Cleaning out the old house and it’s been easier than I expected. It feels good just to have finally gotten started.
Here’s my WIP Wednesday offering:
Leaf Lace Socks
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
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The one where I reached grandma
nirvana these past few days. Mr. Iknead and I had both our grandbabies over the weekend. The Papoose is fascinated with Baby Harper; she was very nurturing (for an almost two year old), wanted to hold her and help change her, it was really sweet. Now, how it’s going to be when her new brother or sister comes along in October we don’t know, hopefully she’ll be at least a little accustomed to having a baby around.
Do I have the most precious babies on the planet?
We are truly blessed!
And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. Paul McCartney
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The one where I’m back
at work after being off sick for two weeks. I’ve never, ever been away from work for this long, except for maternity leave many, many, many moons ago. Overall, I’m glad to be back, I mean, really, how much Martha Stewart and Paula Deen can one take? The cause of this unintentional “vacation” was a bad flare of my ischemic colitis, the worst ever. This has been a chronic thing for me, but it’s becoming more and more difficult for me to manage and it’s been taking me a lot longer to bounce back when I do have an attack. But, I’m feeling better, am back at work, and am going to try to take an easy walk when I get home. Looking forward to that.
A couple of hours later….I got an easy 45 minute walk in after work, it felt terrific. I think I’m hooked on endorphins, I can definitely tell a difference in my mood/attitude for the better when I get some exercise.
Here’s a look at my two precious baby girls together for the first time –
Susannah and Harper getting acquainted. This picture makes my heart sing.
Kind words do not cost much. the never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their on image on men’s souls and a beautiful imjage it is. Blaise Pascal
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To Share Is Human
The one where the baby watch
To say that the past week has been over the top excitement wise would be putting it lightly. Baby Harper arrived
At 3:30 pm Thursday, 3-29-11, weighing in at 7 lbs. 1 oz. and 19 1/2 in. She gave us quite a scare, dropping her heart rate and was delivered thru emergency c-section. Beautiful and pink and screaming her head off. Baby mama and baby are fine, learning their way around breast feeding and learning the magic of sleep for baby mama and baby daddy. So, it’s all good, right?
Now the second part of the excitement:
Saturday morning, I had a severe flare of an old problem. I have ischemic colitis and got really sick really fast so I got an up close and personal view of the inside of an ambulance. I’m in the hospital still, on full colon rest (for the uninitiated, that means nothing to eat or drink – 5 days now) but the good news is that I get to keep me colon for now. Like I said – it’s all good!
Sorry no baby pics, posting from my iPhone. I’ll get baby daddy to post when he comes to see me today.
It’s all good.
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The one where the wait
goes on for Baby Harper. DDIL (Babymama) has an appointment at 3:30 this afternoon with her OB and I’m thinking Baby Harper will be here by Friday, at the latest. (Insert Carly Simon’s Anticipation here.) Wow, that just dated me big time. I don’t care, I’m a 55 year old grandma and proud of it! Really liking grandma thing, gotta admit.
See you soon Baby Harper!
Speak silver, reply gold. Swahili proverb
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The one where we continue to stand
baby watch. Every morning I say to myself, “Today’s the day, I’m sure of it” and then every night I tell myself, “It’s going to happen tonight, I just know it”. But Mr. Iknead and I, not to mention Babymama and Babydaddy, are getting so excited, it’s hard to think about anything else. All in good time, I know.
I tried out a new recipe Sunday from my new Sarabeth’s Bakery cookbook, Maple Walnut Muffins, and my official taste testers (really just whoever I can capture at that moment) give it a resounding thumbs up. Very tasty, not too sweet. A success. Here’s a pic of one of the muffins with my current WIP sock sharing the stage-
The sock pattern is Circle Socks, courtesy of a free Rav pattern download.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off til tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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The one where it’s baby Harper’s due date and the Swirl
blanket is finished. Now all we’re doing is reciting “patience is a virtue, patience is a virtue, patience …….”. Here’s the blanket, if I was just a couple inches taller, I could get the whole thing in the frame –
Ready anytime you are, Harper. Love you so much!
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The one where the baby watch
continues. No, DS and DIL are still waiting. Her official due date is 03/23, she’s on maternity leave, we practically jump through hoops whenever the phone rings. I know, I know, she still has a couple of days to go but Mr. Iknead and I can’t wait to meet this new blessing. Patience is not something I have an abundance of, but some things just can’t be rushed.
Here is today’s WIPW –
Josie the pug is the backdrop to just started Circle Socks, a Ravelry download. I can’t find the designer’s name to give her/him credit, so sorry! The yarn is from Pico Accuardi Dyeworks, Acid and Weed, created for “Yarns on Stage” and the colorway is Sneaker Wave, 100% superwash merino.
The Reverse Swirl Blanket for baby Harper is finished, lacking only a quick wash and very gentle block. That may be my FOF.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel and feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. E.Y. Harburg
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The one where I’m totally pumped
and not just because it’s Friday. On a whim this afternoon, I went to T.J. Maxx, mostly to kill some time, and scored two Le Creuset baking dishes, a 14 inch oval and a 10 1/2 x 7 inch rectangle, for $43.00. Is it weird that I photographed them so I could post pictures? I think they’re beautiful!
I also have a FO for FO Friday to show off, the Namibia Socks. I’ve actually been finished with them for a couple of weeks, but just haven’t had time to take photos and get them posted. That’s my own fault – if I’d do it more often, I wouldn’t have to learn how to post and such all over again. Practice, practice, practice. Here they are:
Here’s a little detail –
Nice, don’t you think? (Pay no attention to the wonkiness of the pics, can’t quite get it right today).
It’s been a good day.
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens
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The one where it’s Wednesday
and I have a WIP to post. Actually, I have a number of WIPs, but this one happens to be the most urgent – a blanket for my new granddaughter, Harper, whose estimated arrival date is March 23. Yikes, surely it will be finished before then, right?
Though you have to use your imagination, here is Kelly Brooker’s Reverse Pinwheel Blanket, done in Michael’s Loops and Threads Impeccable, in Soft Rose.
To teach is to learn twice. Joseph Joubert
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The one where I try to catch up.
Once again I’ve gotten behind on posting but I admit that it’s not anywhere near the top of my to-do list. What with work, knitting, exercising, reading and most important, a new grandbaby who should appear in the next couple of weeks, it has just not been a priority, but I’m making time for it today.
On the reading front, I started a new book yesterday evening that I’ve fallen in love with only 68 pages in – In the Sanctuary of Outcasts, authored by Neil White. I do most of my actual reading walking on the treadmill (thank you Santa for the Nook), and yesterday, I had a hard time stopping because I was so into my book. I’m not going to put in any spoilers, but it’s set in a Louisiana leper colony/prison. Tweaks the imagination, doesn’t it?
Eighty percent of success is just showing up. Woody Allen
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It’s Tuesday morning and I’m just coming down from my busy bee-ness over the weekend. I got a lot of things accomplished and have maybe an unhealthy fixation on crossing things off my to-do list, but it works for me.
I finished Mr. Iknead’s socks, he loves them and I love that he loves them.
Along with the abovementioned socks, dear S-I-L, Clefton, had requested a tea cozy a few weeks ago. Being raised pretty much in the U.K., he likes his tea and this is what I came up with –
If it looks familiar, it’s because I used my leftover sock yarn from Mr. Iknead’s socks and liked the farrow rib so much, I used it again. So, at the risk of repeating myself (which my dear children tell me I’m doing more and more often), I used Patons Kroy Sock Yarn, in Cadet Colors. Turned out well, don’t you think?
Baked three loaves of bread and tried my hand at Salted Caramel Brownies, a nifty little sweet that seems to be the flavor of the day right now. I made them Saturday afternoon and they’re already history. The thing about that is that it’s only Mr. Iknead and me at home now, and that’s a short time for two people and a pan of brownies. Self control? Not so much.
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. Swedish proverb
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