I sincerely hope that everyone keeps their Halloween, and others, as safe as possible! Keep an eye on your little ones, know where your bigger ones will be and make sure they have reliable rides! Those of you that will be out on the town, partyin' it up..cough...Adam...cough. (It's okay, I doubt he reads this!) Please, please, please be safe! If you are planning on have a few drinks, or even just one, have a designated driver, and know where you are going.
For you parents taking your little ones out for some super Trick or Treating, here is a website with all sorts of handy and common sense kind of tips. Some of them may seem silly, but they also are all important.
http://www.halloween-website.com/safety.htm
For those of you that follow my crochet page already know that I am hosting a Costume Contest! Those of you that don't- well you should :) You can enter by submitting a photo online, like CuteLoops, and share your photo for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to CuteLoops! Follow the link and like my page!
CuteLoops Halloween Costume Contest Extraordinaire!
So we already celebrated Halloween. I know, how lame. However, with Michael having to work nights, it was much easier to take Amelia to our little church Trunk or Treat. I wish I had gotten more pictures, but at least I got our costumes. And with Amelia being too little to really understand or enjoy Trick or Treating, we're forgoing any sort of thing tonight. It doesn't help that I've been dying of some undetermined disease. Okay not really, but our household has been plagued with coughs and colds and all sorts of awesome ailments for the last month or so.
16 years ago, my beautiful, wonderful mother was diagnosed with colon cancer at the young age of 32. She fought for her life and won. Today, I am proud to say that I am the daughter of a survivor. Doctors suggest that the children of people who have had cancer, get tested for that cancer ten years prior to the age the parent was when they had cancer (if that makes sense). Well I am a few years past that, and talked to my doctor about it last week, and sure enough that's the correct action. Either way, I get to have a colonoscopy in two weeks. Hurray! Just kidding. I'm a tad nervous, mostly because the procedure involves a camera being shoved up my bum. But I'm sure all will be well.
Anyways, last week as I went in for my colonoscopy consultation, I sat in the waiting room....waiting. There was an elderly couple waiting, and the woman was knitting. Now obviously, I know how to crochet. But I've been kind of wanting to learn to knit, because there are a lot of things you can do with knitting that you can't do with crochet. So I sat next to her, and was asking her about what she was making (a baby blanket), and I mentioned that I crocheted. She was very sweet, and was telling me stories about how she knit all her children mittens, hats and scarves every winter. They had a dog who would always steal the mittens off their hands, even from the neighbor kids. She said that she made dozens of mittens every winter, and they could never find what the dog did with them. Well I was asking her about knitting and mentioned how complicated it seemed. She laughed at me and said, "If you can crochet, you can knit. Knitting is much easier that crocheting. There are only two stitches, knit and purl." Where as with crocheting there are dozens of stitches.
So I went out and bought a little learn-to-knit kit, and have been trying to teach myself to knit all week. Holy. Cow. It is stupid hard. Maybe it's just me, and I'm just so crochet-oriented, that I can't wrap my brain around the knitting concept. But I can't do it. I've been trying for days and cannot figure it out. So I think I will just stick to crocheting.
Also, I've issued a new challenge to myself. That is to have a family dinner prepared every day for the month of November. I've made up my meal plan, and it looks pretty good. So hopefully, as long as I maintain my health (wishful thinking) I will have a new recipe for you every day! I know you're so excited!
Okay well I had hoped to make this blog longer and little more productive sounding, but my child is begging for attention.
So don't forget to submit your entries for the Costume Contest, and remember to be safe tonight!
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