Mostly normal
Not that I ever claim to be normal, but life is slowly getting back to what passes for normal around here.
The visiting family has gone home (a nice visit from my parents). The sickness has mostly passed (after two visits to the pediatrician and one visit to my internist, and three days of children home from school, including one day that I stayed home with them). The huge work deadline for me has passed, mostly successfully. The summer plans for the children are mostly settled, and we are looking forward to a good summer.
As you can tell, things have been hectic. The second trip to the pediatrician was a week ago Friday, when I was told that both children were still contagious (hand, foot and mouth disease) and that all of the weekend plans had to be scuttled. This included, for Punkin, a play date, an afternoon birthday party, and her first ever overnight slumber party. This was devastating. I made sure the doctor was the one telling her she couldn't go, so she wouldn't blame me, but she was just crushed. She spent about 45 minutes crying, complaining that it wasn't fair. This, for once, I didn't argue. I just told her she was right, it wasn't fair.
So there I was with two contagious kids who didn't really feel sick. I decided to take them to the beach to distract Punkin from what she wasn't going to be able to do.
I have a confession to make - I like the beach, but I'm not too fond of sand. Fortunately there is a little beach that we go to where most of the beach area is covered with colorful little pebbles:
It's wonderful. You get to be near the water, feel the sun on your shoulders, but not go home covered in sand. We had a great time, and I even worked on my knitting for a few minutes:
That's a sock in progress (the pink/purple Koigu pair); I wasn't crazy enough to work on lace on the beach!
As far as knitting news, I've been remarkably focused on my lace project - the Estonian lace wrap in Misti Baby Alpaca laceweight. It's been very soothing - interesting enough that I don't feel completely bored, but not too hard. I'm getting close to being finished with the center panel, and I'm looking forward to the more complicated work on the borders at each end. I don't feel like photographing it right now - it looks like nothing unless it's blocked out, and I'm just not going to take the time to spread it out and pin it right now - I'd rather be knitting!
In Sockapaloooza news - I got photos from my sock pal of my socks on her feet - how cool is that!!! She says they fit perfectly and she loves them, and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I love that my knitting is warming someone else's feet and heart several thousand miles away, someone I don't even know!
I'm thinking about what to start next, and I'm torn as always. We're going away next weekend (thanks to Kathy in San Jose for swapping Saturdays at work with me!) and I want to be sure I have a good project for working on in the car (the lace knitting is a little bit slow in the car - the extra jiggle from being in motion forces me to slow down a bit). Socks for the Hubby, or a sweater for Buddy - I'm not sure!
The visiting family has gone home (a nice visit from my parents). The sickness has mostly passed (after two visits to the pediatrician and one visit to my internist, and three days of children home from school, including one day that I stayed home with them). The huge work deadline for me has passed, mostly successfully. The summer plans for the children are mostly settled, and we are looking forward to a good summer.
As you can tell, things have been hectic. The second trip to the pediatrician was a week ago Friday, when I was told that both children were still contagious (hand, foot and mouth disease) and that all of the weekend plans had to be scuttled. This included, for Punkin, a play date, an afternoon birthday party, and her first ever overnight slumber party. This was devastating. I made sure the doctor was the one telling her she couldn't go, so she wouldn't blame me, but she was just crushed. She spent about 45 minutes crying, complaining that it wasn't fair. This, for once, I didn't argue. I just told her she was right, it wasn't fair.
So there I was with two contagious kids who didn't really feel sick. I decided to take them to the beach to distract Punkin from what she wasn't going to be able to do.
I have a confession to make - I like the beach, but I'm not too fond of sand. Fortunately there is a little beach that we go to where most of the beach area is covered with colorful little pebbles:
It's wonderful. You get to be near the water, feel the sun on your shoulders, but not go home covered in sand. We had a great time, and I even worked on my knitting for a few minutes:
That's a sock in progress (the pink/purple Koigu pair); I wasn't crazy enough to work on lace on the beach!
As far as knitting news, I've been remarkably focused on my lace project - the Estonian lace wrap in Misti Baby Alpaca laceweight. It's been very soothing - interesting enough that I don't feel completely bored, but not too hard. I'm getting close to being finished with the center panel, and I'm looking forward to the more complicated work on the borders at each end. I don't feel like photographing it right now - it looks like nothing unless it's blocked out, and I'm just not going to take the time to spread it out and pin it right now - I'd rather be knitting!
In Sockapaloooza news - I got photos from my sock pal of my socks on her feet - how cool is that!!! She says they fit perfectly and she loves them, and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! I love that my knitting is warming someone else's feet and heart several thousand miles away, someone I don't even know!
I'm thinking about what to start next, and I'm torn as always. We're going away next weekend (thanks to Kathy in San Jose for swapping Saturdays at work with me!) and I want to be sure I have a good project for working on in the car (the lace knitting is a little bit slow in the car - the extra jiggle from being in motion forces me to slow down a bit). Socks for the Hubby, or a sweater for Buddy - I'm not sure!
1 Comments:
Glad to help out with the work switch -- and it made things a little easier for me on the other date, too. Sorry about the kids being sick and the weekend plans. But sometimes that downtime is just what the doctor ordered to get better!
Can't wait to see your Estonian lace!
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