Up, up and away.......

I'm still in the land of the living. Even reading y'alls blogs, although not commenting much (mostly catching up using bloglines on my phone - teeny keys are not conducive to regular blog-commenting). I've been so busy the last few weeks. I've gotten a bit of knitting in, between house-moving, looking for a new house, birthday parties and organising volunteers for Teddy's school book fair (otherwise known as pulling teeth!).

We found a new house - it's in the community we wanted and is VERY close to the town centre. As in, three of the corners of our street are occupied by 1. the YMCA, 2. a preschool for Matt and 3. a pub for Mommy and Daddy :0)

We move in June 11th and I seriously can't wait. I even found a knit group on Ravelry that meets at the local coffee shop - about a 3 minute walk for me - woohoo :0)

In fun news (as if a new house wasn't fun enough), tonight we took the boys to see the new Disney-Pixar movie "UP". It was totally hilarious, and don't my boys look awesome in their 3D glasses. We ate out afterwards and what else would make the boys happy, but balloons.

I've a fun knitting project to show you tomorrow, so stay tuned.

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Some cute mommy stuff

Mother's Day, yesterday, started off really nicely with a breakfast menu brought to me in bed. What a great effort from Teddy with his writing. Over breakfast, I opened up some wonderful cards and handmade gifts - a decorated cookie and stamped 'purse'. I'm a lucky mommy indeed :0)

Later that day, we had a family party, which left some of us pooped. Here are Matt and his cousin, Owen, snuggling together on the couch. These two boys are in the same class at school this year and have become very close.

And I HAD to get a picture of the latest sport at Chez Disco-in-laws. We call it fistycups :0)

In house news.... we closed this afternoon, so I am now officially homeless, broke and living with my in-laws.

But with three awesome 'boys'. What more could a girl ask for.

Happy Monday :0)

Baby girl surprise

Our house didn't close yesterday. The buyers loan still wasn't ready! Not happy, and that's all I want to say about that.

Onto happier things. Like knitting.

Here's a Baby Surprise Jacket, made with Bernat Organic Cotton, from the stash. Finished this morning, just in time for the baby shower. I love it when people find out what kind of baby they're having. Then you can knit in the 'appropriate' colour :0) I wrapped it up with some other girly goodies in a dolly's basket. I figured that might come in more useful than the usual gift bag.

Here's mom, opening a LOT of baby gifts. The friends hosting the shower did an awesome job decorating the party room. Cute, huh!

Baby showers are something about America I really enjoy :0)

Happy Mothers Day for tomorrow. Even if you aren't a mom, you have a mom :0)

Sometimes, you just need a laugh....

We moved out of our house today. It's completely empty. Tomorrow is the closing. If our buyer's loan is approved, that is. Who leaves that shit til last minute?!!

Enough of that.

I took Teddy and his friend to the library after school. While his friend played on the computer, he took a sheet of plain paper (there were no colouring pages available) and said he wanted to draw me a surprise picture.

I was sitting right next to him, playing a new word game on my iphone, but kept glancing over. He was super-secretive about the whole thing and kept giggling and telling me it was supposed to be a surprise.

From my brief glances, I thought he was drawing me a picture of a butterfly.

He wasn't!!!

On a scale of 1 to 10, how funny is that?!!!

The Money Pit

I've been a bit preoccupied lately. We sold our house, from now on only to be known as The Money Pit.

Our buyers are paying more than $100 grand less than we paid for it. $104 grand, to be precise. Hence, TMP. Oh well, it's only worth what someone will pay for it and they were our first offer in over 6 months on the market.

Now we are in the unenviable position of coming up with a big wad of cash to settle our mortgage AND pay closing costs. Ouch. Then we have to save up (again!) for a deposit on our next house.

Thank goodness for Bezzie and her Random Meanderings. Reading her blog has been really good preparation for the cheapassedness which has now become part of daily life at Chez Disco.

Out are our regular dinners and lunches out. In are brown bag lunches and coupon cutting.

Out is our cable, internet and home phone. In is using our iphones to their fullest extent, mooching the in-laws wi-fi and watching DVDs (which we already own, or can borrow from the library).

Out is taking 'stuff' to Goodwill. In is some major activity on Craigslist.

Out is our two car family. In is our one car family.

Out is accepting the first quote for the Radon remediation work we must have done before our closing. In is shopping around and getting a cheaper quote by $250.

And on it goes.......

We close on May 8th. Then we'll spend a month living with my parents-in-law (they live only a 10 minute drive from us), while Teddy finishes up at school. Then we're all (including the in-laws) moving 'up north'.

Charlotte here we come.

That's about all I can stomach writing about the situation for now. I'm sure there'll be a little more economy-ranting to come at a future date.....

But for now, I'll leave you with a couple cute pics of my Teddy. He had surgery on Monday (goodbye $500 deductible!) to remove 4 large moles from his scalp.

Before the op, flying high with his bear, Bob.

Afterwards. My little sick siekh.

It's quite amazing how quickly children recover from things like this. We dropped $8 on a prescription of tylenol and codeine for him, in case he was in pain afterwards. Only 1 teaspoon of that has been taken and I'm left wondering what to do with the rest!!!

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OK Amigos, that's all for now. I'm off to pack up some more boxes. Happy Wednesday :0)

A Coat for a Boat

I was surfing the web tonight and came across this story on the bbc news website.

As well as being a totally cool and fun art project, the Customs House where it's all being put together is just round the corner from where I grew up.

Not 'round the corner' as in the same region. Not even 'round the corner' as in the same town. I mean quite literally round the corner, as in 30 seconds walk round the corner. Too funny!!!

I emailed to ask if I can knit something for the project. Watch this space.........

Rockin' Chevron Scarf

Last in my big batch of FOs. The Chevron Scarf, made with Socks That Rock mediumweight in Rainforest Jasper, and a mill end which I think is Peaceblossom. Everyone should have one of these scarves. So pretty and the pattern is so simple.

I love the combination of pink and green, and pink and brown.