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Conversation while on a Walk with my 2.5 Year Old Son

Posted on September 4, 2010 at 10:19 am, by knitwit
in Category Knitting

Little Bird and Mama

 

Scene 1: an ordinary sidewalk on an ordinary summer day.
Time:  Mid afternoon
Characters:  L  a rather extraordinary 2.5 year old
                          Mama:  a rather ordinary Mama
Enter stage left Mama and L walk along sidewalk

L:  Mama look!  Puppy!
Mama:  Yes lovey, there’s a puppy. 
   And though she knows he is far tool old for such questions she continues:
Mama: What does a dog say?
L: I can smell you! 
Mama:  Not Dug, L, DOG!  I think we’ve seen UP too many times!  What does a DOG say?
L:  Quack Quack! 
Mama: Not a DUCK, L, a Dog!  Oh man…

L Checkin out Chicks at the fair 2010

 

Scene 2: Later that day at the Fairgrounds

Enter Stage Right…Mama and L walk through the deserted Fairgrounds, fondly remember the week of the fair…

L:  Wanna go Fair and see the Camel?
Mama:  The Fair is all done, honey, the camel isn’t there anymore.
L: Camel go bye bye? 
Mama: Yup, that’s right, the camel went bye bye.
L: Sheep all gone too?
Mama:  Yep, the sheep are all gone too.
L: Gamma and Gampa go home?  Gamma B go home?
Mama: Yes, they went to the fair with us, didn’t they? But they had to go home to their houses too.
L: Aunt Colleen?
Mama: She went home to Montana, didn’t she?
L: Gamma and Gampa went home in Aunt Colleen’s big truck? 
Mama:  Not quite…
L:  It’s okay.  See ya later camel!

Exit stage left…end scene…

Fair Camel

 

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Starting over, starting again

Posted on August 27, 2010 at 7:49 pm, by knitwit
in Category Knitting

My sister-in-law, whom I love, has been encouraging me to start blogging again.  “Get your stuff out there!” she says.

This however, is a daunting task for me.  I wasn’t all that great at keeping up with my blog before I had a kid, now, how will I ever keep up?  Now that spare time is so fleeting, and “free” time a rare commodity.  When a free moment occurs, I hear the call of the knitting needles and yarn, its gravitational pull is far greater than that of the computer.  Besides that, it’s been at least 2 years since I last blogged with any regularity, how can I catch up with everything that’s been going on in the last 2 years in my knitting,

Redhook by BrooklynTweed

BrooklynTweed's "Redhook"

 

with my son,

(L in his Tomten Jacket during one of his umm…inquisitive moments)

with my hubby,

(B in his icelandic version of EZ’s shirt yoke seamless sweater)

with my life?

And the thing is, I can’t catch up.  It would be totally overwhelming to try.  So I guess I’m just going to have to start again instead of start over.  Starting over at starting again? I’ll figure it out…somehow :)

Me in my Swallotail Shawl by Evelyn Clark

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A New Year’s Resolution

Posted on January 5, 2010 at 4:20 pm, by knitwit
in Category Knitting

Every year I think about the New Year’s Resolutions I want to make.  They are almost always in the same vein as most peoples’:  lose weight, exercise, break bad habits etc…I commit to each resolution with vigor and, as I’m sure many people have experienced, by the end of January my enthusiasm is waning, by Valentine’s day the resolutions are all but forgotten.  

This year, I thought I would try for one that I could perhaps realistically follow through with.  It’s simple really, I’m resolving to revive this dusty old blog.  At this time I am leaving some pretty broad parameters for revival:  I am committing to blogging at least twice a month.  Now that The Kiddo is old enough to play on his own for brief periods and he has decided that upstairs is his favorite place to play (and upstairs is where my computer resides), this goal should be an attainable one.  The Hubby has found me this wonderful new theme for said blog and I feel that he thus deserves to see his wife use it from time to time. 

I don’t know where this new blog may lead…I cannot promise that my posts will always be about knitting or will contain photos (which to me are the lifeblood of an interesting blog), or that this new blog won’t be continually saturated with anecdotes about my child and parenthood that will be interesting to no one but me, but it’s my blog, I can do with it what I choose!  I have written blog posts so often in the last year and a half, always imagining some distant reader perusing those words and becoming inspired or at least mildly interested, enough to come back and read the next post.  Now I think I will try to focus on writing for me.  It’s what’s most important anyway.  Should someone else decide to read this, then all the better.  I hope it will be enjoyable to anyone who would devote their time to it.

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My Future’s So Bright

Posted on April 28, 2008 at 6:32 pm, by knitwit
in Category Baby news, Knitting

I gotta wear……(you know the rest)

Shades
(I know how cool I am)

shades 2
(Cool…Joe Cool….)

 

 

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It just gets better!

Posted on April 22, 2008 at 8:44 am, by knitwit
in Category Baby news, Knitting

Not only did I NOT jinx it, but my sweet little guy slept 7 and 1/2 hours last night!!!  He must have known mommy was needing a good nights sleep. 

Now we can be all charged up for another day of exploring new things….

Hey, what's that?
(what the heck is that thing??)

Baby and Kitty
(Eddie says…Is that baby human still here???)

As a sidenote, I have no idea why my blog has lost all it's sidebar links and buttons and it's pages.  I'm not very happy about it and unfortunately don't have time to fix it.  The links shouldn't be too bad, but the pages would take a very long time to reconstruct so I have no idea if I will do that or not.  Maybe I'll just have to start with the current year of knitting (if I ever have time to knit again!) and just rebuild from there.  If Liam continues sleeping like this, I may be able to knit again someday instead of falling exhausted to the couch every time he naps!

 

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