I’m leaving for 48 hours. Remember last year? I do have some knitting along, but for the most part, it’s going to be an Anka’s Treasures weekend. Yup! I’m quilting! One of the projects I want to do I can’t even show you, because Heather hasn’t published it yet. She gave me the pattern because I bugged her to death I’m so special.
And because I refuse to do a post without a photo, here’s some summer fun at our house. The middle one doesn’t belong to us.
See ya Monday!
This whole Olympic knitting thing still seems so surreal! I’ve had the Flirty Ruffles Shawl pattern for a couple years. I really wanted a classic black cashmere shawl that I’ll wear forever. Suddenly, I have one, and it only took 17 days.
I really hate photos of myself. I go over to Anne Hanson’s blog and look how svelte and classy she looks in her photo shoots. She has funky short hair and she models those shawls with panache!!! Oh, well. I have a black cashmere shawl!
My kids are still pretty bummed that all I got for a medal was a button on the sidebar of the blog. They thought I was getting a real gold medal!
Thanks to Kid 2 for the photo shoot. Usually I have her model and I take the pictures. I like that better!
I think startitis is threatening to hit again. What shall I knit next?
Honey’s birthday was yesterday. I won’t tell you how old he is!?!
He wanted pizza for his birthday dinner. I’m pretty sure he was just trying to be nice. He didn’t want me to cook a big meal in the middle of the first week of homeschooling! He insisted the pizza was really good.
I decided that rather than a birthday cake, we would try something new. We scored big. I made a Malted Milk Chocolate Cheesecake. Holy moley, rocky! It was wonderful. I served it with fresh whipped cream and crushed Whoppers!
Heaven!!! The only huge blessing problem is that there’s 3/4 of it left and it has a gazillion calories.
I’m so blessed to be married to the nicest, funniest guy in the world. I love you, honey, even though I fell asleep at 9:30 last night, and didn’t even have time to visit you after all of our loud, wild children went to bed. I actually went to bed with one of the loud, wild children.
I’m off to discuss Christopher Columbus with Kid 4, and to sort laundry. What I really want to do is start a new knitting project. Maybe tonight…
Two days of homeschooling down! It’s going very well. I’m enjoying it and Kid 4 is too, although she doesn’t think it’s cool to admit it!
We went to the park today, partly for entertainment purposes, and because I was trying to get a good shot of the Flirty Ruffles Shawl. It was too windy. This is all we got.
I’ll try again when the wind goes down. I blocked it last night and it’s huge. It’s 88 inches across the top. The cashmere got even softer when it was blocked. I love it!
My head hurts and I’m going to take a nap.
Oh, it’s Honey’s birthday today. I made a Milk Chocolate Malt cheesecake. It smelled so good here last night while it was in the oven. It looks amazing too. I’ll try to remember to take photos!
