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Kids just keep on growing

As usual time flies by too quickly for me to sit and post an entry. Luckily knitting is portable so I was able to progress on a few projects.

Last weekend my 'baby' turned 6 years old. He sure has changed over the years, yet he has always kept his same smile and personality. He loves to clean, he loves to laugh, loves to find new ways to use toys that you would never think of. He has brightened my life in so many ways from the day he was born. :)

For his birthday, I knitted him a pair of socks (finally he gets a finished pair!). The 3/4 of the pair was knitted in a two day frame, luckily he got to wear them as soon as they were done. He loves them and requested a second pair as soon as possible. Oh dear...

Right now I am completing the 2nd sock for Zoe, then Carl's birthday is coming up next week. Oh wait, it's been quite a while since I knitted myself a pair of socks too. LOL! Never fear, I always have more projects that I want to knit.

When both kids started school, I expected that I would have more than enough time to knit throughout the day. HA! I am so busy now that I mostly knit at night when the kids are sleeping. Who knew a stay-at-home-mom could be so busy without kids around. LOL! Actually, I go to the gym 3 mornings to meet with a trainer, two afternoons I am at school 'playing' librarian, 1 night I have classes, 1 night is kids sports, saturdays is Zoe's dance class and sundays are kids sports again. There is not one day that I do not have something scheduled, at least I have 3+ hours of scheduled knitting each week. LOL! I may also try to get in a pottery making class in the spring.

My sweater is coming along nicely, I didn't even need to harrass anyone when I stumbled upon a problem. I actually sat down and took the time to READ the pattern, silly thing was that the answer was right there. lol! I wonder if I'll finish the body this weekend! The Ultra Alpaca yarn really makes this sweater fun to knit, I am really glad that I bought this color, love it! :)

Thanks to Shelley at Funknits, I participated and won a contest about/for Opal yarn. It's only fitting I heard about it on the blog from the seller I bought my Opal yarn from. ;-) Let's just say that to receive a yarn package is SO much fun especially when it's free. LOL! Many thanks to Trish for ultra fast shipping, I can't wait to start knitting with this new Opal 6-ply yarn. Now my only problem is... shall I knit socks, a hat, mitts? Oye, decisions, decisions. teehee!

Well I am out the door for the day, then gotta run home to babysit a 2yo and try to remember that we do not want another child at this time! LOL!

hugs,

A sweater, really!

I decided that january would be a knit from stash month for me, I did well but was very happy when february started. I bought two sweaters worth of yarn to celebrate. It is niiiice yarn though. LOL! I made a big official swatch with Rowan's Felted Tweed yarn and decided that as a first sweater (that I intend to finish!) using size 4US/3,5mm needles was too small to keep me motivated. So back to see Ginette at Effiloché and with her great help, I got some buttery soft Ultra Alpaca yarn. This swatch was smaller but I started knitting a new sweater right away. The yoke was done with only one ball, gotta love that. Now I keep getting new ideas for sweaters to knit but you know what!? I'm gonna at least finish the first one before casting on anything else. lol!

Just showing off Zoe with her tap shoes, she is loving her new dance classes! I am loving the chance to go downtown once a week. LOL! Hopefully once it gets warmer we'll even have a chance to do some window shopping too. This week while Zoe's dancing, Lucas will be taking a little cake decorating class to bring us a Valentine's day dessert for the family. Gotta love keeping the kids busy, yet getting dessert done at the same time. lol!

Now, I love my kids school but chocolate? ACK! I hate when we have to sell a whole box of choc's to help out with the school's activities. Imagine being stuck with selling 50 bars of chocolate now that both kids are in school. Last year, I simply paid 75$ and bought out the whole box, this year, that is SO not happening. Already I am giving a lot of my time volunteering at school so I am thinking I'll go talk to the principal to say that we will not be selling chocolates this year. Hope it goes over well but Carl and I are both not working at the moment and it's starting to get tough. There's also a birthday coming up and I want to make sure it is extra special for Lucas, so no chocolates it is...

Yes I know that buying yarn, then not wanting to help out the school financially does not add up correctly. I never said that I plan out stuff very well, also I do not want 50 bars of chocolate lying around for me to eat. LOL!