Six links

There are now six links on our chain. 

     Grandma Lou is here, helping to keep us company this weekend. We've watched movies, made waffles, and have been thoroughly beaten in I Spy, Eagle Eye and a particularly cut throat game of Memory. 

     Yesterday Grandma, the girls and I churned out some handmade Valentines for school, and then headed to the grocery store to pass the time. For fun, I asked Bela and Mae to make the shopping list:

Bela's List

Cupcakes

Olives

Tomato Soup

Apples

Bananas

Kiwi

Pears

Carrots 

Edamame

Fish

Oranges

Pepperoni

Mae's List

Pepperoni

Rice

Avocado

Mac & Cheese

Bacon 

Bananas

Apples

     I love that number one on Bela's list is cupcakes, only to be followed by olives. Mae is a girl after my own heart with the avocado and the bacon. In the end, our list didn't vary much from what they dictated to me earlier in the day, and they ended up eating cupcakes for lunch and olives at dinner.

     With Chris gone, I've had a lot (too much) time alone and have really made some progress on a sweater for Mae that I started less than a week ago. The yarn is a cotton/wool blend, and I got it at a Glenview yarn shop that is going out of business. Over the course of the last week, I have made two visits to that store and one to another, and have now tripled my yarn stash. If you could see it you would either be very, very jealous, or very, very sorry for me. It's shameful, really. Today I finish a hat for my sister-in-law, to be shipped off to Portland.

Cotocani yarn; Tiny Tea Leaves pattern (size 4)