little lovelies handmade

The One Where She Tells Us How Tired She Is.

I know you are all soooo sick of me whining about how crappy I feel. I know this, but hey it's my blog and I can complain if I want to. I really am sick of feeling sick. I think I may be working on a very very slight infection but so far they say everything I am feeling is within the range of "normal". I think it will be easily remedied with a saltwater gargle and sleep. Both of which I should do right now because I am tired and still technically recovering. But I am typing and then I need to wrap a coupla presents.

My smarty pants son went into my office to find a book and saw this toy. He ran to me soooo excited "Mom, is that pirate ship for meeee?" to which I immediately replied, "No, son, its for Uncle Rhys (who is 19, but in his mind who wouldn't love that gift?)." He surveyed me for a second to see if I was serious and I kept my cool. He then said to me "I don't like you right now." He didn't say it meanly, it was disappointment coupled with a matter-of-fact-ness that said "I don't really want to not like you right now, but you forced me into it when you disappointed me so." I told him that was fine, he doesn't have to like me all the time and then he was over it just like that. But that did tell me there were a few presents that need to be wrapped, because Santa just doesn't have the energy to hide things better.

So, I will wrap, then sleep. Aaaaah, who am I kidding? I am totally going to bed right now. 

By the way, the next time Aaron and I undergo his and hers procedures the first person better be fully recovered before the next one goes under. You know, because we plan to make a habit out of this.

It can't be the drugs...

Because obviously I can figure out how to crochet the hat. It is coming out much smaller than I expected and I even used a bigger hook than the pattern called for, so it won't be for Peanut, but for one of the myriad of upcoming babes due in the spring. So far two of them are girls, so I may be able to produce one for each of them. I know it looks a bit like a mess now, but once it is done and beribboned I am confident it will be worthy of gift giving.

Do you think that Aaron could handle navigating the craft store to buy me some more crochet thread? He's been such a trooper the last few days, today especially, so maybe I should spare him the agony of searching for something that could so easily end up being the wrong thing. He's been too good to me to do that to him!

Thanks so much!

Thanks for the well wishes and emails and phone calls and flowers and general good cheer this week! It has been a "rough quarter for the Bones" as Aaron says and he is right. He or I have been sick in one way or another since the end of September and it has worn us out. Thankfully yanking our tonsils should ensure that 2008 will be a better year health wise. I say should, because, well, us Bones are rather familiar with Murphy's Law if you know what I mean.

I'm still feeling pretty crappy, in fact the doctors failed to tell me that I will be feeling increasingly worse for about a week after the surgery and then will wake up miraculously feeling great. Damn. And here I was all excited on Tuesday and Wednesday that I felt so great and this would be a cake walk. Yesterday I could neither eat cake or walk without feeling like I would lose my lunch of freeze dried mashed potatoes. Yum.

At any rate I am sure you are as bored of hearing about how I feel as I am bored of feeling how I feel. I just wanted to show off this super cute hat pattern that I will be attempting while I sit on the couch watching tv for the next coupla days. I think peanut needs it to complement her vintage looking wool coat. I just hope it isn't beyond my meager crochet skills. I don't know if it was the vicodin or me, but the baby booties I was making yesterday practically killed me. I' m choosing to believe it was the drugs.

Painful Weightloss Program

My wife is pretty trusting to give me the opportunity to blog on her behalf today.  This morning, she got her throat hacked up and had her tonsils removed (of which the Doctor said were big and nasty).  That is phase one of this weight loss program - getting parts of your body cut out and thrown away.

Phase two will come over the next several days since she will only be able to drink liquids and eat soft foods.  However, earlier today she was able to eat two bowls of rice (which is something I normally would only get excited about for our two year old).

The picture here is of the bandage left from the IV they put into her for the surgery.  She has had bad experiences in the past during child birth with IVs.  Normally, it would take "the best nurse in the hospital" several attempts (i.e. vicious jabs of a needle) into her arms to successfully get the IV working.  Today, however, her nurse got it in one try!  This immediately qualified her to be included in our will.

Everything went very well today, she was in and out in about 3 hours and is resting comfortably at home with the assistance of Mr. Vicodin.

We're very blessed to have generous family and friends (including a boss who let's me take time off) who are helping with the kids and providing tons of food for me and the kids to eat.

Lest anyone get overwhelmed with sympathy for Claire, my turn is next week.  Since we've both been so sick with throat infections lately, I also won the tonsillectomy lottery.   Woohoo!

The Husband

Think Before You Pledge Handmade!

As in think about how many weeks are left till Christmas...think about the ridiculously slow pace you do everything...think about the fact that in the weeks leading up to Christmas two of them will be spent away from home and two more will be spent recuperating from a minor surgery...and then refrain from pledging.

But anyone who has known me longer than five minutes knows that the whole thinking before speaking/acting thing really isn't something I do very often. Or ever. So naturally none of these things were put into play when I signed the pledge and now I am sitting here the eve of my tonsillectomy (wish me well!) realizing that an all handmade holiday really isn't within reach for me. I'll keep trying, but you know, life, got in the way this year.

I did embroider these little chef's hats for my kids. Nope I didn't make them myself, but I did add my touch. Hey, if I succeeded at all the stuff I set out to do this would be a really boring blog, wouldn't it?
Anyway, these are the contributions to a Handmade Holiday that I have so far this year. There are more projects on the back burner to help ease my recovery, but we'll see how that goes. It might just be the year of the Granny Square after all. Heck I have been working on that project since last fall, so why not?

If blogging is sparse next week it is because the vicodin they gave me is making me too nauseous to type. Oh and the green things on the blue hat are supposed to be pickles. My husband informed me that they do not look like pickles.

Home again...

And thankfully we have no big trips planned for the foreseeable future. We survived Disneyland with a pre-schooler and a toddler! It really was a great trip - one that made me realize what great little monkeys we have. These kinds of trips can tend to bring out the worst in kids, but thankfully (this time) mine were really really great. No meltdowns, very minimal whining, and general flexibility and good attitudes was the norm for Monkey Boy.  Even when after standing in line for awhile several rides had to go "off line" and we had to do something else, he went cheerfully on to the next thing.

Please don't think I am bragging at how great my kids are-I'm just as shocked by the good behavior as the next guy. Not to say that I expected him to behave like a demon child, but he is almost four and Disneyland is a sensory overload even for adults. Let's just say I was prepared for a re-run of last time.

I won't bore you with vacation details that no one cares about except those who are related to us (and even them not so much). I didn't start on the embroidery that I thought I would, but I did get a bunch of crochet granny squares done. Crochet is making a comeback around here. With all the babies due in the next few months I feel the need to start a baby bootie sweat shop.

Lingerie Bag inspiration

Due to a crazy schedule of laundry, shopping and vacation packing the rest of this week's blogs will take place in photo form!

hopefully by the time we get back from Disneyland I'll have my own version to show you. As long as I don't get carsick on the way down!

Distrust...

Due to a crazy schedule of laundry, shopping and vacation packing the rest of this week's blogs will take place in photo form!