Erica’s Blog

To a 10-year-old girl, this room looks acceptably clean.  To her parents, it does NOT.
  Clearly, it’s time for another purge.  I was thinking that I would do what my mom did to me and do a thorough cleaning and purge while she’s at Outdoor Ed, but that’s not until January.  If I have to wait that long, either the Health Department will condemn her room or there will be bloodshed.  It definitely has to get fixed up before Christmas.  Anybody out there got any tricks for getting fifth-grade girls to clean their rooms, or do I need to call up Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle?

THANK YOU, MAGIC KNITTER!  You ROCK, even all the way from Korea…

1…2…3…SQUEE!!!  I just lurves me some Silk Garden. Now, to figure out what to make for myself with my one, precious skein.

This is what Thing Two prepared for us last night for our anniversary.  Very cute.

And THIS is the card from Hubby:
 How perfect is THAT?  What? You don’t understand?  Well, apart from what it says inside that I won’t tell you, take a look at what the wife in the picture is doing:

KNITTING!  (Actually, just posing; no one holds their right needle that far back, but still…)  Like I said, how perfect is THAT?!  Ya gotta love a guy who manages to find such a supremely appropriate card, eh?

Yes, folks, I’m finally going to ship off TPTAML today.  Wish me luck!  If this thing gets lost or damaged in shipping, I’ll probably commit harakari!

[Overheard at school on report card day]

Adult:  Did you get your report card today?

Kid:  Yeah, and I only got ONE “D”!