All About the Love

I really can not believe that Friday is here already!  This is my absolute most favourite time of year, because it's all love, all the time.  What's not to like about that?  Here's what I'm loving this week:

• 6 MORE DAYS!!  We've been counting down, and I'm as impatient as the kids - not much longer now!

• Before-Christmas presents - Stuart always gives me a gift (after my constant asking, of course) around a week before Christmas.  We call it my "before Christmas present", and it's always just some little something he knows I would like.  This year, a Meatloaf CD.  Meatloaf is one of my secret pleasures, I think the song Paradise by the Dashboard Lights is one of the funniest things out there.

 

 

• Men in uniform - Brian became a scout this year, and he finally received his new Beaver uniform - and ooooh, he looks so much like his daddy!

   

 

• The way Katie can babysit Liam, and still manage to read her book - a chip of the ol' block, I'd say.  Look at that one handed, play with the baby's toy action!

 

 

• The sunshine that's pouring through my front window, making our nativity shine.

 

• Starting new projects.  This is a Stolen Moments wrap, knit from one strand of Elann's Super Kydd and one strand of a mystery yarn my mum sent for me.  She's asked me to knit her a shawl, and I think this will be perfect (although she's perfectly capable of knitting something like this herself - there is more to knitting than dishcloths, even though dishcloths are a perfectly respectable thing to enjoy knitting).

   

• My dog, Judah, who thinks any blanket, item of clothing or piece of knitting was left there for the express purpose of making him a bed.

 

• The way Gwenyth has to run and pose whenever she sees my camera.  Really.  Every single time.

 

• Knitting Dashing for Stuart's Christmas stocking.  And the way I can knit right in front of him and he has no idea that it's for him (until I have to try them on him, because I think they're going to be too small, and then they're not - I don't love that.  But I love the mitts).

Comments

[colleen]

Its love all the time here too! I love the way the LED lights light up the entire room and how crazy excited the boy is right now...

[Sheri]

Isn't it funny about dogs? Mine are the same, even the cats. Everything I pick up is covered in animal fur.

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Happy holidays to you! What wonderful pictures of your happy family.

[pam]

Oh, I love Meatloaf, too! My dog thinks any blanket is his as well, dives me crazy sometimes. Great pictures of your family.

[SpiderWomanKnits]

Charity! You have no idea how you just saved me. I just found one fingerless mitt I made *last year* and cast on for the second as a last minute X Mas gift. Well I couldn't remember how I did the thumb gusset but I had the vague memory it was different than usual. I had used the method from Dashing! That was it! Yay! Thank you so much :-)

"Ain't no doubt about it we were doubly blessed..." (Well with a pair of mitts not the rest of the song ;-) )

[Jo]

Merry Christmas Charity!

[Jo at Celtic Memory Yarns]

I love seeing the things you love and loving them too! And I'm frantically finishing a pair of socks for my DH and yes, knitting them right in front of him, and he doesn't notice. And once I did try a pair on him, right before Christmas, to make sure they fitted, and he didn't even realise they were for him - when I asked on Christmas Day, he said 'oh, I thought you were trying your own socks on me, because it was easier!' (!!!)

Blessings of the Solstice, Midwinter, and the holiday season to you and yours.

[Julie]

It's so nice to read how excited you are about Christmas; it certainly picks me up every time I read :)

[Lorette]

Lovely family! And I love Meatloaf. Jim Steinman wrote brilliant lyrics.

[marianne]

I always look forward to your holiday posts (even though I'm terribly late in getting here). Congrats to Brian, handsome lad in his uniform indeed! Love how Kate multi-tasks :^) and Gwenyth, how funny, Gracie does the same thing! The wrap is going to be a Beauty, and I just had to giggle, my mom has gotten her knitting needles out these past few months and what does she knit? washcloths. it's all about the washcloth, eh? :^)
Give Judah some good lovin' for me, yes?
Blessings of Christmas and Solstice to you, Sweetheart.
XOX