Knitterykate 2

"Let the children come unto me." These little girls have never been to Sunday School before and are so excited to be there. They are such a joy to teach with their eagar little faces and happy smiles. Of course, it helps a lot when you are free with the stickers, prizes and candy treats!

We use to do things as a family every Saturday afternoon. First stop was the bakery. We would all get a donut and pop and ruin our appetite for the rest of the day.

To my family everwhere all over the globe: My hope is to see you all soon--either here, there or in the air! Have a very happy holiday season and "think on Him, when it is well with thee". Lots of love, Knitterykate

I found this list in some papers that I was saving. What Can You Do For Jesus? By LJ, aged six 1. Pray 2. Obey 3. Obey Mommy and Daddy 4. Read your Bible every day 5. Be good 6. Be nice to people 7. Make people dresses 8. Help people 9. Make a house for someone 10. Put peoples' hats on for them 11. Say, "please" 12. Comb people's hair 13. Make people hats 14. Preach 15. Go to meeting 16. Make meeting rooms 17. Help at weddings (put on dresses on the maids) 18. Set up meeting chairs 19. Sing to the Lord By LJ, July 1994 I really wish she would have put on there "Clean your room."

We dedicate this page to a brave girl who today has begun anew to practice her driving skills. With many starts and stutters, biting of fingernails, cowerings in corners, stomping of feet and just saying no, the day has finally come that H decided (with strong urgings from her mom!) to get behind the wheel of the car. Someday the streets of Vancouver will be graced with the skill of this fine motorist. Alas! Said girl skipped the country with nary a driving lesson under her belt...We'll be waiting at the border.

I had just gotten home from doing errands. I ran around town doing the banking, paying bills, buying CD's to burn an update for our printer's driver (our computer finally died and since it's not hooked up to the internet we had to download an upgrade and thus burn a CD), getting a Starbuck's :), picking up LJ from school, going to the grocery store for a few items for dinner, mailing a parcel to B&P and finally getting home. Does it sound like your day? I suppose it does because we are just normal busy people. (That really was just one hour in the afternoon.) When I walked in the door B asked me, "Do you want to go out to eat tonight or Thursday?" You mean I get a choice? I thought he meant for H's b-day since we planned on taking her to a Greek resturant but he was thinking of using the gift certificate that a very generous friend from CA had mailed to us. Here is where they wanted us to go. We have never been to this kind of a restuarant so we didn...

My "little boy" turns 20 today. All moms everywhere say, "Where did the time go?" And I can echo that. When he was a baby he was given a pair of size 18 months pants and I cried just thinking that he would one day be big enough to wear them. Those days are long gone and in their place is a pair of pants to fit a 6'3" man. My greatest desire for him today is not that he would grow big and strong but that he would be a man of God. That would be the greatest gift that my son could give in return for the years that I've raised him. That's all I ask.

Poor Prince D will be an old man and too big to wear this sweater by the time I finish it. It's so slow going because there is so much happening in my family's lives that pre-empts knitting time. (Hectic is one word to describe our lifestyle. I sometimes wonder who is going to be home for dinner when I'm cooking at night. I always console myself with the thought of Teegee eating at 10:30PM when he comes home even if no one else has touched the meal. As long as there are no onions. Besides that, if there's any left over someone is apt to take it to work the next day for lunch.) Well, D will be four months old at the end of this month and this was suppose to be a shower present for a shower that was held before he was born. At least Mom knows it's coming. post script. Yes, I finished the Wonderful Wallaby on Saturday. Mom was pleased as punch when I gave it to her yesterday. Alas, there is no picture of the finished product. I will try to get one when he wears it.

The hat that I'm working on has a cabled band around the crown. You start with a provisional cast-on --one that is worked in a different color so that it is easy to pick out later when you knit the two ends together that fit snugly around your brow. Look here for pics of the technique.

There's a long-standing joke in our family that when we're up to our ears and can take no more we say, "and to top it all off, the border was lined up." It goes back to a friend that had had a horrendous day and at the end he had to wait at the border and that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Go figure.

H's birthday is this week. You'll never guess who has to help wrap the presents. I don't know why I even bother. He could probably do a better job than I can.

It took us eight and one half hours to make a three hour trip to the SeaTac Airport. The kids' plane landed at 6:30PM--right on time but we were three hours late picking them up! The roads as well as the border were horrendous. Snow and ice and accidents everywhere! And no one knows how to drive in the snow and no one wants to put snow tires on for one mile, take them off for two and put them back on again for five. It was hopeless. Just to get from North Seattle by the 405 interchange to the airport was three hours. The on-ramp alone took us 30 minutes because someone keep slipping and sliding towards a parked bus and thus refused to budge. It was a relief to finally pick up the kids. I sure miss them when they are away. We left the airpost at 10:00Pm and got home at 4:15AM--only a little over 6 hours this time. But I would do it again in a heart beat because of who was there.