KnittyBug

I woke up with a frog in my throat. Well at least it feels that way. Peanut has infected me with her mutated cold. And you know I think she did it on purpose. Her cough has been more productive and she insists on running up to me and coughing in my face. Now she knows to cover her mouth and does that quite well…but this was a deliberate infecting mommy plan. Ugh I just started to feel better….and now it’s back.

yes they are conspiring in there.....and yes that's a tent in my living room.

Oh and speaking of our sickness let me tell you about the medication issue we had this weekend. (I forgot to tell this story) Let me just start out by saying Peanut’s doctors office is the worst to go to and we always have issues and thankfully in the past year we haven’t had to go very often. And you may wonder why I haven’t changed offices….well that is also a difficult task for many reasons…but I have tried. Anyways her doctors office last time she was sick (over the summer when we went camping) prescribed a medication that I am seriously allergic to. I even explained to them that.. hey if she spits this liquid out at me and I happen to get it on me or in my mouth….um yeah I might have a hospital trip out of it. The response was to make sure she didn’t spit it out. Ok this his the same doc that knows when Peanut had to have shots they had 2 nurses hold her because she is bionic baby. She is a strong little girl and a great spitter…and yes I did get the med on me and yes I had a reaction but luckily I didn’t get it in my mouth. That says something doesn't it? So on Friday the doc started speed talking (another annoying trait) about the medications and as always I had to repeat everything to double check what I might have heard and understood. The antibiotic is something I have talking and am not allergic to so I can dose Peanut. (BTW I am allergic to a lot of medications but there are three that I have life threatening reactions to) The second medication was “over the counter” and “you should follow the directions for the dose for her”. The doc told me to give a toddler Mucinex! I even repeated “Mucinex?” and doc replied “ yes Mucinex DM”. I though this was kind of strange…isn’t that for adults? The hubby picked it up for $23.… um yeah that’s a little pricey. And to make things worse it’s a tablet and it CLEARLY states on the side Not For Children under 12 years old. I called the pharmacy to find out if maybe the hubby had missed the children’s version of the medication. Nope.. the pharmacist said that there isn’t a version for children my daughters age and to definitely not give that to her. Really are they crazy? Situations like this really push me to my limit. I'm supposed to take her back for a checkup in 2 weeks to make sure she is feeling better.....hmm I better start calling around to see if other offices have openings yet.

Ok on to more interesting stuff…like knitting. Well I started that little cap sleeved minus the beads sweater and I’ve already ripped it out. I started getting those open stitch raglan seams and I just didn’t like it. I decided to the increases another way…but now I think I understand why it’s knit in pieces and then seam for the neatness. Oh well you knit and learn and it was only a couple of rows.



Last night I did a spur of the moment thing and shopped online. (Online shopping bad.) I bought 2 new books and they should be arriving next week. It’s not like I don’t have a head full of enough projects I yearn to knit already…..I just had to add a few more. And with that is the yearning for some nice summery yarns. Now I am not supposed to buy any yarn (notice the KFYS button up to the right), but I can’t help it…..wool is just not easy to wear in the summer as a tank top. I do have a few balls of cotton yarn for tank for Peanut but I don’t think they will be enough and I think it would be more suitable as a knitted dishtowel.
I’ve also been trying to decide on where to buy it…because it’s probably going to be a “hey hun I bought …ahem….some stuff online….ahem..so don’t worry about a mother’s day gift for me”. Do you think that will work?

So if you know of a sale or a great place to order from….please let me know. I am going to use my get out of stash card very soon.

Just a little update. We went to the doctor today.

Peanut: “Mommy got ki-tus”

Me: “You have ki-tus?”

Peanut: “YES Mommy got ki-tus”

Me: “Ok…..what’s ki-tus?”

Peanut: “ Dunno….what ki-tus is…got ki-tus”

It's funny how when kids hear something said about them they make up their own little name for it. Peanuts got bronchitis…and she calls it ki-tus. It’s not very pleasant for her. She doesn’t like to cough and gets really upset which just makes it worse. She a little panic machine when she’s sick. But we got her some meds and she should be feeling better soon. I didn’t have the cough like her but who knows there is still that chance that I could get it. The culprit for this nice spring bronchitis session is the hubby. Thanks deary. And patient zero was a guy from work who I guess was hacking all over the place. I’m getting the DH a nice Purell key chain thingy.

Anyways amongst the wooping coughs, distributing the meds, and sanitizing toys I just didn’t have the concentration to sew those seams. I started on them last night. I decided I needed a spring color change. I chose to swatch for the beaded sweater from Vintage Knits. Yet mine will be minus the beads…because well I ‘m not really into the bead thing. I love this color. It’s a color change for me. I’m planning on altering the pattern also. I’m going to make it from the top down in one piece. Hopefully it will work. I don’t really like sewing raglan seams or pieces together, so I am going to just take the sewing out of it. So I’m off to do some math and try and keep Peanut calm.

This was supposed to post this last night....um don't know what happened there.


We are down with the sickness. Peanut has the bug real bad. It has not been a fun past few days. Since we’ve been lounging around all week it seems, I’ve had plenty of time to knit. But somehow forgot to post. Which is nice to do from time to time during the day. Peanut’s been picking movie after movie which is good for her to relax. I think I might know Cinderella word for word now.

So this is the this. I guess it doesn’t really have a name but is just listed as what type of cardigan it is. I don’t know what it is but the last few things I’ve picked out to knit have been cropped. I’m not really into cropped things but this looked cute and I thought why not.

These are the prizes I won. I couldn’t believe I won because I never win anything. I guess I am going to have to start on some socks. Thank you Lori for having the contest. . :)



Lastly I will just ask…What is up with the weather? We got snow the other day. I guess it’s ok to be cold this week because we’ve got the bug. But I would like to request that next week we don’t have a freeze warning and the day time temperature could be warmer. I know I’ve mentioned that I am a big fan of snow…..but not in April…not after the Easter bunny has been here. Not only that but our little indoor garden is starting to look like a jungle and the hubby would like to know when he can get his kitchen table back. Hopefully next week we’ll be out of the tissue box and our weather will be warmer.

This week has flown by. The family has survived my cooking for a few days. I’m pretty proud of myself for managing to not burn anything. (The chicken turned out really well…even though the smoke alarm did go off)
It’s been a cold week and a week for colds. The household has been sneezing and everyone is exhausted. I felt horrible all day today. Just too tired to do anything. I think because we got that burst of warm weather and then the cold returned we just caught the spring cold bug.
So I thought I would just sit and relax and finish up weaving in the ends on the Silk Shrug. The finishing is what takes the longest for me to do. :)

So here it is in a nice flat-laying there photo….because it’s too big. I’m really disappointed. My gauge was right on. I made size 34 and still it doesn’t fit. I was worried that it looked small…and it STILL doesn’t fit. I even gave it a nice steam…but I think that may have stretched it out more.

So in my frustration, because I really wanted to wear this, I threw it in the washing machine and maybe It will make a nice felted object that I can put on the coffee table. :)
Actually it won’t even do that because it super wash and I already checked on it and it’s not going to make a pretty green sculpture.

Well all frustration aside if it doesn’t shrink a little, which could be possible, then I think it might just go somewhere. Like in a box to Nana’s house. Although it’s to big for me it might be perfect for her. I’ll just have to another one for me.