm (7US) knitting needles. Then you pay for the pound, do you realize how much it makes to get to a pound? WOW! A kitted sweater takes about 1lb10oz. Which comes to about 12$Canadian (so that makes it even cheaper for you American friends) ;) You can even go in the store, tell the couple your project(hat, sweater, whatever) than you needle size and they'll make up a yarn perfect for it. It's so cool! :) They even make 100% cotton mixes to knit up dishcloths and stuff. They colors were great, not like I've ever seen in stores. When knitting with this, the effect gives a tweed look, so tension variations or missing stitches don't show up as much as on regular yarn. I'm totally loving the experience with it! The couple owning the store were so nice. I think we stayed there an hour just talking about anything and everything. I bought a book too, it's in english! LOL! It has 1500 different stitch patterns, very cool.
So anyway, after buying this new yarn at a VERY cheap price, I can't believe how much I have. I bought 3 different colors and each were about 8-10oz. so the price was more than affordable. Anyway, now I wanted 4,5mm needle since I don't have any. LOL! We went took the bus, the subway and then another bus to finally end up at WalMart's where we had just been the previous night. LOL! I got my bamboo needles after all! ;)
I called home when we were there and I let Zoe talk to her daddy, WOW! She was asking him if he was coming home that night, if he'd sleep at home and so many questions. I could see how just talking to Zoe overwhelmed him. His eyes were beaming and at the same time I could see that he was sad. I talked to Zoe once more and told her that YES, daddy would could home tonight. He was so happy and so was Zoe.
Man I couldn't walk the hour it takes from WalMart to our house fast enough. Dh was almost running. LOL! We had talked about going to the movies earlier but man, that went out the window when he knew he'd see the kids last night. I was so proud!
As soon as I unlocked the door, the kids were screaming, they were in the tub, my mom was giving their bath. Daddy had to sit down and give it to them instead. Let's just say they didn't go to bed early. ;)
I was apprehending Zoe's reaction to seeing her father but she couldn't have been more thrilled.
Now I'm late to leave the house. So I'll update later on.
HUGS! :) I started kitting a scarf for myself too! :)
Posted by Jo at October 30, 2002 08:17 AM