NO TAKE BACKS

I watched my Nanababies last night.  I had finally finished slippers, promised to the twins.  Joey, little miss attitude, said "your finalllllllly done!".  For you see I had already given Gabs her pair, and got distracted, ran out of yarn, but finally kept the promise I had made.

Since I did not have a pair for Gabs I let her chose which one of the three hats I had made that she would like.  Well after pictures were taken, Gabs and Joe decided they liked each others hats better, so they agreed to exchange.

I have said often and will again how proud I am of my daughter, what a great, wife, mother and person she has became!  But my pride swelled again, when my 4 year old Nanababy Joey looked solemnly at her 3 year old sister Gabs, and said

"You have to promise, when we exchange these hats, that we each keep ours, No take backs, " and just as solemnly Gabs nodded her head promising her sister "No take backs."

Perhaps some day their "real" father can learn when you make a promise though there may sometimes be apologies to make for promises we are unable to keep.  Children learn by what we teach, not just through our words, but through our actions and promises unkept.  Perhaps through their Mother and the Man they call Dadda, they will  someday teach him the importance of a promise kept.

CROCHETING

I haven't posted any pictures of what I have been crocheting lately.  My mind has just overflowed with creative thoughts and ideas lately.  All the caps I crocheted were inspired by caps at the following link.

http://bevscountrycottage.com/

I would like to say you could go there for the patterns, but I cannot seem to crochet by pattern.  I just take the general idea and size and sorta go off in my own direction. 

That said, the inspiration was from patterns she has, that are adorable!

I have been working a lot lately on Preemie caps, reversible for added warmth.  My newest twin Nanababies will possibly be preemies, so I wanted to get some caps done for them.  I have also worked on some I want to donate to N.I.C.U. when my Nanababies make their first appearance.

This cap did not turn out as I envisioned, but I love it. 

This is one of the first reversible caps that I did.

This is for one of my "old" twin Nanababies (can't believe they will be 5 next year).  I added a rubber band to the top for flexibility and so my daughter could pull their hair up through it in a pony tail.  Will have to get two more done before I can see how it works.  I would not dare to bring just one, so will have to get the other two done.  They are very easy to make, and very quick.  I can do one uninterrupted in a couple of hours.

PITY PARTY

I guess today is just going to be one of those days, for a pity party.  To bad I don't have any cake, I guess I should say "It's a pity".

What's a party though without inviting friends, so all are welcome who visit me here just join right in?????????????

Oh well, that was short lived, got it out of my system, ready to move on, what a pity it was so short!

I amuse me!

CHAMELEON CAUGHT IN A KALEIDOSCOPE

It is cold and windy outside today, so I thought I would work on this post this morning.  I have hopes that the sun will come out soon to warm me outside.  I seem (to me anyway) to be reluctant to write this not sure why that would be, I guess if I write it maybe I will discover the reason...

I have a confession to make, many of you will look at me differently after I make it, but that's okay.  I DON'T LIKE OPRAH!  I am sorry to all the huge fans of hers out there but I find her annoying.  I have only watched her show a few times and find that she appears to be of the mind set that if you don't believe as she does you are wrong.

People who only live in black and white annoy me, there are so many beautiful colors and shades in the world why limit yourself.  I am not saying you should not have things, ideas, principles that you stand firmly on or that you should embrace everyone elses beliefs.  Just that we live in a world full of such unique people and should not just write someone off because they are different than us without at least first considering that even though you will never agree with them that does not always mean they are wrong.

That said, I decided one day to give the Oprah Show another shot, maybe I had just caught her on bad days.  The day I picked she was talking on of all things "Change" she had Suze Orman (or whatever her name is) Dr. Oz, some hair style guy and Dr. Phil on her show that day.

Well Suze whatever started talking about finances, I have read her book, we live in different worlds.  She had a few good ideas, I took mental notes sure I would remember, then trying to remember what I was going to remember.

The hairstyler dude was just way out there, not sure what world he lives in but in mine I usually brush my hair, sometimes if I am going somewhere I might put some mascarra on, usually not.  But I still filed some of those thoughts away in what I might as well call my garbage can because as soon as I put it in my brain it is forgotten.

Dr. Oz had some good suggestions on nutrition, vitamins and what fruits and veggies will cause you to live an extra 2 years.  So I filed them into the trash can.

Then came Dr. Phil, I am embarrassed to say this is where I lost it, he had the nerve to tell me I needed to change something about myself everyday!!!

I have got to tell you that I jumped up out of my chair screaming and yelling at the sheer nerve of this man!  I told him that I had to quit reading those magazines in the grocery market because every month they would have great ideas about pills, fruits, veggies ways to improve your health and life.  I would buy some of these, put them in my special dissappearing place and never see them again.

The next month would be a repeat.  For those of you who don't know me and I am positive many of you have the same place in your own homes, I have a place where I always put things that I am positive I will remember that I put them there, but when I go back they are gone!  So, this is my dissappearing place.

But back to my rant, I finally screamed at him that I was already like a CHAMELEON CAUGHT IN A KALEIDOSCOPE ever changing colors with the turn of lifes wheel.  I could not possibly add a change to my life every day and be expected to remember from day to day what I had changed the day before. 

For those silly people who say take notes, on paper, yeah, it has it's own dissappearing place. 

Well when I calmed down and reflected on his words it came to me, that if I did not listen to him, that would make me unique, because everyone else pays attention to what he say's.  So I know he can be a contradictory fellow, so chances are 50/50 that by next year just being the person I already am will be back in style, and for once I will be

 LEADER OF THE PACK, THIS CHAMELEON CAUGHT IN A KALEIDOSCOPE!