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 Here’s a little glimpse of yesterday’s events.  What a blessed mom I am!

Here’s my two girls….my heart is just bursting!  Little sis is maid-of-honor.

And then the bride-to-be and her really good friend and matron-of-honor.  When she prayed before we ate brunch, she choked up because they live across the street from each other and after the wedding our kids will be moving an hour and a half away so there won’t be any more late night run across the street to visit kind of times.  When she was done praying, everyone in the room was choked up. She and our other daughter were the hostesses of the shower and it was held at this dear girl’s mom’s house. 

Here’s the three girls after the shower…and they are still smiling!

And last but certainly not least…..Liz commented on the number of cars he has but this is not even close to a fraction of them.  He will sit for a long time running them down the back of a box.  At least he counts and does creative things with them.  I don’t know what he’d do without his little cars and his videotapes that he builds with!!!  Melissa, please take note of the french fry box.  lol   No skins on my fries, please!

Some funny things about the shower.  The girls worked so hard on planning it.  They had so much food that they put together themselves.  They had a wonderful brunch and then they bought this beautiful bakery cake that they FORGOT to serve!!!!!  They also had a guessing game of guess how many peanut butter cups are in the jar that they totally forgot about.  When everyone was gone, they realized they had also forgotten to have everyone fill out their thank-you card envelopes.  We just had to collapse laughing over it.

Next weekend we have our family shower, will be much smaller and more intimate.  Then we have a family shower for the groom’s side of the family.  This shower yesterday was mostly our church family.  It was so wonderful to have so many people show up. 

I have started to become an emotional basket case.  As I was driving to the shower, I realized it’s really happening and I had a little cry and then was totally pulled together when I got there.  :s  

oh…ps   We got the invitations done after the shower and Daddy got some pictures printed and all is well on that front!

Tags: kids, knitting, wedding!

Here I sit at 11:12 pm and wonder if I ever had a minute to think all day!

Hubby woke me up at 6:30 when he left for Bible study.  Don’t laugh, but he always has to tell me the day of the week and where he is going because I am almost always no where near the surface of consciousness when he leaves.   I needed to be up and moving and ready to leave the house by 8.  About 15 minutes after he left, I flew out of bed and was downstairs before I even knew I was awake.  I hate those kinds of starts!  (he told me tonight he almost called to see if I’d gotten up)

Anyway, oldest daughter and I made a run through Starbucks and then picked up my sister and headed to the bridal shop for my appointment.  I tried on about 8 dresses and actually found a few that I liked but picked one finally.  It’s so weird to try on dresses in every size and use clips to make them work…then you pick the color and they order it to be made in China…and if you are like me, you get to pay extra to have it flown from there rather than take the slow boat overseas because if I did it the regular way, I’d have it a month after the wedding.  Since I am short, there is never that dress in stock.  I hope I’m happy with it when I get it because I am stuck with it and suffering from sticker shock right now.  The dress actually has some bling bling to it but is otherwise subtly nice.  I did have lots of fun with my sister and my daughter!

We had to get back to town for her to go talk to the baker about her cake.  She literally dumped me off at my shop to get there on time.  Meanwhile, I got picked right up to go to the little “surprise” birthday party.  My dear friend picked up all of my part (little cakes, strawberries, flowers, etc.) because of my change in plans at the last minute to go dress shopping.  The party was fun and the birthday girl was very appreciative!

The party took place behind her counter at her shop…but it is still always festive.

I got one call from my shop and my cell phone went dead while I was trying to help.  I then dropped in to work for awhile….  I had a customer come in as I was getting a phone call from my bride daughter who was horribly upset because Walmart would not print the engagement picture she had because it was on a disk from the photographer that they had paid big bucks extra to have the rights to the pictures.  They won’t print without a release.  I do understand copyright but how do you explain that to a sobbing girl who is needing them for the invitation-making party tomorrow after the first big shower?  She couldn’t get ahold of the photographer to get the release.  Not sure on what we’ll do on that one yet but she did bring us a digital photo on a disk because I told her we’d take care of it for her when we went on our date tonight.  Get this…the computer at the store would not read the disk.  Dad will deal with this tomorrow while we are at the shower.

As I said, I worked when I had time today. I had two friends stop in and it was fun to sit a minute and visit. When the shop closed, we went back out of town for our date and had #2 daughter and boyfriend double-dating with us.  We spent time at Walmart, Target (getting the utensils that we are to bring w/our shower gifts tomorrow) and Barnes and Noble for coffee and a little quiet time. 

You know what’s cool?  The cafe manager at B&N made a rule that no decaf was to be made after a certain time in the evenings.  The employees said that certain nights, there are customers who only like drip decaf but they were told to make Americanos instead.  I do not really like Americanos.  The baristas started trying to wait as long as they could before they made that last pot so yours truly would get a fresh one.  Then there was a big changeover in staff.  Over the past month or so, they started telling hubby….”you know the drill.  No drip decaf.  Do you want an Americano or drip?”  He’d say “Drip, please” and they’d make it!  Tonight when we walked in, I heard one of the ladies say “Put on the decaf!”  I cannot tell you what a blessing that is to me!  Hubby drinks regular and I drink decaf.  Last week, the one girl who wouldn’t ever make the drip very often was working and I said I thought I’d have an iced latte instead.  She looked at me so surprised and asked if I didn’t want drip?  I said sure! and she made it.  The little things in life that make us feel special should never go unnoticed or unappreciated! 

A few weeks ago, we got to take little boy on our date because we had no sitter that night.  The one lady there in the cafe was pretty intrigued at this little glance into our lives.  I wondered if she’d think about it.  The next time we were there, she asked if we brought our chaperone.  We said no, my mom was back on duty.  She was a little curious and we told her laughingly that’s why we love this quiet time reading and drinking coffee together.  She said, “No wonder you guys come so regularly!”  LOL   She thought he was adorable and he was so well-behaved sitting with his stack of books.  (lest you think it’s always that way….please look the other way if you see me trying to haul him out of the dvd section at Walmart!  Quite another child then.)

When we got home tonight, that dear little boy was ready for bed and we found the usual line of cars on the table.  This isn’t the best representation of that and the boy was tired but as usual, ready to pose for a picture.

He has talked all week how big brother and girlfriend are taking him to see Spiderman 3 Friday.  He counts down the days and yesterday was saying “tomorrow”.  I finally remembered to ask and found out it’s next week…so now we start the count down again.  I’m glad big brother is willing to include him on the big premier because it is totally expected by this little boy! 

Tomorrow starts another day of craziness.  I think I better get used to it for awhile because wedding plans are now in full swing!

Tags: kids, knitting, wedding!, whatever

Warning:  heavy photo content, not much knitting today.

This morning little sis and I went tanning.  Confession:  I am terrified of laying in a tanning bed, but I will stick my legs in a leg tanner.  My brother owns the tanning salon and try as I may, I just cannot get in one of those beds!  At least I can get some reading done while I’m tanning and I’m finally starting to see some color after about 6 visits! 

When we got home, hubby and I took off for big sis’s wedding site so we could get the driving directions written down for the invitations.  When we got home from that, silly little boy got to get his toenails cut.  He HATES it and years ago, his therapist taught us this little trick:

Now this is what was shocking!  That little stinker started trying to pay Dad to stop!  Where in the world did he learn that one????

Then it was time to head off for the hour drive to therapy.  We’ve made it a habit now to go to lunch together then  do some (wedding) shopping before therapy.  Here is a day in the life of one silly little kiddo and his “deester”(sister):

This one is for Melissa.  Take note:  pepperoni, cheese, sauce…that’s all!  And of course, ice water!

We did stop at Target and thankfully Dad didn’t accept the bribe to stop cutting those toenails because he had money to purchase the dvd he has driven us crazy for for weeks and weeks.  He was pretty happy during the rest of the time in the store.  I felt bad because he had $17 in $1 bills and when we got to the register, he wanted to count them out one by one for the cashier, but there was a line and he is very slow and meticulous so I had to tell him we knew there were 17 there and please tell the lady here is $17.  Next time, I will let him count it out for me before we get in line, then coach him to hand it to her and tell her what amount is there.  Learning experience.

After many stops and many frustrations for a boy who just wanted to watch his new dvd, we arrived at his therapy appointment.  This year is the first time in all of his life that we have had to go somewhere for OT services.  We had always had in-home visits, but the one advantage to this is that there are lots of things there he has never gotten to experience.  Can you see the fun he had today?

He had fun in the spandex swing and when she would spin it, every time he came around, he’d yell, “hi, Mom!”  We had to take a pic to show him how funny he looked in there!

Big sis is a good sport and she rises to the occasion every time she is called in to action.

Sometimes I get a little concerned she won’t come along when she has to do things like this:

And then getting out with the help of her brother:

I did get a chance to get some knitting done today.  Sis drove up and back so I knit on my shawl and made good progress.  It is turning out to be an easy knit and I got several rows done.  When I got home, I remembered the linen face cloth I was supposed to be working on so I knit and re-knit until I found a pattern that works.  There isn’t enough progress to show yet, but it should go quickly now.

I spent the evening working on that, visiting with a friend who stopped by…and worked on adding addresses to the wedding invitation list so we can get started on those.  Yikes!!!

I am a little frustrated right now, my internet connection lasts about 3 minutes at a time tonight and I have lost this post 3 times.  I guess it’s time for bed!!!!

Tags: kids, knitting, o-t

It was a difficult day bookkeeping-wise and I have taken my break and now must get back to it, but I knit for awhile on my shawl and I am liking it. 

I’m glad I changed colors and went up a needle size. 

I got stood up tonight for our “mini-date”…hubby got a chance to go to a Mariner’s game so oldest sis and muscleman and I had dinner tonight from our favorite pizza parlor.    Before I get back to my bookkeeping, here is a picture of the little fellow who is now determined to grow big and tall.

He is enjoying seeing himself posted on here…and when I show the pictures to him, he very seriously says “that’s myself”.  I am not sure I’ve ever heard him say that before … usually it’s “that’s ME!”  lol 

Tags: kids, knitting

I am still fiddling around with starting some kind of project, in spite of the fact I have way too many already in progress.  I have been considering shawl patterns and had started the plum one and will probably continue it at some time…but remember I really didn’t want points?  I also have had this other yarn and realized I must be liking it because I have recently gotten two tops in this exact color..and it is more summery.  I wanted a semi-easy knit because I need relaxing right now. 

It is fun dreaming…and I know the started projects I have in my bag right now are not abandoned as some of my others may be destined to be.  I am still enjoying them all, but I do want something to wear that shows.  Everything in my bag is an easy knit and it’s nice to jump from one to another depending on what is going on at the moment. 

I want to add my condolences to the many, many I have seen in blogland for those who lost their lives or were injured or traumatized in any way yesterday Virginia Tech.  It brings back memories of watching in horror as Columbine was happening before our eyes.  My daughter’s very good friend was emailing constantly through that day with prayer requests for a good friend of hers who was missing … and then we found out  she was one of those killed.  It brought it closer to home for us to have an inside look that way.   May those affected yesterday find peace and comfort. 

On a much lighter note, the kids and I were all at my husband’s place of employment last week and I got the chance to get some pictures. This is 3 of the 4 plus a boyfriend. 

In the other room, big sis was playing keyboard and singing

and the wonder boy joins her (and yes…he is often two or three places at once!)

 

and he joined in with the singing

while Dad and I watched with tears in our eyes because he really plays with feeling…sis was singing a beautiful worship song and he played softly and sang along.  He does quite well although he has trouble pounding the foot pedal at the same time he is doing everything else just because of his size.  A musician he truly is at heart. 

Tags: kids, knitting

I frogged the shawl.  I planned to make a different shawl, read the pattern and decided I didn’t feel like fooling around with a provisional cast-on today, especially since I don’t have a crochet hook handy.  I surfed many, many sites looking for something else to knit.  Then I thought what a waste of time…this pattern has the edging knit right into it and the points didn’t look so bad after all.  I re-started it and got almost back to where I had been with very little effort.  I had one funny spot in it before so now that is gone.  Now I don’t plan on filling this blog with pictures of the little imp, but (don’t laugh) he had on a white shirt and I thought it was the best background I could find in the late afternoon light.  He was totally bored and bugged that he had to pose.  The first pic with the smile didn’t show the pattern at all. 

We had a great day.  The kids were all home together and that was fun.  Hubby sang a beautiful song at church this morning and I came home and started dinner after first service.  It was done by the time he got home.  We had the egg hunt for the little imp…he is quite entertaining every year.  We’re still hiding the eggs in pretty obvious places but he tends to only see them one at a time and then laughingly scolds us for putting them there.  He especially got a kick out of the one on the turntable of daddy’s record player (turned on of course!).  We had to get dinner out of the way early so our oldest daughter could get to her fiance’s dinner at 5.  I don’t miss those days…glad to stay home. 

Here’s a picture of our oldest and youngest together.

I do hope everyone had a great day.  Happy Easter!

Tags: kids, knitting