Looking at you December!

If you are going to have a birthday on a Thursday, might as well spend it with some of your best work friends from across the state. Monica even brought me a present! I'm spoiled, and I have no regrets! LOL

The boys asked their dad if they could bring me a present before school today. It really started my day off right. It was a cute coffee mug with skittles and a Starbucks gift card in it. Good job boys! When I picked them up from school Daryl was trying his best not to fight with his brother, since it was my birthday. He was trying so hard we got a pizza for dinner, birthday pizza! 

After that I finally gave in and got the Christmas tree from the basement. Daryl has wanted to do this since Thanksgiving. Growing up I was always weird about not decorating till after my birthday. After all, I am not a December baby. That was intentional, thanks mom! Since my birth had been thoroughly celebrated, we decorated. Now it's Christmas time! We will continue to deck our halls this weekend.

I need another little tree to go on the other side of the white tree. I'm going to make a little Christmas tree forest in the corner. 

Funny Alex story. On Saturday he got in big trouble for being mean to Cedar. He may have pulled out some of his hair. So he went to his room and was in there for an hour throwing a huge tantrum. He did finally come out, apologize, and calm down. 

Well, Monday night I was arranging his blankets to tuck him in when I see something written on his sheet. In pen. I turn my head to read it, and it says, Alexs mom is sopid. My first thought was, wow should a kindergartner really be writing in sentences? My second thought was, you can't even spell stupid, what does that make you?! Lastly, I thought it's bedtime, I'm not even doing this right now. 

Me: "Alex, did you write on your sheet?" (We are both looking at the sheet)

Alex: looking me square in the eyes, "I don't remember." 

That boy! 

Mom Came Through!

The boys and I had a great long weekend! We even got to host Grandma and the Larned cousins for a couple of days. That means a lot of Nerf Gun wars, and card games. My house is not very big so thankfully we had some beautiful weather for everyone to play outside!

Grandma also brought a craft for the boys to make. It is the cutest little advent calendar. Unfortunately, a painting project is not as much fun as Nerf guns. So, Cadence and Grandma did all the painting. The boys did put on all the stickers when the older boys needed to catch their breath. LOL

Grandma didn't just bring something for the boys!! I also got my new crock pot! I was so excited that I already used it yesterday to make Ham and Beans. It is perfect, and I love it. I wonder if it is too early to ask for a can opener and spaghetti grabber for Christmas?! 

Poor Turkey

Hello All! Long time, no blog. Honestly, the boys have not been giving me a lot of good blog material lately, slackers! I am knitting a hat, and I'll show that off soon. Other than that I just finished a busy time with work, and I'm looking forward to the Holidays fun.

One of those fun school projects I kind of forgot about was, "disguise the turkey" homework! This is the assignment where kids get a paper turkey and they have to dress him up so he doesn't end up Thanksgiving dinner.

When Daryl had this assignment I got a little too involved and made a sweater for his turkey. We did it together, and I did more of the work than he did. For many reasons I decided to let Alex do his turkey by himself. The first reason is I had 100 other things to do, the second reason is Alex loves to draw and color, and really doesn't want my help anyway.

I went over ideas with him. "Alex, we could use one of your school pictures and dress him like you!."
Alex said, "No."
Daryl suggested, "You could get leaves from outside and make him a tree."
Alex said, "No."
We put this off to the very last evening so when Alex said he wanted to make him a pizza I said great! Here are your crayons, get busy!
Only this morning when he was putting the finishing touches on his Turkey Daryl had a thought, "If you don't want the Turkey to be eaten why did you make it a pizza?"

Oh my gosh, why didn't I think of that. Thankfully, Alex is stubborn and he had finished his Turkey pizza and he was proud of it. We shall see what the teacher says today! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

He is a pizza, and Alex did it all by himself!

A Green Sweater Story

I know I laugh sometimes when people ask how long it takes me to knit something. They may not even believe me when I reply years. There are many reasons I'm a slow knitter, but most are I get distracted by other things. I start a different knitting pattern, I sew for a bit, or more recently I'm taking a class, and only have time to read and write papers.

This particular sweater was my second time using the lovely Wollmeise Lace yarn. It's kind of a pain in the neck to get this yarn, because it is made in Germany in very small quantities. But, the color and quality of this yarn is amazing! The Lace yarn costs $60 a skein so I limit myself to only buying one at a time and I have to knit with it before I buy another one.

I've checked the records to give this sweater a timeline.
So I bought this lovely 4-H green yarn in Dec. 2013
I started my sweater pattern on August 28, 2014
I finished it yesterday, Nov. 5, 2017

Mostly, I'm just thankful that after three years I'm still the same size! Yay!!
P.S.-Making a sweater out of lace weight yarn is crazy pants, I do not recommend it.
P.P.S.- I'll most likely do it again....