Team Over committed or should I be committed?

June 13,2011

Suddenly   baby knitting jumped up two notches this past week.   A friend's daughter is expecting  and the shower in at the end of the month.   I cast on my favorite sweater  the Pure and Simple baby cardigan.   using a bright and cheerful colorway of  Bernat baby stretch yarn.      I'm nearly done with the body.

last Tuesday my mother called to tell me that  a family friend is adopting a newborn. The baby was born early last week.   So of course  such dear friends needed a hand knit baby sweater for the little one. On Wednesday, I set aside all my knitting to cast on the 5 hour baby boy sweater.   I  finished it on Sunday afternoon.

the Culver's Knit wits are having a   KAL ( knit along)  for the Bundles of Love project.   It's the maile sweater.  I have two skeins of koigu that was given to me to be used for charity knitting.   its a red/orange/hot pink  colorway.    this morning I casted on another baby sweater.

I have an insanely long list of WIP right now.  Two scarves for birthday gifts.   two pairs of socks for Kris
a vest for Mom, a sweater for me  and a sweater for hubby.  duffers and a pair of children's slippers.  

When I"m not knitting, I'm  keeping house,   enjoying these cool summer days  because we know the heat will come...  and  having regular date nights with Kris.

this weekend we went to Super 8.  I enjoyed it and  I think our nephews will like it even better than we did.
After the movie , we had supper at Qfanatic  the barbeque place in Champlin on 169  just south of the  bridge over the Mississippi  on 169.   The food there is fantastic.   Kris had brisket sandwich with the vodka barbeque sauce and the baked beans.  I enjoyed pulled pork sandwich and mac and cheese  (which is simply awesome!)

Monday mornings bring laundry chores and cleaning.   I'm going to pull on some sweats and knit for an hour before the rain comes.    Enjoy the day!

Memorial Day weekend

Friday

Mother Bear Project  meet up at All About Yarn.   We knitted and chatted  afterwards enjoyed lunch at Applebee's.

Kris and I had a very quick supper at Burger King and then went to see Bridesmaids.    It has a couple of  funny moments  but the  bathroom humor really turned me off.  

Saturday

 Doctor's Appointment then Grocery Shopping and lunch out at Alzteca   and a quick run to the post office to remail our kids mail

Sunday

Picked up our flowers for the hanging baskets.     cool and looks like rain all day long.

I finished  the Window pane cardigan from the one skein  wonder for sock yarn book.

 

thomas wolfe was so wrong

You can go home.    I did for about 10 days to visit my parents, celebrate my birthday, visit the botannical garden, and visit family favorite places

Chicago  May 15-26

the chicago botannical garden is a very favorite place to visit.

A trip to Lutz's cafe on Montrose

yummy and artistic.

I came home  on Thursday May 26th  to home that was as clean as I left it.  Travel is fun but  my own bed is wonderful.

Another Year Older

May 13,  2011

My age is a prime number this year.  47 years on this planet.  My sweetie treated me to   supper out at Ruby Tuesday and went to see Jane Eyre.   the boys gave me birthday wishes via  the droid.

A morning at Feed My Starving Children charity.

Tuesday May 11,  2011

A group of  the knit wit charity group met  at FMSC  to help package  meals.   Our group mixed in with the other volunteers.  77 volunteers  prepared 89 boxes of meals .   This will provide 19,000 meals or feed 54 children  for one year.

Here is a link to their site  http://www.fmsc.org/page.aspx?pid=453

Please read about this wonderful faith based organization.  Donate if you can and  shop at their marketplace.
FMSC  overhead is very low 94 cents of every dollar donated directly benefits hungry children.   All food is packed by volunteers in either Minnesota or Illinois.

It was a very upslifting experience.  

Kevin's Wedding

Kris' younger brother Kevin got married on May 7th.     I'm really not sure who was happier the bride and groom or their kids.   It was a most happy day.   Photos to be shown later on. ( I  think it's appropriate to ask the bride and groom's permission to post photos of their kids on  my blog  and I haven't gotten around to this yet)

Motherbear at Turtle Bread Bakery

May 5, 2011
Dulcie was kind enough to drive our merry band from  Coon  Rapids  to help put the finishing touches on the bears.    Connie, Marcie, Judy, Kim, Linda, Dulcie and  I    sewed on red felt hearts and  Marcie  checked tags.

here is a description of the Mother Bear Project  lifted directed from their website:
The Mother Bear Project is dedicated to providing comfort and hope to children affected by HIV/AIDS in emerging nations, by giving them a gift of love in the form of a hand-knit or crocheted bear. 

http://www.motherbearproject.org/

After we finished up at Turtle  bread  a very lovely cafe whose owners kindly allow the mother bear project to take over  the back room  one morning a month.   Thank you Turtle Bread!

We enjoyed a lunch at  a nearby diner and stopped at Needlework Unlimited to look at yarn.