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Here we are at monday...I swear I just left work last week for the weekend and here we are again. Thursday night was good. Picked up Benton from daycare and he was tuckered out. I put him to bed for a nap and then worked on getting dinner for myself and getting ready for house practice. Laura arrived, I showed her the ropes of where things were at and then headed out to practice. It was a good night and I did not leave cramped up and in pain and things started to feel more natural. I still need to work my stance but things are coming back quicker than I expected. Got home and chatted with Laura and then had a nice evening relaxing watching tv before it was an early bedtime.
Friday AM mel was awesome and got up to give Benton his pacifier so we could sleep just a bit more. 7am was early but got up and got the boy going. Mel on the other hand was way too tired and didn't get up until way late. We met Tati for breakfast at Joe's at 815 (we were late) and had a nice time. Gonna miss her lots. Mel and I then dropped of Benton at daycare and then headed out to do the shopping. We got good stuff at Target and the grocers before heading home to clean up the house.
Mel took on the family room and I got the front room and my studio cleaned up. The front room still needs more work, as does my studio but its much better. I can see my studio floor and that let me find some things I needed for upcoming projects. I still need to move all of my stash into its normal spots and get my table back but its working so far. I also need to figure out how to suck down my space bag that has all of my maternity clothing in it. The Dyson doesn't hook up to it or I just need to go on a purge of clothing and get rid of it. Uncertain. I sat and swatched for Benton's new sweater and mel napped in the later afternoon. I picked the boy up and got home just as it was starting to rain. We had a nice storm on Friday night before we headed to Ed's for Holly's 3 year bday party. We got he Candy Land and that went over really well. I had a nice time with everyone and got to visit with Jenny and James. Mr. Benton was crashed out pretty early as you can tell from this picture.
( Benton asleep )
Saturday dawned and I got up and got the boy going so I could head out with Ari for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dorinda2212's funeral. We had the kids and we dropped them off at ezabella's house to play before we drove to the funeral across town. The funeral was hard. One it was at and LDS church and they kinda creep me out. Things just feel very weird to me. Second everyone was walking around in a state of shock and sobbing and that it hard to take when you are trying to be calm for others. Third funerals just suck but well they do. It was uplifting hearing her sisters speak. The fact that her sister Rick Rolled us was fabulous and Xstoff's story of Dorinda chucking things at him during his first month of work at her office was priceless. It was so Dorinda that I felt better. Ms. Ari was having a hard time a bit but that is okay and I expected it. We were all crying in our row at the end and I just thought about it and bonked Ari upside the head with my soggy hanky and that helped break up the tension. Dorinda would not want us being sobby/melty/weird...she'd want us to go out, make stuff with string and enjoy. BTW, ari and I played with string the entire funeral. She worked on the cuddly naptime squid and I worked on Storvarr's Tardis mitts. I drove us back to Eza's and then it was time to pick up the kids and head home. The kids were zonked just a few miles down the road and didn't wake up until we hit the massive storm that hit Tucson.
Got home in the rain to a happy boy and a grateful hubby. Fed the boy and then we headed out to Sean andzippdclown's birthday party bash. At the time for cake both boys proposed to their ladies and that was AWESOME! So proud of them both and so happy for the couples. Mr. Benton would not stay down for his sleep and we kept checking on him in sean's room and he had rolled himself to the middle of the room. LOL. We left a bit after 10pm cause we were all tired. Benton fell asleep in the carseat on the way to the car and we all went to bed early.
Sunday I got up with the boy and we played a lot. Mel got time in the workshop and I made zucchini bread and muffins. I used the Cook's Illustrated recipe for the bread and for the muffins I used Simply Recipes Muffins. They turned out really nice. Mr. Benton was pretty crabby when he needed a nap yesterday I managed to get him down for one in the afternoon after carrying him around for a while. He took a long one in the morning. Growth spurt time again I think. One thing we didn't expect though was that with the rain we had the front door open and the skeeters got him pretty bit up. He doesn't seem bothered by them at all but he's got some good bites. One thing we did notice with him though was that he has been rolling over during his naps. Not sure what has started that but he's been doing that over the weekend and that is good.
He goes in for his helmet fitting on the 30th and then we will have it the following week. So that is progressing. On the project front here are pictures of his sweater and the pattern motif for Storvarr's mitts. I'm thinking the pattern is going to be better done by Pattern B but please comment since I'm about to frog them back to the start to fix it.
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Friday AM mel was awesome and got up to give Benton his pacifier so we could sleep just a bit more. 7am was early but got up and got the boy going. Mel on the other hand was way too tired and didn't get up until way late. We met Tati for breakfast at Joe's at 815 (we were late) and had a nice time. Gonna miss her lots. Mel and I then dropped of Benton at daycare and then headed out to do the shopping. We got good stuff at Target and the grocers before heading home to clean up the house.
Mel took on the family room and I got the front room and my studio cleaned up. The front room still needs more work, as does my studio but its much better. I can see my studio floor and that let me find some things I needed for upcoming projects. I still need to move all of my stash into its normal spots and get my table back but its working so far. I also need to figure out how to suck down my space bag that has all of my maternity clothing in it. The Dyson doesn't hook up to it or I just need to go on a purge of clothing and get rid of it. Uncertain. I sat and swatched for Benton's new sweater and mel napped in the later afternoon. I picked the boy up and got home just as it was starting to rain. We had a nice storm on Friday night before we headed to Ed's for Holly's 3 year bday party. We got he Candy Land and that went over really well. I had a nice time with everyone and got to visit with Jenny and James. Mr. Benton was crashed out pretty early as you can tell from this picture.
( Benton asleep )
Saturday dawned and I got up and got the boy going so I could head out with Ari for
dorinda2212's funeral. We had the kids and we dropped them off at ezabella's house to play before we drove to the funeral across town. The funeral was hard. One it was at and LDS church and they kinda creep me out. Things just feel very weird to me. Second everyone was walking around in a state of shock and sobbing and that it hard to take when you are trying to be calm for others. Third funerals just suck but well they do. It was uplifting hearing her sisters speak. The fact that her sister Rick Rolled us was fabulous and Xstoff's story of Dorinda chucking things at him during his first month of work at her office was priceless. It was so Dorinda that I felt better. Ms. Ari was having a hard time a bit but that is okay and I expected it. We were all crying in our row at the end and I just thought about it and bonked Ari upside the head with my soggy hanky and that helped break up the tension. Dorinda would not want us being sobby/melty/weird...she'd want us to go out, make stuff with string and enjoy. BTW, ari and I played with string the entire funeral. She worked on the cuddly naptime squid and I worked on Storvarr's Tardis mitts. I drove us back to Eza's and then it was time to pick up the kids and head home. The kids were zonked just a few miles down the road and didn't wake up until we hit the massive storm that hit Tucson.Got home in the rain to a happy boy and a grateful hubby. Fed the boy and then we headed out to Sean and
zippdclown's birthday party bash. At the time for cake both boys proposed to their ladies and that was AWESOME! So proud of them both and so happy for the couples. Mr. Benton would not stay down for his sleep and we kept checking on him in sean's room and he had rolled himself to the middle of the room. LOL. We left a bit after 10pm cause we were all tired. Benton fell asleep in the carseat on the way to the car and we all went to bed early.Sunday I got up with the boy and we played a lot. Mel got time in the workshop and I made zucchini bread and muffins. I used the Cook's Illustrated recipe for the bread and for the muffins I used Simply Recipes Muffins. They turned out really nice. Mr. Benton was pretty crabby when he needed a nap yesterday I managed to get him down for one in the afternoon after carrying him around for a while. He took a long one in the morning. Growth spurt time again I think. One thing we didn't expect though was that with the rain we had the front door open and the skeeters got him pretty bit up. He doesn't seem bothered by them at all but he's got some good bites. One thing we did notice with him though was that he has been rolling over during his naps. Not sure what has started that but he's been doing that over the weekend and that is good.
He goes in for his helmet fitting on the 30th and then we will have it the following week. So that is progressing. On the project front here are pictures of his sweater and the pattern motif for Storvarr's mitts. I'm thinking the pattern is going to be better done by Pattern B but please comment since I'm about to frog them back to the start to fix it.
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