By the seat of my pants

Thank you everyone who was so kind about my last post. Two years ago when we started out on this adventure I never imagined we would be in this place now. I only had thoughts of three little munchkins in the tub, Christmas with three little munchkins opening presents, and pictures with three very different little munchkins all in a rowand dressed alike. I'm glad no one told me what we were heading for. Then again, I never would have believed it.

Today I had the great pleasure of placing the order for a brand-new Rainbow Play System. Has anyone checked these out lately? These are play systems that make the old-fashioned swing sets look like cavemen designed them. These things come so big that they have to verify the dimensions of your yard before they will install them. (They have actually run into yards where the systems don't fit unless you place the slide into the kitchen) Note that these are 'play systems' not play sets or swing sets. These are highly technical, designed by engioneers, fit to NASA specifications systems. Long gone are simple swings and slides. Now there are rock-climbing walls, fire poles, multi-levelled castles, hidden hide-aways and fifteen types of slides. The catalog is bigger than my Genetics textbook from college. The sheer number of brightly-colored choices left me dazed, but add to it the bazillion options available for each design and I wanted to run screaming into the night. Green slide or yellow slide? Curved or straight? Two swings or three? Tire swing or sand box? Ladder or rock wall? And on and on and on. It was a relief to just order the darn thing. The pressure was killing me!

Someone asked where I got the sweater kit (including 6 skeins of all-cotton yarn) from for $16.99. The answer is Lion Brand Yarns. They are having a clearance sale. I figure if I mess it up totally at least it won't bother me much since I didn't spend much on it in the first place. I got the shipment this weekend but have told myself I have to finish my other projects before I can start this one. I want to be able to concentrate (Yeah, right, with an active 4 yr old running around.....) So I have a hat/carseat blanket combo almost finished, then a toddler hat/scarf to knit. I should be started on the sweater later this week. Someone else wanted to know when I find time to knit. Well, lately, I have found the hours between 1 am and 4 am to be perfect. (I am having a little trouble sleeping it seems) Otherwise, I knit a little here and there. That's another reason I like mindless projects that don't take complicated patterns. I like things I can pick up and put down 5000 times and not lose my mind trying to remember what row I am on or whether I decreased or not on the last round. I like to just make it up as I go. Kind of like the way I cook. Totally by the seat of my pants.