I am done...

I know that I have spoken a lot about this project for the past few posts. I am happy to announce that I am finally done with the knitting and have sewn up the final part of the project. It is funny why something calls to your soul. I grew up in Wheaton, Ill. Even though I have finally admitted that I am a New Englander ( took me 20 years of living in MA to admit this to myself), there will always be part of me that will be your typical Midwestern girl. I grew up in the summers waiting for that darn tornado alarm to go off in town. When you heard it, it was time to head off to the basement for the night. I often had night terrors dreaming that I would not be able to get downstairs in time and be caught in a storm. Quite the scary thought as a young child. I have never gotten over it and the thought of a tornado still scares the daylights out of me. Something about the Rebuilding Greensburg Block by Block spoke to my soul and I had to be part of it. I am so happy that Laura was able to set this up and I am honored to be part of this. Here are the photo's of my blanket. I am hoping that as a small child sleeps under it that they realize that someone out there is thinking of them and has them in their thoughts and prayers.

Thank heaven for small favors....

A glass of wine and my sewing needle has finally almost gotten me to the end of my afghan project. I have seven squares left to sew on and it is in the mail off to a family who has lost more then I can ever imagine. I am also happy to say that I have three pairs of hand knit socks and two scarves for the package. I love doing charity knitting and am looking for a new project. Please let me know if you have any ideas.

The afghan that never ends...

Sometime you think that you have come to the end of a project to realize that your were completely wrong. I counted several times to see how many more squares I need for the afghan. Ok I need 11 more. Some how my brain thought I have 8 made so I only need 3 more to finish. Yea!!!! I knitted my 3 squares went to put it together only to realize that I need to make 8 more squares. It will not be finished in time and is going to have to leave hear unfinished. That said I feel as though I have been able to with this project quite a bit and am happy with my results. I will show you guys how it looks when I take a photo.

The world gets smaller....

Just when you think that you manage to get away from the past, it shows up yet again. I called the Le Leche League yesterday to get some advice about what do with Max and my pending jury duty. I am a nursing mother and he is still so young I wasn't sure what to do with him. The advice was leave him at home. Then the leader invited me to attend a meeting. I asked her when the meeting was and then the lightbulb went off in my head. Your last meeting was Thursday... Hum the mother of the child that Robyn bit was at a Le Leche League meeting that night and didn't attend the concert we saw. I asked the leader if she knew if her group had a mother of twin 4 year old boys. Oh you do? Oh she is your co-leader? Hummm... Apparently I am meant to become friends with this women.

Robyn is too analytical sometimes..

My darling little Robyn is just too analytical sometimes. We have been working on her behavior as of late. She is a sweet little girl, but just doesn't use her listening skills as well as she should. She will do sometime naughty and will be asked by different adults why are you so bad? Ken and I always try to point out to her that she isn't bad but that her behavior is bad. Well, apparently we are telling her that enough. Last night at dinner she could have behaved better. When we asked her on the way home why was she behaving badly she retorted " I guess when G-d created me he made me bad." It broke my heart, I had to tell her that G-d doesn't make bad people. That she is good but makes poor choices.

If you interact with my child and she misbehaves please tell her that her behavior is bad not that she is bad. I need a kid with a good self-image.

Nice weekend...

We had a very nice but long weekend. We were off to see Ken's parents in CT. they live in NY and his sister lives in CT so she is the perfect meeting place. On the way up we stopped by to see good friends of ours in Sturbridge, MA. Their neighbors had a super water slide out for a birthday party. They were nice enough to notice that Robyn was outside playing by herself and invited her to join in on the fun. Having no bathing suit, she went in her dress. She climb up about 6 times when on the last trip up she fell off the top of the slide. This was easy a 10ft drop. My friend was watching her was I went off to turn off the water and all I heard was a blood curdling scream. Luckily she landed on the padding below and was fine. Scared the crap out of me. My spunky little girl after calming down decided that she wanted to climb and go down again.

We had a nice time visiting with the in-laws. This visit was important to all as MILis starting radiation today to hopefully win her battle with breast cancer round 2. She was in the clear for two years but it has come back. We are praying that she wins this round also. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

It's a small world....

Did your mother ever tell you "You should always be on your best behavior, because you never know who knows who." Yet again that saying came back to haunt me. Last week Robyn had a run in at the playground. Now I am not sure who started it but I do know who ended it. Robyn bit the boy on the back. The mother came up to me quite calmly and explained to me that my daughter bit her son. I was horrified to say the least, my daughter has never bitten another child. I told the mother I was extremely sorry and Robyn was sent to sit with me at the table. When asked what happened she told me "He made me so mad I lost all my power." I am guessing she was so mad that she couldn't stop herself. She knew she was wrong and said she won't do it again.

Fast forward one week. My friend Glitter invited me to go a Velvet Elvis concert tonight. We were sitting with friends of the band, when these two twin boys came and sat with their father. Best friends of the people we were sitting with. I told Glitter I swear that is the little boy that Robyn bit. What are the chance's? I wasn't sure because mom wasn't there. So I asked Glitter's friend if she knew one of the boys was bit at the playground. She didn't so she asked the dad. Sure enough that is the boy that Robyn bit. Small world. They played very nicely today and all seemed well. But go figure.

While at the concert the sprinklers went off spraying everyone. My daughter being the spirited one decided that she would run around in the water and had a grand old time. I was the only parent who let their child do that. My thinking, she is having fun, she isn't hurting anyone and she will pass out when we get home. Needless to say she was dripping wet. I am guess if this would have been Woodstock she would have been the one to start the mud pits.

Busy as always..

Life just doesn't ever seemed to slow down for me. Yesterday was suppose to be a nice and quiet day for me and the kids. We were just goingto run out to the local craft store for some activities for Robyn. We had fun choosing rainy day or it is just to darn hot to go outside activities to do. We get home and the phone rings. My parents want to go out to dinner. More stuff to do, but I do love eating with them. We go play with the neighbors when Robyn has a massive melt down. Off to home again for a nap. The problem it is 5:30 we have to be at dinner for 6:30. She will never make it through dinner without a nap. She passes out hard, Max passes out hard and they are not up yet at 6:20pm. So my darling husband sent me to dinner by myself. It was so nice to have dinner with just me, my brother and my parents. I haven't done that since the kids were born.

Today we are off to pick tart red cherries, they are as good as the ones i grew up eating in MI. Yummy. Laura, if you are reading this I will think of you when eating them.

Nothing much going on here..

Well... That is a lie actually. I got a nice surprise yesterday. An old friend of mine (best friend from college) who I have not been on great talking terms as of late, called me to have a play date with her children. It was out of the blue and completely unexpected. About a year ago she said some rather hurtful things to me and I completely called off the friendship. It was one of the hardest things I ever did, but I needed the space and needed to heal from the hurtful things that were said. I know now that she didn't mean what she said and that it came out wrong. That said we have always been very close, but rather tough on each other, more like sisters. We had a nice time and made a play date for the kids again next week. I am trying not to set myself up for being hurt again, but it is nice to have her back in my life.

On the knitting front I am still working my Greensburg project and have started to make a Lizards Ridge baby blanket. I am using one type of yarn and knitting it all in one piece. If you want to know how I adapted the pattern please let me know.

I do ahve to share a cute Robyn story. A few weeks ago when we were at my parent's house Robyn decided that she would go to their neighbor's house to play with the 9 year old daughter. The big issue was that she did not bother to tell anyone. We figured that is where she went so my dad went off to retrieve her. When he got there Poppy asked "Robyn why didn't you tell us?" She took her toy phone out of her pocket, flipped it open and stated "Poppy, you know this isne't a real cell phone. If I had a real one I would have called you." Talk about a firecracker.

Up all night!!!

I was up most of the night last night. Not because of the children, but because of some stupid My Little Pony toy. It somehow started playing music last night. I will never get it out of my mind again. On top of that other baby toys also went off. As far as I can figure, the heat made them wonky or we have magical attic creatures living up there.

On the knitting front I am bust working on the squares for the afghan and have decided to sew it up together before sending it off.

Off to pass out...

More about me..

Since this is Spinning Jenny's World this blog is going to be mostly about my knitting and if I ever find time again with my spinning. With two children who knows when I will spin again. As much as I love it, I just don't have time.

The great news on the spinning front is my aunt was up visiting my dad, we were talking about my knitting and I mentioned that I spin, she told me that she had an antique spinning wheel in her basement and she is going to give it to me. I am so excited, it is in working condition. So I am going to be the proud owner of a new to me spinning wheel.

On the knitting front I have been knitting for a awesome project called "Rebuilding Greensburg, Block by Block" . It is a really great project and I am enjoying working on it and at this point I have over 20 squares made. I am hoping to have 56 done before Aug 1st, which is the drop dead date for sending the squares.

I am also working on a pair of sock called monkey for a fellow blogger, who convinced me last night to start blogging. They are made in a beautiful yarn by Lorna's Lace and I love it.

On the home front my little darling decided that she would help out her mother yesterday and remove the baby from the baby swing. I also most died, thank goodness Robyn didn't drop Max and got him safely to the couch. She was so proud of herself and rescuing the baby brother, that I had a hard time bawling her out, so we nicely explained that no matter how much he is crying you are not allowed to move him.

My first post...

It was suggested to me that I should start a blog. So here it goes. I am a 33 year old mother of two children and have been married to my wonderful husband for just over 7 years. This blog will be here for me to tell you stories about my life and more importantly to share one of my greatest loves knitting. Of course I love my children more, but all of us need an outlet. I hope to see all of you here visiting and I promise I will do my best to keep up this blog.