When my older kids were growing up, they would always take their May Day flowers to the neighbors, but rarely did they ever appear on my doorstep. I think they never thought of it as much as running around the neighborhood. Well, yesterday Daddy and Little Imp left for a few hours. I was really tired because I’d woken up really early so they thought a nap would be nice for me. I did nap, and I read, knit, played on Ravelry and just relaxed. I was lying on the couch when there was a knock on the door, I opened it to find some beautiful flowers laying on the steps and saw two sweet heads poking around the corner of the RV. I was very blessed and really got a kick out of the thrill it gave them to surprise me.
We do wash that face once in awhile but you’d never know it by the pictures.
Today was the day I decided I’d get my elephant ear. I’ve been thinking about it all week, I love the ones with cinnamon and sugar.
We sat in the window and watched people walk by. The little imp had an ice cream cone, Dad had a corn dog and I enjoyed my elephant ear. We walked into a few shops, but mostly we wanted to go for the treats. I’ll take pictures in the daylight tomorrow of the little things I bought for baby.
I have actually been knitting but I just couldn’t make progress on the baby knitting I brought. The peapod sweater is not hard but I’m making silly mistakes on it, it requires concentration I can’t give it in this tired stupor. The baby surprise jacket is stalled because I’m considering how I want it to stripe (and I am mulling it in my mind most of the time).
On my travels through Ravelry, I did find something fun, though. I’ll give details on it later, but here’s progress.
The colors look washed out here. As I knit, I am constantly considering whether or not to clip out the orange and yellow. It would go from purple to dark green to rust if I did. Since the rows are getting longer, those sections might not be too wide, though. I’ll probably put in a lifeline and experiment a little. The pattern is easy, I can’t show it any better right now because it’s on a 24″ needle and scrunched up. Aren’t my felted sheep stitch markers cute?
I have no way to print out the pattern so I’m knitting in front of my laptop screen. This afternoon I tried to sit outside awhile. I wrote out the directions but forgot the middle sections and decided it was too much work to add them. Hubby was amazed that I could turn the chart into gibberish and understand what it meant. lol
Yesterday we got the first previews of the wedding pictures, about 65 of the 600+. Here are 2 of my favorites.
And this one captured the thing I love that she does. When she gets really tickled at something, she does this silent laugh and her eyes disappear.
I am more than a little impressed with the pictures.
We ran out of propane last night. Why is it that it always happens that things like that happen right after the store closes? We were trying to get the stove to start and it just wouldn’t so we had to change dinner plans. After we ate, hubby started playing with it while I was washing dishes and I commented that I couldn’t get hot water. It wasn’t long before he discovered the tank was empty. The park owners told us there was a place down the road besides the one 2 blocks away that sells propane. The thought of a cold night made it easy to decide to secure everything and head off to find help. Well, we found it alright…but they were closed, too. So, we came back and settled in to a night without heat. It actually wasn’t bad at all. We just put on sweats. It didn’t get too cold in here at all, even by morning.
I barely slept last night (again) because I was a little out of sorts so I got up for a few hours and had to sit quietly at the table with my laptop as the little imp was sleeping on the couch nearby. I got to bed around 3 so they let me sleep in. We all slept late, but I was the last one to wake up…at 10! As soon as I was upright, we pulled up stakes again and drove the 2 blocks to the RV shop and got filled up. We were back in 15 minutes and got all situated before the park started filling up all around us. Hubby was happy that we got a little more space between us and the 5th wheel next door. Since the little guy can’t have free reign all around us any more, it’s nice to give him more space outside our door.
Note to self: do not walk into a darkened movie theater on a bright afternoon wearing transition lenses.
We decided to go to the movie this afternoon. When we decided to hit the matinee, we had to leave immediately. When we got there, the movie had just started. I led the way in and let me tell you, it was dark…seriously d.a.r.k! I couldn’t see a thing other than the red lights lining the stairs Hubby said he was going to suggest we stand right in the entry until our eyes adjusted but I must have barreled ahead. I kept asking him where to sit but he was trying to get the silly boy in and carry popcorn at the same time. I embarrassed myself a great deal by choosing a row and taking ahold of a lady’s shoulder when trying to take her seat. I honestly couldn’t see a thing. It wasn’t until I sat down that I realized my glasses had turned dark. When I took them off and could see how easy it was to see I was really embarrassed. Thankfully the movie had started and I’m sure no one was paying attention other than the lady I nearly sat on. lol I waited until she left before I got up. I’m not going to say what we went to see, it was very disappointing and we’re sad we took the boy to it. I read the review on IMDB and it didn’t indicate much of what we saw. I think the boy was totally bored and paid more attention to his food.
Tomorrow the mama-to-be and hubby will pay us a visit!
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