Yesterday was Clark’s birthday. He is still sick, so we didn’t do much in the way of celebrating as we’re doing that tonight anyway. But I felt bad for him. This is the only picture I got of his special day.
And today is Abby’s birthday. I’m not feeling that great, although not completely sick either. But I feel tired with all that lies ahead this month. Multiple birthdays, their respective parties, a baptism, a wedding, a fly-in-and-fly-out visit from my mom and my uncle in the midst of an insane weekend (see “wedding and baptism”), self employment taxes… and I have to be forgetting at least 5 things.
Plus, since the girls didn’t get parties two years ago, I told them they could have a party last year. Which was right when we ended up moving and birthing Clark. So I put it off and put it off until it didn’t happen. So this year, there’s no escaping the party throwing. We usually do the extended family thing on their birthday. Then we’re having a party with school friends. Then we’re having a party with church friends (separate only to keep the number of children in my house at any one time a manageable one). Times two because Liv’s birthday is this month also. Plus, both girls are dying to have sleepovers, so they each get one. Yeah, let that all sink in.
I’M TIRED!!
And the party hasn’t even started yet. We have dates fixed for two of the four promised events, and Liv’s sleepover will probably end up happening in May.
I’ve finished the second leg and have begun the first heel flap. This is the first pattern I’ve made that has you decrease for the heel flap. That’s weird. The socks are already a little snug, but I did it anyway thinking that I’d already intended on making the heel flap longer to give some ease.
And I’ve been cabling without a cable needle for the first time. Too lazy to get up and check online to see how its done, I worked out a method myself. It might be how everyone else does it, I don’t know, but it’s working for me.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Oh wow. Just…oh wow.
I’m exhausted just reading that list.
Wow.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Oh, happy birthday to Clark and Abby! Too bad Clark is sick, he still looks cute though 😉 I can’t believe he’s one already!
April 4th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Good grief you are a busy woman!!! Happy birthday to all those kiddos! Clark sure looks cute though. I hope you feel better soon too. Kids being sick I can handle…kids and me being sick..not so much. So I hope for your sake you get all better (I mean…I want them better too…but…well…you know what I mean!)
So quick sock question….do you totally bypass the second sockitis by making them both at the same time? I only have 1 set of size 2 circs and 1 set of size 1. Hmm…..a knit picks order may be in my future if it’ll help my second sockitis problem because this is getting rediculious!
April 4th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I cannot believe that Clarke is already 1 years old. Happy Birthday, and I hope you feel better too. I cant imagine how tired you will feel after the busy month your about to have. Love the socks too, very interesting colorway, and I mean that in a good way too.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:40 am
So sorry your crew is sick! My youngest was sick on his first birthday, too, and then we all got sick as the day progressed. Looking back on those pictures hurts. By the way, I really love the way your socks are turning out, with the slanting of the stripes and the pattern going in opposite directions. I am so glad to know that, I may want to try a pair myself. Thanks for the info on the comparison between Koigu and STR.