It's The Weekend!!!

I have never in my life, been so happy to see Saturday morning! What a long and horrid week it was!

But, it's Saturday now and I have two whole days to myself to do what I want to do. I have no drippy noses to wipe, no stinky bums to clean. It's like heaven! LOL!

I'm going to be sitting down today with my hook and yarn and crocheting the weekend away. I also am going to start sharing some of my own patterns with all of you. I have some potholder, dishcloth, square, afghan, scarf and I'm not sure what else, all stored in my head. So, I thought I would get them out of there, and online for all of you to use and share as well. That is my big goal for this weekend.

But, for now, the coffeepot is still calling me. Have a great day everyone!

Is It Possible?

Today is a tough day for the kids. I have 2 one year olds, a 1.5 year old and a three year old. Nap time is a challenge. For instance, I'm trying to get two babies, both one year old, to sleep at the same time, in the same room. Is it possible?

I think probably not.

But, lack of room makes some things, while seemingly impossible, necessary.

The other two are good. The three year old is playing video games with my daughter who is home sick from school and the 1.5 year old is eating in the high chair.

Only 4 more hours to go! Can we do it?

Potholders!

As promised yesterday, here are the potholders I made for my exchange partner.

This is by far my favourite pattern for potholders. It works up quick and easy, it's thick and durable and it's pretty too! I made this set while watching Letters To Juliet, so two hours start to finish for a full set of potholders. Not too bad, if you ask me. :)

I wish I could share the pattern with you, but I got it from a book I no longer have. I can't remember what book it is, and for all I know I've changed the pattern since I first tried it, but copyright rule and all that make it impossible for me to share. :( If I ever come across it again, I'll be sure to link to the pattern for all of you.

Lookie What I Did!

About a week ago, I finished this lovely little doily called a Small Exchange Doily from Panda Crochet. Isn't it gorgeous?

I'll be mailing it off this weekend, when I finally have time to get to the post office to my exchange partner from my Ravelry group Crochet and Knit Exchange. (I know, not the most imaginative name, but it's straight and to the point and people can find it!)

If I have time tomorrow, I'll show you photo's of the potholders and 12" square I have ready to mail too. I'm very proud!

One of Those Weeks....

This past week is going to go down as one of those "What was I thinking?" times.

I will say, I love running a home daycare. It's perfect for my lifestyle. I'm able to be home for my own kids, I get to hold and play with babies that I can send home at the end of the day when they're getting fussy, and I get to make a bit of money at the same time. What could be better, right?

This week has been a bit of a challenge, though. It might have something to do with the fact that I only had one day off last week. But, I think it has more to do with the fact that being around so many babies, I'm getting sick.

Of course dealing with two one year olds that are both teething, one of which also has a horrible chest cold that I wouldn't be surprised if it has developed into pneumonia, plus a 1.5 year old that is sick and not sleeping at night so he's grumpy.

Add to that I'm catching their cold, and it's made for a very, very long week so far.

Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't change anything, I love doing this. But, this week, I wouldn't complain if someone cancelled. Really, it wouldn't bother me at all. :)

Day 6 - The Muffin

I know, I know, this one is late. And not that good. But, I do have an excuse of sorts! As you may or may not know, I run a home daycare. Yesterday I had a very fussy, feverish and teething one year old who wouldn't let me do anything except hold him. So, this was the best I could do during his only 15 minute nap all day.  It might be  boring, but I'm proud of myself for finding the time to take it! :)

The Muffin
Yummy, delicious muffin, straight from the oven. Mmmmmm..... 

365 in 2011 Challenge

I found out about this challenge on January 2nd, so I was a bit late getting started but I am on a roll now!

If you're not familiar, the concept is simple. You take a photo every day and post it somewhere. There are plenty of groups and websites out there that you can use, or you can post on your blog. Right now, I'm posting to Shuttercal, Flickr, and a group on Ravelry. But what I really wanted was a place to have all my photo's together that was mine, I could customize the site as I wanted etc. Then I remembered. I have a blog! :)

So, I'm going to be using this blog to showcase my daily photo's. Some are good, some not so much. But this will be a great way to not only show off my pics, but also keep myself accountable to my blog which is really quite sorely neglected.

We're already on Day 6, so I'm going to put all the photo's to date in one post, then afterwards, each photo will have it's own day.

Without further ado, or chatting from me, here is what I have so far!

Day 1 - Peeping Tom
This is my tom cat, Tom, peeking at me from the top of the stairs.

Day Two - Sammy
My adorable chihuahua puppy, Sammy, taking a nap.

Day Three - Boo
A pensive kitty...

Day Four - He See's You When You're Sleeping.
The creepiest Santa decoration I've ever seen!

Day Five - Charlie and Caesar
I'm not very happy with how blue this shot turned out, but I love the action of Charlie jumping over Caesar.

And that get's us all up to date. I'll have a new photo for today to post later.

It's a lot of fun! If you enjoy taking photo's and would like to challenge yourself, this is a great way to do it. :)