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fair isle and important business…

Filed under my life by sherriknits at 12:41 am on Jan 18 2008

I’ve been poking along on the fair isle socks. I still haven’t decided if this is what I want to do with the yarn but have been having a very relaxing time knitting the fair isle. I feel like I’m getting pretty comfortable with the process and isn’t it funny how when you don’t have any expectation it’s so fast and easy to do? Here’s my progress:

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The other day the little imp once again put on his wedding tuxedo but this time he had big plans for his day. He had a book, the church bulletins, some printed Hgh School Musical pages and paper and pen and was busy doing his “work”. He diligently copied things and checked it against the book. He loves this book and reads it on his own, but he’d write something from the bulletin, then look at the book and read the page and say “yep! that’s right!” lol

He has been copying pages and pages of the most interesting things from internet. He will sit there and fill both sides of a page with fairly small writing…lists of whatever he’s interested in at the moment. It reminds me of a few years ago when hubby and I used to go to Boston Market restaurant to eat on our date. There was a lady with Down Syndrome who came in with her sandwich from the Safeway deli down the street and she’d get her big cup out of her backpack and go fill it with pop. In one way I thought it was cute, in another I wasn’t sure how wise it was or what kind of deal they had with her. I know I shed tears there one night just because people were so kind to her. But what she’d do was get out a spiral notebook and a book of word search puzzles and she’d copy the word lists. Occasionally she’d look up and say, “don’t bother me! I’m doing my homework!” Isn’t that interesting that he does the same thing? (but don’t ask him to do penmanship, that’s a whole ‘nother story!)

The boy at work:

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Notice his bowl of birthday cake there, too. The cake disappeared from the pan and when asked what happened to it, he said “nothing”….with a chocolate covered face.


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5 Responses to “fair isle and important business…”

  1. 1 raganon 18 Jan 2008 at 5:36 am

    The fair isle looks fantastic!
    LOL!
    I love how in-depth and businesslike your son looks. Very focused on his work. And, you know that cake MUST of leapt out of the pan by itself to his bowl…so he HAD to eat it at that point. :o )))
    He reminds me sooooo much of one of my students. It makes me smile just thinking about it.

  2. 2 Carolon 18 Jan 2008 at 6:28 am

    I love the fair isle. I am still trying to get up my nerve to do something like that….
    Your “little imp” looks so studieous….it makes me smile whenever I see him….

  3. 3 Theresaon 18 Jan 2008 at 12:13 pm

    This is just the cutest imp story to date! :o ) I love the socks. Thanks for the comment about Eph 2:10…Ephesians is my favorite book for the same reason that you mentioned. It shows so much of His plan for us and how much he loves us!

  4. 4 nicolleon 21 Jan 2008 at 11:40 am

    A little belated congratulations on the impending arrival! We’ll probably be laboring about the same time, heehee.

    The fair isle looks awesome, btw.
    nicolle

  5. 5 Laurion 24 Jan 2008 at 9:39 pm

    I just love how the fair isle sock is looking!!

    What a fun story about the little imp! He looks so very serious.
    Also I love the new look of the blog :-)

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