Day 3

No, they won't all be pictures of my kids.

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Two: "mother...?"
Me: "...?" Omg, why is she calling me mother?
Two: "Mother?"
Me: "Yes, Daughter?"
Two: "What's brother doing."
Me: "Playing with my phone."
Two: "Where's father?"
Me: "Atlanta."
Two: (singing now) "Father. Mother. Sister. Brother. Issssissss!!! Faaaammmmaaaallleeeeeeee!!!"

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Wasted

2011 was a wasteful year for our family... Water, money, electricity, time... yarn. Food was a big one for us. My family wastes a lot of food. I chalk that up to my lack of any type of cookish skills. And the fact that I have no inner portion control, I would either make too much or not enough. We also eat too many packaged foods, but that is for another post. I am a firm non-believer in "New Years" resolution, but this year, I felt the shift toward a more conscious lifestyle for at least a few months. Starting in early November, I have had grandiose notions of cooking more, saving more, wasting less, working out, starting a container garden, walking the dog, meditating, playing outdoors with the kids more, reading to them more, yelling less... etc. At Solstice, I could feel the will to do these things growing, and a few days later 2012 started. And so, I have started. Started working out every day. Started taking a pic and posting it every day for 30 days. woot. I am going to live this year on purpose. This year is our year. Everything is changing. Everything is being reevaluated. I am so excited to be alive.

Day 2

Two cutting yarn for the Man Child. "He's gonna love these!"

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Day 1 of the 30 Day Photo Challenge

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Night Time Ramble...

I love the idea of falling asleep with the kids, but sometimes that just isn't the plan... I missed out on doing a ton of alone time cleaning and knitting because I fell asleep at 8:30 when I ought to have fought sleep and stayed up. So, because I fell asleep, I missed Two's (who is now 4!) night time pee and she wet her bed. Great. And I'm up, but I can't really do anything because the Man Child is a light sleeper to night, and I can't make this app work.

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Socks and Pattern Adaptation...

I need to stop improvising on patterns... There is this crazy need that comes over me everytime I see a pattern or a yarn I like, "oh, I can do what ever I want to this sweater pattern..." or in this case, socks... I thought if I just added a few stitches, I could make it work... right? well, I added 16 cast on stitches to make it a larger sock, and so far compensating the math for the number of stitches in the heel and the number of rows needed to work the heel and even turn the heel, but now... I can't get the math to add up for the gussets. The pattern says "needle 1- 19, needle 2- 24, needle 3- 19, so my math should work to be 1- 25, 2- 32, 3- 25. but it isn't working!!! i just want to knit a fucking suck. bastard knitting. you always come in so sweet and simple, "oh look at me, i'm a simple sock pattern, you can do it... oh go ahead and add some stitches to me, it'll be easy." because adapting sock patterns is everyone's drug, right?

oh, and it turns out that when a pattern says "s1 p1" the slipped stitch is in fact slipped purl wise. who knew?


edited to add: "HA!!! I fixed it! good thing i know how to count.