First Snow

Some knitting content

I am a little upset with myself, usually I enter all my info about a project on Ravelry but for some reason this time I didn't. I am pretty sure I started these socks in late spring/early summer but I all I got done on them was the start of a cuff. I picked them up a few weeks ago because they were an easy knit, no thought required in my sleep deprived brain.





It is a Noro yarn, I do know that, with some silk content. Not only didn't I enter the project details on Ravelry, I never saved the label from the yarn. It is really annoying me.

I finished them yesterday, just in time for the colder weather. While we haven't had snow yet, I have seen some wet snow mixed in with rain twice now, so it is coming.




Nico is wondering what the fuss is about. Just wait puppy till that first snowfall and Mama gets to throw you in a snow drift. It's the only thing I am looking forward to this winter.

My new walls

As some of you may recall, my kitchen is yellow. Actually my whole house is yellow. And while I don't mind yellow and have been known to like yellow, I am TIRED of yellow. Yellow everywhere.



So we painted.




Actually Micheal painted.





I watched.




But I like it so much better!

Communication Failure

This is what happens when one spouse pours liquid dish soap all over a cutting board used to cut up raw chicken and leaves it in the sink to deal with later and the other spouse comes along and throws it in the dishwasher.

Best laid plans

Usually Baby Boo sleeps until about 5am when he gets up for a bottle and then he will go back to sleep until about 9 or so. Piglet sleeps all night getting up around 7. Sometimes I will hear Piglet stirring when I am feeding Baby Boo and if I feed Piglet at the same time he will go back to bed until 8:30. I don't get to really enjoy this because I have to get Mack up for school at 6:30.

Yesterday morning I had the brilliant idea to get both babies up at 5, feed and change them and then go back to bed and get to sleep in a little bit.

You do know what they say about best laid plans don't you?

Micheal came in at 6:30 and woke me up to tell me that he wanted to rip the kitchen apart and redo it.

Welcome to my life.

Apple Picking

Build A New Life

My DVR is set to record a British show Build A New Life every Sunday afternoon. We usually watch it sometime during the week in the evening when we can get the babies to bed at a decent hour and we are still able to keep our eyes open. The show features a family that are packing in the rat race for a quieter, slower paced life out in the country. This involves renovating some derelict old building and usually a home based business of some sort.

This has got Mike and I talking about what it is we want out of this life, what are hopes and dreams are and what we will really regret if we never accomplish it. After all we only get one shot at this.

So, if you could build a new life what would it look like. And no, I am not talking about winning the lottery or suddenly being rich. Just what changes you would like to make to your life over the next few years.