Ramble On

I am so tired. I think I really messed myself up by staying up until 3:30AM to buy yarn on Cyber Monday. I was doing so well before that I was in bed every night by 11:30!

I felt nauseous most of the day, which happens to me when I don't get enough sleep. I was up until 2, got up at 6:30 got the kids off to school in a very bad down pour. I got home around 8:30 and took a nap with the baby until 10. When we got up the rain had turned into snow!

I had to pick the kids up at 1 (half day today) and I didn't even flip out about having to drive in the snow. This is a huge step for me. The roads were...not good but not too bad either, very slushy. I was grateful that the day was short and that I didn't have to go down the mountain any later than I had to. Got the kids home and we watched Rudolph together, and baked our first batch of Christmas cookies. I guess I did pretty good on a few hours of random sleep. I've found with my condition I need to have at least nine hours of straight sleep, which is hard to come by with small children and a very over active mind (mine) it takes me a while to get to sleep. So I guess I'll miss Top Chef All Stars but, thanks to my DVR I can watch it in the morning.

We made gingerbread houses, from a kit, of course. I'm not brave enough yet to try to bake them myself. Someday I'd like to try but this year it worked out fine. I found a kit that had five little houses instead of one big one, pretty perfect since there are five of us. Hubby is going to decorate his later on, he's down visiting some family. The kids stayed home because they were all in various stages of a cold.

I'm so glad that God granted me the ability to knit. I don't know how I would have gotten through the last couple of months with out it. It's a great distraction that actually accomplishes something.

I've finished knitting my mom's xmas sweater. It's been washed and blocked and the ends are woven in. Now I have to decide on the buttons.

Option one



Option two


Now I have to tell you that I'm emotionally attached to option two cause I made them, but I think I might like how option one looks better. The true color of the yarn is shown in the photos with the buttons laid out on it. Honestly I'm just glad that the knitting is done and I can cross this project off my list and move on to other ones that I'm not going to stress over the buttons! They'll get sewn on at some point between now and xmas eve.

As of this writing I have been awake since 7AM Tuesday morning. It is now nearly 5PM on  Wednesday.

My two year old has had a cold for the past couple of days, runny nose, normal stuff. Yesterday she started with a dry cough and by 7PM Tuesday night she was in full blown respiratory distress. We were doing nebulizer treatments every four hours through out the night and called the doctor in the morning. We took her in as she was officially diagnosed with asthma. We knew it was coming but it still felt like someone was stabbing me with a knife while I watched the doctor type the word into her chart.

She's on a round of steroids, breathing treatments every three hours, and we follow up in a week. Right now she's sleeping on the couch.

Here she is just two hours before she could not breathe play with my ipod. It's so scary how fast things can go from fine to very very bad. Hug your babies mamas.

November is going by too fast! I'm trying to get through my Christmas knitting which is going slowly compared to how fast (i feel) the month is going. Which doesn't make any sense but it is what it is.

Mom's sweater, one sleeve done and obviously unblocked.

A scarf for the bebe, the pink one is not pictured, which was for middle girlie. I was able to finish these in an hour respectively. I wish all my knitting was that quick!



A cupcake hat for my friend's little one. She's due Dec 7. I'm mailing it out tomorrow.



Yesterday I scanned a bunch of pictures of my mother, my aunts, and my grandmother as children. They are currently on a PDF file on my SD card and if I can figure out how to convert them to .jpg I'll post them here.