Oddly enough, I have nothing to complain about this evening. Sophie pretty much slept through the night last night – I did take her into bed with me a little after midnight, but we didn’t wake up till Joe got up around 7. Yippee! To top that off, she took a short nap in the morning and a nice hour and a half or so nap this afternoon. To top that off, she got nice and sleepy as on cue at the end of dinner, had her bath and went to bed by 8 this evening. Knock on wood. I can hardly believe it, and it amazes me how much my mood improves with a little bit of free time, sleep and a little bit of hope that there will be more of both.
I have to admit that no knitting at all happened on the Bavarian Twist sweater last night. I was all set to start on it when I realized that the movie I was going to watch was subtitled. If you haven’t yet seen A Very Long Engagement, you really must. I love the actress who plays the main character, Audrey Tautou, and it is a lovely, sad, funny, romantic story put together nicely despite the violence of a war film. Even though I don’t speak french, I love hearing the language spoken, too. Just make sure you have a no-look knitting project handy first – unless you speak french! I got a few squares done on the blankie instead, and I’m going to go work on the Bavarian Twist as soon as I finish this. I’m pretty sure tonight’s video doesn’t have subtitles.
Speaking of videos, I happened to find this one and another from my Netflix queue at the library last week just sitting there. It always seems that I run dry on Netflix DVDs on Sunday and/or Monday, so I grabbed them up and brought them home. I really need to find the time to look up more of the movies on my Netflix list and see if I can order them from the library for free. I heart my library!
Okay, first some family pictures and then the mailbag…
Sophie on the scooter thing that plays “Old McDonald” incessantly. She discovered the pushing of buttons a week or two ago, and is constantly crawling over to either the Sit-’N-Spin or this tractor thing to push the buttons and make some noise. When she’s not checking for the toilet bolt caps in the bathrooms, that is. I finally took them off and put them away for the time being.
Joe and Julie got the fingerpaints out for a while on Saturday. Julie loves the fingerpaints. “I’m painting with my hands!”
Here’s Julie riiilly enjoying some watermelon Sunday. We ate watermelon like crazy all summer when it was cheap, and Julie wanted me to buy more this week, so I got a tiny package of pre-cut for her as a treat. It only took about ten pictures to get one of her not making a weird face. Crazy kid.
This morning on the way out the door to pre-school…Julie says, “I have meatballs on my hat!”
And Sophie says, “honk-shoo” Ain’t nothing sweeter than a sleeping baby.
This afternoon on the couch. Julie wanted to cuddle. With me – not Sophie. So we all sat on the couch reading books together for a while. Julie loves her mauve baby blanket that I knit for her when she was born…it’s getting a little fuzzy.
Okay, and about the mail…there was one comment a day or two ago that asked a question that I’m not comfortable answering. It was a perfectly nice comment with a perfectly normal question, and I don’t want anybody to feel sad or sorry or worried that they said anything wrong… just – please don’t feel ignored or hurt that I’m not going to answer your question. I’m pretty darn open here, but there are a few places I’m not going to go on the internet and that’s one of them. Thanks for understanding.
Hi Shelley – I was surfing around today and came across “figetybudgie” and immediately thought of you (or Julie), about three posts down she’s got a link to a Nacho Cheese dip you might fancy – she’s got gluten intolerance, and doesn’t eat dairy, so I thought it might suit (there are no eggs in it either). She says it’s the only fake cheese stuff she’s every tasted that actually tastes yummy and is fantasising about it on pasta and all the other things she can try it out on. I don’t know if it helps any, or if it’s even the sort of thing you are looking for but I thought this might be worth de-lurking for. Love the site by the way – and the pics of the kids are really cute.