Knitiot Savant

Friends

It's taken some time, though not as long as I'd thought it might, but Jack and Zoe are friends.  Jack likes to jump over Zoe, trying to tease her into fighting him.  Zoe likes to pin Jack to the ground and pretend to beat him up.  When she thinks nobody is looking, she holds him as though he were her very own kitten and grooms him silly.  I'm so glad Jack came into our lives.

Sick

Yes, I'm well on my way to getting sick.  Lovely fever last night, body aches, pretty much everything one could hope for in a holiday illness.  Today I'm just achy, no fever and not as hoarse. 

I think the upside, 'cause there's always an upside, is that all my stuff is mailed and/or bought and that Lili has the most amazing immune system.  The kid just doesn't seem to get sick.  That's a good thing.

Let's hope I can shake this in the next few days.  I don't wanna spend Lili's break feeling like hell.

ECF

More eye cookie-ish really.  Wishing those celebrating a wonderful Hanukkah.  (Hope I didn't butcher the spelling!)  Have a great weekend.

Thankful

As I struggle with stuff to write about I decided to resort to what I know best, just ripping off the creative bloggers around me.  So I'm drinking the Koolaid and joining in on Thankful Thursday.  It's a great idea.  Seriously.  Seems to me we all spend a great deal of time worrying about what we don't have rather than looking at what we do have.  Negativity is a bad habit and one that should be gotten rid of. 

I am thankful that my Lili loves language.  On the way to school today she asked if she could take the dictionary with us.  She likes to look at the words.  Lili is on the cusp of reading and the fact that she wants to browse a dictionary is pretty damn cool in my book.  She asked what the tabs on the pages meant and wanted me to leave it in the car so she could look at it on the way home.  Pretty sweet, huh?  I can't wait to see where this love takes here.  Oh, the places she'll go.

ECF

'shroom, baby. Have a great weekend!

Fake

For some reason I've always wanted a white Christmas tree.  You know what I'm talking about; not a live one that's been flocked but a big, fake tree.  This year I splurged and bought one along with new glass ornaments in blinding colors to adorn the newest addition to our Christmas inventory.

I like tradition most of the time but I like change too and this year seemed as good a time as any to shake things up.  We went through our ornaments with a critical eye.  Ditched the ones that were broken, the glass balls that were cracking on the inside and were just ooky looking, little trinkets I'd kept simply because they'd been on a gift though I couldn't tell you what who'd given me the gift at the time.  The ornaments we kept all have a story.  We told Lili where we'd gotten them or who had given them to us when we put them on the tree.  The ones we bought the first year of our marriage when we were living in my parents finished garage, so broke that a Christmas seemed out of reach.  The fairy ornaments I bought for Lili when I was pregnant, certain that my little girl would grow to love fairies...and she has!  The ballerina slipper ornament that Lili picked out last year.  Ornaments for beloved pets lost and those still with us...each one we kept holds a cherished memory and has a special place on our shiny new and super fake and tacky tree.  We should have gone through them ages ago, but I'm glad we did it now.  Seemed like the right time and we should do it every year I think.

Wait..did I just start a new tradition? :-)