Because it’s a new year, we make those resolutions to you know, lose weight, save money, give more, take less.. blahblahblah. Well no resolutions for me this year, well maybe one – to find a job. I haven’t worked for anyone else besides my kids in SO long, I hope I remember how. I do love to be out and social and meeting people..so I hope to find something here in this small town that lets me do all that and that and get paid for it. So..send good job vibes my way.

In the meantime .. I have been knitting! So here’s a few pics of what I’ve done in past 6 months or so..

First and this is by far my most favorite of projects.. I knit this for one of my nearest and dearest and her husband for their wedding gift. The Umaro Blanket by Jared Flood. It turned out So amazing.. pictures do not do it justice. The happy couple were SO touched and by dumb luck..it matched their house perfectly! Love those two to pieces! The wedding was amazing, I was lucky enough to stand up for her as her maid of honor and I had the best 5 days in Atlanta.

Then the girls and I did our annual swap. We nixed mittens this year because they are bad luck. Something bad has happened within our group every year since we did it.. so we stopped those damn things! I’d like to give you details, but .. that’s for my life story one day.

It’s all a super secret swap, and I got Heather this year.. and I was SO excited, since she knit me some amazing mittens last year!
So I made Gyre for her!

All the girls cowls turned out lovely and Kristin knitted this one for me…

I skyped with the girls as they had their party in MA and me in CO.. we all opened our stuff and thank god for webcams because it’s the next best thing to being in the room wtih them! THEN they sent me a HUGE box with all the cookies they made for the cookie exchange and a few extra goodies for me and the kids. How lucky can I get? Seriously!?

Then lastly.. I whipped these up for our family white elephant/yankeeswap whatever the hell you wanna call it. These were a lot of fun to knit, but I needed them to be perfect so I had to redo the left one a few times..but by the 4th or 5th frog, I got it!
and the recipient my 21 year old cousin got them & loved them!!!

I am missing my knitting group something fierce..but thankfully I have a couple of new knitters that I’ve been showing the way of the needles to and they caught on right away!

It’s good to be back to the old blog.. hope to be writing a lot more and knitting more too!

Well, 2011 was by far the hardest year of my life so far. Sadly a few months into the year my marriage ended. I struggled through the tears, questions, feeling like a failure, trying to remain strong and be a mom at the same time, trying to accept it and understand what was in store for my future. Thoughts and emotions run all over the place when you go through something like this. I mean, we all know someone who’s been divorced and you’re there for them the best you know how. But, until you actually are going through it, it’s impossible to understand the roller coaster of emotions.

I have packed up my life and moved back to my hometown in Colorado. I feel at peace here and comfortable. However, I do wake up every morning, missing my home, my family of 4, being a wife and homemaker, my dear friends that were my rocks during this whole ordeal. It’s hard to adjust to a new life, but there is only one way to go and that’s forward.

2011 wasn’t all bad. I learned to depend on others. I learned that it’s ok to not be strong all the time. My friends threw me an AMAZING 40th birthday party, my best friend flew in to surprise me. I went to the beach, a lot! I got to see that same friend marry the love of her life and stand up next to her at her amazing wedding. I made new amazing friends who I feel like I’ve known my whole life. I became friends again with the man who I had drifted apart from. I drove across the country and didn’t get lost once! Not too shabby of a list considering all things.

I have made only one resolution this year. Which is to just work on me. With this resolution, everything else should fall into place. If I’m better, everything else will be better too. Right?

Among resolutions.. there are goals. Which is to do more running races, learn to crochet, get my kids living the Colorado lifestyle, and tell my parents each dayhow much I appreciate them.

Well my friends, I wish you a wonderful 2012 full of laughter, a few tears to keep it all even and much happiness.

Cheers!

Between the dumbass one hour time change, we watched THE WALKING DEAD on AMC. Do you like zombies? I do and this show is a lot of fun to watch. Just started a couple of weeks ago and we are hooked! But after both episodes I’ve watched, I’ve had bad dreams – about zombies. Last night, I upped the nightmare challenge and watched two episodes of Dexter. So, I tried to fall asleep to the tune of zombies and serial killers. I’m wicked smart. The wind was howling outside and the sleet & snow was hitting the house, that didn’t help my crusade to fall asleep. Finally, I can feel myself drift off to hear the cries of M2 for her mama. I staggered zombie-esque style down the hallway to the unsettling whaling and finally crawl in bed with the miss kick me all night long. I wanna say I got a good 2-3 solid hours of sleep last night. I jinxed myself, for everyone sleeping in past 9 am on Saturday morning. I should have never said anything out loud.

I hope for some good zzzzz’s tonight, but usually – this is the start of a bout with insomnia. But I am going to blame daylight savings, because it’s always someone elses fault other than my own.

Thank goodness for zombie TV & Dexter on Netflix streaming .. just in case.

me: Miles? They seem to be coming from your room? Do you have food in here?
Miles: huh? no. only that rotten banana that I threw away in the garbage can.
me: WHAT! OMG. your kidding… From DURANGO! ?? 3 WEEKS AGO?!
Miles: uh, yeah.. I guess so.

Lovely… just lovely. So, I made him empty his garbage and he was SO grossed out by it.. I’m like.. dude? are you for realz?

It was funny though, I couldn’t help but laugh …

Saturday.. a “quick” run and then watching it rain like a bitch all day long. I mean RAIN… sheets,buckets,downpour kind of rain. Then me & my peeps were off to a party at my friend Erins house, good food, good beer, good friends – and the husband stayed behind with the kiddies .. what more could a girl ask for? Girl time, it’s what ever mom needs to make it through …. life.

Today.. I went to lunch with a dear friend to celebrate our birthdays and have girl talk. We go to lunch at a local yummy Italian restaurant and WTF.. no lunch menu on Sundays? $20 for a hunk of lasagna? $12 for Bruschetta… we sat down, and stared at the dinner prices and dinner menu for a 1p lunch.. we were so rebellious, we got up and left. I’m so sure, we’re all about good food and lovely atmosphere, but serving dinner only on a Sunday VIA? Your STOOOOPID!
So, we found another yummy restaurant and had LUNCH at LUNCHTIME and then of course hit Starbucks.

Mr Knitpho got a great ride in and avoided the rain and I watched a bunch of gross but funny boys practically kill each other. Hula hooped,jumped rope, colored with sidewalk chalk and laughed til I cried with my Mia.

As Sunday comes to end, and True Blood is about to come on, the wine is about to be poured and the kids will be put to bed.

I am thankful for a fantastic family, amazing friends and a great first weekend of summer.

Last week, Mr. Knitpho got sick. I know, your thinking oh no..Poor Mrs Knitpho. We all know how those menfolk can get when the sniffles settle in. MANFLU! But, he wasn’t exaggerating, and he was really sick! It was so real infact, that he passed it along to me and well, he was fine & dandy a few days later and I’m lucky enough to still be illin’. Not as lucky as dear daughter. She started with the sniffles, then the cough, then her eye got a little gunky, then the other eye.. then her ears started to hurt. So, I finally decided that my medical degree from I don’t know shit univeristy wasn’t going to cut it, and took her to the see the doc. Well, turned out – she’s sick! She (has/had) 1 full blown ear infection, the start of another in the other ear. Sinus Infection. Pink eye.. both eyes! And ..your common cold to give it a nice rounding effect. Did she like, lick a door knob somewhere and lick her own eyeballs? I swear! So, we’re pretty much quarantine until things start to clear up. The meds have broke ground and I see can a very small light at the end of the tunnel. But wait, let me go clear the crap from the corner of my eye and go rub them so they stop itching. Yup… I think it’s making it’s way to mama.

So, I feel like we’ve been home since the beginning of time. I was thankful for last Saturday and being able to go out on a ‘date’ with my husband – we got to see Slumdog Millionaire, and if you have not seen it.. go! It is fantastic!!! I am also very lucky the mister took over and I got to hang with the knitting crew for much needed laughter and relaxation AND knitting. Except I had to come home and frog the 4″ ribbing that I did, cuz I used the wrong size needles. Dang!

Stay healthy and have a great weekend!

Early bed times for everyone! Cuz it’s a SCHOOL NIGHT!

How was your Halloween? Did you get lots treats… and I certainly hope you didn’t get tricked!! Another Halloween is behind us and the trek out for candy was a total success. We parked at Stephs..and hit the streets. Both of the kids held their own and Mia only got annoyed toward the end when her witch hat started to blow off and then Miles lost his mask in a pile of leaves…on the darkest street possible. But with a teenytiny flash light.. I found it! The candy bags were HEAVY and it was time to be done.. except we made one stop at Jens and there we found wine & beer and a lot of laughs .. then it was off to see the fam and invade their household til Halloween was officially over. The kids were full of candy – and became comatose on the couch with TV and Mia eventually fell asleep. I honestly cannot remember a better Halloween … bring on November! Birthdays! Elections! TURKEY!

It’s NABLOPOMO by the way … so in an effort to give it a go .. I”ll be trying to update EVERYDAY! What a concept.

Tuesday, I pick her up from school- the teachers said she got very weepy when it was time clean up and get ready for home. The teacher tells me, we have a lot of kids crying to not come to school and leave their mom, mine? She doesn’t want to leave school and come home TO mom.

Wednesday, I pick her up from school – I can hear her SOBBBBBBBING all the way down the hall way… “I DON’TWANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNA GOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOMMMMMMMEEEEEEE” OMG? What!? She rounds the corner and the teacher says… she’s doesn’t go home. (with a snarky little smile, that I may or may not have imagined) At this point, I am embarrassed and I’m trying to calm her down, but more tears are falling and she can’t even breath she’s crying so hard. Ummm. It’s not like she comes home and I lock her in her cage and let the rats & dogs take over and she goes back to becoming a feral child and has to eat scraps of porkfat and moldy bread that I shove through the bars of her cage. I advised the teachers to please not call family services, that she does have quite the nice little home life and not look at me funny.

By the way, my mother thinks this is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo funny.

*a tish a tosh a razzamatazz.. is a song M leanred in school yesterday, along with jazzhands.. it’s quite the little number that is NOW STUCK IN MY BRAIN!

First off, thanks for the birthday wishes for my baby boy, who’s actually not anywhere near being a baby. He had a fantastic birthday and birthday weekend. Of course, his birthday extravaganza turned into LETS HAVE A DRINKFEST, and mama woke up with quite a little headache!

In other news, I FAILED the knitting Ravelympics. I took a quite a big project, and I do believe I would have finished, however – the Olympics just happen to coincide with the most busiest 2 weeks ever. I tried to knit as much as I could, but one huge realization that hit me square between the eyes, I do not have 4 to 5 hours a day to knit. Who knew? But.. it’ll get in time for baby to come, which the dates keeps getting pushed back. We don’t want to talk about that with the mama though – it’s a sensitive subject. So here it is: Blanket as WIP:

I am in love with it, and I can’t wait to for the little bambino to make himself OR herself shown!

So, we have one more day of the this Labor Day weekend – and the weekend thus far was fantastical. Birthdays! Beers! Presents! Sparklers! GOLF! and .. then some much needed outdoor quite time for this mama.

Ahhhh. Sweet Silence.

Damn mosquitoes.