I joined the Woolgirl Sock club and I just got my second package in the mail.  It is awesome and right up my alley.  I really have to start making these socks right away.  The color is awesome and is perfectly reminiscent of tree frogs!  I don’t know if you could tell but I love frogs.  I’m not sure if I ever want to touch them but they sure are cute.  Well, some of them at least.

I love the Woolgirl Sock club because she always includes such great goodies in the package with the yarn and pattern.  This one includes a calculator, wooden gauge thing with frogs all over it, a frog pencil, postcards, lollipop, frog stitch marker, frog shaped keychain notebook, frog stickers, 2 mini plastic frogs, and  frog confetti.

My son is in love with the calculator and the mini plastic frogs.  He spent a good 15 minutes playing with them which is great considering he is only 22 months.

So, I’m not dead and I haven’t completely given up on updating this blog.  I have been knitting and cooking a baby in my belly as my husband likes to put it.  I am 24 weeks pregnant with a little girl and I’m so happy that I can knit with pink that I started a pinwheel sweater with pinks, reds, and purples.

I originally took pictures of the heart-shaped Krispy Kreme doughnuts that my husband gave me but I’m too lazy to download them from the camera so you’ll have to settle for a picture of Grumble.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

Happy Lunar New Year everybody!

At midnight I put out fruit and lit 3 sticks of incense and prayed.  I’ll be honest that I didn’t really know that I needed to do this but my parents came by the house with fruit this evening and told me that I had to do it.  They also said we had to light firecrackers on our front gate around midnight.

My husband hung the firecrackers on the gate lit the fuse and we both ran and hid near the front door.  Man, those babies were loud and smoky.  They were so loud that we woke up poor Grumble.  I guess it didn’t help that we lit them practically right in front of his window.  Luckily, he calmed down and went back to sleep in a few minutes which was probably because we scared all those bad spirits away.

The one thing I regret now that I am and old married lady is that I can’t receive red envelopes anymore.  It was always fun to get crisp bills and see which relatives had a stash of two dollar bills.  But now I’m the one who has to hand out the envelopes.  It’s a good thing my sister works at the bank so I don’t have to stand in line behind the rest of the Asians for new bills.

Anyway,  happy new year to everybody and I wish everybody joy, longevity, and prosperity!

Merry Christmas to everybody!

We’re in Virginia now and having a great time.  I hope everybody had a great Christmas!