Back to the Land of the Living….Slowly

Remember the “bad cold” I told you all about in my last post?  On Thursday it turned into “the flu”.  I left work at 3:00 p.m. with a fever and slept.  I worked 1/2 of the day on Friday, still with a fever.  By Friday night, it was 102.4 and I felt terrible.  I slept pretty much all the way from Friday night through Sunday night, waking only to watch children when Craig was at baseball practice.  I stayed home today because I still felt pretty weak but also because my oldest now has a fever and croup.  Poor guy.  He isn’t eating anything because it makes him feel sick.  There’s nothing that worries me more than having a sick child.

So, in order to try and psych myself up that I’m better (I am, I am, I am!), I’m admitting defeat with a book I’ve been trying to slog through for book club:  Eat, Pray, Love.  I tried to give it a chance, (really) I did.  But I can’t get through the second part (India) and her meditation efforts and being called “groceries”.  Bleeeeeeach.  So off it goes, along with a pile of other books I’ve never going to read, to my grandmother-in-law’s nursing home…..or as I like to think, out with the old, the tired, the dreary!:

I take that back.  I attempted to read the Human Stain for book club (hated it),  I read Hank and Chloe years ago (don’t remember what it was about), just finished Roseborough (just so-so, though Bea, you will be interested to note that this book was written by a Dallas author and takes place in a Dallas suburb and also spends a little bit of time in Weatherford, Tx, a town I onced lived in).  But I digress…..this is a knitting blog, folks!  And knitting is not what I’ve been doing a whole lot of here lately.  Here’s another shot of Lainie’s cardigan:

 

That’s the right front, can you see the button holes?  And what’s that blue peeking out from behind?  A little mindless knitting I worked on today while subjecting Cole to ”Top Chef” on Bravo.

I just found out someone who had a baby boy (named Jake, don’t you love it?  Think “16 Candles”) — I just had to order these from Cornflower Creations for little Jake:

 

2 burp cloths and a little crosstitched onesie.  Isn’t that Frog Prince cute?????  Look closer at the fire engine:

Folks, do you know how hard it is to stitch on a stretchy cotton fabric and make it look nice?  It even came with a cute padded hanger.  I am always amazed at what an accomplished stitcher Jacklyn is!

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that tomorrow will be a better day for the oldest.