Thanksgiving ER visit

Hi everyone.... How was your Thanksgiving?  Mine was great....except the end...we ended up in the ER.....Paige's jaw locked/dislocated.  I am not sure if I have mentioned it before because it has not locked for several years....but Paige has a form of TMJ.  If she yarns too big or opens her mouth too wide, her jaw bone moves out of place and gets locked/dislocated.  If she takes a muscle relaxer or two right away, she can usually massage it back into place....but not this time.....so off to the ER we went.  Thankfully our Thanksgiving celebration was over by the time it locked.

We went to Christus Santa Rosa on 151 and it was the most inefficient ER/Hospital I have ever been in...we were there almost 5 hours...it was ridiculous.  The next day she felt like someone had punched her in the jaw and throat, but she is much better now.

My knitting week was pretty uneventful....I do have some stash enhancements from last week I think I forgot to show you.....I got some stitch markers from fipperies and bibelots

And I got my DVD free skein of yarn and other swag for 100 Instagram posts:

As far as knitting....I really only worked on 2 things.....the socks for Paige...I only got about 2 or 3 inches done, but they are at the same place now.

and my Portage....this is a thinker....so while it does not look like a lot, it takes me longer to work on this and show any kind of progress.  I was able to divide for sleeves and I am pretty happy with it.

That is really all I have knitting wise.....I do have some other 'random' things.  With Thanksgiving, my aunts got together and were going thru some old photos and shared some with me.....I think my dad must have been the skinniest (and most handsome) man in the Navy!

Here is my mom feeding me, and my sister sitting next to my mom (I am digging my mom's pants!)

Here are Paige and Tone right before thanksgiving (can you believe she was at my house 3 min early?)

Antonio and I made sugar cookies.....

And, I had Jazz most of the weekend too....Wednesday, Wednesday Night, Thursday Night, Friday, Saturday and Sunday....she is slowly starting to get a little more relaxed at my house.....

 (this picture was at 3 in the morning, she would not go to sleep!)

Lastly, I got a fabulous package from a lady in The Netherlands, we have exchanged a couple of packages and she sent me Labello....My favorite chap stick!  Thank you so much Jennifer!!!  This Chap stick is the greatest!  She also sent me some stitch markers, but I started using them right away and forgot to snap a picture!

Well, that is all I have.....I hope you all have a great week!

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!

Welcome Labor Day!

Hi everyone......I am welcoming Labor Day with open arms!!!  While I know many are out there laboring to rebuild their homes/lives after Hurricane Harvey, I am truly thankful for all the blessings I have and am very thankful for the long weekend.

What have I been up to?  I have a few stash enhancement this week....my free skein of yarn from DVD for completing 6 months.

Darlene placed a knit picks order for more Biggo to make her niece more Decemberist shawls....along with that order,I got some cotton yarn to make Paige some kitchen items for her new house....she wanted greys....

Here is the pink yarn for the next Decemberist I will make:

Darlene got a new sheep mug from David's tea....so of course I had to copy her.....Igot two...This one changes colors when there is hot water in the mug.  It starts out with black sheep

When there is hot water in it, the sheep turn yellow and white.

Here is the other mug (this is the one Darlene got too)...it does not change colors....the sheep are always this color....and I love them both!!

Here are the decemberists we already finished....I helped Darlene finish up the red one.....Darlene blocked them:

I finished the hat for Jaime.....I think it is a little too big so I am thinking of making another one and doing the decreases sooner.

Then there was the new MKAL.....What the Fade?!

I had a lady on ravelry help me with my order...

Thursday at lunch...Darlene and I started.....Now hold on to your britches...we got a whole lot accomplished at lunch:

LOL!  Hey, it's a start!

I had a few more starts during the weekend.  I had a goof, tried to tink, it was a mess, so I started again.  I got pretty far...then counted my stitches and realized I forgot a left side increase quite a few rows back....

so, I had to frog....

and restarted....who knew this thing would get started 3 times (I hope this is the last time)!

Oh, and I got my Miss Babs September Tour Package....we are going to Italy.  I got the cool colors, but prefer the warm ones (I saw pictures of other tour memeber's packages) so I have ordered the warm package...it should be here this week.  The warm is wine and tan colors.  I am actually thinking of putting wine and this grey together to be different!

A little Hurricane Harvey Update...My thoughts and prayers go out to all affected by Harvey.   I donated along with some friends to the local animal care services for items they were in desperate need of....I also bought yarn from LoloDidIt where her proceeds go to the Red Cross Hurricane Harvey Fund....she sent an email saying she raised $26,000....Yahoo!

 My sister's place had a little damage....but all in all, we know how blessed we are to not have had it any worse.

Have a great week everyone......

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!