Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

Since this past August, I've taken up double-sided knitting as my past-time/hobby. I've been knitting casually for years, but this is the first time that I've tried something new, other than blankets. I came upon Lattes & Llamas sometime last year and loved the 2014 Geek-Along Blanket that they were making for a Children's Charity. It looked simple enough, but something new to challenge me. And, all the individual squares were fandoms, something I could totally get behind! I started off with the simple Mario Mushroom and quickly realized that I needed YouTube to help me get through some spots, namely with the alternating stitches. Luckily I found a video that helped a lot and got me going. I figured out the patterns pretty quickly, but as I was progressing on the Mario Mushroom, I made quite a few big mistakes and screwed up royally. So I had to re-do the entire thing, but I did refine the technique a bit more and learn to read the patterns better. After I comple...

Let me start by saying Thank You for being patient with me while I figure out the new blog. I've been meaning to write, but I also need to get used to a new blogging platform and it's taken a little bit longer that I would have liked. You might be wondering about the Blog Title, and why it sounds a bit depressing. The main reason, is that it is depressing news. And that would be that I have suffered a miscarriage with this 3rd pregnancy. For those of you who like short answers, I had an Anembryonic Gestation . Basically meaning that I was pregnant and the gestational sac showed up, but there was no embryo yolk inside, even after 3 weeks of Ultrasounds. I'm currently on some medication to help "clean me out," and after that, we'll go from there. For those of you who like longer stories, this one takes place over a month. On September 24, in my 8th week of pregnancy (while Keith was out of town on business, of course), I started bleeding in the evening, just bef...

After years on Blogger (and multiple, multiple changes), I've decided to move my blog over and start fresh. I haven't been that great at blogging lately (which I regret at not writing more, especially for the girls) and decided that I needed a fresh, new look. So here we are! So what's going on? I will be moving my favourite posts over (letters to my daughters, Project Life and other favourites), and start a regular blogging system. Most likely Monday, Wednesday and Friday to start off with, and go from there. Here's to new blogging beginnings!