fuggedaboudit

So.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. What isn't there to love about a holiday that revolves around food and regularly results in a long weekend? I was really looking forward to N's first Turkey Day. Now I'm just sort of pretending that whole week never happened.

My SIL and her family were due to come visit to meet N. They left my nephew with his dad in L.A. because he had the flu and the night they got here, my niece came down with it. I quarantined her and her mom (who had not had this flu) in the guest room. My future BIL had gotten over his case, so he was free to move about. There was disagreement between me and them about how to best protect N. Because of the flu thing, I got started baking way too late the day before T-day and my pecan pie burned when I set my cell phone alarm for 12:10pm instead of 12:10 am. Couldn't use the oven timer at midnight.

Thanksgiving was a one-woman show, with my future BIL doing the fruit salad, setting the table, and carving the turkey while C tended N. I pulled off turkey, dressing, candied sweet potatoes, green beans, corn pudding, cranberries, gravy, and homemade yeast rolls. ALL that cooking for hours on my feet after hours the day before baking on my feet, and the fridge was on the fritz. I had to throw out all the yummy leftovers to be safe. The vent that moves air from the freezer to the fridge was blocked by frost and we need a new part, but for now it is defrosted and working okay. But no leftovers, people. None except the two pies which fit in the dorm fridge in the garage we use for cokes. (Neither of which was pecan which still disappointed me...my pie is pecan pie. I had a slice of C's apple pie, and it was very good, but it wsn't pecan and T-day just isn't T-day without the right homemade pie....they need to just rename it Pie Day because face it, when else do we all eat pie?) The fridge was at room temp for nearly a day before we even realized it, so putting it all in a cooler wouldn't work...it had already sat too long. I threw out everything except eggs, cheese, and unprocessed veggies. We are starting over with the fridge.

The disagreement between myself and my SIL about how to keep the flu away from N turned into a Disagreement. Then they flew home.

It just keeps getting better. Then N started acting tired and out of sorts Saturday and woke with a fever Sunday. She is still napping a lot, but seemed pretty normal yesterday. She is congested and sneezing today. And tired and cranky again. She never spiked a high fever, so the doctor is unsure about whether it is the flu. All that constant disinfecting and worry last week. He thinks this is not the flu though, so maybe that all worked.

So let's look at some knitting.

This is N wearing a cute little dress my friend Tasha knit for her. I made a black shrug to go with it.

Here she is modelling a hat I knit for a speed knitting competition. I got through the first round knitting mitts. Got ousted in the second round, but I did get pretty hat in a few hours from it!

This is a helmet liner with earflaps that I knit for The Ships Project. It will go to ground troops overseas. Probably in Afghanistan.

Here she is modelling a neckwarmer/scarf I knit. The yarn is Elsebeth Lavold Silky Cashmere (55% silk/45% cashemere) that I got on sale at Tuesday Morning for $4/skein instead of the usual $10/skein.

And now I need to go change a poopy diaper.