Last week was a disaster of epic proportions. It seems to be continuing into this week. I'm putting my foot down now and saying no more crappy week. Wanna know what happened? First off last Monday, my DD who never gets sick got really really sick, she was running a fever around 102 and her tonsils were huge... ugh. So she went on antibiotics Monday evening. Monday night or very early Tuesday morning my 6 yo DS started throwing up and running a fever, never showed signs of the cold my daughter had, not swollen tonsils just throwing up. Tuesday evening all of the kids (minus the 6 yo) climbed in our van to go to wal-mart to get some jello, crackers, sprite and such for DS. By the way wal-mart is about a 30 minute drive for us! Crazy huh? So on the way there DS 22 month old, reaches in his diaper gets poop and smears it on his carseat! Yuck, so we had to pull over and deal with that. When we finally got back on the road we decided that Taco Bell sounded like a good choice for dinner and we would make a quick stop on the way home. About 10 minutes away from wal-mart it started looking pretty stormy. By the time we got to wal-mart's parking lot it looked like a hurricane was about to hit (yes, in the middle of Missouri!) Carts were flying across the lot like crazy, I dodged two then one hit us head on! Lol, its kind of funny now a week later, but at the time I was pretty not happy. Luckily it just hit the license plate holder and dented it pretty badly. We decided that we should go to Taco Bell and then come back to wal-mart because no one wanted to get out in the crazy wind and rain. Then the power went out in town and they closed Taco Bell where they couldn't take orders. We ended up at Sonic on the opposite end of town. Finally got groceries and got home. That night both 6 and 4 yo DS's were throwing up and had fevers. Luckily the 4 yo got over it all pretty quickly. 6 yo DS continued to be sick the rest of the week. On Friday morning I got up and cooked breakfast right after I noticed a burning smell in our house. The fire alarm went off shortly and I told the kids to get out. Good point of all of this is they followed our emergency fire plan to a T, and went to their spot and waited for me to come out to get them. I can't tell you how proud of them I am for doing this. Anyway back to me in the house trying to figure out what is burning..... turns out it was some sort of connection to our ac/furnace motor! Yep it burned out in the middle of July! One of the hottest days we've had all year! On the good side of things, I'm happy the house didn't burn down..... but still it was so hot we felt like we were on fire. We had to wait for my hubby to come home for Lunch and then we went to get parts an hour away. Luckily DH is my hero and had it fixed in time for bed Friday night. So needless to say knitting/spinning was a total no go last week most of the week. I did happen to finish some socks this weekend. I'm posting pictures of those at the end of the post. DS woke up this morning with some pretty extreme pink eye. Oh and this weekend I messed up a pair of colorwork mitts horribly when I went to pick up stitches for the thumb I dropped a bunch of stitches somehow and just kept making a bigger mess of it all the more I tried to make it right. I need a tutorial for the next time I drop stitches while doing colorwork because I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it all back on and still in the pattern. :( But I am determined that will be the end of our bad luck... Only good things coming our way for the rest of this year!
I decided before my horrible week that I was going to try to do as many patterns out of Cookie A's Sock Innovation book by the end of the year and I think I'm going to be mainly using Sunshine Yarns for most if not all of it. So here is my start the first pattern in the book Glynis knit using Sunshine Yarns Classic Sock colorway Eclipse. Here's the pictures ;)
