Can you believe it? I've actually made something that fits!!! Here is Maeghan modeling her new hat....made my moi!

I'm so glad she likes it. She has now requested one in pink with a pom pom on the top, and Owen has chosen some blue yarn for his. I guess I'll be making hats for a while!!!

We've been pretty busy around here lately between work and swimming and school...I feel like I never talk to anyone anymore unless it is through email! So hello everyone! I miss you all!

Melissa and I went shopping for material for flowergirl dresses last weekend. We had a hard time finding the right fabric, so we went home to get the flowergirl dress that Maeghan wore in Connie's wedding, and Owen was so kind to try it on for us!




Isn't he a doll? He was a really good sport too, he kept posing for pictures and wanting to see them right away! He also pulled on a pair of Melissa's "hooker boots", but I think that picture is too much for the general public to view! Really funny though! I wonder if Melissa is considering letting him be a part of the wedding party now?

Le Chapeau

Here it is. The thing is a monster. I can spin it around my head. I've been searching for someone with a large head to give it to...unfortunately no one has a head this large. I thought about frogging it, but I think it is destined for the tickle trunk. However, in case Connie's baby is born with an afro, I should probably hold on to this hat. It might make a good baby gift.

We had an interesting week. My second day back from vacation Maeghan's school called for me to come pick her up because she was sick. Being the concerned parent I am, I high-tailed it out of work (yipee!) and came home to see poor little Maeghan sitting on the couch with her dad reading a book (Aidan had to take an early lunch to pick her up because I wouldn't make it there before Kindergarten ended). Full of smiles, she looked up at me and said that she had had a stomach ache at school but was feeling much better now. Further investigation revealed that she was not sick, never was sick, and was just playing hookey from school. Now, I know they say like mother like daughter, but I won the skipper of the year award in Gr. 12!!! Not Kindergarten! We had a long talk about when it was appropriate to phone mommy home from work, and she has promised me she won't fake it anymore (unless of course I really want to get out of work and we "pre-plan" it! Hee hee!).

Not an hour after I got home we lost power again (6th time since the end of November) due to another wind storm, and we sat in the dark with a few candles lit trying to work on preschool work books without catching our hair on fire. Owen on the other hand was playing sock football - which I had to put an end to rather abruptly because he kept trying to get the sock in the candle. That kids' got good aim! I took the kids out for dinner where they behaved rather well, and then off to swimming lessons. Thank goodness the pool had power!

Huge snowstorm on Wednesday night, so much so that the daycare shut down and I had to stay home with Maeghan on Thursday. Owen and I walked her to school and then went to Tara's to play with Tomis and the twins, then back to pick Maeghan up from school and home again. After a good lunch we went tobaggoning in the "stone park" in our complex. It was really fun.

The rest of the week was pretty uneventful. Yesterday we took the kids tobaggoning at the golf course which was a blast because the hill was huge! I can't believe how the older I get, the more fear I have. I was so scared to go down the hill...but Maeghan and I did it, and after we got over the initial fear we did all right. Owen and Aidan have no fear, so they were flying down so fast, over and over. I meant to bring my camera to take some pictures for you to see, but I left it at home, which was probably a good thing since we wiped out a couple of times and probably would have broken it.

Well, I'm off to get ready for work...working nights this week...should be fun.

What is it?

Anybody know what this is? What's your best guess? I really want to be a sock knitter, so I decided that I needed to practice knitting in the round....voila.....my first hat. Unfortunately I have a 22" head, and the pattern only had choices for 21" or 23". I didn't want to make it annoyingly small (who wants to be constantly tugging on their hat?), so the larger one seemed the obvious choice. This choice may not have been so bad if I had been able to get the correct guage. What I thought was 5 stitches/inch actually turned out to be 4 1/2 stitches/inch. Now to some of you this doesn't sound like a big deal, but believe me, it makes a huge difference on the resulting size of the hat. This hat is going to be a monster. I am sorely tempted to frog it and start over, but I figure I still need to switch to double pointed needles as I start to decrease, and I've never used them before either, so I'll probably screw it up anyway. I might as well resign myself to the fact this one is going in the dress-up box for the kids. It's good practice anyways!

I'm off to do a little shopping with Melissa today. I have a gift card that needs spending, and it will be really nice to hang out with my sis for once with no one else around. She said that she's going to moniter my gift card spending and make sure I only spend it on myself, not the kids. She knows me too well...but what can I say, it is easier (and more fun) to buy for the kids than it is for myself. Then I don't need to try anything on only to come to the realization that nothing fits a woman with "curves". I can continue to live in my little happy land and never be the wiser.

Wish me luck.