Things that make me smile
We've had a nice, quiet New Year at our house. Joe and I stayed home and put the kids to bed early, then dinked around in our normal evening routines. I watched a DVD and knit on the blankie, he putzed around in his office room, and some time around 12:30 or so I said "Happy New Year" and he grunted. We had planned to go to his aunt and uncle's house for Tduck Gook at lunch, but Sophie woke up with a fever this morning and we didn't want to expose the other children and relatives to whatever she might have. Poor little Sophie was listless and sad this morning, but after a dose of Motrin, she was much better - I think I still may take her to the doctor tomorrow to check for another ear infection. In the mean time, Joe drove up to his parents' house and picked up some ingredients so that I could make Tduck Gook for us here at home. I was sorry to have missed out on the party with the family (especially one at which I am not hosting), but we ended up having a nice little dinner at home.
I've been thinking about my plans and hopes for 2007 as the old year ended and I've been reading everyone else's thoughts on the matter. When Wendy brought up her "Knit From Your Stash 2007" plan, I was tempted to join in on it - and still am on some levels. I do, after all, have quite the large stash of yarn. A whole closet full. And I do fully intend to knit up projects from the yarn I have this year - I have more than enough sock yarn to keep me going all year, more than enough scraps to finish the blankie, yarn begging to be knit into a couple of sweaters for myself and some for the girls, beautiful laceweight yarn for that scarf I want to start on...and a bunch more that calls out to be loved and fondled. The thing is, promises like that one are meant to be broken. I have no plans to buy more yarn this year, but I'm sure it will happen, and in moderate amounts. All this thinking really has made me consider a flash-your-stash style post, partly in the interest in yarn pron for my dear readers and partly for my own organizational purposes.
There are a few other resolution-type reflections I've been pondering, most of them around living in the moment, letting go of the past, loving myself and my family as much as we all deserve. So I thought I'd share with you a few pictures of things that made me smile in the last few days.
I was folding laundry the other night, and found myself smiling at my neatly-stacked pile of socks fresh and ready for another week in the sock drawer. It always makes me happy to look at and wear my socks. These are but a portion of what lives in my sock drawer, what I just happened to have in the laundry this week.
My little dinosaur-eater.
I caught Joe wearing the reindeer antlers while entertaining the girls the other day. He was having fun until I insisted on taking his picture in them.
Snow angel lessons. We finally got a few inches of snow last night, and Joe took Julie out to play in it this morning. This was such a sweet moment as Sophie and I watched it out the front window.
Yesterday we picked up a shiny new toy for me. I've been wanting a new laptop for a while now, and after a little consideration and shopping, we found this little model. I'm typing on it right this moment. It's nice to be sitting in my spot on the couch typing this up.
Finally, I don't have a picture to show you, but I do have to brag. Joe's been on vacation from work all this week, and instead of sloughing off doing purely fun things, he has been working hard - harder, he says, than he normally does when he's at his office. When we bought our house a year and a half ago, we painted almost every room in it right away. The only two rooms that were left were the bathrooms, and Joe has finally painted the main floor one. It is not - well, it's not lovely. It was a very ugly bathroom in the first place and really needs to be gutted and remodeled entirely. But it sure looks a million times better without the peeling wallpaper, and it took a lot of work on Joe's part to get all the cleaning and patching and prepping and painting done.
Oh, and one more thing - I think I'm going to try to be a little more organized on the blog for 2007. For starters, let's call Fridays blankie-update days. Every week, I'll report in on my progress and show off a pretty picture.
I've been thinking about my plans and hopes for 2007 as the old year ended and I've been reading everyone else's thoughts on the matter. When Wendy brought up her "Knit From Your Stash 2007" plan, I was tempted to join in on it - and still am on some levels. I do, after all, have quite the large stash of yarn. A whole closet full. And I do fully intend to knit up projects from the yarn I have this year - I have more than enough sock yarn to keep me going all year, more than enough scraps to finish the blankie, yarn begging to be knit into a couple of sweaters for myself and some for the girls, beautiful laceweight yarn for that scarf I want to start on...and a bunch more that calls out to be loved and fondled. The thing is, promises like that one are meant to be broken. I have no plans to buy more yarn this year, but I'm sure it will happen, and in moderate amounts. All this thinking really has made me consider a flash-your-stash style post, partly in the interest in yarn pron for my dear readers and partly for my own organizational purposes.
There are a few other resolution-type reflections I've been pondering, most of them around living in the moment, letting go of the past, loving myself and my family as much as we all deserve. So I thought I'd share with you a few pictures of things that made me smile in the last few days.
I was folding laundry the other night, and found myself smiling at my neatly-stacked pile of socks fresh and ready for another week in the sock drawer. It always makes me happy to look at and wear my socks. These are but a portion of what lives in my sock drawer, what I just happened to have in the laundry this week.
My little dinosaur-eater.
I caught Joe wearing the reindeer antlers while entertaining the girls the other day. He was having fun until I insisted on taking his picture in them.
Snow angel lessons. We finally got a few inches of snow last night, and Joe took Julie out to play in it this morning. This was such a sweet moment as Sophie and I watched it out the front window.
Yesterday we picked up a shiny new toy for me. I've been wanting a new laptop for a while now, and after a little consideration and shopping, we found this little model. I'm typing on it right this moment. It's nice to be sitting in my spot on the couch typing this up.
Finally, I don't have a picture to show you, but I do have to brag. Joe's been on vacation from work all this week, and instead of sloughing off doing purely fun things, he has been working hard - harder, he says, than he normally does when he's at his office. When we bought our house a year and a half ago, we painted almost every room in it right away. The only two rooms that were left were the bathrooms, and Joe has finally painted the main floor one. It is not - well, it's not lovely. It was a very ugly bathroom in the first place and really needs to be gutted and remodeled entirely. But it sure looks a million times better without the peeling wallpaper, and it took a lot of work on Joe's part to get all the cleaning and patching and prepping and painting done.
Oh, and one more thing - I think I'm going to try to be a little more organized on the blog for 2007. For starters, let's call Fridays blankie-update days. Every week, I'll report in on my progress and show off a pretty picture.
posted by Shelly Kang at 8:00 PM
2 Comments:
Your girls are so precious! The socks are pretty fantastic, too!
Is it too late to join in the mitered square blankie knit along? I've been working on mine for a couple of months, but just recently started my own blog & figured out how to put a button on my blog. I'll be looking forward to weekly blankie updates!
Dianne
britknitter.blogspot.com
Your blanket is absolutely beautiful..I am still working on mine, slowly but surely. Now that Christmas is out of the way all I got to do are a few baby gifts and then I can give it some more attention.
BTW..it is such a fun knit, and a great pattern. Thank you so much for sending me yarn scraps and including me in this awesome project!
Oh, and I have said this before, but your girls, heck your whole family, are so gosh darn cute!
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