Jo Knits!

08.31

I guess this marks officially the last day of summer (technically I know it's not but I'm sure I am not the only one who thinks like this). School is starting again for millions of students, malls are back to being empty on week days. I do enjoy summer but I like it best when people are back to school and work, so many less people all over the place. Then I'll go shopping and have the stores to myself, I'm so greedy! ;) So I hope all the workers will enjoy there day off today, is Thanksgiving the next holiday? I know Canada and the US don't celebrate at the same time either. Carl will be working today! LOL! He's only going for a few hours and I know he's eager to get out of the house, it'll be good for him. We've been lucky to have him spend so much time with us, it's been a blast for myself and the kids. They SO enjoy the presence of their father, we did tons of family outings and just spent time together. Went down town many times and the kids love shopping so we made sure to shop 'til they dropped. Now back to reality, dh working and I'm back as being a stay-at-home-mom! :)

This past weekend we had a BBQ outside, it was really nice, the kids were running around being happy and we were just enjoying the sun. I'm pretty sure this was one of the last times we will be eating out. It was nice! :)

I've been knitting away on my little shawl. Thank goodness for emails!!! :) I got stuck on saturday night with the pattern chart and emailed a few knitters. LOL! Each gave me great help and combined I came to a good result. Thank you for answering my cry for help! I did go and xerox'd the pattern to a bigger size, then got crafty to make it easier for me to follow. I had the repeat a sequence of stitches on several rows 5 times so I went and did exactly that on paper, now I don't need to calculate anymore and get loss in my row count. The picture is where I got stuck on saturday night, now imagine a hot pink safety line at the last row and add an inch more of knitting, that's where I am this morning. :) I try to knit only in the evening when the kids are sleeping but I love this project so much, it's hard not to pick it up in the day. On top of that it's my only project right now. I didn't knit for 24 hours and my oh my, was I ever getting depressed, silly little thing is that I was too busy and not at home to knit. Good thing last night we watched a movie so I knitted with pure pleasure. We saw America's Sweethearts on saturday night, it was a cute movie. Then to see Julia Robert (yeah, she's in that movie) pull out needles and for a split second knit on screen! ACK! The horror, there I was watching the movie without any knitting going on and SHE was there knitting. ROFL! It was surreal actually. ;)

I'm not sure what other project I want to begin right now, I might just go and finish a few odds and ends for now. I need to knit a sweater this fall, soon it will be my 1st anniversary since I learned to knit and I NEED to make a sweater. I know I can do it, ACK! I'm just scared. ;) I think the fall issue of Knitty just might help me get over my fear, only a few days until we get to see it.

Wishing you all a great day. :)

hugs,

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