Yarn Along

Well, the Tsu Sweater is coming along beautifully.  The lace section is going much faster.  I still feel like I don’t have enough time to knit.  I wonder sometimes if I will ever feel like I have enough time to knit.

Since my reading is still the same book this week, I thought I’d add in what the kids and I are reading together now.  We’re reading aloud Farmer Boy which Knut said was one of his favorite books as a boy.  I asked him what his favorite part was, and he said “the food.”  I see what he means.  This book makes you hungry!

We’re reading Knut’s old worn out copy.  It’s missing a cover and the back cover as well as the last few pages of the book.  Silje thought we should check out a copy from the library, and I told her maybe when we get to the end.  I think it might take longer than 2 weeks to get through this one.

In other news, the flowers I bought to bring Spring inside when it refused to come outside are dying.  This is why I don’t have house plants!  I try over and over again, and I kill every plant I touch.  The ivy is actually thriving.  The mums…not so much.  I put Silje in charge of watering because I always forget, and she never forgets anything.  She started overwatering, so then we drained them and stopped.  Then Knut said that they were drooping because they weren’t getting enough light, so we brought them out to the 3 season porch.  Now they look like this and they won’t perk up.

Knut, the farmer, was sure bold to marry a woman who kills every plant she attempts to grow.  That’s for sure.  That’s not totally true.  The ivy is okay.  This has not been the burst of confidence I needed before planting our vegetable garden very soon.  I was doing so good pumping myself up about it this year.

Lastly, I got Ingrid a new toy when we were in the city yesterday.  It was so cheap at a consignment shop I was at, and I had a coupon, and our previous one has seen better days.  She loves it so much!  Solveig loved being worn pretty much all the time.  Ingrid doesn’t mind being worn around the house, but she’s always reaching to go be with the other kids.  Yesterday she was in heaven, being down with the other kids, and being able to stand up and play with them.

I see in that picture, there’s one of David’s socks that he sheds all over the house.  Whoops!  I cannot wait for sandal weather.

She’s really getting into bouncing and jumping in my lap lately, so I think this will be helpful too.

After I took this picture, I wondered what was on her forehead.  Don’t worry anyone.  It’s just she is very loved by her 2 year old big sister who routinely gives her big, overpowering, smothering kisses.  Her big sister just ate a chocolate chip cookie just before I snapped this.  It’s just a chocolate forehead kiss.  No biggy.

Linking up with Ginny again this week.  Knitting and reading to stay a bit sane.