Reading, Swimming, Baking, Knitting
Saturday morning we went to ye olde neighbourhood Starbucks/Chapters super box store and I picked up the new Knitters magazine. My boys are pictured in the "Letters" section, wearing the sweaters my mom made for them in January.
It's not the first time the boys have appeared in this publication. They are also in the "Letters" section of a previous issue wearing earlier iterations of the same snowman design.
The covers of the two issues are shown here.
Later we dropped the kids off at my parents' house while the spouse and I went to see a movie (Land of the Dead - it was okay). It was 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit), and my parents still didn't have the air conditioning turned on! They did have fans going, which made the place more bearable for the boys, but I think they played mostly in the basement anyway.
We've been spending serious time in the in-laws' pool. I'm getting quite dark in the sun. The lighter area is my untanned skin.
I made some pistachio cupcakes on a whim. The recipe is from a blog I read sometimes. The finished product was less than satisfying. The recipe calls for a boxed cake mix, non-dairy dessert topping (you know the one), and Jello pudding mix. I should've known better, but I was actually surprised that the result tasted like it was from a boxed cake mix, with oil-based whipped topping. Sigh. The blog entry led me to expect so much more. Well, live 'n' learn.
I did some knitting this weekend. I made some lizard and orca mittens for the kids last winter, but the boys complained that they got soaked too easily from the snow.
These new mittens will be made from a bulky wool blend, so hopefully it will do a better job of keeping the boys' hands dry.
I have only one mitten done so far. This one is for the oldest. In order to circumvent jealousy, the way I make mittens for the boys is to knit one, which belongs to whomever it fits. Then I knit another mitten for the other boy. I go back and make the twin for the first boy, and finally, I make the twin for the other boy. By the time I'm done running through the pattern this way, I'm completely through with making mittens - unless of course, my sister requests them for her kids.
It's not the first time the boys have appeared in this publication. They are also in the "Letters" section of a previous issue wearing earlier iterations of the same snowman design.
The covers of the two issues are shown here.
Later we dropped the kids off at my parents' house while the spouse and I went to see a movie (Land of the Dead - it was okay). It was 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit), and my parents still didn't have the air conditioning turned on! They did have fans going, which made the place more bearable for the boys, but I think they played mostly in the basement anyway.
We've been spending serious time in the in-laws' pool. I'm getting quite dark in the sun. The lighter area is my untanned skin.
I made some pistachio cupcakes on a whim. The recipe is from a blog I read sometimes. The finished product was less than satisfying. The recipe calls for a boxed cake mix, non-dairy dessert topping (you know the one), and Jello pudding mix. I should've known better, but I was actually surprised that the result tasted like it was from a boxed cake mix, with oil-based whipped topping. Sigh. The blog entry led me to expect so much more. Well, live 'n' learn.
I did some knitting this weekend. I made some lizard and orca mittens for the kids last winter, but the boys complained that they got soaked too easily from the snow.
These new mittens will be made from a bulky wool blend, so hopefully it will do a better job of keeping the boys' hands dry.
I have only one mitten done so far. This one is for the oldest. In order to circumvent jealousy, the way I make mittens for the boys is to knit one, which belongs to whomever it fits. Then I knit another mitten for the other boy. I go back and make the twin for the first boy, and finally, I make the twin for the other boy. By the time I'm done running through the pattern this way, I'm completely through with making mittens - unless of course, my sister requests them for her kids.
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