Divine Retribution

I have spent the morning chasing Hannah and grabbing markers out of her hands. Then to follow behind with one of those Magic Erasers to scrub my wall. I'm at a loss with Hannah. She's a stubborn little stinker or "snot" as my husband prefers. KalieAnn has always been a fairly easy stinker. She'd do something wrong, I'd spank her or put her intime out and she didn't do it again. Hannah one day went into the neighbors yard. here's what happened:
"Hannah!" (She turns and looks at me)
"Hannah come back in our yard!"
"No!"
"Hannah ifyou don't come back inour yard I will spank you!" (She turns ...lifts up her shirt and sticks her butt at me!)
Lately I have been trying the time out method because the girls have come to the idea that if they think they are doing something wrong they can hit each other. Spanking has currently gone out the door. I don't want my kids to think its okay to hit someone if they are in the wrong. I figure best way to stop that is to not spank them...all in all spanking is hitting right? SoI have been putting them on the stairs...something neither of them like. I tell you what..the days I can get something done around this house is when Hannah spends half the day in time out and the other half down for her nap. Why half the day in time out? Here's why:
Hannah loves to get into my stuff...tearing up knitting patterns, getting into stamp pads, and markers all over the walls. So I put her time out. A couple minutes go by...
"Hannah you ready tobe a good girl?"
"Uh Huh"
"You going to stay out of mommy's stuff?"
"No!"
"Then stay there a little while longer"
A couple more minutes go by...
"You goingto bea good girl and stay out of mommy's stuff?"
"No!"
"Fine stay there a little while longer"
A couple more mintues go by and I finally get a "Uh huh." I feel maybe I've been successful and she gets up and empties out the kitchen cabinet..my first words "Ughh!! Girl!" Back in time out she goes...and she'll keep this up. So far i think its starting to work except today we're right back into the routine. I'll call my mom and she calls it my Devine Retribution. Apperantly I wasa little Hellion...oh well. She keeps reminding me that being stubborn can be a good thing if pointed in the right direction. So I'm trying to point her in the right direction. I've just been having continous days of feeling like I want to bang my head against the wall. I am going to be spending today scrubbing the walls in their room to try and get the marker off and washing their sheet to get marker out of them. Then I will do my best to chase down every marker and crayon in this house and put them in a drawer in my room or hide them somewhere. I feel like I am loosing weight chasing her around. My pants are starting toget loose. So my daughter is not always goodfor a laugh and moments of wanting to bang myheadon the wall...shes good for helping me loose weight and keeping me busy.
My Husbands got one of his boss' back at work that is a complete jerk. This time around Mitchell is the second in command or "A Gunner" in their office. This boss is the kind of guy that doesn't do his work...he has someone else AKA my husband for him. So he's back to working the long hours. He hasn't been home before eight or even say nine this week. Now this guy is taking leave aka vacation because the work is getting to hard for him! What work? My husbands doing it all! Second must be nice to be able to just leave when things get rough! I'll be soo happy when we leave this place. Anywhoo...I've got to get off to cleaning and making lunch.

Craft Projects

I love doing crafts!!! There's no better feeling ....well outside watching your kids grow and accomplish something new that makes them extremely proud of themselves..than to accomplish a project you have set out to do. This family I have feeling is going to be very creative. Mitchell and I both love creating things...just in very different ways. We have two toy boxes that Mitchell has put together...one with the help of his Mom. He's also made plaques for the guys at his work that leave. Needless to say he is really good at making projects and he loves doing it. Its too bad that he doesn't have the time to get all the projects he'd like done done. I'm also very thank full that his Mom raised him to do anything he needs to do to make it on his own...she even went as far as teaching him to crochet. Does he crochet? LOL No but when I get stuck on one of my projects he's REALLY good at helping me out. If I have to pull rows out in knitting he's there to help! It's Awesome!

Projects I have Finished!

I have finished a couple of baby blankets. One was made for a little boy. It has been finished for a while now...I just have yet to mail it to the person it will belong too. I keep telling myself next pay day...well things keep coming up. So one Saturday Mitchell has off we will be full of boxes to mail out.

Here's the blanket. Its from one of those Quick Knit Baby Afghan pattern books. I'm not sure this is the best picture of I could have taken but I really like that variegated yarn mixed in with the white yarn. This...as most knit patterns I do are the basic knit and pearl stitches. I don't consider myself an advance knitter. I've thought about signing up for a class on learning how to knit at Joanns...so I can learn some new techniques and read other patterns better.

The Next project I've finished just need to weave in the loose ends on the wash cloths is what I do for most my friends having babies. A baby blanket with two wash clothes! This was a pattern I was really excited about finishing it the first time! Its not just the basic knit and pearl pattern. As you can see it has Holes in it!!! I was soo excited when I taught myself that technique. This is yet another project that needs to get mailed lol. See what I mean about boxes? lol

These next two are the wash clothes that I have sitting on top of the blanket. I've noticed with variegated yarn its hard to see the pattern. But oh well!

Now for the projects that are under construction...

Now here are bunch of wash clothes that all I really need to do to them is weave in the ends. From one of the big rolls of variegated yarns I think I could have gotten 11 wash clothes out of it with the pattern I used. But I stopped at ten because I want to try and make the girls some Barbie Suitcases out of it for Christmas...we'll see if I can figure out the pattern.
These are the other color wash clothes I am going to try and make for Christmas. The green wash cloth that is in progress here will be partnered with one of the others up top for a Christmas present. The other two rolls of yarn you see here will be paired together.

Here is a baby blanket I am currently working on. I need to start another as soon as I decide which one gets this. I have been in constant debate with myself on wheter or not this is a neutral blanket because I didn't realize the knit pattern had hearts in it. But you can only tell its hearts unless you look closely. So I think I've made the final decision that it is.

Last but def. not least I am making two 8X8 books for our Moms..his and mine..of our little family. This is from two falls ago the pages you are seeing. Well..I need to go get something accomplished today!!!