Look at those pumpkins straining around those melons. These boys sure have grown. Just a refresher, three months ago this was them:
I know I’ve used that picture this week already, but really. They’ve grown so much. I am so thankful that they’ve had almost no problems leaving the NICU behind them and turning into big, strong, healthy (and occasionally cheerful) baby boys. Sigh.
Also, as an aside, I’ve decided on blog names for them (finally). I’ll be calling them Tommy and Teddy, in remembrance of a pair of names that got nixed at a very late date. So…Max, Charlie, Tommy, Teddy – it’s like my alternate-reality family!
Today is the day that, after weeks (even months) of waiting, the snow that has been flirting with us decided to come down the way it’s supposed to. Aaaaahhhhhhh. It’s so nice to look out the window and finally see winter. Not only that – but we woke up to a phone call telling Greg that he wasn’t required to be at work until 10 am. (I didn’t even ask, but I bet it’s because of the snow – they needed to plow the roads!) That meant that we finally had some free time during daylight hours for my (patient, loving, long-suffering…love you, honey!) husband to play photographer. You see, I needed some better photos of this:
than I could take myself. (Look at that snow! Isn’t it beautiful? It’s still falling, too…it’s got to be at least a foot deep now.) I don’t know if you recall, but I made this cape last winter – I even got the pattern resized and tested before everything fell on top of me! It was just waiting for some better photos.
These definitely fit the bill. Thanks, honey! You know, I wasn’t even cold (except for my nose, and well – that happens) because the Cinnamon Cape is so nice and thick and warm and smooshy.
I’d also just like to point out that today is January 13th, and I have already published three patterns this month. While yes, technically all three were patterns where the bulk of the work had been done previously, three patterns is all I managed to publish in the entire second half of 2009, and so I’m feeling pretty pleased with myself.
So, today was Mama-san day at my house. Mama-san day is the day I pay a Japanese woman (Mama-san) to come over and do my dishes and various other chores. Among those, she mops my floor. Now I don’t know if you remember the cover I made for my swiffer wet-jet two and a half years ago, but it’s seen better days.
Whoa! Look at that. There’s even a seam held together with a safety pin, niiiice. Well, as I watched my Mama-san struggle to keep my old, floppy, pinned-together cover on the mop today as she mopped, I finally succumbed to shame and decided to make a new one.
See?
Niiiiice. Now there’s a cover that will really stay on, scrub, and probably not look filthy after a single use. The pattern is the “biffer shrug” from Gherkin’s Bucket (home of the crochet dish sponges!) – free, crocheted, and only one ball of kitchen cotton. It even looks nice on the mop, as seen in this washed-out, flash photographed picture!
Now I can watch my Mama-san mop without shame. Except about the fact that I’m paying someone to clean my house, hahahahahaha.
