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WoFW: Wednesday

For Week of Few Words.  I really lost my focus today.  I can’t seem to get the idea of making a particular hat out of my head.  All I can think about is the yarn I want to buy, and the fine-gauge loom I’d need to really do it right.  I barely managed to tear [...]

Living in a loomy bin

Did you think I meant to write LOONY?  Well, we’re plenty loony around here, but actually, these last few days we’ve also been plenty LOOMY.

While I’ve been cranking out fingerless mitts on my little blue knifty knitter, certain other people have been using the rest of the set as crowns, collars, swords, and chainsaw hands.

My [...]

Obligations

Neil spent the weekend at Philcon, and while he was there, his hotel room was going largely unused.  The boys and I felt obligated not to let that hotel money go to waste, of course, so we took one for the team, packed ourselves up, and drove ninety minutes south on Friday after school.

Ninety minutes [...]

Cranberry Thanksgiving

Every few years my uncle lends me this book to read to the boys.  I like having a special Thanksgiving book to read, as I have always felt Thanksgiving to be a holiday that deserves to be steeped in tradition.  As a child, I felt this sense of tradition keenly, as we went about our [...]

Can you show me how to do that?

“Mom, can you show me how to do that?” he asks, looking at my fingerless gloves in progress on the loom.
“Sure!  Would you like to make yourself a hat?”  He nods excitedly, and scurries off to choose his yarn.
We cast on.

And he, in usual Eamonn fashion, allows himself to be distracted by something shiny before [...]

Movie night

Sometimes on Saturday nights we wander over to one of the local supermarkets, put a dollar in their video vending machine, and get a movie to watch.  Other times we whip up a big bowl of snack mix and sit on the couch with a Netflix rental.  But last night we did something a little [...]

That’s better

Turns out Wednesdays are ok for cleaning, once you get a handful of distracting detours overwith.
It took me a couple of hours to do it right.  And no sooner did I put away the vacuum, when a five-year-old wandered through munching on a Pop Tart he forgot to ask permission for, dropping crumbs like [...]

School daze

You may recall my comment sometime during the summer, that when the time came for me to put my baby on the bus to Kindergarten, I would either be clinging to his ankles, begging him not to leave me, or skipping down the driveway, celebrating my freedom.  I’m happy to report that I did not [...]

Firsts, lasts, milestones

Today I went to the farm.  I was looking for zinnias and honeycrisp apples like last year, but there were no apples to be had.  It was disappointing, but I did manage to come home with something else nifty:  my first ever batch of farm-fresh multi-colored eggs!
Yeah, I know.  Where have I been not to [...]

Stop looking at me like that

Not much of a crafty nature to report today.   I sent off a batch of orders this morning, and this afternoon I was the Grandma-to-Grandma Shuttle, as I picked Aidan up at Neil’s parents’ house, drove 35 minutes, and dropped him off at my parents’ house.  He’s making the rounds, vacationing at the grandparents’ houses, [...]