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Skater mom

Once again a local yarn store visit confirms my deepest fears. Montreal has the worst customer service in yarn stores ever. Sure maybe I'm not your typical yarn shop customer, who cares!? I shall not steal your precious acrylic yarns, nor shall I smile to you when you follow me from one row to the next in your ridiculously small store. Why did you feel the need to leave customers at the paying counter just to see what I was up too? Do you really think my 4 year old would leave with a pattern book under her winter coat? Can't I please touch a few ball of yarn, compare prices and just enjoy my yarn shopping with you looking down on me? Hey, I'm 26yo YES I can knit, not that you would care. I had my Denise interchangeable needles that would make yu go nuts if you say them, I had some play money, that I was VERY eager to spend in your shop but NO! I do not need to feel like I don't deserve to buy yarn from your store. I shall go to a competitor's that might sell a tad more but at least, they smile, let me roam through the store, offer to help me find a particular color. I will not go back to the store with not-so-friendly ladies. I do not need the aggravation, sigh.... why can't I just find a decent yarn shop. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya! ROFL! ;)

So no new yarn like wanted, for 2 days now I was eager to go buy some yarn, today is too hectic for us, so it shall wait until tomorrow. ACK! All I want is yarn. I really want to go on a weekend and scope Toronto's yarn stores. I want to see all the yarns I've heard about, I want to touch and feel it all, want to spend like crazy and knit yarns from TO for months to come. Hey, I can dream, maybe it will even happen. Oh yeah, did I say that dh might need to go to TO for work? Teehee! He better bring me along.

Did anyone hear that Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz have split up? They are figure skaters (2003 Ice Dance Champions), not a couple! LOL! Anyway, I'm pretty sad as they were great to see skate. I just saw this on TV last night as Shae-Lynn was talking about how she tried to convince Victor to keep on skating but he's done. Miss Bourne is helping out skaters now though, she hopes she can share her knowledge to make others be their best. :) As a mom of a little skater, I'm sad that Zoe won't get to follow Bourne & Kraatz skating. Of course that does mean we shall see younger skaters rise to the top. In fact in november there is a local skating competition, I'll bring Zoe to see it and she'll oooh and aaah over the kids spinning, jumping and the cute costumes on ice. I'm so happy Zoe likes her skating lessons, she's so cute, fall down ansd gracefully smiles as she gets up! LOL! She loves to stay at the rink after her lesson to see the older teens skate. I think it's good that she realizes that even the greatest skaters fall from time to time. This will sound pretentious but my little daughter seems to have done the most progression in her skating level. She is pretty lucky because almost every lesson she's had was one on one with her teacher. Even at the end when the younger skaters play a game. Zoe and her teacher keep on doing her program, I know Zoe enjoys it and doesn't even miss the games. I think it's simply because she loves getting undividied attention by someone! ;) Oh and Lucas LOVES seeing his sister skate and can't wait for his own lessons! LOL! He's too cute, I am eager to get him to start skating to see if he enjoys it before paying for lessons for him. Hey maybe both kids could become the next ice dance champions? Ok, maybe not but we are a skating family and proud of it! LOL! ;)

p/s: The coaches loved seeing Zoe's costume at the lesson last night. She dressed up as a skating champion wearing not one but TWO gold medals. What can I say, we are greedy!

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