I know I’ve been lousy with the posting – my dad was here until Sunday. Brad and I took Dad to Sam Adam’s Brewery tour, which we originally did last year. Just as fun the second time.

And of course there’s more Grandpa and Elliot time:

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My dad came on Saturday (he’s here until Sunday) to see his grandson for the first time.

Adorable! But I didn’t get any work done this weekend (or on the flight home for that matter), so today is going to kind of suck. Oh well.
I did finish my sister’s socks (Sam) – pics tomorrow!
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Yeah, I suck at posting. Last week was super crappy at work, and rather than knit to de-stress, I just wallowed…. and now I’m on a business trip. I have a little bit of a sock that might come later this week. Though I’m in the middle of a 16 hour day [...]

I’ve got to milk this whole sweater thing for one more post, right? Sweaters dominated my 2009 knitting because of NaKniSweMoDo – not one stitch of a single sweater was knit outside of that year. Here it all is:

January: Central Park Hoodie
February: Broderie
March: Lily
April: Grannie Smith Cardigan
May: Peace
June: Brad’s Phildar [...]

Every year I stitch an annual ornament for our Christmas tree that commemorates our year together (I’ll do a wrap-up of all eight ornaments after I do the finishing on this one). Some years are really easy to choose a theme, some are harder.
We pulled out all of my old patterns and [...]

Yesterday we had the Smith girl Christmas (Michele spent actual Christmas day with her in-laws, and Brad and I spent it with Lani and a nice fire. ) We found out that Elliot is easier to soothe in the morning:

Happy mommy with a happy (and distracted by bright lights) baby:

We [...]

We tried to get a photo in front of our tree last night, but we’re kind of too tall for our 6 foot tree (you can kind of see the knitted star behind us).

But when we were out for our nice Christmas Eve dinner, we found a bigger tree:

And Lani, cause she’s cute:

We’re having a [...]

I’m at the waist decreases now (I think, I have to put half the stitches on another needle and try it on first). I already modified the pattern by continuing the lacy part down – as written, it would stop mid-chest on me, which is weird, and I see no reason to not continue [...]

This is one of my favorite things ever – a snow day on a Sunday, when we don’t have to be anywhere, don’t have to get anything done, we can just enjoy it. I was kind of hoping to go for a snow walk after we got home last night, but the meteorologists were [...]

I finally got to meet my nephew!

I held him as long as he would let me. My back is totally paying for it now. I’m taking a sick day tomorrow because struggling to think with the meds is unfun, and I’ve been pushing hard since it happened (since I was in fact on [...]