Half of a pair done

Why is it so easy to get one sock done and so hard to get the second one done. I'm actually not that far away from finishing the second one, it just seems to have taken longer. This pair is being made with yarn that had originally been an almost finished sweater for me. It is Patagonia cotton in color 204. Nice and easy on size 8's. The first pair was finished in 4 hours time and the second one will probably take twice that amount, simply don't have the peace and quiet that I had while knitting the first one. Imagine that!!!

The boys both had fevers most of the weekend, really mainly only Jared, he is all better now and has no lingering symptoms such as snot or anything else disgusting, he just fought it all off. Nathan is getting over yet another cold, poor thing missed school yesterday and this week is Spirit Week for him, he missed Backwards day. That was Jared's favorite day. Tomorrow is Color day, he has to wear blue and green and then Friday is Pajama Day. I'm sure they will all go over very well with him.

Here is a lazy picture of Nathan all snuggled up warm on the couch, he had just closed the blinds because he said he wanted to rest, so cute.

Just a bit of an update

I've been a total slacker lately, not a slacker in life things, but just in posting to the blog. I've been busy with the boys and their illnesses and then also watching my niece Lily and playing taxidriver to the boys and Madisson as well. It has been a lot of fun with all of them, but it doesn't leave me a second to update the blog during the day. Nathan is being quasi good right now and Lily is sleeping so I'm trying to get this thing caught up as quick as I can.

Here is a quick pic of her.



We played in the leaves, pretty pathetic pile of leaves in the backyard, don't ya think?? The neighbors actually have a much better leaf pile so we played over there yesterday, but those photos are locked away in my phone. I probably have to read the manual in order to get them out of there.



I've been trying to get the kids to even remotely cooperate so I can get a couple of new pictures of them, there is little to no cooperation going on, but there are some really cute faces coming out of the attempts.



Nathan got pretty sick last week, originally thought it was a stomach bug that was going around, but after day 3 we took him to Urgent Care (because isn't that always what you end up having to do) and finding out that he had a nasty case of Strep. It took a shot in the rear and another antibiotic to get rid of it. We did find out that he loves Almond Milk. His tummy wasn't loving milk after all that it had been through, so we gave this a try and he loves it.

Oh, and I finished a pair of socks for Sock a Month Knit-a-long 5 (SAM5) for January. Jared had requested a pair of socks for himself, so here they are. I made them a bit longer in the foot so that he could grow and they would still fit, he loves them. Of course I didn't end up getting them done in time for Silly Sock Day last friday. But when did I find out about Silly Sock day, ON THURSDAY.




So that catches me pretty much back up to date.