Waldo’s test came back. It was a benign! Yay! Yay! Yay! So hopefully we’ll have many more years of him patiently playing dress up with Isabelle.

I’m a little behind on pictures this week, a whole week behind. So let’s play a little catch up.

Last weekend I broke down and went to Rite Aid to get Isabelle a Chia pet. I saw one of their commercials and thought: guaranteed green things! Well when I was there I saw they had Christmas trees for only $25. I was very tempted to buy them but I decided we’d support the family owned farm instead. So off to the Christmas tree lot we went.

And you can’t beat the pictures and fun from there.

We ended up getting two trees, a big one for us and a little one for Isabelle. When we got home we decorated Isabelle’s little tree.

We started decorating the big tree.

We didn’t get very far though because one of the light strands didn’t work. Well, halfway didn’t work.

We sat there meticulously checking each bulb, a few were burnt out. After replacing the bad ones it still didn’t work though, soooo frustrating. So we didn’t finish decorating the big tree. That didn’t keep me from turning it on though. It sat there with just one strand of lights lighting up the lower third of the tree.

So, this past weekend, we bought some new lights. And wouldn’t you know it, one of them DIDN’T work!! Aaaargh!! But we did finish decorating. I just spread the lights out some more.

And you know what else happened this week? Green things popped up! GREEN THINGS!!

Guess I didn’t need to get a Chia pet after all.

The plants are growing, yes they are.

Me and Isabelle are very excited. We’ve been dancing around singing, “they’re growing, they’re growing!” And Isabelle is constantly asking me to take pictures of them.

But then the other day Alan brought up a very good point. What are we going to do with them all? They’re getting tall and pushing the lid off of the little planter greenhouse thing. They need to be moved. But I think it might be too cold for them to go outside. The first batch we planted outside hasn’t grown a bit. And I don’t have enough planters or space for them inside.

I really didn’t think it through, the whole planting stuff. Sure it was fun. Sure it’s awesome they’re growing. But um…why did I go crazy and let Isabelle plant sooooo much.

So yeah, they’re growing. Crap.

Do you ever intend to get on the computer real quick to share some pictures.

But then instead of it being quick, you get bogged down?

Finding old hidden pictures on your computer (you know, hidden by YOU), looking up anchorworms because your goldfish are sick, and then puttering around doing anything but what you were going to do.

Oh yeah…posting pictures, that’s right. That’s what I was doing. Here’s our latest monthly family picture, taken last week, on time. Just not blogged on time.

Me and Alan aren’t seeing eye to eye on something, namely Christmas presents for the nephews and nieces. If you’ve been reading along you know that this year I was determined to make handmade. But Alan thinks my ideas aren’t fun. He thinks Christmas is a wonderful magical holiday for kids. They get toys and fun things and it’s great. So my ideas of handmade clothes or gingerbread cookies made by me and Isabelle isn’t really on his excitement scale.

Maybe that’s why I haven’t really finished sewing clothes. After my practice shirt I made another one in a smaller size, 104cm. And nothing went smoothly. It’s still too large.

And I screwed up the cutting. I had to make the front piece out of two separate pieces. And since I was low on fabric, the knit stretches the wrong way, length-wise instead of width-wise. Then on top of that I decided: all the fabric I chose was wrong, maybe too young?

So yeah…that’s as far as I got. I’m not giving up on the handmade idea though. I’m thinking snow-globe soaps. How many days do I have left?

Project Notes
Pattern: 27 from Ottobre Spring 1/2008
Fabric: knit interlock
Size: 104cm