Wow

I took my measurements today and I am down another 5.75 inches for a total of 13.75"! Since the scale isn't moving much it's very reassuring to keep track of my measurements.

June 25

Let's see, spent last weekend in Atlanta with my brother and his wife. Had a lot of fun. I finished a baby afghan for a baby shower, with one week's notice. Now I'm working on an afghan for a neighbor who's baby came this week. The toddler-ghan has not been worked on due to the baby afghans, but I'm hoping to get it finished while we visit J's family; there's not much else to do in SD.

zoom on detail of toddler-ghan 

Toddler ghan is now 22" long 

Only one sick person left

Just our nine year old is sick now, he's got a stomach virus...poor kid.

WW: weighed in and am down another pound. I have been diligent about working out daily. Taped a cardio-kickboxing workout off of FitTV and it's one heck of a workout. I sweat for 20 minutes after my shower!

My two year old's afghan is coming along well. It's 22" long and I think I'll keep going until it's about 40" to give her good coverage. I included a close up of the pattern. It's easy knitting and I don't have to count stitches!

I have received most of my squares for the masculine swap, only 9 left to come. I may put it together for ds because I've not made him an afghan yet.

Not a good reason to get a lot of knitting done....

Yesterday afternoon J kept getting worse, so I called the on-call doc and was told to take him to the ER. He was dehydrated to the point his kidneys were causing him back pain. They gave him saline, pain meds, and IV antibiotics, after three and a half hours I brought him home. I must have gotten a good 6 inches of knitting done on dd's afghan while at the hospital and it measures 13" long now.

For WW progress: I measured myself and since 4/10 I'm down 6.75". I have been working out at least 4 days a week using either the Walk Away the Pounds 2 mile DVD or The Firm (ouch).

HAM heart afghan for 6yo DD, 2/2004 

Toddler-ghan for dd 

Calgon, take me away

J is not recovering well from his strep. He started meds on Friday and still has a fever, throat is very sore and he's a typical man (big baby). All three girls have fevers, so it's just G and I that are not sick. Couldn't make it to church, so they had to fill my teaching spot for Sunday School and we have no idea who (or if) they found to play piano.

Okay, finally figured out how to get my pictures to show up. I have several more rows on the lavender toddler-ghan for my 2yo done. The heart HAM was made for my 6yo in hopes she would give up her 'lovey' from her baby days to help her stop thumb-sucking (I think she's finally stopped, which is good since she just lost her first tooth).

Yes, it's Friday

The blanket for dd is progressing nicely. I got two more pattern repeats finished since I took this picture, I'm liking the pattern and it's mindless. Ok, can't post the photo since bloggerbot is down right now, will try later.

Tonight J and I are supposed to go out for our anniversary, which is tomorrow. But he's up at the doctor now because he thinks he's got Strep again. Yuck. Plans may have to change (isn't that like us?). Right now the Scott Joplin Ragtime festival is going on here and since we are close to downtown all of the tourists have to park in front of my house (lucky me).

Life's Curve Balls

Well, dh (J) is beginning ESY (Special education extended school year). It seems as though he is going to be passed over for the Process Coordinator position, mainly due to the fact that the Director of SpEd has no clue as to what she's doing. All of the other process coordinators want J in the position but this stupid woman is dragging her feet. But, J found out the Group Home that he used to be the 'Q' for inquired if he'd like the job back. He called and today takes his CPR class, that just leaves First Aid and he's set for working alone with the guys again. The pay is even better than the raise would be for the coordinator position and it's stress-free. Now, watch him get offered the process coordinator job!

I started a blanket for my 2yo's bed. Started on size 7 needles, but the weave was too tight. Instead of starting over, I worked in onto size 9 needles after two repeats of the pattern; I'll just do two repeats at the end back on the 7's. I think I'll just use the lavender baby yarn and keep it solid; I've got plenty of lavender. I'll post a photo tomorrow.

I weighed in at WW last night and am down another 1.2lbs. So far 15 pounds lost.

Is it Tuesday already?

I finished all of my squares last night and they are ready to mail. I actually found a little time already today to work on my garter stitch shawl. It's probably only 1/4 finished, it's going to take some time.

I have my weigh in for Weight Watchers tonight. I sure hope I get more results than half of a pound. My progress photos are here http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pridemom_99/my_photos