December 16, 2004
Sickies
Zoe has finally done it, most kids in her kindergarden class have done it also. Actually Zoe was one of the very few that hadn't gone through this yet... She has missed school! ACK! :( It was a very long day and a half away from her teacher and friends but doctor says she's got a full blown ear infection and a little cough, her temp was up like crazy so we kept her home. She finally convinced us yesterday afternoon to let her go, she was slow at school but her teacher congratulated her for making it anyways. She did warn Zoe that it is OK to miss school and it is best to stay home when sick. This morning though she was well enough to go and she was really excited about that. Now having more than one kid means usually that as soon as one is sick the next one is to follow. Sure enough Lucas stayed up most of the night with his forehead hurting (aka fever). This morning I woke up with the sniffles too so we might be back to the doctor's tomorrow morning if Lucas's temp hasn't gone down.
Bought myself the Confessions of a Shopaholic book as a special 'getting out of my knitting funk' treat. Sure enough I have knitted a baby bootie and hat in the last few hours. The boothie is from Knitting for Baby and hat pattern is available at Miss ChicKnits website. I had to frog it twice, luckily it was at the ice rink that I was frogging so I didn't mind too much. I am using up some of my very favorite yarn, curious to know what it is!? Perhaps it might be a luscious expensive yarn, something from a designer's yarn collection!? Well NOPE, I Jo~Knits love Lamb's Pride worsted yarn, yes that readily available wool/mohair yarn that is great for knitting, felting and just pain old holding. LOL! Well here's my sad story.... it is readily available in the US and Canada EXCEPT Quebec.... sigh, of course I live in the only province that doesn't have it for sale. So I dream of going to Toronto once again to stock up in that lovely yarn.
I still have 2 balls of this lovely soft wool but they are reserved to be knitted up as fuzzy feet in peacock color (think greenish blue), I'll most likely start these in january before working on the road again, they'll become my hotel slippers. We work standing and walking all day, so most of us would walk around the hotel at night with only our socks on, I prefer slippers. lol! Especially handknit slippers of course, so my precious lamb's pride will be well loved as we travel all over eastern Canada. 
Now to finish my day of yesterday was a great ice show on television called holiday festival on ice, it was lovely. Sadly it was playing too late for the kids to watch after their own skating lesson. It's going to be presented on tv later around the holidays so I'll make sure the kids see it then.
Off to go read!
Posted by Jo at December 16, 2004 11:35 AM