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Sadie Lou Who and the Purl Gurl having a great time skating!  AND the North Dakota newspapers know hockey talent when they see it! A very pleased little girl!

The Pirate in his new specs! January 2011

My good friend sent me this cartoon: Those reflections can really bring you up short....When I was pregnant with The Chick, Hubby bought me a brand new Buick Skylark. I loved that car. It was a sporty 2 door, with a sunroof, and was brand new! The little gurls were never allowed to eat in it and the car got a weekly wash. When I drove it, I always thought we were styling! One afternoon as I was driving down the street in my little Skylark, I looked at a reflection in a store window. Without a second thought I caught myself thinking, "Man its time for that guy to get a new car," I quickly realized that the reflection was me and my sporty little skylark with the sunroof had somehow become dumpy 14 year old car!

When I got home from work today I had some fun mail.... Sadie Lou Who, 7 years old, 2011 The Tiger, 5 years old, 2011

Charity knitting is a good way to pass time when you are unsure just what to knit next. It is also a great way to use up your stash. I decided to knit a wool pullover with some stranded knitting around the body and sleeves. My self imposed challenge is to use left over yarn, yet create a nice finished project.  The charity group needs larger sizes and so I allow myself to buy a skein of the main color but the coordinating stripe or stranded knitting yarn must be from my stash. My goal is to ALWAYS end up with a project that I'd proudly put a grandbaby in. I didn't have any stranded knitting graphs, so I began searching knitter's heaven, ravelry. I found some great people. "blanchn" of Quebec, Canada gave me a great stranded pattern to go on the thope hat and also pointed me to "stoperror" in Germany who has some very nice stranded graphs available on ravelry. I'd been marking time in the knitting world, searching for my next learning experience. Af...

Recently while visiting with the California Gurl, she suggested that I make a 2011 "This Year's To Do List" similar to the list from last summer . I have to say that it's been difficult. In my mind the year is split into two equal parts. Most teachers feel as I do, one half of the year - school ; second half of the year - summer   (I know, I know, mathematically they aren't equal). Not only is it divided that way for most of us but somehow almost everything in a teacher's everyday life goes into suspended animation during the school year except the class they are responsible for. Then we go into overdrive all summer just trying to catch up with family, chores and relaxation! I'm going to try to take a giant leap and the biggest "To Do" Item is not to let school entirely consume my life. So, today's list is for the school half of the year. My summer "To Do List" will come about when it's summer and the spirit moves me because ...

We had a wonderful time this Christmas. The Chick arrived on Christmas Eve and since the Hubby was working, we did a little shopping without a purpose, ate out, and went to a movie. Christmas morning and most of the afternoon was spent relaxing and waiting for the NorDak family to appear. Fam is just a little unsure how to get through Hubby's turkey farm. Of coarse, the moment they walked through the door there was only one thing to do...OPEN PACKAGES! The Tiger, NOT happy about the clothes BUT loving the box! They love the pillow pets The Chick got them... The Tiger got a frog, who he named Snowflake. We did a little sledding, a little skating, and a lot of just having fun together! When the family gets together usually the youngest gives the gift of the flu. It marches its way through the entire family, youngest to oldest. This holiday, because Hubby was in such a giving mood,  he couldn't wait to get the tradition underway. We quickly dubbed it the "...