oh hell yeah!

  ooh! well, that’s teensy. you get the idea.
tomorrow. so excited! 
yes, we are coming off an unintended 5 day weekend. crazy weather. cuh-razy!
and i loved every minute of it.
sewed.
knit.
cooked.
baked.
did laundry (ok, didn’t so much love that part)
and tomorrow we go back. the kids will be good, they are always low key after an extended break. they [...]

yesterday came suddenly

yesterday:
went to chicago with dan
saw the oscar mayer weiner wagon 
stopped at arcadia knitting
might have bought yarn (amnesia, you know)
stepped in a snow drift up to my thighs (no choice)
did not take pics of any of the above.
went to natalie and tony’s house
saw this cute boy:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
gave him knitting toys to play with:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
watched him try to skate [...]

grocery store adventure and some finished objects

i don’t know if it’s a common thing elsewhere, but our local grocery stores hire mentally challenged people as baggers. other than the fact that they are generally kinder than most employees, nothing is unusual about it.
until today.
the man bagging my groceries was singing a song of his own composition. it went a little something [...]

titles are over-rated

 
i’m not sure what was going on here, but chances are good lily was schooling teno about something or other. the scarf she is wearing is just like the one i made for my second graders. the girls got the pink dots and boys got navy with dinosaurs. oh, they loved them. i was the [...]

it was a love/hate kinda day here at chez knittah.
i love to shop, but i hate that it takes all day. i still need so many little things for the house, but trying to navigate an over-filled cart (a folding chair takes up a LOT of room. who knew?) around the browsers at homegoods was [...]

It’s a Marshmallow World in the Winter

when the snow comes a tumblin’ down
and the sun is red
like a pumpkin head
i dream about it all year long…
yes, it’s official.
i am a nutball.
i LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the snow.
love!
and you know one of the very coolest things about teaching second graders? i am not a weirdo.
they love it as much as i do.
my elementary school music [...]

what the hell is this about?

i’d be eternally grateful if someone can explain it all to me. tell me why/how people can be so ignorant.
tonight i went to best buy to do a little holiday shopping. at the checkout counter, i handed the nice enough (albeit ignorant) young man my reuseable bag. you’d think i’d handed him a two-headed rubber [...]

a renegade christmas

i had a good day. it started out not so good. i picked up nina and we headed to the city to go to the renegade holiday craft fair with natalie, her mom in law, sis in law and a friend and her mother.  (got all that?) we got about a half hour from home [...]

urkel-nomically correct

mwaaahaaaa. i’m a week late in the thankful bloggage, but i am definitely most grateful for the office. sweet godzilla, it makes me laugh so much. and i’m not a LOL at the tv kinda gal. 
i’m also forever indented to the DVR. especially now. miss lily grace (aka LG) is here for a while, and [...]

i’m about half way under the weather today. i came home from school at the half way point, and have done next to nothing all day. i have to be good to go tomorrow. i have a very important meeting about a very sweet little 8 year old. i have to be there. too many [...]