A really fun morning!

We went to a mini open house( organized by some members of a local group on Ravelry)at a local fibre and meat producing farm in the Pontiac area this morning. The owners of the farm are very friendly, wonderful people who told us about their operations, showed us around, and let the kids run mildly wild (climbing on the tractor and the Polaris) while trying to pet the horses and some of the sheep and goats. Caleigh discovered where eggs come from(bonus is we got to bring home 5 farm fresh-meaning still warm-eggs). I picked out some roving, but wasn't prepared enough, so I brought 1 home with me, and the rest have my name and # on them to be paid for/picked up very soon(probably next weekend).

It's Been A While

Life has been busy with Caleigh going to school now, so it's been a while since I've updated the blog. School seems to be going well for her with only a few issues of not following the rules with one of her teachers. Oh, and not being able to cut with scissors(which we didn't know was on the list of required skills).

We're slowly getting ready for putting in the fireplace insert(and our mondo mega huge delivery of wood next weekend). Kevin took the measurements yesterday, now all we have to do is transfer those to a drawing or two, make copies and get them in to the City so they can digest them and spit out a building permit.

I've decided that it's time I learned some new tricks. I've put in a request for a copy of a parenting book that I've heard about to see if any of the advice in there might help with my relationship with both Caleigh and Aidan. I hope that it does.

The other new trick that I'm teaching myself is to knit in the Continental style. I just started playing around with it last night, and it seems to be not too bad. Now, if I can just ease up on my tension while knitting this way, I'll be okay.

What a week!

We've been slowly settling in to our new routine with Caleigh going to school every day, Kevin being home, and fall in full swing. On his return trip, his original connection through Chicago got cancelled, and he didn't get home until about 1am Saturday morning, without his luggage-again. United Express is NOT all that popular with us, as this is about the 3rd trip they've misplaced his bags, usually getting them to him the next day, but this time it took almost a week! On the bright side, the bag was in one piece and had everything in it, including the cutest stuffed buffalo for Aidan, a South Dakota shirt for Caleigh with a pheasant on it, and some beautifully squishy soft, beautiful yarn for me. I'll have to get pics of the kiddos with their souvenirs and post them later, but for now, here's my yarn(that Kevin had to walk through a knitting group at the lys in Sioux Falls to get for me).

First Day of School!

And it didn't go over too well at the beginning, but from the sounds of things, once she got inside, she was fine. She was very upset that I was leaving her there, and really didn't want me to go, and I was crying by the time she finally went in the door with the teacher, but she seems happy as a little clam now(we went to Michaels -where I let her pick out some sock yarn for me to make socks for her with; then to Ikea for a hot dog lunch). The only pictures I have are the happy ones prior to the attempted separation (which is a good thing, believe you me).

On Our Own

Again. Kevin flew out to South Dakota today for a week. It's gonna either be a really long week, or a very short one. It's too early to tell.

Caleigh has her very first day of school on Wednesday morning. I can't believe that I have a school aged child :(

I'm hoping to get some knitting done for myself this week. I've brought the lace scarf that I put on hold out of hibernation and am taking some quiet time in the evenings to work on it.

It's Almost Done!!

The second pedi sock that is. What with everything going on around here(Kev being away so much, parties, getting Caleigh ready for school) knitting got put on hold for a bit, but I'm glad to report that I have only a quarter of an inch left on the sock, then I can bind off, get them washed and blocked, and then sent off to my friend so she can send them off to their intended recipient.

Busy End of Month

It's been a while since I've really had time to catch up on my blog. We had Aidan's party, then went to visit with my parents this past weekend after getting the car serviced when we discovered it was leaking something all over the driveway. Turns out it was the transmission fluid filter that had failed. The car acted up on the drive down and home on Saturday, so now it has to go back in to be checked out. Hopefully when the tech takes it out while hooked up to the diagnostic computer it acts up for them. I also hope that it isn't the transmission, or if it is, we can get it sorted out before Kevin goes away on Sunday. I'm worried that it'll conk out while he's away.

I'll be needing to make an appointment for Aidan to have his immunizations, but we still haven't gotten his replacement health card, even though we sent the application to renew it in back in July. If it's not one thing, it's another