girls’ day

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Yesterday I had a get together with Cara and Meli! How cute is this baby?! She is very very sweet. It makes me almost wish my girls were little again. almost.

We first went to Purl – Cara had a few things on her shopping list. Even though I wasn’t going to buy anything, I managed to find some very cute buttons. I promise to take a picture and show you tomorrow.

This was Meli’s first yarn shop trip and she was so well behaved! Too bad we can’t say the same about her mother.

Then it was back to Cara’s for a day of baby-holding and visiting.

Thank you all so much for your help and ideas in my quest for that picture. I decided to take your advise and simply send an email to the set decorator. Of course, that is not as simple as it sounds since email addresses are not readily available. I am having trouble even finding a fan-based email address for anyone from the show. I thought all the stars had their own websites with bio/contact info. How are we expected to write adoring fan mail anymore?

I really do have to have a little photography session here tomorrow. I have some new knitting, some new purchases and surely the pugs will be doing something exquisitely cute that will need to be shared!

surprise!

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We did it! We managed to surprise her!

I am completely exhausted from it all, but I wanted to post at least one picture and let you all know that the shower was a complete and total success. Thank you all for sending packages, traveling (or trying to!) to Long Island and making this such a special occasion.

I promise to give a better update tomorrow. I have to confess that my picture taking skills were not at their best, so Cara has taken the files home and is going to see about working a bit of photoshop magic. But at least this is a very cute picture of Cara and her sweet little niece Charlotte.

second verse same as the first!

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I knit up another Cabled Newsboy Cap from Stitch n Bitch Nation. I made one for D#1 a few weeks ago and since it only takes a skein and a half of the Blue Sky Hand Dyed Worsted, I bought another skein and knit up one for D#2. Waste not want not, I am a model of knitterly efficiency!

Here’s a little secret about the Daughters …. in person I think they look alike in the way the sisters often do. But in photographs I can hardly tell them apart!

I suppose it never hurts to have extra

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We all know Cara’s pregnant, right? And that she hasn’t always been feeling well. Furthermore it is often said that she has a wonderful open and honest writing style. Imagine if you will that you are on the phone with her. That you are one of her girlfriends. We are all much more open and honest with our girlfriends, right?

If you put all of these together, you have a small idea of what my conversations with Cara have been like. She does not hesitate to describe in detail what is going on with her body.

What you need to know is that I was not raised this way. I come from a long line of people who do not go into gory detail about their bodies. Instead we prefer to spare one another from some awful truths. Of course we all have bodies, and of course weird things can and do happen. We just don’t paint each other pictures.

So now that you have the back story, you will completely understand when I tell you about what happened. It was a few months ago and Cara was just beginning that magical mystical time that is pregnancy. She was really very vocal about everything that was going on and changing. Especially her boobs. I could write volumes about her boobs and I’ve never actually seen them! which is a good thing, a very good thing.
After many weeks of enduring titty conversations, I told her that I would no longer tolerate the word nipple. She could keep talking about her boobs, but nipple was going too far. I don’t think anyone should say the word nipple, except maybe your doctor. Maybe. I told her that if she said it one more time I would hang up.

You can guess that this moratorium caused gales of laughter.

Well take a look at what she sent me for my birthday!