men and knits

I’ve been married for 6 years.
Each year I tell hubby to select a Christmas sweater and each year it becomes the equivalent of a souffle – a delicate procedure that involves so many stars in the right line and no sudden movements to be successful that it becomes scrapped for a crockpot meal (not that [...]

A Looooong Year

The last 365 summed up in 7 minutes.

Please, Just Get Out Of My Grill For 2 seconds!

Yes, the title of this post was indeed a statement that fell from my mouth…at 9am.  If it’s 9am and I am already attempting to create a little biosphere of 2 inches of personal space, I knew I was in for a long day. 
Every day I wonder about these women I see at the grocery [...]

Test Knitting Anyone? Anyone?

Although I am in the beginning stages for the “if you don’t stop #%^$# throwing that, you’re going to military school” military knit cardigan, I’m on the prowl for some test knitters.  I can’t compensate monetary wise for your time but can give you a huge bucket o’ gratitude and you get a snazzy new pattern [...]

When life gives you lemons….

Donegal, my lovely green laptop, that replaced my former laptop which also had a halted demise way before a full lifespan (and never obtained a name, it was that short) which replaced a former laptop that I ran over..
twice
has met the wrath of toddler who felt it necessary to throw you with its ac power [...]

I’ll take your downward facing dog and raise you one cobra

Our summer cultural festival tour landed us at Cristo Rey

hello furrowed brows
and smack in the middle of a long outdoor mass…a long…bilingual mass.
In so doing, we helped our children utilize their cross-cultural cheap hollander skills and hit up the vendors for free food.

We’ve done a lot of farming and have had several discussions as to [...]

May Giveaway Day Winners

Comments are now closed for the May Giveaway and the random generator pulled numbers 28 and 65.
So….
Sally and Mel are winners – check your e-mails for the pdf of the pattern in the next day or so.

May Giveaway Day!

On May 27, Sew Mama Sew is once again creating a list of shops and blogs  providing free giveaways to highlight their crafts ..and this time, I threw my hat in the ring.
Please leave a comment to this post by May 31, 2009 12midnight EST for a chance to win a PDF of Sailor Daane

or Pinocle [...]

ch-ch-changes

I have three days left. 
Three days…
of my job.
I gave my notice a couple weeks ago after months of discussion, anxiety, budgeting, anxiety, and more discussion..
and after countless sleepless nights.
Maintaining two jobs, two kids, and a husband’s stressful career of on-call and overtime has taken it’s toll. 
A year ago when I wrote out the one of [...]

when 30 minutes makes it worth 6 months…

Today hubbo informed me that we are halfway past the 2 year-mark….why this is significant is because both of us agree without hesitation that this is not our favorite stage…
but today, I saw a glimmer of that thing people talk about when they say “it does get better”…

I got him started…

but then he was on [...]