Well, I've recovered from the flu I had last week and so far (finger's crossed) nobody else in my family has even shown signs of symptoms yet. Pheewww!!
Onto some good news. I started working at Shoppers again here in Owen Sound. I already have BIG plans for my first paycheck. I was in fiber heaven today!! I took a very short walk across the river to my LYS Riverside Yarns here in Owen Sound (literally a 2 min walk from my work, this could be baaaad). I had always wanted to take a look in the store but just never got down there on my short visits home. They had quite a variety of yarns, but not near as much as Julie's store in Ancaster. Okay, on with the BIG plans here. LOL I will go back and treat myself to something yarnarifick at the store! What I really fell in love with though (and they don't sell it at the store) is Dream in Color Starry in Dusky Aurora. I'm thinking Ishbel in this colourway would be amazing. My other big plans for my paycheck (along with paying bills) is a bag of socks. I know, how fun eh? But I seem to be at an all time low of socks in my drawer right now. It's pretty bad and I need them for work.
Well, I'm off to bed now. I've worked everyday this week except Monday and I'm off this weekend (with mad amounts of laundry to take care of), hoooray!

November already?

We are settling into our new place in Owen Sound. It's taking some time but it is coming along. I can hardly believe it's already been a month since we've been here. It actually seems longer to me. It's been so rainy and miserable these days, I'm guessing that might have something to do with it. The knitting has been a slow go, although I did manage to get one of the monkey socks for Amanda done (I just need to graft the toe). I'm having a hard time finding my groove in the new place. I was down with the flu last week and didn't do much of anything, I was in bed for 3 full days with an on and off fever, headache, body ache and stupid cough. I'm feeling a little better now but I still have a cough, my chest hurts a little and I get tired easy, coming around though.

The girls had a good Halloween even though it was a chilly one Paisley went out as my Rock & Roll Vampire and Rowan as my little parrot. Although she wasn't very impressed with Halloween at first, Rowan even went to at least a dozen houses with the help of Ron and I. Paisley and my nephew Lucas could have went out a little longer then the little one's, but we called it a relatively short night.
Paisley seems to be adjusting nicely to her new school. It's just a little weird for me because I went there when I was in public school. She even has my french teacher as her teacher this year, only for the morning though because she teaches french in the afternoon. She has a different teacher for the afternoon but my brother had her when he went there, so strange. Most of the teachers that taught there when I was young are gone now but there are still a few. Paisley even met a little friend in her class who conveniently lives in our building and on the same floor, so we've had a few play dates to compensate for the crappy weather we've been having.
The picture at the top is a view from my balcony and it was taken only 2 weeks ago. There are no leaves on that poor tree now.
I got a job at Shopper's Drugmart again, I go in tomorrow. It'll be nice having some extra money with Christmas coming just around the corner (yes, I said it.......Christmas).
That's about all that is new right now. I'll will try and get on here and post more often!!!

Adorable!

Just a quick post to share my neat find. I went to Michael's today with my crafty neighbour Amanda
because she was looking for Halloween ideas and outside they had all their 2010 calendars for $1.50. Any how, I couldn't resist the "Funny Farms" calendar, too cute!

I know...it seems like forever since I've last blogged. My lack of blogginess is due to the fact that I've been preoccupied with other things these days.
My big baby started Grade 1 last Tuesday (all day). So far so good, she seems to like it. I think she had a bad day yesterday though because she said she sucked at everything, no body wanted to play with her at recess and she didn't want to go to school again. *LOL* It seems funny now, but I kind of felt a little bad for her when she was telling me it all. It's cute though.
As I have probably mentioned in previous posts, Rowan is on the move and boy does she move. She's all over place and keeps me on my feet most of the time. She's started climbing ALL of the furniture including the desk (I could not possibly blog if she were awake right now because she'd be pressing all the keys) and the kitchen table (she climbs up onto the chairs and then up on to the table from there). It's madness! I don't remember Paisley being such a monkey (although she was one, she's wasn't nearly this bad). We've been enjoying our summer (finally) with all this sunny and warm weather we've been having and spending alot of time outdoors exploring. I took some pictures of her yesterday doing just that and modelling a sundress set that Rhonda for Paisley when she was a baby. The girls are so luck to have such a talented Gramma. I kept this outfit just incase I had another little girl and I'm so glad we got to wear it again. :-)

I have been knitting. I've been working away at the no purl Monkey socks and finished one. I also picked up regular Monkeys that I started probably over a year ago. They were supposed to be a present for my good friend/crafty neighbour Amanda. Unfortunately they got put down because I didn't do my usual heel and ended up not liking them. Well since I'm on a bit of a Monkey kick now and familiar with the pattern again I ripped back to where I started the heel and re-did it and now I'm well on my way to finishing this sock too. I'm still working on the Shawl Collared Baby Sweater for my niece's Christmas gift but I have to rip out my 3 needle bind off because I mixed up the fronts. ***insert swear word here*** No, I wasn't not at all pleased about this, but I supposed I should have been paying more attention. Needless to say this is why I've picked up the socks for now as a small break from the sweater.

Summer Craziness

Last week the girls and I were away for the week in Owen Sound visiting my family. The week was full of events and the girls were busy and the bonus was that I still had time to work on a sweater for my little Robobee. Last Monday I cast on for the Shawl Collered Baby Sweater that Rhonda designed. It was a really quick knit, very straight forward to follow and extremely cute. It took me just one week to finish it and all I need is some nice buttons for it now. The pattern is available to purchase on Ravlery if anyone is interested. I can't wait to try it on Rowan and get a picture of her in it!!

As well as the knitting that took place as I said we were busy. My brother's girlfriend Genna and my sister were planning a surprise party for my little brother (who turned 20 today, Happy Birthday Chris) so we were running around all week getting things together for the party that was this past Saturday (Aug. 1st). He was suspicious of us though as we were doing quite a bit of sneaking around as well as a few minor slip ups during the week. The party went off as planned at around 5 on Saturday. He thought the party was for my parents anniversary which was on Sunday, so he was told to take them out of the house for the afternoon. Needless to say he was very surprised and enjoyed himself. He deserved it too, I couldn't ask for a better brother. The poor guy broke his cheek bone earlier that week at a baseball game. He took a fastball pitch to the side of the face. Luckily he was wearing a helmet or it could have been much worse. He had an emergency CT scan the next day just as a precaution and he actually broke it in 3 places right were all the bones in your face meet. He saw a specialist afterwards, and luckily he will not need corrective surgery and just time to heal the bones.

On Thursday my sister and I took the kids to Sauble Beach. Although it was cooler, the water was still quite nice once you got in and Rowan LOVED it. She didn't want to get out when it was time to leave.

Also, an unexpected turn of events. My brother works at Coca Cola in Owen Sound and it just so happened that they were looking for a truck driver at their branch and he told his boss about Ron and how he has his A-Z licence and his boss wanted Ron to come in to talk, so on Friday when Ron came up he went over and got a job offer for more that what he is making now at the company he's currently working for in Oakville and he took it. It's defiantly a great opportunity for him and he starts next Monday too. So for now, until we can find place, Ron will be staying at my parents and coming home on weekends to help me pack. It seems surreal right now though, I can't believe I'm moving back. It'll be weird, it's such a small city in comparison to Hamilton but it'll be a nice place to raise the girls.

Tears were shed here back in Hamilton with the unexpected news. I will miss my friends and family that I have here terribly but at the same time I am excited to be closer to my family and they have a LYS Riverside Yarns which I will be checking out ASAP. I am beyond nervous though because I don't deal with change well and there is so much to do in the next 2 months that I have left our place here.

I will try to keep my blog updated on everything that's going on here. :-)

Battered, Bruised & Pink...

Last week I started a Flower Power Elephant. It was supposed to be for one of my nieces but Paisley decided she wanted a pink elephant and decided it was for her. He/she only had all but 2 legs missing as of last night so on this rainy Wednesday evening I decided to make him/her other 2 legs. My poor Paisley fell tonight and smacked her face on the asphalt. I heard her crying from outside, so I ran to the door to find her bloody which freaked me out (I tried to stay calm). I guess she fell so hard she made her nose bleed. I think she's going to be bruised up, the nose is already starting. I was frightened at first that she may have broke her nose when she first came in. My nose was broken when I was 11 and I had to have surgery to brake it back in place. She seems fine now though, snoozing away beside me here, I'm hoping the fact that her elephant's finished and with her in the morning when she wakes up will make her smile. I felt so bad for her tonight.

So here I am still awake, I wanted to keep an eye on her and besides that I'm trying to finish up Ron's laundry that is in the dryer so he has some clean clothes tomorrow. I think I'll be able to go to bed soon though, I can't wait for that stuff to be dry and I can bring in up in the basket and put it on the table for him. Tomorrow I will fold and put away (did I mention how much I HATE putting laundry away?).

Back to the Elephant. I knit it on 4mm needles because I used some worsted weight yarn, just some left over knit picks swish (in bubblegum pink) that I had left over from the pinwheel sweater I made. Next time, I think I'll knit it a bit tighter on smaller needles, maybe 3 1/4mm.

What a cool summer so far, and very wet. I'm hoping next week will bring just a little bit warmer temperatures and maybe a little mores sun. The girls and I are going to be staying up at my parent's in Owen Sound for the week and I'd like to go to Sauble Beach with them and my sister and her kids for the afternoon. Whatever the weather though, I'm sure we/they will have fun.

Flower Power Elephant Love

She's been carrying it around for days now. She really loves this little elephant her Aunt Valerie made her for Easter. I catch her hugging, cuddling and dragging it all over the house. I think I'm going to have to make a few for my 2 nieces and my nephew. The pattern is a free ravelry pattern called Flower Power Elephant.

Well, that's all I have to post for now. My knitting always tends to get a little slower in the summer. I'm still plugging away at the blanket though. Maybe I'll start an elephant tonight.....