Mr. Acorn

Here's Michael in the Acorn Hat I knit for one of the twins a couple of years ago. Sorry it's not a very good picture but he's a moving target these days. I think this hat is sooo cute, but never could get the boys to wear them. Katie claimed they were too girly looking, but I just thought they were precious.

When The Saints Go Marching In...

Praise Jebus, I took the boys to Ash Wednesday service at their church this morning. We all got the ashes on the forehead and other than some rolling under the pews down toward the front of the church (I made sure we sat in the very last row), the little guys were very good. Here they are in their ashy glory on the way to school (cuz what could be cooler than going to school with official religious dirt on your face?) BTW, the priest must have been a real newbie -- he forgot the collection. Prolly the only Catholic priest in the world who would forget to collect the $$$ lol.

Scrap Noodle Alert!

Tate the Fashion Queen is all decked out for some sort of event...She is wearing (among lots of other things) the pink poncho I knit for her, plus the cute mittens her grammy knit. This girl def. has style to spare!

TDF!!

Mrs. Pam Narode is one talented knitter! I know she's been working on this blankie for a while and it looks like Logan is making excellent use of the finished project. Gorgeous work, Loodie! Maybe you can tell me why my intarsia sweater fell apart, since you are obvs. a much better intarsia knitter than yours truly.

Back to Work!

FINALLY we all made it back on schedule after a full week off for snow (tho we are supposed to get more tonight god forbid). Here's how my morning went:

We made it to school about 1 minute before 9. Mostly due to not being able to find Alex's sneakers, which created a crisis cuz today is PE. He tried to sneak RJ's shoes into his backpack, didn't work. But we found some old ones in the hall closet and hopefully he can cram his feet in them. I was informed that his Crocs would NOT work as he cannot run in them (though I saw him running, bike riding, etc in them all summer)

Liam got mad bc it wasn't his day to sit in the front seat and decided to walk to school. I told him 2x to come get in the car and when he didn't, I went ahead and started up the hill. Well of course that produced tears etc. when I drove past him. The other boys begged me to stop for him (they ARE good to their tribe when the chips are down), which I had intended to do, just wanted to put a little FOG (fear of God) into Liam. When he got in the car, he was crying and told me "Laurie, you made me very sad." By the time we got to school, he was pretty much over the whole trauma.

Mikey got in trubs for throwing his bowl of oatmeal on the floor, and of course the brothers defended him against meanie Laurie. But we kissed and made up and all is well.

RJ was taking cupcakes to school for his 'half birthday' (a great invention by teachers for all us kids with summer birthdays). Thank goodness, they made it into the classroom without incident.

Now all we have to do this afternoon is pick up all boys, eat our snacks, play outside, do our homework, eat dinner, take baths, go to speech, read a story, get back rubs and then nighty night. Then Gramma Laurie goes home and has a nice glass of wine!

GRRRR! Is Right!

Remember the adorable sweater I knit last week for Michael? I noticed a tiny hole up by the tail when he wore it for the first time. So I decided to take it home and wash it then fix anything that needed fixing. To my horror, when it came out of the dryer, the %@&^$ thing was full of holes and ladders!

I've done intarsia knitting many times and have never had anything like this happen. It seemed to have occurred mainly at the areas where the red and brown yarns ended/started. I KNOW I twisted the yarns around each other and everything looked fine when I had finished, so I'm stumped as to why this would have happened. The yarn IS very soft and kind of 'slippery' and I'm wondering if that was the cause. I'm def. never using this yarn again.

Non-knitters, you can ignore this post. And Mr. Grrrr is all fixed now. Mikey will be very happy!

Don't You Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like ME?

Found this ad in a 1955 knitting magazine (it's almost as old as I am). This would make a great Halloween wig lol.