Knitting, snow and flying dreams

Went to visit the in-laws this Saturday, as MIL just had an operation to replace her knee and is in much pain. I brought along my, and this deserves quotes, 'knitting' to show MIL as she is an extraordinary knitter and I wanted her to see that I was taking up the hobby. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but in doing so I think I cheered her up quite a bit. She has 4 sons and 1 daughter and the daughter crochets, but doesn't knit, and I am the first DIL who expressed an interest. She made my husband go get this gi-mungous box full of knitting needles and gave me a bunch of them - I know have 2 sets of needles (one big, one small) in every conceivable size. She also showed me how to 'purl' and 'bind off', gave me a book of patterns she just got and claimed to not like, and a pattern she had written down to make slippers. Which I am now attempting.

I'm doing pretty well, knitting-wise, if I do say so myself, and it was a nice little bonding moment with my MIL. She told me 'always keep your needles point down in your bag or I'll...haunt you.' hee.

We are getting snow today. Well SNOW, really, as it is the kind of storm that makes the news shows send their weather people to stand out in the cold to talk about how much it is snowing. Currently the story is we will be getting something like six to twelve inches before it is through. If I knew how to post sound on this thing, I'd regale you all with Charlie singing this song called 'Snow Day' because it is adorable. The lyrics start out thus: Woke up, can't believe my eyeballs/outside, everything is white/inside, listen to the radio/we're gonna have a snowball fight/'Cause it's a SNOW DAY! It is seriously adorable, especially at the end when he sings about building a snowman - I think I'll name him Phil. Phil?

Speaking of cute, Charlie apparently had a flying dream the other night, and it must have been really vivid, because he's still talking about it. Flying dreams are cool. There's this bit in Neil Gamain's Sandman where this little girl asks Morpheus about flying dreams, and if it is something people knew how to do once but have forgotten, and he responds 'in dreams we sometimes remember, when we wake we always forget.'

Knitting, snow and flying dreams

Went to visit the in-laws this Saturday, as MIL just had an operation to replace her knee and is in much pain. I brought along my, and this deserves quotes, 'knitting' to show MIL as she is an extraordinary knitter and I wanted her to see that I was taking up the hobby. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but in doing so I think I cheered her up quite a bit. She has 4 sons and 1 daughter and the daughter crochets, but doesn't knit, and I am the first DIL who expressed an interest. She made my husband go get this gi-mungous box full of knitting needles and gave me a bunch of them - I know have 2 sets of needles (one big, one small) in every conceivable size. She also showed me how to 'purl' and 'bind off', gave me a book of patterns she just got and claimed to not like, and a pattern she had written down to make slippers. Which I am now attempting.

I'm doing pretty well, knitting-wise, if I do say so myself, and it was a nice little bonding moment with my MIL. She told me 'always keep your needles point down in your bag or I'll...haunt you.' hee.

We are getting snow today. Well SNOW, really, as it is the kind of storm that makes the news shows send their weather people to stand out in the cold to talk about how much it is snowing. Currently the story is we will be getting something like six to twelve inches before it is through. If I knew how to post sound on this thing, I'd regale you all with Charlie singing this song called 'Snow Day' because it is adorable. The lyrics start out thus: Woke up, can't believe my eyeballs/outside, everything is white/inside, listen to the radio/we're gonna have a snowball fight/'Cause it's a SNOW DAY! It is seriously adorable, especially at the end when he sings about building a snowman - I think I'll name him Phil. Phil?

Speaking of cute, Charlie apparently had a flying dream the other night, and it must have been really vivid, because he's still talking about it. Flying dreams are cool. There's this bit in Neil Gamain's Sandman where this little girl asks Morpheus about flying dreams, and if it is something people knew how to do once but have forgotten, and he responds 'in dreams we sometimes remember, when we wake we always forget.'

Arugh. Just...Arugh

So for whatever reason Charlie was really fighting against doing his homework, and I had to take his Gamecube away because he was totally freaking out - its a long story. Anyway, He grabs his gameboy, and I was kind of in the middle of something, and wasn't really pushing it, and my husband grabbed the gameboy out of Charlie's very resisting hand and he broke the gameboy. So now of course Charlie is completely freaked out, I yell at husband because basically the reason the thing broke is because he, husband, lost his temper, and now I'm totally annoyed. Charlie said he wants a different daddy. He also said Daddy had to go to jail, which made me giggle.

Anyway, I think he's forgiving his daddy now, but I'm totally annoyed and trying not to start an argument with husband, so I just thought I'd vent here. Done now.

Arugh. Just...Arugh

So for whatever reason Charlie was really fighting against doing his homework, and I had to take his Gamecube away because he was totally freaking out - its a long story. Anyway, He grabs his gameboy, and I was kind of in the middle of something, and wasn't really pushing it, and my husband grabbed the gameboy out of Charlie's very resisting hand and he broke the gameboy. So now of course Charlie is completely freaked out, I yell at husband because basically the reason the thing broke is because he, husband, lost his temper, and now I'm totally annoyed. Charlie said he wants a different daddy. He also said Daddy had to go to jail, which made me giggle.

Anyway, I think he's forgiving his daddy now, but I'm totally annoyed and trying not to start an argument with husband, so I just thought I'd vent here. Done now.