Alright, here’s the deal….. Olivia has another birthday party to attend. It’s on Saturday. In an effort to save time, I started this scarf…

and it is scary. Nate likes it. I think it has the potential, and I use that word cautiously, to turn out decent once it’s finished and I’ve trimmed the whole thing. It is also possible that it will be even worse when it’s done, and I’d be better off starting a doll right now. In my defense, the pattern I’m loosely following is really cute. This is one of those times, however, when “loosely” isn’t looking to be good enough. I also resent the fact that this contraption will be my first scarf. (Yes, there is the daisy swatch, but for some reason, that doesn’t count).

Maybe I’ll start a doll, and finish the scarf later for one of the girls. Who am I kidding? If I put it down now, I’ll never touch the thing again except perhaps to FROG it!

As of this moment, I seriously have no idea what I’m going to do, or what little Brooke will be receiving for her birthday. (Side note- she has ribbons in her hair EVERY SINGLE DAY!! I’m not kidding. Because of this, Olivia asks for ribbons in her hair NEARLY every day. In the end, she gets them maybe once in a two week period. Brooke must be an only child, and if she isn’t, I don’t want to know.)

I did work on mom’s sweater last night. I can’t say that I got very far, unfortunately. I was making mistakes all over the place. Like forgetting a cable row and not catching it for a couple rows. Or knitting a couple centimeters too far before starting decreases. So I did a whole lot of frogging. Frogging multi-stranded cotton knit into twisted stitch ribbing isn’t very fun. That being said, I didn’t mind THAT much. I was really happy to be sitting down with my needles after a long day.

Veronica has been toilet training, finally, and she wants to go every 10 minutes. She doesn’t do anything every 10 minutes, but I still have to accompany her and assist. The only break I got from that was her spontaneous and uncharacteristic nap.

She fell asleep on my lap while I was messing with my sidebar. See anything different? I can’t figure out how in the world to find the URL to an individual entry in a previous month. I spent way too long trying, to no avail. So my links are mostly to comments pages. I do what I can.

I have a lot to do today that is carryover from my list of things to do yesterday. On the plus side, I cleaned most of my house last night, so I don’t have any catch up to do, I can start fresh and make progress.

My LYS owner wants me to work at her store on Friday nights through the holidays, when the “mall”, for lack of a better word, that she is in mandates later holiday hours. She wants me to recruit a knitting group to come at that time so we can hang out. I think it sounds like fun. I wonder if I can work a good discount on a spinning wheel in exchange.