Yesterday, Mr. Knitpho & I celebrated our 14th Wedding Anniversary. FOURTEEN! I ask you, how can we have been married for so long – being as young as we both are. ::wink::
It’s hard to believe that all this time as passed and in my humble opinion – we are better now than we were on the day we got hitched. Way back in 1996.
In these years since we became Mr & Mrs, we left Tucson. We loved life in Chicago. LOVED CHICAGO. What better way to start off your married life together, than to move to a city where neither of you know anyone. You have no family. All you have is each other and a city to explore. Those were 2 fantastic years. Then we embarked on yet another adventure and moved to Massachusetts. Had our baby boy. If that doesn’t seal the bond of marriage… I don’t know what will. Life handed us obstacles and hurdled them the best we knew how. In 2004 .. married not even a decade we were blessed with our princess and this was to complete our family. She certainly adds a certain something to the crew, we would not be the same without her. Life handed us MORE obstacles and they only brought us closer.
Over the years we have set goals individually and supported each other to reach them. We have made (i hope) lifelong friendships and without friends, you’ve got nothin’.
Yes, not every day is sunshine & lollipops. We laugh, a lot. We try to find humor every day, otherwise – we’ll go crazy.
Thank you Mr Knitpho for asking me to marry you.
It’s been fun.
Ever since I decided to jump off the hooking bridge, it has consumed me. Let me tell you something.. it is A LOT harder than knitting. My right is constantly looking for the something in my left hand to work with, and it’s not the yarn!!! I don’t know what stitches are what and it’s all very frustrating not being able to whip copious amount of potholders overnight is just killing me dead.
All that has been put aside for the moment. Since princess M has decided to get super sick, first with strep and then I guess she figured that wasn’t good enough and upped it to walking pneumonia. The kicker is ..she seems fine. But, the minute she gets up and starts moving around – she’s down for the count. She has missed 7 days of school and God willing and with the help of albuterol and zithromax we’ll send her back tomorrow. The upside of this is that the albuterol dose gives her a little buzz and Mr Knitpho and I find this hysterical.
Half Marathon training has “officially begun. I met up with others who are training to run their first half and I still can’t get the voices out of my head telling me I’m crazy and to give up. But, it looks like I’m down with the chest wheezing and throat issues that my little one has, so running right now today.. just is not in my plan. Perhaps a trip to the doctor and some tea though.
My yarn and hook are staring at me. I guess I will give it a whirl and see what I can come up with that resembles crochet.
I’m learning to be a hooker.
Most of my friends are.
They have me convinced I’d be really good at it.
They say just getting past that first time, then I’d get comfortable.
They tell me to relax and enjoy it. I’ll learn. I’ll get it.
I’ll watch tutorials. I’ll read the books. I’ll watch my friends hook.
I’m determined.
I’m so nervous. I hate not knowing how to do something right the first time.
The tool just feels so wrong in my hand.
They say I’ll get to used to it.
I’ll keep you posted on my new adventure…. should be pretty exciting stuff.
(hooker is a really funny word by the way, say it out loud. HOOK- UHR) is it just me?
also .. in case your getting ready to report to DCFS and have my kids taken away.
This is all about learning to crochet.
Time is going by at breakneck speed. Before I know it, the sun has set .. the lights are coming on and it’s jammie time. Dishes. Laundry. Vacuum. Chauffeur. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Repeat.
We had a great winter break with the M’s while they were off school. We had time with friends … and adventures to IKEA. The Olympics have kept our family glued to the TV even more than usual. These athletes are amazing and inspiring. I like to watch the M’s watch the events and the backstories of the athletes. They see where hard work can take a person and how it pays off. You can tell them that is does over and over, but seeing it.. seeing it, is believing it.
Along with watching the Olympics, I’ve been (somewhat) knitting away on my mitten mogul event that I hoped to medal 4x’s. So far, only one medal and I haven’t complete two full sets of knucks. They are *so* easy, but the motivation just isn’t there. My friend asked me… “it’s hard to keep you attention on one thing isn’t it… “ I never really gave it much thought, but when she pointed out specifics.. holy crap was it an eye opener. So, I will power through and hopefully will have a family of knucks by Sunday.
In the meantime this knitter is off to the gym to get the mileage in that I missed out on last week.
Happy Monday!!
Dear Fat Jeans,
I am writing to tell you that our relationship has gone on long enough. You & I can no longer carry on this torrid love affair that we have for each other. You have been in my life long enough making things all too comfortable and oh so easy. But, I have had enough with your stretchy goodness. Quit wooing me with your comfort when I slide you on.. and that button fastens so easily. You know what I’m talking about, don’t pretend that you don’t. Don’t make this harder on me. It’s time.
To make it easy on us both, I will continue seeing you until it just isn’t possible anymore. Until you just hang around and make us both look bad. I will say goodbye to you for good. Prepare yourself, it’ll make it easier. I know what your thinking, that you think I’ll take you back… right away. That I won’t be able to live without you. I’m here to tell you… not this time baby. Not this time. This lady is doing it up bigtime. 13.1 miles big. You read right. I am going to run myself my very first half marathon. June 13, 2010. I won’t have any use for you, ever again. My training has officially started, and you’ll be curbside in no time.
Thanks for memories. We had goooooooooood times.
All my love,
Melody
Posted in Uncategorized on 09. Feb, 2010
I am still totally in love with this project and can’t wait for the temps to warm up and go on adventures with my camera to places undiscovered.
RavOlympics is right around the corner!!!
Have you decided what you’ll be doing for your event this go around? You are competing right? I hemmed and I hawed, but I finally decided on the Mitten Mogul. I will competing in this event 4 times. I decided that it would be a fine time to cast for the knucks and make a pair for each one of us in our family!!! I’ve wanted some for myself for a long time, but I knew that my kids would love them and maybe even Mr. Knitpho would want his own pair once he sees how badass they truly are!
In the meantime, I’ve casted on a Chevron Scarf with hand dyed yarn from one of our own. One is called pumpkin pie & the other is molten. Now, I LOVE purple and I LOVE orange.
So when Dan sat down and this yarn just gravitated toward me and I knew these two together would make the Chevron. I casted on last night, and I’m already in love. A nice little palette cleanser before knuck O rama starts!
Today, I thought I’d share with you, for those of you haven’t seen them … the thrummed mittens I made for my BFF, Holly for her birthday which was Jan19. She lives in Denver and you never know about the weather there. It can be 70 one day, and blizzard the next. That’s what happens when you live in a city with mountains on one side and plains on the other.
I wanted to do something different for Holly, something I had knit yet. She has scarves. Dishcloths. Fetchings. But, I knew the weather had been cold in Denver, so I thought this girl needs a pair of thrums. Then that would be a for sure for the weather to change and warm up so she’d never need to wear them.
Field trip to The Yarn Store in Uxbridge and picked me up some Berroco Vintage in a soft buttery yellow. Now, for thrums you need roving. fiber. unspun yarn. Hmmmm. Did I know where I could get some of this? (laugh track here) Did I know anyone who could hook me up? (laugh track again) Yes, indeedy. You see, more than half of us in our knitting crew are spinners, they all have wheels and spindles and delicious fibery goodness. I have yet to jump on this bandwagon. So, I beg borrowed and stole some fiber goodness from mah friend Steph and started thrumming. I first watched this tutorial and then I started making my thrums. I made a whole bowl full and casted on.
For me they went super quick and I was always so excited to get to the next round. I finished them within a week and sent them to the birthday girl. She loved them. I loved making them for her. Can you feel the love?
outside and the inside
So, now I’m finishing up a bigger project that I’ll have to wait to show you, and RavOlympics is right around the corner!!! Do you have your event picked out?
In July of 2009, Heather had a brilliant idea. She thought it would be fun for us girls in our awesome little knitting group to knit up a pair of mittens and do a secret exchange for our Christmas party! We would have 6months to decide on a pattern and we could knit it up right away, work on them here & there through out the months, or wait to the very last minute like most of us did. Working best under pressure is how we roll.
Heather top secretly gave everyone a fantabulous little homemade project bag, and inside was an envelope that with the name of the knitter we’d be knitting for. We had all traced our hands at a bar over pitchers of Margaritas on my birthday (which is July 5, btw) and the excitement started to build. We all started to tag patterns we loved in Rav and our knitter could knit us something we REALLY wanted or what they REALLY wanted to knit. Now, our group consists of all sorts of levels of knitting goodness, but whatever your level – it wasn’t about how great you could make them, or how fast, it was about that we all just really care for each other, and wanted to knit for that person. Not because we HAD to, because we WANTED to.
I give to you , the finish products of the First Annual Mittenswap 2009.
We decided that it was so much fun and we all just loved it so much, we’re doing it again. So, over margaritas in the middle of summer – we’ll choose our this years swap partner and do it all again!
Here we all are.. yes, most of us are in our jammies. We’re CRAZY I tell you! CRAZY!
It’s a new year, hell it’s a new decade! I figured it was time update the old knitpho homestead and liven things up a bit. Maybe I’ll even like it enough to share my world with you via le blog again, instead of relying on status updates and tweets.
I have a lot of photos to share, knitting, stories about those kids of mine, that husband that can’t live without me, my KRAZY friends and of course last but not least – the pots I love stir.
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