So a trip to the urgent care this evening found nasty infection in both Evelyn’s ears. Poor little butter bean. At least we dodged a co-pay by going today rather than tomorrow.
I was hopeful that we would get through Evelyn’s first year without any illness but I’m not so sure. She has a solid fever, isn’t eating or sleeping well, and is batting at her ear. With these symptoms, though, she could also be teething. She is lying on the floor snuggling with a skein of yarn (maybe it’s time for a nap, yes?). Scott has been sick, too, possibly from food poisoning. I guess it isn’t a good idea to eat a chicken salad sandwich that sits in your work bag for six hours.
We’ll see how the next few days unfold. I just started a stretch at work and I’m already looking forward to my next day off.
Things are quiet here. The baby is sleeping (so is the husband). No television or music or phone. Only the soft hum of the furnace and gentle breathing of the dog. I so enjoy my moments like this, especially after a hurried weekend, and wish I would have taken more advantage of them before we became three. Then again, I think I got more done because I didn’t have to pick up so many toys.
We had a joyful holiday with the family and we’re glad we got to spend time with them but we are looking forward to doing our own thing next year, when hopefully Scott has off. I hope you got to enjoy some quiet at this bustling time of year.
The winter solstice was a few days ago so the days are slowly getting longer but today there is an impending storm that is already closing area schools early. This has put a damper on my day but then there was salvation in the mail box.
The Jung seed catalog! Happiness and a light heart are mine. One hundred pages of glorious color, exuberance, and warmth. With the catalog in my hands I can almost feel the heat of July on my skin even as I look out onto the two feet of snow that blankets my deck.
And I have found love in this new Vanilla Strawberry hydrangea. I do adore hydrangeas and can’t wait until April for it to be mine!
Scott and I have to work over part of the holiday and Evelyn was going to go stay with my family tomorrow night. However, my mom was out shopping today and stopped by our house and decided it would be easier if she just took her back today. The dog also went along. So the husband and I are just working on getting projects done in our nice quiet house. I think he has be trying to read a forty page book for three days and keeps getting interrupted. I have gifts to cook and make and laundry to do.
I would really like to make myself a necklace. I have a beautiful crab agate pendant to use or perhaps these delicate vintage Japanese glass rings. One can only hope.
So the baby blanket that I was knitting got frogged and I started over. I made a very tiny mistake on the seed stitch border and it was bugging the heck out of me. I was going to let it slide then a few rows later I ended up with a missing stitch so I ripped it back to the beginning. I don’t think I’ll have this done by Friday but we’ll see.
I spent a good chunk of the weekend designing my holiday cards. I finally got them printed off yesterday and mailed off today. I really like how they turned out but the colors definitely looked different on my computer. Oh well, they’re in the mail so tough cookies. I’ll share them with you later this week.
I got this accomplished in the midst of our furnace not working. I woke on Sunday morning at about 7:30 and the thermostat read ten degrees colder that what it was set for. Th heating guy came out and had it fixed in no time (when he made it here after noon). The ignition element had burned out and needed to be replaced. I’m just glad something was actually wrong and the guy didn’t come out to tell us a switch wasn’t flipped or something stupid like that.
Okay- I’m spending too much time blabbing and it’s eating into my knitting time. K thnx bye.
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The year is quickly coming to a close and it will soon be time to start fresh with the new one. This means a new calendar is in order! Here are my favs from etsy:
1. 2010 Graphics Calendar 2. Forget-me-not bows 3. Animal Pastimes 4. Cabin and Cub desk calendar 5. Paris is for Lovers 6. Wiley Valentine letterpress 7. Teeny tiny calendar 8. The Polaroids 9. An Apple a Day
I have about twenty more in my favorites list. I might have to buy three instead of just one.
I didn’t want to put up a tree this year. I didn’t last year and it was great. I have come to despise seasonal decorating. I just don’t like pulling things out, putting them up , and then putting them away and hauling it all back up to the attic. This all culminates with the tree. So much work. Not to mention my white tree turned brown in the attic so it will have to find it’s way to the curb.
They are so pretty, though. So I thought I would put up a little three foot white tree on my kitchen table. I brought out one tub of decorations and set it up. Now I hate it and it is giving me an anxiety attack. Maybe its just the ornaments on it- red, aqua, pink, and light green. Ornaments don’t really hold any meaning for me. I don’t look at them and think “Oh, that one is from when we bought our first house!” or ”That when is from when you got your jeep stuck on the snow bank at the mall parking lot because there were no other parking spots left! LOL!”. I hold these memories in my heart and they don’t need to be cast in resin for me to recall them. I guess I’m just not that sentimental about those kinds of things and that’s probably why Scott and I have been together this long (14 years this month!) but I’ll save the marriage advise for another day. Because of this lack of attachment to my decorations I used to switch things up. One year my ornaments were all gold and brown, the next year it was a classic combo with silver, red, and green. The past few years my decorations have been very sweet, literally, with cupcakes and candy and cookies. That’s not where I am this year and I think that’s what is making me anxious.
Maybe I’m feeling this way because my house isn’t where I would like it to be, style wise. I’ve had a very hard time honing in on what I like. I’m drawn to an eclectic vintage modern feel, if that makes any sense, but I also like the feel of and old stone house dressed all in white with bits of color here and there. Sort of a Scandinavian look. Then again, a vintage apothecary science lab would be awesome. I think I just need more than one house to suit my different moods! I know I’ll slowly get to a comfortable place that I’m happy with because I really like my little house, it just isn’t put together well. Maybe someday I’ll drag everything out onto the lawn and start from scratch. Use what I absolutely love and edit with a ruthless eye. For now I’ll just put up lots of twinkle lights to distract me. Ah, shiny.
