Where have I been?

Sick. I've been sick, along with Spencer. And it hasn't been very fun. Luckily, we're all better now, though. I have lots to say, seeing as it's been a really long time since I last posted (sorry about that) and we've been very busy. Why is it that life doesn't stop when you're not feeling well? I mean, a little consideration...

I did manage to finish Keegan's socks in the generous four days I'd allotted myself. Note to self: DK weight socks CAN be made in a ridiculously short amount of time, but I should never attempt fingering weight socks in a crunch like that. Impossible, for me, at least.

I didn't take official pics of the finished socks, but you can see him opening them here.

He was very excited and tried to put them right on!

He's only five and was sort of freaking out (in a good way) so he needed a little help...

I think he was pleased...

We had a fun night. Here's one I had to show. He decided to "model" this new sweatshirt.

Apparently, my daughter does a lot of pretend modelling and it looks a lot like that. He's only five, maybe he'll pick up a more masculine runway walk?

How can he be so BIG?

A day or two later, it snowed for the first time here. Now, we have had some flakes already this year, but they didn't stay, so they don't count. I am not sure which day we did get the snow, as I was sick and sort of out of it, but I want to say it was Tuesday the 20th. The kids got all excited, but it didn't last long.



You can see the flakes falling a little bit. I know, it's a little blurry because of the screen in the window. Next time, I'll do better. I was sick! This snow counts because it lasted an hour or maybe a bit more and you can see how it collected on the ground and in the trees. Can you believe how many leaves are still on the trees in my yard? They only pick up leaves in my town until the first week in December, but lots of mine haven't even FALLEN yet! It's a problem every year...

I realize that my snow pics aren't so wonderful. Did you see the Yarn Harlot's pictures of snow recently? They are amazing! Take a peek here. Um, on second thought--don't. Mine are so terrible next to hers. Maybe finish reading and look at the Yarn Harlot's stuff tomorrow. Yeah. That's it. Tomorrow.

All right, I have to apologize--for some reason the pics on here are crazy-large. I don't know why. They aren't that big on photobucket, but they are here. And I keep resizing them, but it hasn't helped. I reposted the whole thing, but that hasn't helped. I even manually dragged the corners around to make 'em smaller, but then the pictures got all distorted and weird. Funny, actually. But weird. So I just left them big. Hmmm...maybe if I left them weird and distorted, but longer, I'd look thinner? ...Possibility.

Hopefully by the time you read this, I will have fixed the technical difficulties. But if not, I am sorry that they're big and probably take forever to load, and --my personal pet peeve-- you'll have to drag the bar around to see the whole picture. Ugh. Can't stand that.

I do have a lot more to say and update you on, but I have been at this post for about 2 hours now, and I am going insane. I will get more up soon, but right now I need a time-out. And possibly a strong drink.

Now you know I just tried to post it and it's all messed up again. Every time I preview and then try to post, I double spaces anywhere I have a single space, and takes out one space between each sentence! Ahhh!! I am gonna lose it...

(Calm now.)

More later.