Murphy's Law states the following:
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Also, all the sweaters Laura knits for Hazel will be at least 2 sizes too big.
You may think that I added that last bit. Well, it's always been there, but no one cared because it didn't make sense until I started knitting sweaters for Hazel and they all turned out HUGELY HUGE.
I woke up with a goal in mind. Today, yes TODAY, I was going to finish up this proposal/research paper that has been hanging over my head like a guillotine. The word limit was 3000-5000 words, and I have had 1300 words (all appendices and the introduction) finished for weeks now. Research is piling up on my desk, with tons of notes and outlines, but I have been sitting behind the biggest writer's block of the century. Add to that a sick baby for a week, meaning she stayed at home with me rather than go to the sitter, and my work time/desire has been shot. Until last night, when I just shook myself and said, "Tomorrow. DO IT TOMORROW."
Trust me when I say that you only slept for 15 minutes. It's not time to get out of the crib. You are supposed to sleep for 2 whole hours. I know how to read a clock; you don't, yet. I love you, but I am not going to consider your job as "baby" fulfilled until you nap the remaining hour and 45 minutes.
I am sick. Hazel is sicker. Amos is not (lucky dude!). So this will be quick fast like lightening!
Here are two fun videos to start the week nicely. The first I took right around Halloween, on the 27th I believe. Hazel is so adorable.
Oh yeah - this is what I was getting to in that last post. Duh!
- Pumpkin hat for Lindsay Done! 11.06.09
- Purple scarf for Olivia Done! 11.03.09
- Red dress for Hazel
- Clapotis for Granny -- YARN BOUGHT!!
- The extra somethingsomething for Emma -- YARN BOUGHT! DONE!! 11.06.09
- Extra thing for Hazel 11.07.09
- Finish the huge baby bedspread for Hazel (or take that on the trip - yeah do this option)
- Maybe some baby pants with the gold/orange leftover yarns?
- 2 Christmas dishcloths
That's right bro - it's officially Christmas season up in this mother!!! Why? I'll be happy to tell you! I made full-on caffeine coffee today!!!
- We live in NY.
- Most of the people I buy gifts for do not.
- That means each gift involves extra time & money for shipping and strategic (wrinkle-free) packing.
- That also means we travel every Christmas.
- We don't like the snow.
- So, we leave ASAP in December and come back ALAP.
A few more fall photos, this time from the village green in Clinton; these were extremely difficult to take, since I had a one-year-old who was kind of walking by herself (but not really, for whatever reason this morning) and a purse slung over my back. So, they aren't the greatest, but the trees are pretty.