Uncle!!!!!!!!
Okay…what’s with all the bugs and viruses around here this winter, I’d like to know. I feel like the kiddo and I haven’t been healthy for a combined five minutes in months. Last week and this past weekend, the little …
I knew it.
Somehow, knowing already what the news would be didn’t make it all that much easier to hear. Yep. It was Fifth Disease, for sure. I got the results of the bloodwork today, and it came back positive. So now begins …
Mama and Baby Socks
Those of you who’ve been hanging around here since back when I actually knitted with some regularity will remember I have a (mild) obsession with sock knitting. You may also remember my deep and abiding love for Cat Bordhi’s brain. …
random random (and some random)
1. My dear friend Lawrence is now selling some of his fantastic subway drawings on Etsy. 2. Today I schlepped the kid and a bag of outgrown maternity clothes to a maternity resale shop, hoping to sell the too-small pants …
$50 a Week is dead
The food blog is no more. Ah well. Honestly? I’m not sorry to see it go. As a tool for reining in our family budget, and showing us how much more we were spending than we needed to, it’s been …
Just a quick note to say…
…that our dear Rachael’s book, How to Knit a Love Song, is now available for pre-order at Amazon. Now, I usually try to buy all my books from Powells, to support my local independent (and utterly fantastic) bookstore, but getting …
Oh, hi!
How are you? How was your Thanksgiving (if you live in the U.S.)? And how was your nice long weekend (if you live in the U.S. and didn’t have to work)? Mine was good. Really good. I made stuff. I …
Don’t be alarmed…
…I know you’re not used to this from me anymore. But, well…I’ve been knitting. I know! Remember when I used to do that all the time? I’m up to it again. Maybe because it’s cold outside. Maybe because there’s a …
A bit late, but…
…here are some of the photos my friend Everette took on Halloween. From these photos you will learn the following: The kid is very cute. The kid, usually quite enamored of his dark blue police helmet, was uninterested in wearing …