Oct. 21, 2007 - What is goign on in my little family

Well, there really isn't much, actually.  I think my hubby and i are passing a stomach bug back and forth.  The kids have been really crabby lately-showing the less attractive side of the "blessing" they really are.  I think they may be comign down with something.  My 4yo girl has been very emotional...like crying over a bathing suit and how she doesn't like getting big.  poor thing.  She is big-she is wearing a size 6 barely comfortably.  She is tall and a little thick.  Not fat, just thick.  Her daddy is very tall; I suspect they will all be on the bigger sde; I am on the short side.  My 2yo girl is actually quite tlal and very skinny/wiry.  She is so cute, though-those skinny little legs bouncing around here all the time.  Then there is dan and andrew.  Andrew is always by my side lately.  He just doesnt' want to be anywhere else.  It is hard when he is fussy and clinging to my leg...but he also tries to help-doing whatever it is that i am doing.  danny is my sweet lover.  he is also a boy-every once in a while, he will get this surge of testosterone and roar and tackle someone.  Reminds me of hsi daddy and his uncles when they "play" together.  aww..maybe you all are getting tired of reading about my kids... 

I have been a little discouraged in my faith.  So much of it has been tried lately.  But you know, I am so well founded in my beliefs that I won't stray from it-it is more the living.  I have been criticized of my desire to learn more-I love to bible study and really get into the nitty gritty of the OT and the NT...all of that theology and doctrine that is in there; I really love to learn about God and how HE works with mankind.  But people have told me that it is all meaningless...i am just out for more and more knowledge...blah, blah, blah.  I don't believe , and I have prayed about it, that that statement is true.  So, anyway, i have not been doing study-or prayer.  Study is one way i stay personally stay close to God.  I guess that is one thing-I know much about Him and the way He works with His people and the way we are supposed to be-that I have trouble applying and acting on it in my life.  Oh, do I have the nudging of the Spirit when I lash out in anger-He has dealt with me-is dealing with me on that...SOOOO I know that all that "knowledge" isn't for nothing.  If the Spirit is working in me, doesnt' that mean something?  So, I guess it is a time of wilderness for me.  I am not happy, I dont' hide it well.  I am trying to figure things out.  I am so glad that HE is patient with me :)...

So, I hve been knitting some.  Seems like everyhting is a bit discouraging lately.  Seems like everyhting I start has to be torn out again...I would just set it down for a while, but most times, I just dont' like to keep my hands still.  I like them to be moving and doing soemthing.  I started a pair of jaywalkers using a different technique for picking up the yarn while knitting-and the "norwegian" purl which is a way to purl without flipping the yarn to the front.  For me, it makes for a MUCH looser knit and purl!  My problem before was that it was just too tight.  I kept starting a pair of toe up socks-they wre too tight.  I have a red yarn that I bought on sale to make a scarf for the red scarf project.  The ladies in the shop will be doing them i november.  what else??? My friend tina wanted me to make a project along with her.  It is the shawl collar wrap in sally mellville's book 2: the purl stitch.  I really like the project, it is one of those that I just can't get into!  i have had to rip it out and start over 2 times now.  I have a hat i am making for my sil-there were math problems that turned out to be technical problems-I was doing a particular M1 wrong, accordign to the book-which is aussie, where they do things just a bit differently.  I am at a point where I need my circs and i can't find the right ones.  ugh!  I am also doing a  project for the shop-a turtleneck shrug from the Scarf style book.  that one is jus ta bit tedious...a k3,p3 rib.  Maybe I jsu thave toomany projects on teh needles.  there are so many that I want to make, too!  I have enough Cascade 220 superwash to make my own sweater.  I want to make a hat and scarf for myself...there are a coupld of sock patterns i would like to knit.  Ihave yarn for all of this-Right now, I jsut don't want to start anythgn new!!!  I have a pretty lavendar angora blend that would make nice fingerless mitts...a lace pattern that I have in an interweave mag.  oh, I am rambling now...

I thought I would be able to get into the homeschool coop this february, but my cousin told me that she talked to the lady in charge and she said she woudl rather I wait until the fall.  :(  I was disappointed, but I tried to look at it like it was jus tmeant to be.  Ally won't be in Kindergarten until the fall, so, it is n't like they really need it.  The way my cousin talks about it , though-she makes it sound so wonderful!  like I might be the one encouraged by it-they are really good about pryaing together-and all are doing it for the same reason that we are all supposed to be doing it-for their good-For the glory of God, etc. 

well, thatis about it for now.  AHve you all seen "Amazing Grace"? the movie about william wilberforce?  it is coming to video in november, i believe...it is a very good movie. 

Ok, i will go for now.  I haven' tbeen taking pics lately, iether!  so i have not hign to show you.  maybe i should take all my UFO"s outside to photograph...have a good day!

h :)