A Little Downtime...

We decided to take a weekend road trip with some friends to Pennsylvania over the weekend. We were able to visit family and check out some beautiful scenery. It was a nice break from our tiring routine back at home. I had a memory card malfunction and lost a lot of pictures from our trip but still managed to get a few off the card before it broke.

Somewhere in the north east region of the state we found this wonderful field of wildflowers. I would love to go back one day. It was so remarkably beautiful at twilight that it felt like a dream. The kids and I were able to walk around and play for a while before it became too dark.


There was a beautiful lake where we stayed. Victor and Ella loved watching the people fishing. I wish I could show you the great shots I got but I guess no technology is fail proof. I did manage to move over one picture of the lake at sunset though.

We're planning another trip with our friends before the end of Summer and I'll be sure to take a few memory cards and lots of photos next time.


We're still working on the apartment almost everyday and hoping to be finished and settled in by September. It has been taking forever but we've been building it from scratch by my Mother's so that I can help her out with the house. Being almost ready for paint, I'm so grateful to her and my mother-in-law for all of the babysitting.

On another note, I've been finishing up many patterns. Everything from dishcloths to baby dresses, I'm losing some sleep. I need to photograph the Wedding and Fruit sets tomorrow and start designing the PDF files. By Saturday I should have one of them up. I'm also currently working on a charity pattern for a Lupus foundation. One of my best girlfriends suffers from this disease and we're working together to create something special for the cause.

We're Still Here...

To say that I'm a mess right now is an understatement. So many things are happening all at once I'm starting to feel dizzy. Though I wouldn't trade any of it for one second. I had re injured my right eye last weekend and that put me out of commission for the entire week. Alright, maybe that part I wouldv'e traded but everything else has been productive and exciting. The move is still happening by the end of this month and although I should be packing, I really do enjoy a hectic lifestyle. I don't know what I'm going to do after all the dust settles, maybe sleep a little more.



With somewhat limited vision and extra help I had with the kids this week, I managed to get some work started. Knitting was a little strange with the lack of depth perception so I stuck to just charting out some fantastic designs. I've already started writing up some of the patterns and knitting. There will definitely be some wonderful sets of cloths this summer. So far I have added plans of a beach, fruit, dessert and flower set ontop of the wedding, summer, and patriotic ones. I'll be happily busy over the next few months trying to make them all availible.

In the last day or so I have also been working on a pattern for a headband that I'm making for Ella. It is coming out beautifully and I'm going to try and tech edit the pattern to put on my blog for everyone in the next couple days. Right now its just living on crumpled and ripped graph paper.

I have to go back to the doctor next week just to make sure that everything is healing right. They were talking about surgery earlier this week but it turns out they don't want to go the more aggressive route until it happens again. I have what's called recurrent corneal erosion syndrome and I'm not looking forward to more pain when when it tears again. Hopefully with the drops I was prescribed and a more reasonable bedtime, It'll be a long time before another episode.