Real men wear pink

I needed to check the size on someone else. Title says it all......

Calorimetry

well, I decided after seeing this pattern the other day that I HAD to have it, so I whipped it up last night. Knitty's current issue, Calorimetry pattern, it is very cute! but a lot wider than it looks in the picture. I am going to do another one and cut some rows out in the middle to make it smaller

Yarn Dye and Show

for a craft bazaar

Could this be any more fun?

this set is up in my Hyena Cart right now.

There is theAmity Mama holiday family in need drive...and since I don't have money to buy gifts for the families, I plan on picking out the kids that they are asking for playfoods and knitting some up for them to make their Christmas just a bit brighter.

I also just finished up some stitch markers and knitting rolls/crochet hooks for custom orders

current pictures

All the kids




hannah's first week of school

how does time fly by

so here I am once again trying to catch up after a long absence

do you think it is the having 6 kids that makes it so hard to keep
blogging???

nahh--it can't be that!! LOL

homeschooling?

having 2 home businesses?

2 competitive gymnasts?

a nursing toddler???

none of that could possibly be it could it?

first i am going to say that I am tired, so i will probably not use many capitals.
So noah and hannah are in school and quiet has come back to my home.

conner is doing good this year...i think he is having some "growing boy" issues as he is trying boundaries and having trouble adjusting to becoming an older child. he wants to be childish sometimes but still keep his more non-childlike behavior as well. gymnastics has started up again and he is hard at work

kaitlyn is doing so good. it is so hard for me to believe that she is coming up on her 4th year anniversary of her brain hemorrhage. i almost lost her....and now-here she is a competitive gymnast and an absolute joy to have in my house. she is so loving and works so hard to help out. she is so elegant to watch out during the floor exercise...i look forward to her meets this year

noah has now been on his upped dose of 50mg of zoloft for a month now and I think he is adjusting. still not as much improvement as i would like to/hope to see, but it is better. he is doing excellent in math...i think he is actually bored as he was further ahead at home then the public schools are *sigh*

hannah is changing every day before my eyes. she is becoming more and more a little lady. she is just beautiful...

Alexis--she cracks me up. she is so intelligent and talks like an adult at 4...she comes up with the funniest things to say...and she is so full of love. I love to just snuggle with her in the mornings.

Isabella-wow how time flys by. where did my baby go?? she is almost 2 1/2 now. our last child. I don't want her to grow. she brings so much joy to my heart. she is so much like me.

and that is all for tonight.

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: