Autumn turned to Spring in my part of the world, completely skipping Winter, and I am lovin’ it!
This is what our weekend looked like.
My world is full of these wonderful little people.
My life truly is beautiful. And I am drinking in the joy that surrounds me everyday.
Oh, and I had a little of this, too. Call it the icing on the cake.
Happy Spring, Everybody!
A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Happy Weekending!
… you are leaving to go grocery shopping and all you have left to do is pack your knitting (I guess I could stop right there. Knitting while grocery shopping with six kids? But there is more), so you ask your daughter to run and “get the blue knitting project off the couch and throw it in the diaper bag” (and you must specify “blue” because there is more than one WIP on the couch). She comes back carrying the project that you meant, plus another work in progress and two random balls of yarn and a set of DPNs…. and she not only thinks that you are totally normal for asking for knitting when packing for a grocery run, but also thought that you would need all that extra yarn and needles in case you finished the half done sweater project that you originally asked for.
Oh, and if you were wondering, no I did not get any knitting done on the grocery shopping expedition. I did, however, feel better knowing that it was with me, just in case I needed it.
A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
May your weekend be hot and chocolate-y!
It was supposed to be cathartic.
After a horrible lace incident that I am not ready to talk about yet, I needed a quick, satisfying knit to get me back in the saddle.
Instead, I had another knitting tragedy.
Well, that is a bit dramatic, considering that I was able to pull it off and that the recipient loves it. But, the disappointment makes it bittersweet.
I ran out of yarn.
The Dancing Queen wanted a cape, and I thought that Ysolda Teague’s Emily’s Capelet fit the bill. Easily lengthened, elegant, and the perfectly simple (without being mind numbing) quick knit that would renew my confidence in my ability as a knitter. Just look how cute!
I knit along happily and felt my strength renewed as it grew on my needles. Then after only nine repeats of the pattern, my yarn gave out and I was left with half of a cape. So, I improvised. This is what I came up with. (Ravelry link for knitterly details)
Although, I am very happy with the rest of it.
And, The Dancing Queen has not taken it off since I unpinned it from the blocking board three days ago.
So, I guess I could call it a success.
I still don’t have my mojo back, though, and fixing that lace is gonna take some real mojo. On to the next simple, quick, cathartic knit.
Teeth are the big deal around here.
They are growing in.
They are falling out.
And the Tooth Fairy, bless her soul, she just can’t seem to keep up. I will elaborate in a moment. But first -
A word on teething.
Teething stinks. I hate it and I wish it would stop. Yep, you read that right. I wish it would stop. Granted, I have no real solution; no proposed method of getting teeth without it (because you know that this nursing mom appreciates the toothless newborn!). I would just rather skip the fussy, drool-y, nothing-makes-me-happy part of infancy.
I am trying something new this time. I finally bought an amber necklace from Inspired by Finn. Correction: I bought two amber necklaces, one for V and another for The Munchkin who is still of the teething age.
This is the one The Munchkin is wearing, called lemonade (photo slurped from their website):
Now, it took me the bearing of six babies before I finally bought some of these. Originally my thought was that only an imbecile would put a bead necklace on their baby. That progressed to a limited understanding of the function – a necklace to ease teething pain? Sounds very hocus-pocus to me. But, after seeing how cute they are on friends babies and hearing testimonies of the amber’s efficacy from people that I respect, I started to wonder. So, I did a little research and found that there is a bit of science behind the idea. The claim (in case you don’t already know) is that the amber contains succinic acid which is a mild analgesic. As I understand it, by wearing amber against your skin, you absorb this acid and it soothes pain (be it teething pain or arthritis pain or whatever). As to whether it really works or not, I am still a skeptic. But I figure that either way I like it because, look! It is so cute!
So, back to the teething… I don’t enjoy the endless questioning every time V gets fussy. “Maybe she is teething?” we wonder. And there is no way to know for sure. Eventually it ends. Eventually she gets teeth….
… Only to have them fall out again in a few years. And now -
The Tooth Fairy Is A Flake
I have blogged here before about the failings of the tooth fairy. It seems that she has not improved much.
The Dancing Queen lost a tooth the other night (I suspect that she was trying to earn some money by removing teeth from her head instead of going to sleep as she was supposed to do, but whatever). She came running down the stairs with tooth in hand and a bloody smile. “Mama! I lost a tooth!” I told her to clean up her face and put the tooth under her pillow for the tooth fairy. Then I finished my movie and my row (that’s right – knitting and watching a movie. I am that cool) and I promptly went to bed.
I didn’t realize my folly until around noon the next day. “Oh! Mama! I just remembered! The tooth fairy didn’t come!” cringe
“She didn’t?” I faked. “Maybe a lot of kids lost their teeth yesterday and she was very busy last night.” Lame, I know, but what would you have said?
That night, we checked to make sure the tooth was stashed snuggly under the pillow once again. I kissed my little gal’s forehead and said goodnight. And then I watched another movie, knit a few more rows, and I went to bed.
Thank you, thank you! You may now nominate me for “The Worst Parent of the Year” award. I’m a shoo in.
It wasn’t until night three when the Tooth Fairy finally showed up.
She did try to make up for her massive failings. She included a note that read:
…. and an extra dollar to sweeten the deal. (Yes, that is a tooth. It seems the tooth fairy isn’t a great artist…)
Sometimes I wonder if maybe it is a good thing that my younger kids don’t know that she is really me.
Sigh
A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Wishing you happiness right down to your toes!
A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Have a fun filled weekend!
A Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Except this time I am gonna cheat, use some words, and share three pictures.
The Dancing Queen wanted to help me photograph my February Sweater for the blog earlier this week. Then the Princess wanted to hang on me a bit. So, here are my favorites from that photo shoot with my little girls.
Happy Weekending!
