Merry Christmas!

From my family to yours...



Take some time to enjoy your families! I'll see you next week!

Wordless Wednesday - Christmas baking

Hoodies are of the devil

There have been many, many late nights.

Hand cramps.

Trips to JoAnn's.

Some learning.

Some crying.

Lots of doubting.

And recently, some evil laughs.

But finally...


I'm done! I'm wrapping these puppies and that's the last time I ever want to touch a hoodie.

And I better see my nieces and nephew wearing these constantly for the next 2 years.

On a different note though, the only other time I've felt such accomplishment was crossing the 5K finish line.

Superman wants me to knit him an ugly Christmas sweater for next year.

We'll see.

Not Me Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Even though I'm not prepared for this week at all, I'm not so glad last week is over. We were not gone 4 of the 5 week nights. The kids and a mommy got a little crabby! During all the craziness, I was not up knitting until 2am two nights in a row. But I did not finish my Christmas hoodies yesterday! I think Superman thought I was a little nuts when I finished the 2nd one and gave a loud evil laugh. Now I am not knitting a quick afghan for Christmas!

We don't have so much to do this week too. I'm so excited about Christmas but kind of not looking forward to more knitting, baking, wrapping, packing and traveling. I'm not so ready to just relax a little.

And I don't think I'll make y'all wait a couple days to see the hoodies! Mwahaha! (maybe I have lost my mind a little?!)

Saturday Cell Phone Mosaic

Happy Saturday. This is going to be short and sweet.

We slept in this morning and missed our chance to go to the chiropractor. We felt really bad because he just had us over for dinner last night and was expecting us this morning. But we got around and ready to take Peanut to the eye dr for her yearly exam. We just started trying out the Wal-mart vision center so I left Superman in there with the kids to handle the eye appt. while I finished the last of the Christmas shopping. I got it out to the car and met up with them just in time to pay for Peanut's new glasses. Hopefully she'll get them before we leave next week.

After that we came home, had some lunch and I've been knitting ever since. I want these hoodies done. I'm tired of hoodies. I finished the final one and started getting ready to put the zipper in. I got the zipper pinned and ready to sew in and it honestly took my breath away. Not trying to toot my own horn, but I could not believe I actually made something like that. You'll see the pic with the zipper pinned in. Then I went to unzip the zipper. And I started crying. I've already bought zippers two or three different times because of colors and/or size changes and now I realized every single zipper I've bought does not separate at the bottom. They were for purses/pockets. Superman was napping and I woke him up crying, ready to give up. But he's so great, he gathered the kids, gave me a pep talk and took me to JoAnn's to find the right zippers. We picked up some supper and here we are.

Now, I need to get back to work. These hoodies WILL BE FINISHED TONIGHT. Or I might have a bigger meltdown.

From December 19, 2009

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