pip pip cheerio….

My kids are running around making the “perfect tea” and singing “pip pip cheerio” – thank you Backyardigans…..

I’m in such a funk today, just can’t shake it; between the allergies, lack of sleep, lack of future housing prospects, children who want to takeover every thought i might try and conjure up, and the warmth of summer just beginning to sink in……I just can’t shake it…..

so, I’m blogging (and listening to the kiddos play – I finally turned on the sprinkler and let them go outside – it’ll work for about 10 minutes i think before they start fighting or someone gets hurt) – anyhow, so i’m blogging about things that make me happy, and maybe maybe maybe, that will make me happy …….

here we go:

These are on my counter:

Tulips on the counter

I couldn’t help it, it was an impulse buy yesterday when i was just out getting groceries….

my sock at the symphony

This was one of the lovely things scott and I got to go to in SF for my birthday last month….

There’s more, but i must now give in to the children….my 10 minutes are up….i think it helped a little….

morning ponderings….

weird to writing two -ing words together….hm.

Anywho, I dropped the kiddos off at my sister’s last night and they were quite excited to play with their Auntie, Uncle and cousins – no tears when i left or anything!  crazy.    I came home and cleaned the house with my Husband – was up until almost 1 doing so, and I don’t know that coming in now anyone would know I even tried to clean – such is the world of having 3 children – they’re wonderful and lovely and all are too young to really realize how nice it would be to live in a tidy house – The one that is getting old enough is of the male variety and that might be an outlying factor for him in the clean area…I’m not sure they have a tidy gene…

Right, sorry about the random blogging.  I’m waiting for my computer to hook up wirelessly to my work so I can get it done before leaving for SF for the weekend.  Giants and Symphony here we come!!!!!!!!  weeeee…..  can’t imagine a better plan.  Hope everyone attempting to go to the horribleness I consider Picnic Day at UCD has as much fun as their heart desires!  A lovely weekend to all you who are not as well. Now………should I have a travelling sock or maybe some fingerless gloves………………baby sweater?   what would look best pictured in the city?

26 years….

Spring has sprung!!!!

I took this while walking in the rain with the kiddos the other day – just turned out pretty well, thought i’d share…

Happy Birthday to me!

It’s been a lovely day;  I recieved about a bagillion emails, texts and facebook notes to wish me a happy day and I’ve been able thus far to spend the entire day with my kiddos and my husband.  Scott and I built a much needed chicken coop

While we loved having the chickens roam free, they are a lot to clean up after…

I made a flourless chocolate cake following this: Flourless chocolate cake French – Recipe – recipe and it tuned out absolutely lovely!

Even got the kid approval:

Tonight I head to a book club (Jane Austen weeeee) after Allen’s Tball Game and then on to Scott’s Softball game – life is definitely full and crazy busy, but It’s always nice to just enjoy the springtime and all the activities that come with it (like chocolate cake…)

Small Loops intertwined…..Stitches!

I went yesterday to Stitches Market in Santa Clara Convention Center.  I went with all the prior expectations of being wowed and overwhelmed and time just flying by….and,  i mean, i was wowed – it was a great turnout, much better than a couple years ago when i helped out in a booth and just lots of lovely knitting/crocheting/fiber people – but I wasn’t wowed in the way i expected.  It was kind of a funny feeling.  I’ve been now to 5 stitches events and 4 TNNA’s (think stitches only 5 times bigger and when you buy something it shows up in your shop a month later and the bills scare the bejesus out of you….).

I knew it was different from the time i walked over the bridge from the parking garage to the convention center and thought – “hm.  i know my way around here just fine and this all seems so familiar”.  I walked into the event itself and thought “oh lord, people…..” not yarn, even though there was a ton to be oohed and awed.  and It felt like walking into my old high school or some such thing, where every hallway and classroom looks exactly as it did last time i was there, only, some of the faces had changed – my outlook had changed.  funny huh? -In any case, the booths were beautiful and i had fun with friends shopping for yarn and came away with some nice things myself.  Thanks to Aida, I didn’t end up driving as planned and so I got to finish my sock.  for me.  with a toe for my flip flops – yay!

yay orange socks!!!

toe!!!!!

As for the rest of my weekend – the kiddos have been visiting my sister and parents since Thursday and I’m now missing them and it’s just weird to be up in the morning and have time to actually upload pictures and blog and read my bible study homework and a little pride and prejudice with coffee before anyone else ever talks to me – don’t get me wrong, i do enjoy the solitude in the morning, it’s one of the things I complain most of being deprived of by my children – but i do miss them.

and the cats play

(just to clarify – this picture was taken Friday evening – NOT this morning with my coffee )

Scott and I are going to church and then to travel about and find him some shoes today and then just hang out at home – we’ve been borrowing our housemates Wii – and it may be contagious enough for us to save to get one here soon – such a fun thing – the fit makes you feel like your little workouts are effective and the guitar hero is just addicting.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone and enjoy the miserably wet (good for knitting and cooking) weather

monday, monday…

so, just want to post, and can’t think of a super pertinent topic, so here is some random pictures from random days.  yay.

washcloths:

sweater i worked on for katie a year and a half ago and finally last week put the second sleeve on and wove all of the ends in….

chickens at the window….telling me to feed them

baby adrianna – raaaaa!!!!

and then, just because i like this picture….

hope everyone has a lovely monday

Valentines fun…

Since Allen is in Kindergarten this year, we’ve had a lot of fun trying to be crafty and make valentines for his class….I have to say, I think it’s been way more work for me than him, but he is so excited about hole punching that it’s just fun…..Here they are:

I stole the idea from the Purlbee (both ideas really) – the little hearts are for each kid in the class and we’re going to tie them to bubbles – the big cards are for the teachers and I haven’t figured out what to do for them exactly, but it will contain either caffeine or chocolate because that is what i would want for valentines day (maybe flowers if you’re reading this scott….:P)

So, Happy Valentines day to everyone because even if it is just a Hallmark Holiday, it’s so fun to be crafty with kids and just show someone (or everyone as the case may be in kindergarten) how much you care for them.

funny….

So, all the sudden I just want to knit things that my kids can wear – way to start early huh?

I’ve made this last week:

a pair of socks and matching mittens for katie (almost made, the thumbs need to be finished on the mittens)

I’ve finished a hat for my self, I’ve been pouring over knit pants patterns and finally decided on good old Elizabeth Zimmermann’s longies for baby pattern which i plan to start tonight……Allen has requested socks and mittens too and I plan to make them each a sweater by next winter….

maybe it’s just the season – the cold is finally settling a little bit and i miss that there is no snow so in dreaming about it I want to knit warm things for kids…..hm.  oh well.

Pictures later.

Knits around the house

So, it’s quite a funny thing to realize just how much yarn has integrated itself into my life (like it has a mind of it’s own, ha!).  I was walking around picking up toys the other day and complaining about how there were just too many toys all over our house when i noticed something funny….here, i took pictures:

unfelted slippers on chair

okay, anyhow, i’m not so good at picture alignment yet, but from top to bottom that shows: back of long couch, back of short couch, kitchen table and rocking chair……and for all of you thinking that’s not too bad, there was more, my pictures just didn’t come out so well.

Perhaps, since no one is complaining about my yarn everywhere, i should give up a little on the toys…..okay, that’s all for today – I have 2 more pairs of felted slippers, 1/2 a sock, 1/2 a baby sweater, a pair of kid mittens, 2 4″ squares and a hat to get finished….  perhaps another stocking too, it’s a bit shameful that my husband doesn’t have a knit one….

Almost Famous….

It’s so funny to me to open an add or a newspaper or anything really that has a reference to “Knitter’s Playground” in it…..All i can think is ‘wait a sec, that’s just an idea that was in my head that was an attempted yarn store and was never fully realized…….’ funny.  The Co-Op newsletter this week (which i know came out at the beginning of the week and i just opened today) had a miriad of articles about crafting (mainly knitting) and some places that classes are offered – and then the very last place listed in the class section was our knit night group!  as a good play to go knit!  yay!  they called it “the knitter’s playground knit group” Sorry Davis Knitter’s, I didn’t mean for you to be mine, but there it is!  Anyhow,  I felt famous for a minute for being part of that group   Thank you all for being such good sports!  (goodness, i just re-read this post, please disregard all upper and lower case writing as well as my frequent use of exclamation point!  hehe)

Happy Fall!!!!!

The weather has been lovely and gorgeous the last couple of days and I just wanted to take a moment and wish everyone a happy fall, since it’s finally here!  Happy Election Day too….get out there and vote people!

a quick knit update – I finished the blanket!!!!  but in the craziness of a 6 year old nephews birthday I forgot my camera in angels camp so you don’t get to see it yet!

socks started, hat started, felted slippers started…..goodness, christmas is coming and I should probably start on that too.

Today is a day of anticipation and  hope around my house – at least with the adults, i don’t think the kiddos know what’s going on – Scott has a job interview out of town and if in fact he gets and accepts it, it will be a turning point for us becuase we might actually be on track at that point for what we want to do and where we want to be when we grow up!!!

anyhow, randowm thoughts of the day achieved.  Goodbye for now.