Indoor Sunbathing

I was sunbathing in the playroom today. The afternoon light is amazing in here on sunny days... And Lola and I were soaking it up as the bigger kids chatted themselves to sleep. Outside it was a frigid 12 degrees, but in here it felt like 80. I was stretched out like a cat in her favorite strip of sun. This winter has been the most plesent we've had in the last few years. Two winters ago in Wheaton, IL and last winter in Omaha it was brutally cold and I perpetually felt snowed in. There is a lot to be said for winter. I love the feeling of liberation that comes over me when I simply cannot leave the house because of piles of snow falling from the sky. It's nice just to camp out by the fireplace and knit when all obligation to go-go-go has been taken off my plate. I love the simplicity of just being able to serve soup and bread for dinner. And I love on the occasions that the children go out to play. In the summer they seem to get bored with twigs and plants, but in the winter they have this amazing shifting snowscape to capture their imaginations... Of course I personally have yet to take them out. I stay in and snuggle Lola.

So it is Febrary. One of the big birthday months. Georgia will be three in just a few weeks. Crazy. I often think of Normy as being three... Not Georgia! It's good though. Two was a hard year for her. I'm hopping some of the bumps she and I keep hitting smooth out of the landscape as we move into Three. Some things are sure to remain constant. Like her love for Nutella on toast. She doesn't call it chock-oh-butt any longer but her delight in it's rich creamy sweetness remains.

I've got a cold coming on. It's pretty much crushing the life out of me this evening. I was doing great until nap time. I thought a couple days of herbal tea and the netti-pot had spared me, but it doesn't seem so now. Smoochy is making us beans and rice and I am going to go knit. I just cast on (again) for THESE FINGERLESS MITTS. They are my first project reading a knitting chart. I only frogged them twice before looking up directions on knitting chart reading. Huh. And people say I am a slow learner. Whatever. I've got it now. ;-)