I am starting to remember why I quit working (outside the house) last time.
As I mentioned before, snot is flying. I have been trapped in the house with whiny sick children since last Friday. That I could handle (sort of), but I still have work to do. No problem – I work from home part [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Working mother whine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mothering, parenting, sickness, working, working mothers on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Snot
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There is copious amounts of it flying around this house. Maya and Asher are both sick with this horrible, nasty virus decimating the population of their school. They keep sneezing and coughing, and Maya keeps wiping her nose, wiping and wiping on kleenex after kleenex and then leaving them in little piles wherever she’s been. [...]
Guess which foot is warm?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just guess:
I’m not kidding. The hand-knit sock foot is warm and toasty. The store-bought sock foot is cold, despite the fact that it is an expensive, supposed-to-be-warm sock. This is the solution to second-sockitis – I want two warm feet.
Sock Two, or not
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boredom, knitting, non-knitters, patience, socks, toe-up on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love knitting socks, but I love sock #1 much much more than I love sock #2. Sock #1 is new and interesting, but #2 is just the same thing. BTDT (“been there, done that,” for the less internet savvy reading this).
I know that non-knitty people believe that knitters must be very patient (I know [...]
A Small Whine
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged illness on January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am ill today. The problem with my job and being ill is that the newsletter I send out every Friday does not go away for illness. Deadlines for open houses and things do not get moved. It’s like being back in university when being sick got you nothing but less time to do the [...]
Power Corrupts? Absolutely
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, Kids, sibling rivalry, siblings on January 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, Maya was being very eldest child and amusing herself by manipulating her siblings. She had a loot bag with something pink and shiny inside, and told them that whoever did what she said would win it. She then proceeded to order them to tell her how marvelous, magnificent and superior she was.
Asher quickly decided [...]
The Cutest Baby Ever*
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged babies, children, cute, old photos on January 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
* Version One
When we had Maya, we were convinced she was the cutest baby in the universe. J honestly felt badly for the other parents who had their babies at the same time, because when they went to pick up their newborns in the hospital nursery, they’d spot Maya and be jealous.
Years later, we looked [...]
Handy-dandy Israel boycotting guide
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boycott, boycott Israel, Israel, Israeli, videos on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I found this convenient guide to boycotting all Israeli products here on youtube (and figured out how to embed it into my blog – yay me!):
Back to the socks!
Sock fun
Posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Back in September, I posted a photo of a toe-up sock I had started to knit. It then sat there, just a toe, until a couple days ago. Last night, I figured out the heel, thanks to a great video on youtube. So I’m in the home stretch. It looks like this right now:
(I took [...]
I like Juice
Posted in Uncategorized on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been kind of preoccupied around here with the situation in Gaza. I have some pretty strong opinions on the topic, but in truth nothing new or likely interesting to anyone else, so I’m not going to rant. I’ll just post a couple of editorial cartoons that appeared in our city paper, and a photo [...]
