sherriknits

It’s been an interesting week.

I already mentioned that I won Susan’s blog drawing.  Then I won another one!  This one led me to another fun thing but I am getting ahead of myself.  I belong to a group on Ravelry called “I love someone with Down Syndrome”.  I visited Melissa’s blog through that group.  From there, I jumped over to see Just RK and had fun reading a behind the scenes account of her trying out for Deal or No Deal!  I so enjoyed that that I visited again and saw she was having a contest to win some Baby Legs by leaving a comment.  I told her that we had just been to visit the doctor so the little imp could hear the baby’s heartbeat and if we won some, I would let him give them to the new baby.  Well, guess what!  We won some…not in her original drawing but she decided to be nice and give out 5 more pairs just because.  Soooo, he will definitely get to give them to the baby and I’m really excited!

Well, on another visit to her blog, she had a link to a new site she had found.  This happens to be a documentary being made by two brothers, one of whom happens to have Down Syndrome.  They have posted several videos of Dan Drinker and I have become a frequent visitor.  This special fellow is quite a bit older than our little guy, but oh my gosh, I cannot believe the similarities!  And you know what else?  I have seen the love of his family and how they have captured the every day situations that make life with him so special.  I have laughed and cried through every video.  Visit him if you get a chance.  His favorite songs are also High School Musical 1 and 2 and Hannah Montana….just what we hear all the time!  Like our little guy, he has also searched out videos on YouTube of his favorite songs.  He’s quite the dancer!

I am fighting off that cold and I don’t think it’s going to get really bad.  I’m good at staying down and resting because I hate to feel bad.  I didn’t go to work until late today (after they called me twice with customers having problems).  When I got there, my good friend came in early for knit night and we got to spend the whole afternoon quietly together.  She brought in my dinner when she came so we just had a very pleasant afternoon.

Then….people came for knit night and I got to spend a great time visiting with another dear friend.  And look what I was blessed with.

A DellaQ knitting bag and not only that, but her mom sent me some recipe cards from Debbie Macomber!  I just feel so blessed.  I am so grateful for what returning to knitting has brought into my life.  I’ve made so many new friends and I am so amazed at how good they are to me!  The bag is for when we get away for a few days (our big hope) after the wedding.  She wanted me to have something fun to put my projects into. 

I’m ready to close the toe on my sock and will probably finish it tomorrow depending on how I feel.  I’d be in bed already but it’s just the little imp and I home right now and I don’t trust him to stay out of trouble….you just never know.

Do you ever think about the good things that happen in your day that you may not notice if you weren’t looking for them?  I am trying to live with an attitude of gratitude every day.  There are so many good things every day but if I’m not looking for them, I would miss them.  When I sat down here tonight, I hadn’t put them all together until I started writing about them…and that, my friends, is why I have enjoyed learning to blog!

Have a great day and be blessed!

Technorati Tags: friends, knitting, blessings

Kathleen  !

It’s fun to find some new blogs to read and from the little I have visited, I’ve enjoyed Kathleen’s.

I had a hard time getting the little imp to smile for the picture and finally just gave up and used what I got.  He wasn’t in to acting natural, just too silly and talking without moving his mouth.

We’re headed out to do wedding-related things.  I got that cold that is going around and feel rotten but am going to wear my sweats and just do what I have to do, no driving. 

Congratulations, Kathleen…I’ll send off your package as soon as I get your mailing address! ( I don’t think the mailman can get it there from your driving directions on your blog!  lol)

Technorati Tags: blogiversary

We started our day earlier than usual because it was our Sunday to serve bulletins.  The little imp was a little off target today, he had to be constantly reminded to actually give them to people rather than stand there staring at anyone who stopped in front of him.  He was sleeping so soundly when we woke him up that he apparently never really arrived.  That’s ok, I have off days, too.  He did get to go help with the candy bags for new visitors again today and was more with it.  Dad told me to go look at the graduate clipboard, we’ll be honoring those soon who graduate…and guess who had put his name on the list. I don’t think anyone will believe he’s graduating from high school, though.

We had another shower for the bride today.  It was held at the groom’s apartment so we didn’t have to move things over there later.  Here’s the pre-shower prep.

I got sent to Walmart 30 minutes before the shower because they didn’t have a ladle, but otherwise these girls had it all together.

This is one side of the room…I didn’t get a good picture the other direction because I always manage to get someone really looking awful so I won’t show them. 

We had a game where they had the bride go in the other room and then everyone had to write down everything she was wearing.  This ended up bringing ridiculous laughter because the girl who won is a friend who all their growing up years, has been momentarily mistaken for our girl.  They have the same build and often the same hairstyle.  Well, look how she came dressed to the shower today!

Couldn’t have planned that one better!  And as an aside, these girls will be auntie to the same baby once the wedding takes place so they’re family by marriage.

Before opening gifts, our #1 daughter wanted to pray for her sister.  She started to thank everyone for coming to share in the joy of the upcoming marriage and to bless her sister.  She broke down crying and it was some time before she was able to go on.  Lots of tears wiped away all over the room.  As a mom, I cannot tell you how blessed I was.

Here was a particularly hysterical moment when the bride opened some knives and thought she heard the giver say they were really good ones.  She turned and said, “They’re really good knives?”  The giver said something on the order of she hoped so.  Bride said, “oh, I thought you said they were really good” and the whole room exploded in laughter.  She was so embarrassed, but she handled it well.

And then…as soon as the shower cleared out, several of us started making flowers for the wedding.  I’ll tell you more later about how we’re going to use them.

These were taken when we were still fresh. Below is my stuff before I got going.  I shared the table with the girl who was assembling all of the flowers and I was cutting leaves and gluing them to wire.  We made over 100 and they had 2-3 leaves on each one.  I am a little sick of green right now.  We had a lot of fun, though.

We took a little break for the girls to practice getting the bride into her dress..it’s a big deal.  We won’t talk about what I had to go through to get the dress to the apartment today. She neglected to ask me to get it from it’s current home when it could have been done easily.  But, we got it there and the girls managed to get it on her.  I don’t think the shrug looked quite right with it and am going to encourage her to just use it for something else…and I’m ok with it.

Then we must have worked on flowers for another hour when I decided we needed to eat.  The mama-to-be called the local pizza parlor to order delivery and somewhere along the way, we started falling apart and the poor girl could barely talk, she desperately wanted to tell the clerk on the phone that we weren’t all drunk because the lady had to keep waiting for her to pull herself together.  (I guess it was a day for falling apart all over the place!)  Here she is after the phone call:

and

This is the groom’s mom sharing the couch with her and she is never going to let this girl forget how silly she looked running into the room waving her hands through the air trying to get my attention as I was running from the room to the little girl’s room because it had all gotten so ridiculous. 

And then…the pizza order was wrong, instead of half and half, we got everything mixed together into one.  And I about fell over when the bill was $25 for one large pizza! (next time, we ask)  So, one of the girls called the pizza parlor and told them the order was wrong and they brought us another and let us keep the one we had.  Almost $30 for 2 pizzas felt a little bit better.

I am so exhausted and I’m sure I could have told the events much better if I’d waited until tomorrow but it’s going to be a VERY serious get- things- done day after we do the blogiversary drawing.  Depending on what’s going on, I’ll post as soon as I can.  I plan to sleep in and then we’ll see how much of the day we have to do what we need to do.  But for now, this tired mama is going to crawl up the stairs to bed…and I hope and pray I don’t wake up at 3 or 4 like I’ve been doing!

And thank you all who have participated in the contest!

Technorati Tags: blogiversary, knitting, shower, friends, wedding

I’ve had so much baby stuff and wedding stuff that I wanted to show a little bit of knitting that is slowly happening.  Mostly I work on this at work, but sometimes I bring it in the car when we’re headed somewhere. 

I think I might have shown this before.

I haven’t knit with self-striping yarn for awhile so it’s kind of fun again, just a generic sock pattern that I always do.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the last day to get yourself entered for the blogiversary drawing. I’ll take all comments that happen by Sunday night at midnight…and then have the little imp draw on Monday morning.

And I did win someone else’s drawing!  Susan was also having a blogiversary and her daughter drew my name so I get a cute little notebook from England!  Thanks, Susan!

Tomorrow I have another wedding shower so I need to get rested up, maybe I should go help hubby make dinner first!  Have a great weekend!

Technorati Tags: blogiversary, knitting

What a day!  The little imp and I got to go with the new mama for her midwife appointment…and we got to hear the little sweet pea’s heartbeat!  (yes, I got tears)

We got up early and were on our way by 8:15 after our first stop, Starbucks.  :)  The little imp likes ice water so that’s what he got.  There is a funny thing about him.  He will not tell you when something is amiss, it’s been a  strange thing we’ve always dealt with (i.e.:  I’m hungry, I have to use the bathroom, etc) 

Our first stop was Michael’s to get some wedding things.  They were taking so much time getting out of the car that I told them I’d just run in and start looking for what we needed.  Wellllllllllll,  when they came in and found me, the little imp was walking soooo funny.  He had spilled his water all over himself and never said a word.  He was soaking and you know what it looked like!  So, the sis took him out to the car.  He took his pants off on his own and we had to get him back into them so we could run into Target and buy him new jeans before we went to the midwife appointment.  I won’t even go into the details of that trip, but let’s just say it was interesting.

We did make it on time to the appointment.

We love to ask him what he’s going to be when the baby comes. He always gets this huge grin, looks at the floor and whispers “Uncle”.

I haven’t been able to capture the best of the smile, but this is the closest I’ve gotten.  It really makes me want to cry it’s so sweet.

The room was very pleasant and the little mama, the teacher, showed him posters of a developing baby and made the most of the opportunity.  He hangs on every word.

He also likes to copy.

And here is the big moment!

I want to be sensitive to the mama and the midwife, but here is the little imp enjoying hearing that heartbeat!

He started playing  imaginary drums because that’s what it sounded like to him.

After all that excitement, we stopped at the new Carl’s Jr for a very nutritious lunch and raced home.  I was only an hour late getting to the shop.

REMINDER: 

Don’t forget to sign up for the blogiversary drawing, it runs through April 6 and on the 7th I will have the little imp draw the winner’s name!  All you have to do is comment to earn an entry!

Technorati Tags: Blogiversary, Event, Baby

Wow, it sure seems like a lot of people are celebrating their blogiversaries right now.

I didn’t want to post my contest until I got my domain renewed…wouldn’t really do now, would it, to have it go offline when there is a contest going on!  To be honest, I had one heck of a time getting the credit card info changed.  If you recall, hubby lost his wallet a few months ago and the day after he reported the card missing, he found it and now I have spent months getting the number changed with all the companies that have it on file.

Anyway….

Simple rules because since we are in wedding time, I don’t have the energy to come up with something creative.  All you have to do is comment between now and April 6th, the date of my first post on my new domain. 

The prize?

This is a great book for sock knitters and the yarn is almost local (an hour away from us). 

So, this is my thanks for all the fun I’ve had over this past year….comment away and tell your friends, I would love to find some new blogs to visit!

Technorati Tags: Blogiversary