First to the victory: I’ve been wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans this week. Just my fat normal jeans, not the skinny ones, but pre-pregnancy jeans nonetheless. Doing the happy dance…
Now to the loss: One of our local yarn stores is closing and thus all yarn is on sale - they will stay open until it’s all gone. Cristina emailed me to let me know, and so Gorgeous Man and I went along to see what we could find. Gorgeous Man is wanting another jumper(sweater) and we were hoping that there’d be some suitable yarn for him.
It was very disappointing. I went with cash, prepared to spend, and this is all I came home with.
Five balls of the light stuff, three balls of the dark and 2 rotary cutter blades -the blades were a bargain 1/2 price. The rest of the yarn was very nasty acryllic that squeaked when touched and novelty yarn and fake fur. There were a few nice yarns, but they weren’t enough of a bargain yet to come home with me. I’ll go back at the end of the month and see if anything has been further reduced.
The blues are very nice though. I have some friends who are having boys and I don’t mind putting Gorgeous Girl in blue either - she got called ‘young fella’ this week and the gentleman concerned got cross when I said she was a girl, because I’d dressed her in blue.
Saturday saw lovely weather (which was a nice change after the miserable cold week we’ve had) so a group of us decided to drive along the coast and have a picnic in a botanical garden. It was very nice. On the way home we stopped at Stony Point to see a baby elephant seal which is somewhat off course resting there - it arrived Thursday.
We were able to get quite close to it.
This was a very cool experience. Gorgeous Girl slept through it all.
We are trying to get Gorgeous Girl into a routine - so far it’s working (day 2) so hopefully I’ll have more time to quilt and knit do housework soon.
Wow, I grew up (mostly) on the coast, and have never gotten this close to a seal. Amazing!
As for dressing kids in ‘appropriate’ gender-wear for the rest of the world … poor Rowen, with two big brothers to supply hand-me-downs, has been called a boy on many an occassion. Fortunately, she has enough hair now to obviously be a girl. LOL!
I remember someone saying (about DS1) “Oh, isn’t she gorgeous” and my DH jokingly said “yes, and ’she’ obviously needs a haircut”
Sorry about the wool shop, wonder if my knitting mother knows about it. A routine sounds great, takes 3 days apaprently to change anything :O)
My son used to wear his sister’s hand me downs including pink things when he was a baby