Been Knitting a fair bit

After I made one of the knitted hoods like the main character in The Golden Compass wears for another little girl, Caleigh decided that's what she wanted for her birthday. She chose a yarn with lots of bright colours in it that I wasn't sure looked all that great in the skein, but looks great knitted up(I think). I just have to finish with the tie-cords and it's done, well in advance of her birthday!

I'm also part way through a ruffled hat for a friend's soon to be born neice. I'm not using the yarn called for in the pattern, but the baby yarn I had on hand was in boy colours(blue and green), and this one has pinks, green, and brown in it.

I'm a Nervous Nelly

I've got my OB appointment tomorrow, and I'm getting really nervous. Ever since I started feeling better after the kidney stone episode I haven't been feeling any movement at all. I probably won't sleep all that well tonight(and won't relax until I get to hear the heartbeat on the doppler).

What a way to end the weekend

Sunday morning, I started getting some pain in my lower left back that started to spread to my lower left front that was, at times, so excruciating that I couldn't breathe(even shallow breaths). After taking 2 extra strength tylenols with no relief, we made the call at 2 to go to the ER. The wait to be seen was about 4hrs, but the nurse on the triage desk said it sounded to her like something to do with my kidneys, so she got an iv of fluids and my labs started to try to help out. It took from the time I got in/registered at around 3 until 6:30pm for me to get any pain relief meds(morphine and some gravol for the vomiting due to the intense pain). Turns out she was absolutely right. I've got kidney stones, and the radiologist who did the u/s this morning(after going home from the ER last night with an rx for percocet and tamsulosin) said that the pain yesterday was probably from one passing. The tech also gave me a peak at baby, who was moving around like crazy(which I could start to feel yesterday after the pain was under control). Hopefully I won't have to go through that pain any more. I'll be calling my GP and my OB tomorrow to fill them in(I was going to do that today, but I napped right through until after the time when their offices would've been closed).

They're Done!!!!!

I finally got Kevin's socks done on Saturday. A month and two days late for his birthday, but at least they're done before the cold is gone :)

Now that the cat's out of the bag

with pretty much all the immediate family, I'm gonna update here about what Kevin, the kids and I will be up to come July of this year:


Yep, you're seeing it correctly, that's another little Murnaghan there(12wks and change when the U/S was done just a few days before Christmas). The EDD is the 4th of July, but given my history, it'll probably be more like the 10 or so.

It's been so long

I just realized today that I haven't updated my blog since before Christmas(I guess that's the downside of being super busy with baking and knitting right before the holidays, oh, and having the 4yo back at home on school break and getting into all kinds of mischief with her 2yo brother). The fireplace is up and running(beautifully and so easily, I might add), Christmas gift knitting is almost 100% complete(just a couple of things for my brother, his gf and her girls that I didn't want to even try shipping before Christmas).