I got it done

This is a great free pattern online for the SOPHIE BAG

I used the beautiful Noro yarn I showed in THIS POST

Prefelting:




After Felting

So much going on, so little time to type

ok, ok-thanks to Jo for kicking me in the butt. I know that I have been very quiet lately, but all with good cause!

Introducing the newest venture:

NURTURING THREADS

this is a business started by myself and my friend Stacy. We are very excited and very busy!

We also had a setback this week...went out and found our freezer unplugged and all of our meat GONE. it was totally defrosted and rotten. UGH..the garbage smells so bad right now and I am glad that they come tomorrow to pick it up.

Gymnastics season has started and I am going a bit insane.

Noah and Hannah are in public school this year. Noah is in 3rd grade and Hannah kindergarten. I can't find the copy of Noah's picture, but here is Hannah!




will catch up more later

The long year has come to an end....

so we saw the doctor today. I expressed my concern that Noah is not showing improvement. He said 4-6 weeks to get fully into the system and start changing things around in his head.

Not working.

We upped the dose to 50mg...and he told me that he feels that at this point, it is safe to give him the asperger diagnosis too.

they said from the beginning that if the meds took away the symptoms, it wasn't aspergers too. If the symptoms stayed, it was both the stroke and the aspergers.

He thinks that it will be beneficial to Noah to have it officially diagnosed now where he is going back to school this fall....to get the door open for more therapies, etc.

I just never wanted this day to come.

My newest dye job

I LOVE THIS!
It is the Wool of the Andies dyed with procion dyes, the colors are magenta, avocado and navy

This is my FAVORITE wool, and I cannot wait to knit with it.

I bought some new yummy yarn

Oh, it is just BEGGING to be a project.
This first one is already becoming a sophie bag - this is Noro Kureyon 185





next is undecided:


This is Noro Kureyon 95



and for my first soaker, out of the curly purly pattern - it is the second color, 965

So I have been SEW busy lately

to see the projects, go to:

http://stitchnknit.blogspot.com

Evolution of Dance

There were very few that I haven't done! LOL

Busy day today

I couldn't even come up with an original title for this one! LOL

Today - the kids go in for some school tests. Then we meet with Noah's neuro psych to see if we can get something accomplished. I actually told the hospital coordinator that I would not come in to talk to the doctor if nothing was going to be done. So she talked to him and said "yes, come in" so hopefully something will be accomplished today!

Then we are going to gymnastics-team practice for Conner and Kaitlyn.

Target on the way home, then we are going van shopping.

*whew* busy days ahead!

UP YOURS CANCER!!

40 years old, a mother of 7..her baby is just 2.

invasive uterine cancer.

that is all I can say...and I just cry. my 3rd friend that is so young to get cancer.

Just another funny for the day:

You Are 30% Evil

A bit of evil lurks in your heart, but you hide it well. In some ways, you are the most dangerous kind of evil.

How Evil Are You?

Well-that is a relief!

In a Past Life...

You Were: A Famous Monk. Where You Lived: Ukraine. How You Died: Hung for treason.

Who Were You In a Past Life?

wow-that was a good one! I think I enjoyed it

Polygamy and the FBI most wanted list

How do you even touch this one?
So the FBI is getting calls in on a
limited basis concerning
Warren Jeffs.
Warren Jeffs was just this last weekend placed on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives list
see his profile HERE

I can't even tell you how sick this man makes me. And I love that he is such a coward that he has stayed hidden for the past 2 years to avoid prosecution. Does he lack conviction in his beliefs so much that he must hide? Because surely if he was doing what was right, the law would not be after him...thus he hides.
Charges are still out there for sexual assault cases 4 years ago.
Not only are they doing polygamous marriages, but they also do incestual relationships...which is showing a rise in the number of birth defects in the area.

Need a good laugh

It just never fails that my koolaid loving friend (but not grape!!) will give you a good belly laugh with her posts
not only does she have a lot to say--she has two blogs.. but she also writes for Dot Moms
so check her out sometime--she is a HOOT!

and since I have not done one of these in a while:

What Your Underwear Says About You

You're a total rebel who doesn't conform to any rules. P.S. - It's a jungle down there! You're also way too lazy to do your laundry more than a few times a year.

The Underwear Oracle

and very fitting today:

You Are 77% American

You're as American as red meat and shooting ranges. Tough and independent, you think big. You love everything about the US, wrong or right. And anyone who criticizes your home better not do it in front of you!

How American Are You?

Everyone has a choice

ok, so this STORY today just confounds me.
The Catholic Vatican has said that the DaVinci code movie is full of errors, and has told all Catholics to boycott the movie...saying it offends the Christian faith.
It is a movie.
Movies will always have truths and lies to them.
I think that trying to take away a persons right to see a movie is assinine. What are they afraid of? That their followers will watch the movie and see some truth in it that the Catholic church does not want? That they may fall away from the church? Do they doubt the strength of their members faith?

So on to this Rosie O'Donnell thing
Oh good lord really! They want to control her hair cut??? It is in her contract...she cannot cut her hair! Please..that does not even deserve comment.

So this spanish version of Star Spangled Banner. I don't like it. It isn't right. I support people immigrating to our country, but they need to become legal. I understand what they are trying to show with this May 1 protest, but I object to seeing them going through their protests and waving the Mexico flag. If you want to be in our country, and you want to "become American" and have legal status, then you also need to carry our flag and be "American"
Read more HERE and HERE

so every now and then

I come across a comic, or an image that just says something to me....touches me in some way..makes me laugh, makes me angry, makes me go "HELL YAY!!!"










and the best..."here's your sign" award in journalism goes to:

Absentee checking in

So I have been kind of absent lately. A very good FRIEND of mine has gone into the hospital at 30 weeks along in her pregnancy due to Pre-Eclampsia so I have been sewing items for her baby and updating all our message boards to keep everyone posted as to what is going on. I have made her little boy a Rag Quilt out of cute flannels, cloth wipes (she will be Cloth Diapering )
a preemie kimono that fastens at the shoulder for all the tubes NICU babies tend to have.

So through all this, I remembered my oldest daughters experience when she was in the hospital for a brain hemorrhage 3 years ago due to 2 Dural Arterio Venous Malformations aka AVM's. She was in and out several times and received a blanket each time to help her through her scary stay. So I decided that I really needed to make some quilts too. I have chosen 2 organizations to help out. the first one is Afghans for Angels which concentrates on parents who have lost a baby...the blankets are used so moms and dads can hold their very sick little ones, and when they die, the parents have this blanket for a memory.
The second organization is Project Linus They do blankets for all sorts of kids: hospital admissions, camps for kids including those for cancer, abuse, diabetes, and bereavement..crisis centers as well as police and fire departments throughout the city. The main site for Project Linus can help you locate a program near you if you would like to donate too.

so that is what is taking my time lately. that and a harrassing neighbor that I will leave for another day and another post.

there are just not enough hours in the day

to do all I want to do.

Homeschooling
Sewing
Pampered Chef
Breastfeeding
preparing food
cleaning house
laundry
reading
computer time
time with husband
referee
and every other mom duty and wife duty.

*ack*

When it was time...he brought it!

It is sooo good to be home!!! Very long drive with 6 kids, scary roads (the roads were clear, but the mountains and sharp drop offs scared the hell out of me!!) but it was a great time!

I will put up pictures/video later. The results were listed wrong on the site due to an error in one of the judges addition but these are the results!

Floor: 4th (8.7)
Pommel: 3rd (8.2)
Rings: 8th (8.4)
High Bar: 2nd (8.9)
All Around: 7th

He did great! His high bar routine was the best he has ever done! He knew what he needed to do and got it done! I was so proud of him. And he was so happy to have beat his "rival" in 2 events! LOL

The hotel was ehh...and there really were kids flipping in the hallways! My son included *wink*

We had some semi good food. Pita Pit where I had falafel (YUMMY!!) Wingers (food sucked!!) and a few other small places here and there. I did get an AWESOME dessert at Wingers: the Wingers Asphalt Pie



It was HUGE and so good. Oreo crust, ice cream, caramel and whip cream! I could go to wingers just for dessert again!

But alas, there is just nothing like being home!

State

Doesn't sound like a word that should cause so much terror. State. Add "gymnastics competition" to it, and you will see why my stomach is filled with knots.

My son qualified for state gymnastics. We leave tomorrow morning to begin our adventure up to Moscow, Idaho for this last meet of the season. I believe they said more than 90 boys will be there. Conner is feeling better, I know I posted earlier that he has been sick for about 7 weeks now, but the vitamin c and echinacea helped to heal him where the antibiotics did not. Now, he just feels like he lost 7 weeks of practice and has lost a lot of his power, but eh..what can you do.

So 90 boys and who knows how many hundreds of girls will be running around in leo's and singlets and team colors and invading the University of Idaho where the competition is to take place. That poor town will never know what hit them.
These are kids that can be walking down the hallway and just start flipping out. And by flipping out, I mean REALLY flipping! Do handstands, backhandsprings, cartwheels...you name it, they do it. it is in the blood. Half the time, my 2 gymnasts don't even realize they are doing it till I beg them to stop tumbling in the living room!

So my tummy is in knots. Anxious for my son to do well. I will be that mom in the stands talking every single boy on our team through the routines. My husband after watching the last video I did of a meet turned to me and said "you know Jessica, we can turn the audio off!!" Guess he didn't like my commentary! LOL

I am so proud of him. I am terrified for him. I so want him to do good and to be pleased with how he performs. That is all that truly matters-that he is happy with how he does. So I sit with my tummy in knots and I cannot eat or sleep without thinking of this weekend.
I am only glad that this year, at his level, they cannot do regionals. I can only imagine what a wreck I would be then!

What is wrong with the justice system??

Ok-it has been a long time since I have ranted, so I guess I am due...because this story just pisses me OFF


Suffolk Police have filed charges against a pregnant woman who was found shot in the stomach Thursday morning. Tammy Skinner is accused of shooting herself in the stomach, killing her unborn child.

The 22-year-old was due to give birth to a baby girl that day. The baby did not survive.

Skinner was taken to police headquarters around noon Tuesday, where she was charged. A $15,000 bond has been set.

Skinner is charged with causing an abortion, use of a fire arm in the commission of a felony, and filing a false report.

Illegally inducing an abortion is a class four felony, and is punishable by 2-10 years in prison and a fine of not more than $100,000.

A judge sealed search warrants in the case Monday.



She kills her baby...and she is charged with causing an abortion. This was a full term baby. She was due to birth that day. That woman shot herself in the stomach to purposely kill her baby and they charge her with an abortion.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!!???
murder? manslaughter?? yes...that would be good.
But an abortion???
**shakes head**

She orginally filed a report stating that someone had shot her. They later searched the house and concluded she did it herself.
MORE

If she didn't want the baby, why not just birth it and take it to a safe haven? why kill it.

I just don't get people sometimes.

Yours, Mine, and Ours

ok-so having a *larger* family, I tend to flock towards movies, books, tv shows that have big families. It is just ME, you know?

So Cheaper By the Dozen irritated me. While being a funny movie at times, I felt it really displayed a large family in a negative manner. So out of control all the time. Like having a large family meant instant chaos and insanity. JERKS! They couldn't put some normal stuff in there?

So I admit I was a little ehn about watching Yours, Mine and Ours last night. It started off cute, but then just got boring. I don't know, I thought they portrayed the large family ok, but give us more of the day to day stuff. The cooking of meals, the doing laundry....don't concentrate so much on the kids trying to break up the parents. Give us more substance and more humor.

So while worth watching, it was not worth buying.

I am curious to see Cheaper By the Dozen 2 now.

I don't think I will ever be satisfied...should I just write my own damned large family movie???? LOL LOL