Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

People in Michigan Know the Size of My Stash

Over the weekend Newfangled Dad and I took the kiddos to the Allegan County Fairgrounds for the Michigan Fiber Festival. The tiny people love a car trip (Happy Meals!) and Newfangled Dad and I love sheep, so it seemed like a double win.

We saw the alpacas, the goats and the sheep. The little dude thought everything smelled. The Tiny Dictator thought everything was a reason to cry.

I would like to tell you that this is the point in our getaway where we enjoyed an idyllic picnic lunch in the grass laughing and teaching the children about the importance of sustainably raised livestock. In reality lunch was a shouty affair where very little was eaten. Both kids took their shoes off and had tantrums about putting them back on. I left with ketchup on the back of my shirt. Newfangled Dad had to carry around two cups of lemonade for the rest of the day because the munchkins would neither drink it nor allow him to throw it away.


We decided to divide and conquer. Newfangled Dad took the kids to a herding dog demonstration while I shopped the vendors. Well, mostly I waged war with my burning desire to buy a loom, dance gleefully with most of the Briar Rose booth and purchase everything grey at Bare Naked Wool.

In the end, I left having purchased only some dyed Border Leicester locks. Don't worry though, unnecessary stash enhancement karma found me by way of the little dude. As I hurriedly tried to dig cash out of my purse he waxed poetic about the obscene size of my yarn stash, regaling the bemused vendor with tales of "boxes are stacked as high as mama full of yarn and she has a lot of fiber too and two spinning wheels and we just took her to buy yarn recently so she just got some."

Hurmpf!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

One in a Thousand

My knitting and spinning time slips through my fingers like water.  Because of this:


The second I sit down to enjoy a fibery pursuit (or eat my dinner) a tiny person wants something, needs something or hits someone.  Every once in a while I want to flee far and fast.  Occasionally I find this - one photo out of nearly a thousand that The Tiny Dictator took with my iPad.  There were lots of ceiling shots, blank wall photos and solid black box after solid black box because she had the iPad laying on the sofa while pushing the button over and over and over.  But amongst those 997 shots of nothing was this gem.

I. Would. Really. Like. To. Knit.  Please go away.  But I can't say it.  Because these days are one in a thousand and they will be over before I realize I should miss them.