Running Late

I'm sorry to have missed the last few days.  Suddenly I'm up to my ears in things that need to get done.  Christmas does that.  For all week it was: get up, get out of the house, drop Ari at daycare, put Emma in the car and go.  Don't come home until 2:30 or 3 - rest a few minutes then get Ari and think of dinner.  Shopping, the gym (finally!), doctor's appointments.  The works.  Now that I seem to have finally kicked that weird virus (won't go away, extreme fatigue, open sores in the my throat but not technically mono) I can start working out again.  Of course, two short days of doing half the routine and I'm already starting to feel sick again.  Sigh.  More sleep I guess. 

I gave in finally and started on the girl's stockings.  You can follow in on ravelry.  www.ravelry.com/projects/bluefox  I did decide to use one circ and that's working out fairly well.  It's turning out pepperminty, which is what I wanted, and large.  Which should be interesting to fill.  But they will look very pretty.  At the very least I want to finish one for Emma.  I do have a stocking for Ari from previous years.  But it would be fun to finish them both.  On the other hand, I do need to finish the shawl for my mother before Christmas - right around Christmas anyway.  It should be sent out by the 26th in order to get to her on her birthday on the 1st. 

Today we hit three parties.  One for the children on Jason's ship, which was a lot of fun.  The usual Hawaiian BBQ.  A bouncy, food, games.  There were give aways for all the children - bags with toys and candy that were pretty cool.  Santa showed up for a while and took orders.  Ariana loved it.  She sat on Santa's lap and asked for stickers and was very disappointed when she didn't get any.  I explained she was asking for things for her stocking and I think she understood that.   Guess I'd better get my hands on some stickers.  

Then we went to tailgater for the UH game with the wardroom.  That was a good time too.  Then off to a fight party for the boxing match this evening - also including folks from the ship and other friends of the host.  After hot dogs all day it was WONDERFUL Filipino food for dinner.  Gotta love it.  Now, back to knitting.