ha ha ha

me: "Timothy, I think you've grown again."
Timothy: "I just put my shoe on"

short conversation with Emma

this morning Emma was helping me make some wonderful apple pies. while I was peeling and slicing and she was mixing the thickener, we were talking about all kinds of things.
at one point the conversation went like this

Emma: "one time I dreamed that I liked to clean"
me: "what a crazy dream"
Emma: "yeah"

:)

I feel like I should write about something

but I have no idea what to talk about.
I have been doing a lot of crocheting, but I promised that I wouldn't be a pest about it on this blog, that's why I started the other one.
the kids have been going to school for a few weeks now, but that's just a lot of 'same old, same old...'
the weather has been pretty nice with the exception of last week on Thursday when it rained and rained 9 - 10 inches in one day. not at all normal rain fall for this part of the world. we usually get about 4 inches in a month. There was a lot of flooding. the rivers are up very high and many people have been flooded out of their homes and a few have been flooded in. We were very blessed to only have the tiniest bit of water in the basement. Tim said there were only a couple of damp spots. that basement is about 100 years old so I think that's pretty darn good, especially since we live between two lakes.
I haven't taken any pictures of the floods, but I have to say that I haven't seen the river this high EVER. and it has been longer than my life since our closest river exceeded what it is now.

my Emma is going to be getting baptized in a couple of weeks. I am getting some things ready for that but I still have to ask people to speak and get the husband ready for preforming the baptism and the confirmation. He hasn't exorcised his priesthood for a while and has always been nervous about it anyway.
her scriptures have been ordered and engraved and are on the way. and I am making her a scripture case, something different than everyone else's cases.

next thing to plan will be her birthday and presents. I'm feeling a little behind on my planning - for that and for Christmas. but at least she's my easiest kid to shop for.

mish mash of my week

you may recall in the past I have referred to my kids as crazy. well this is, to some degree, true.
however crazy is not insane. my children are very typical kids, it's just that somewhere in my aging process I have become an old fuddy duddy and I'm only 36. so when my 3 year old comes out of the bathroom after playing with his hair in the sink and looks like this I sometimes have to scratch my head and wonder 'what in the world!'
Ronan is so funny. the better he becomes with mastering the English language the funnier he becomes. I really can't wait to see what he is going to be like as an adult. heaven help me! :)


this week I have been to the post office more than I have in MONTHS and certainly more times in a row than I have ever before. now three days in a row might not be a big deal for most people, but when you live in a place where your mail is delivered to you three days in a row suddenly becomes a lot of times.
first I mailed a present to an old friend. I was so eager for her to have this present before her new baby arrives. she isn't due for a little while yet, but I'm such a procrastinator about a great many things I just didn't want this gift to go to waste.
second trip I mailed a hat that I had been commissioned to make at the sale last weekend. I had the hat 95% done and had to wait until I got a package in the mail of more matching yarn before I could finish it. of course as soon as I had yarn in hand I finished that last 5% in about 15 min tops but had to wait until the next day to send it in the mail. isn't that just the way it goes...
third day I sent an order. I had decided to relist the pumpkin hat I made last year. it sat in my store last year for four months and the poor little thing just didn't get loved. Connor, however, loved that hat from the beginning. he kept asking me if he could have it. I said that if it didn't sell he could have it. but it didn't sell and I didn't give it to him. (I know, broken promises are a bad thing, especially when you are a parent) I thought what the heck, I'll just relist it and when it doesn't sell (yes, very pessimistic of me) I'll just let him have it then.
I was totally shocked when I looked at my email a few nights ago after having had a terrible day and discovered that someone had bought the hat!

after that I kind of felt bad because Connor did like it a lot. so we tried it on for size and I snapped a couple of pictures (for referencing) before packing it up and sending it to live in another state.
I then made a trip to Hobby Lobby and bought more orange so I can make Connor his own pumpkin hat. Ronan is going to get one too, but he wants a jack-o-lantern face on his. :)
I'll finish them up tomorrow. I'm just really tired today

that sale I mentioned

it went pretty well.
We were in Amboy this weekend at a street crafts sale. I have to say that Tim's mom is an awesome sales woman.
I sold several things and mostly what sold were the items I didn't expect to sell. I was kind of surprised at what did not sell.
But in the end I made $80. I originally thought I had made $100 but after I went back and calculated what was sold and recounted it was just $80, but I'm happy because it's more than I had and 80 bucks is nothing to sneeze at.
:)

I still have to take some pictures of some of my necklaces that I didn't get a chance to have Erica model for me. I will do that in the next couple of days because I really want to list a few of them. then I will show them off here and on my yarny porfolio-y blog.

now I can work on finishing Timothy's TARDIS blanket for Christmas and I am planning on making a couple of Despicable Minions for Connor and Ronan (follow the link to see what I mean)

the first day of Kindergarten

getting ready for school. I think you can tell that he was really happy about this morning


it has been raining non-stop since before 5am. I didn't get to take any pictures outside of the building... with the exception of this one and that's only because we were under the overhang. but we didn't have much time there because we were blocking the door so I just shot quickly.

three kids at school? only two of them are actually attending, but Ronan has been in denial about how big he really is and has refused to listen when we tell him that he isn't going to kindergarten with Connor. because of that he had to have his back pack too and wore it to school

after Connor hung up his back pack Ronan went over to the hooks and was going to hang his there too. it was heart breaking to see him so eager to be big.
it's heartbreaking to see Connor so grown up!

poor Ronan

he just can't understand that he isn't old enough. He never has known that he is littlest

Connor did really well. he looks like he might have gotten a little emotional right before we left, I know that I was.

I can't wait until he gets home.

problem solved... (a re-posting)

so this is a re-post from my yarny blog just because I'm so very pleased with myself
...........

thank God for his little inspirations.

Long story as short as I can make it......

I had a small problem and it was down right frustrating. I have these necklaces with glass beads that I have made and was terrified that by sending them in the mail they would get crushed and ruin the piece and also creating some very upset costumers.

I have the mailing option on my store to ship for $3.00. this only works if I can fit the merchandise in manila or bubble wrap insert envelope. to be sure that the necklace or bracelet or (eventually earrings) don't get smashed in the envelope I have just chosen to bite the difference in mailing cost and send it in a box which costs much more.
so I looked and looked around in hobby stores and packaging stores and so on, with no luck what so ever, to find a little box only a couple of inches big that would fit inside the envelope and then mail for less money.

Inspiration! ahhhhhhh *sing like an angel*

Years ago, and I'm talking MANY years ago when I was a teenager, I learned how to make christmas card jewelry boxes. I haven't thought of them in something like 18 years so I have to say "thanks, God, for pulling that memory out of the dusty corner of my brain that you found it in"

They are perfect. they are sturdy little things and I feel confident that they will be the absolutely perfect solution to my previous problem. Yay!

this apple one is my favorite one so far.

I've been folding away for the last couple of days and I have made quite a few.
it's a good thing that I have hung on to all the greeting cards and christmas card stock I've had from the days I worked in a paper company

finally, new pictures of the kids.