Pumkin Pie

This was the best tasting Pie ever. We ate it after Dad ran the Dublin Marathon. It just hit the spot. Maxim liked his with maple syrup and cream on top. Lex ate a whole piece as did Zoë. Liam and Eoin both suffering with colds this week have no appetite so more for us. This is all the thanksgiving dinner we are going to do this year so next up Halloween and costumes.

Some action

Sick again

Well winter is really here. Last night the wind blew all the leaves from the trees. As you can see above. It howled and roared all night but that is not what kept us up. It was the cough and whoop of Eoin. He woke at two and four and six Jonathan slept with him on the floor just listening to his labored breathing. I do hope this won't last long but that said with five of them to get sick in relay it might be a long month.

Cuala

Maxim is just six and we have been waiting for this oppurtunity to start team games. All the boys in his class at school attend Cuala on a Saturday morning and Jonathan brought him this weekend to try it out. Well our weekend was filled with hurley sticks and balls. Jonathan even encouraged Maxim to bring his stick to bed with him! Liam and Lex have joined in and we have some great video of practice in Belgrave Park that I will try to post. But I think Zoë takes the prize for cutest player see for yourself.

Progress

Now here you see I am almost finished the back of a little sailor sweater for Eoin and feeling much better. I was wondering does knitting ever make you feel sea sick? I sometimes feel motion sickness coming on even while sitting in the living room knitting fast. I can't ever knit in the car while driving or as passenger. Planes I can do a little but not hours. Am I doing something wrong? Going to fast looking up too often? I do watch movies at the same time as I knit or listen to audio books but I know others do this and it is perfectly acceptable to them.

Creating problems

Some how I have created something I think I am really going to hate. Does this happen often to other knitters or creative people in general? It has happened too often for my liking to me. Now normally I buy wool in colors that are easy to match - blues and greens and sometimes pink for the new baby girl. This week I sort of lost the run of myself and bought liliacs and orange and well I am not sure what to call it which would all have been fine except for the pattern I choose. Well now I look down at this sleeve and think what have I done??
In order to calm myself I do what any other knitter in my position does abandon this project and immediately start something completely different even though it is the middle of the night and I should really be going to bed!

Pretty in Pink

Zoë has the hang of eating with the big boys and often Liam has to watch out or she will swipe his food from under his nose. She is a serious eater while Eoin and Liam are just in it for the amusement! She is going to rule these boys just wait and see. The best part is she has no idea she is the youngest. But even that is not going to last long as number six is less than four months away.

Big Wool

I went to London to visit the wool shop (not the queen) and found Liberty on Regent Street. It is the most beautiful shop filled with beautiful things and I fell for some of the Rowan big wool.(A very nice lady helped me with pattern and quantity requirements). I had to start knitting it right away when I got back and as you can see I am half way through a sweater already. I have no idea why I am so taken by yarn. Maybe it is the colors or the soft texture or the warmth (I live in a very cold climate that is about to turn nasty) As it seems like a fairly harmless pass time no one has tried to stop me. Although I have a feeling my husband things I am out of my mind as I now have a stash that, I will never if I knit everyday for the rest of my life, run out of. This will of course not stop me shopping searching looking for more of the stuff (this is half the fun). I am certainly an addict but I think it unlikely to pose a problem for now....