My Only Sunshine

Bitty

On the Road Again

Well, the verdict is in, we're going home.  Buster found out yesterday morning that he has gotten a job in Dallas that will start in mid January.  We've been in Oklahoma for 3.5 years since we moved here from DFW, and now it's time to turn around and go back. 

We've got to sell the house we bought in April, buy a new one in a different state, find a new school, move, etc, oh and Christmas is next week.  Whew.

I'm not sure this will mean great things for getting knitting done, but I am still trying... see...

This is the first of the Rainbow Bit mitts.  I got about halfway through the second when I realized my gauge had changed.  I really need to get better at that, don't I?  So I ripped back to the cuff and hopefully will get it done tonight, yes including thumbs.

Right now I have to go watch Bitty do ballet.  It's parent observation week.  Yesterday I got to watch Bug do ballet.

Oh look, we went to see Santa too.

I better hurry

It's COLD!!!!!!  and I'm not moving nearly fast enough on these kids mittens.  This morning as we were leaving the house in the 5 degree snow and ice Bug said, "Mom, have you finished my mittens YET?"  Sadly I had to say no.  At least she has a new hat.

Chalk that up to mittens 0 hat 1.  At least I have forward momentum.  The hat is knit with Joann  Sensations wool/cotton.  I don't remember the name and have already tossed the label.  It's knit from a Midnight Knitter pattern I came across.  Big yarn, big needles, lots of yarn overs.  Fast hat.  I made up the crocheted flower as I went along.  It was a fun hat to make, I would do it again.  Most importantly, Bug likes it.

Shockingly enough, I do have a second FO to report.  The fingerless wrist warmers are finished and on my fingers.

Ok, you caught me, those aren't my fingers.  Have you ever noticed how hard it is to take photos of your own hands?  Bitty agreed to model the new warmers for me.  She is a much better model than I am anyway, wouldn't you say?

So that's two FOs for me today.  I plan to have at least one more by the end of the day.  Not all my stix are naked, but I am getting closer.

This is what it looks like when you find tracks while hunting wild knits in the snow.  Can you make out my two FOs there?

*sniffle* *cough* "Ouch!"

That's what it sounds like at my house.  You would never believe a family could be so pitifully sick.  We'll start with the least sick, Bug, she has pink eye (bacterial conjunctivitis, we think) in her left eye.  No school for her, highly contagious.  Hopefully we'll get her to the doctor this afternoon.  The next healthiest (as you can tell, this is all relative since we are all so super sick) would be me I guess.  I'm not complaining as much as everyone else, though I am not sure that makes me less sick.  I have a light case of conjuncitivits in both eyes as well as probably the early stages of strep throat. I also have two incisions in my abdomen and a mysterious boo boo on my thigh that wasn't there before surgery.  I'll be asking my doctor about that this afternoon at my post-op appt.  Let me just tell you, it's not cool having a cough when you have two holes in your belly and a throat recovering from the ET tube.  Next on the health ladder would be Bit who has strep throat and bacterial conjunctivitis in both eyes.  She coughs all night long but is a pretty good sport during the days.  She's not a big fan of the eye drops but she is being a trooper all the same.  My kids are so very rarely sick that it is pretty weird to them when it happens.  Then we have Buster.  I'm not sure what is wrong with him but he coughs all night and can't taste anything at all.  He isn't running a fever but can't seem to get warm no matter what he tries.  Usually that is my job.  I've been running just enough fever to help me stay warm but he doesn't have that going for him.  After taking two days off of work to help me take care of Bitty last week he wasn't able to take any time this week so he had to go to work this morning.  It sucks to have to go to work when you're sick.

Enough about illness.  Last week I got the final package from my SP6.  I don't have pics of it yet, but I will soon.  Talk about an excellent gift!  I got Noro, Koigu, candy, and Hello Kitty!!  My Secret Pal was Jennifer over at Yarn Over. She's a crocheter who did a great job spoiling someone who hardly knows how to crochet at all.  Thank you, Jennifer.

I just sent an email to the person I have had for SP6, Steph at Sunset Cat, to tell her that I haven't quite gotten her final gift out yet but that it will be out soon.  I'm going to wait until we are healthy enough to leave the house to mail it.  As soon as we are I will though.  I think the gift will be worth it, in the end.

Now it's time to go lay on the couch and be sad and pitiful.