Author: Mylene Lacroix

I just spent the last ten minutes on MSN with Jacob.  Not that unusual.  BUT, this time, I used the web cam on my new laptop.  How cool was that?  I could see him and he could see me.  I made faces at him, he made faces at me.  I noted how you could see my wrinkles, he laughed at me.  Then I blew him a big kiss and said goodnight.  Now, I miss him more than I did before I talked to him.  I wanted to tell him that I was working all weekend.  I don’t get that many shifts at the police station so, I take what I can get.  Being single and independent is wonderful… in every way except financially.  I have to work two jobs to make up for the fact that I’m solely responsible for this mortgage and the DC shoes (and T-shirts and sweat-shirts) Jacob wears.  He’s a reasonable kid though and actually works to pay for some of his own stuff.  How cool is that at 14?

I started the christening gown.  I think I might have an inch and a half done.  So far, I’ve worked on it for about seven hours.  Woohooo!  I’m done the trim!!!  *Shaking my head*  This is going to take forever… Thank goodness I didn’t wait for the last minute to start.  This baby’s due in May.  Which, like I said before, gives me until about mid to late June.  That’s three whole months and then some.  Can I do it?  I’m actually afraid. 

The gown will be all kinds of beautiful.  Only thing is, it’s not the only thing I’m going to want to work on for a whole three months.  That’s just absolutely obscene.  I’m working on the second sock of my El Salvador socks.  Well, the first one will be nick-named that but, I can’t really call the second one an El Salvador sock.  Poor thing.

I also want to make the “Skinny Scarf” that I saw on Knitty Gritty (they even have the instructions on how to make it – you can also watch that segment of the show – if  you can locate it).  I have the yarn in my stash for it to top it all off.  It calls to me.  I got this yarn at the Kitchener/Waterloo Knitter’s Fair two years ago (maybe three – who knows) now.  I’ve just been waiting for the right project.  I have about 297 skeins of yarn in my stash (I hope it’s still a moth-free stash), that are all waiting for their turn to become something beautiful – not that they’re not already beautiful. 

My friend Michelle mademe go through my stash last year.  I got rid of so much stuff… and I still have about 5 tubs full – plus bags here and there in the spare room, in the living room, at the foot of my bed, etc…

Well, I best go work on my gown now.  I estimate that the gown, sleeper and bonnet will take me approximately 200 hours.  Let’s say I have 100 days left.  That means that I have to knit at least two hours a day to be finished in time for the christening – never-mind having it done for the birth!  Yikes.  At least now I have a goal.  Two hours a day!  I hope no one feels left out if I pay more attention to my knitting then to them?  C’est la vie.

I’ll at least try for an hour tonight.  I’ll make up for it at Circle tomorrow.  Hihi.

Does anyone else get bummed out when they get back from a holiday somewhere beautiful?  Sometimes I feel like it’s just me.

How would you feel if you were HERE last week:

and now you’re back to work, back to housework, laundry, paying bills, etc.  It was so beautiful in El Salvador.  The people were friendly and the weather was 35+ the whole time.  It rained for about 10 minute while we were in a bus on Sunday.  That’s it!

I thought I would have time to post but we went on so many day trips that it was difficult to find the time.  Guess what?  They had wireless!  I could have brought my new laptop.  You could pay to use their computers if you wanted but, it was either 30 minutes of 60 minutes.  What if I had only needed 12 minutes?  What if I wanted to go on at 9:26 p.m. but they were closed?  Mind you, it was only $3.00 USD for a half hour and they were open the two times I went on to check if everything was ok back home (with my grandma).  I suppose I shouldn’t complain.

All in all, it was a fabulous trip. 

I’m already looking forward to next year.  I’m thinking Panama…

So, seeing now as I only have the El Salvador socks to finish, I should probably get started on that christening gown ha? 

I should be more worried about catching up on my sleep!  Our flight landed at midnight on Monday/Tuesday.  We weren’t back home until close to 2:00 a.m.  I worked all day yesterday and stayed up late finishing my book.  It was sooooooo good!!!  Friday Night Knit Club.  If you haven’t read it, read it!  Now I have to get the next one.  I think I’ll wait for the soft cover. 

It’s time to hit the road.  I’ve got a big night of doing nothing planned.

I feel like I hardly slept last night.  I can’t even sit still for five minutes I’m so excited.

We’re pretty much all packed and ready to go.  Just the last minute stuff to get ready.  My father’s picking us up for the airport at 7:50 a.m.

I’ve got knitting, a knitting magazine and a knitting book to keep me busy while we wait three hours at the airport before boarding the plane.  I hope they have a good movie.

I’ve been trying to imagine what it will look like down in El Salvador.  Maybe I’ll post pictures if we have access to computers down there.  Either way, check out the weather we’re supposed to have!!!  It just keeps getting better and better.

I went to see my grandmother last night after work.  I wanted to make sure that she had everything I made her before I left for my holidays.  I know it’s only a week but…

I think she liked it because she put it on right away and kept it on the whole time we were there.

Now I feel good – I put a smile on her face.

She thinks Jacob is getting so big.  It’s cute when she says that because he’s bigger than her – she looks up at him. 

It’s funny how, as we get older (and bigger I suppose), our grandparents (and parents) get smaller. 

I miss being little and hanging out with my grandparents at the cottage.  I have a lot of fond memories with them.  My grandfather loved to garden and to fish.  My favorit thing was pulling out the green onions.   When it came to fishing, I always made him put on my worm.  It grossed me out when he would cut the worm in half with his thumb nail.  GROSS!  My grandmother loved to sew.  I spent hours looking at all her thread and her big jars of buttons while she worked.  She used to make all the grandkids’ Christmas gifts.  She used to make my sister and I clothing too.  I wish I still had some of it.  Not that I could have put it on Jacob or anything.   

Her sewing machine is still in her bedroom.  I suspect she doesn’t use it much anymore.  I’m not a big sewer.  She passed knitting on to me.  And my mother’s mother (Memère Rouleau) knit too. 

I was destined to be a knitter.  It’s in my genes!

I’m off to bowl for the Big Brothers and Big Sisters “Bowl for Kids Sake” today with my Little, Taylor.  Should be a blast.