Well our Thanksgiving was very relaxing and nice.  All the food came out perfect!  I’ve been sick for 5 days so after we were done eating and cleaning up (around 6PM) I retired to my bedroom to read and knit.  Yesterday was the worst day and I spent the whole day in bed and snapping at the children because they thought it was time to put on a circus out in the living room.  Today I’m feeling better (not all better yet) and I’ve apologized for being a monster yesterday.  I went grocery shopping for a few things with Jody before he went to work and we were able to have a quick lunch together at a Chinese place by the grocery store.

We used up the rest of the turkey leftovers tonight, I made turkey tacos.  The kids liked them, except for Brett and I personally thought they were gross.  Turkey in tacos just didn’t taste right and I couldn’t get past it.

The two books I’m reading right now are Anne of  Avonlea and The Knitting Circle.  I’ve been alternating between the two, depending on my mood.

A few days ago I taught myself how to purl, finally!  For a while I thought I was purling, but then comparing my knitting to the picture I could tell something wasn’t right.  Then finally I did it and I was so proud of myself!

Then I learned the stocking stitch where you knit one row, purl the next and continue in that pattern.  I kept messing up after a few rows.  I have a bad memory and I’d do a row wrong and I know you can pull it out but every time I try to pull out a row I think I don’t have all the stitches on the same row (make sense?) so I keep pulling until there is nothing left.  I need help!

The past two days I’ve worked on Ribbing 1 and Ribbing 2 and I understand how to do them, can do them for a few rows, was doing great there for quite a while and…you guessed it, I messed up, tried to pull out and pick up and couldn’t.  So now I’m making a long thing scarf in the stocking stitch, because after trying the ribbing ones, the stocking stitch is easy-peasy. 

Will this just take time or am I not a knitter at heart?

Any tips?  I have two books on knitting and one is called The Idiot’s Guide to Knitting and Crocheting…I can’t understand it all, so I must be worse than an idiot.