tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173549142011-07-29T05:01:07.612-04:00This is the home of a sometimes tightly wound wife, mother of 4, part-time working woman who loosens up with knitting whenever possible :)Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.comBlogger1361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-16086289833222153332010-10-07T00:54:00.002-04:002010-10-07T00:56:46.222-04:00

Hi everyone! I know I have failed miserably at my New Year's Resolution of blogging at least once a week.... but.... I'm hoping that will all change now that this Tightly Wound woman has a new home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please come visit me and change your bookmarks to my new site athttp://tightlywoundlooselyknit.wordpress.com/. Will be posting soon and hoping to see you all there :)

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I LOVE when my brain finally kicks into gear and I actually accomplish something! I have wanted to knit a cable scarf that was simply just a cable for a long time. Now, you know when you have a picture of something in your head, and you search for a pattern to go along with that picture?.... it's usually an effort in futility - or at least it tends to be that way for me anyway ;)I found a scarf

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Well here I am again.... ahead of schedule! While I would be proud of myself, I have to admit that the reason I have time to post is that I am home from work sick :( Will have to head to the Dr. at some point as I believe I'm heading for a nasty case of bronchitis or pneumonia!Enough of that though! Nikki had asked me if I could knit her a "chunky beret"...... of COURSE I can! lol So.... I got

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As you may have noticed, my attempt to blog more often, failed miserably, but as 2009 is leaving us and we are ready to welcome a new year, I am resolving to try to blog at least once a week for 2010. I miss having my posts to look back on, not just for knitting content, but as a small record of the happenings in this very busy family. I also miss the connection I've had with the group of blog "

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It has been a great weekend, beautiful weather, windows open, sun shining ~ I love it! I'm hoping that with the warmth predicted for the next few days that the snow will finally melt out of my yard bringing the much hated MUD! lol Beau (0ur chocolate lab) has begun his spring "allergies" consisting of a breakout under his chin and constant scratching. We aren't sure what causes this every year

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I've been knitting the Give a Hoot mittens by Jocelyn Tunney on Ravelry for Melyssa - as her College mascot is an owl. I have to say that although I love the pattern and the very unique thumb gusset, the sizing has been a bit of a challenge. Thankfully, before starting these I looked at a lot of the projects that had been done and read the comments, so I was forewarned of this issue before

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Since I have the "first" post in a long time under my belt - thanks to the big fibery hug - I figured I better keep it going! I hope all of you "hug" knitters don't mind that I've wrapped my blog in the shawl/blanket as well as myself. I LOVE it and definately needed some comfort last night after talking to the people at the computer repair shop! My daughter that is in college has an HP laptop

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I have been agonizing over this blog since my last post in May. I cherish the friends I have made blogging - the emails and little notes I have received over the last, very difficult, year and a half have meant more to me than I can ever say. My lack of posting has been more a question of my ability to compose something that would be of interest to my blog friends than anything else and I have

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Hi everyone!My family is at Nicole's first softball tournament of the year - I couldn't attend because it will be a 12 hour day and my leg can't handle that. I will try to go tomorrow for the playoffs. So here I am with the aforementioned "catch up post", along with a picture of one of the goodies bought during my non-knitting time :)This year, other than the surgeries, has been pretty busy. My

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Welcome back to my tightly wound world, where there hasn't been any knitting or crafting for the last SEVEN MONTHS to keep me from unraveling - well at least until the last few weeks!I wanted to thank you all for your great notes and words of encouragement over the last months, I can't even BEGIN to tell you how much they have meant to me.Speaking of encouragement and get well smiles.....I have

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Our Christmas Angel...My Mom's family is now complete in Heaven. The last of the 8 children is now at home in Heaven. They are all together.... my grandparents, all of their children, their sons and daughters in-law, all except for my Dad.*****My Uncle Mike went home to heaven on Christmas evening. He entered the hospital on Friday evening, took a terrible turn for the worse on Sunday and

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First, I would like to thank those of you that have sent emails checking up on me. Although they have gone unanswered, they have been very much appreciated. I am using a laptop loaned to me from work to type this and I estimate it will take me a couple of days to finish this post.*****As some of you may know, I had a hysterectomy in June and while preparing for that surgery, I was found to have

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After so much suffering, the heart of our family has passed away.clickEulogy for Mom Family……. such a small word but it is a word that defines my mother. Family is what she lived for. She loved her family with all her heart and she shared that gift with me. So many happy days spent at my Grandma’s house with Mom, baking Italian cookies (lots and lots of cookies), patient hours spent attempting to

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That's it, I think I have diagnosed myself - I have KADD - Knitting Attention Deficit Disorder. Truly, I have zero attention span and can't seem to focus on one particular thing long enough to accomplish anything! I'm not ashamed to say that it is making me NUTS! I have so many WIP's/UFO's lying around here that I feel like a two year old who has been told to clean up the toy room. Those of you

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The surgery is a week behind me today - THANK GOD! All went well from what I'm told and after a very long morning of waiting last week the surgery was finally performed at 2:15 ~ I was scheduled for 12:45, but the operating room was tied up - UGH! 14 hours without anything to drink was brutal and caused the vein in my hand to collapse when the IV was inserted, but they put it in the bend in my

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I can't believe it has been so long since I last posted! We have had a whirlwind of activity here in the Tightly Wound world I live in! I apologize to those of you with dial-up - this is a picture heavy post.....My 2nd child and oldest daughter graduated from High School....I don't have the words to express how VERY MUCH she will be missed when she leaves for college in the fall. She is truly the

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The Comforting Jenn Project has been completed! It took me so MUCH longer than I would have liked to assemble all of the beautifully knitted/crocheted squares - but the result is, I think, beautiful! Please let me know what you think. Click for bigger views~~~~There are 5 squares that I could not get into the blanket - 3 due to size problems and 2 that I just couldn't fit into it. I plan on

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I am attempting to figure out why blogger has done away with my comments, because we all know how much bloggers love to get comments. Let's see if this works.... YAY! Comment away it now works! :)First, let me say.... I WON!!!!!!!!!! My dear blog friend, Karen, had a contest and I won! - this is the VERY FIRST contest I have EVER won and I couldn't have been more surprised and pleased! I won

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Just thought I'd pop in with an update.... The blanket was laid out and tied together in strips last weekend - a good 1/2 day undertaking! The girls helped secure the squares into strips for me to help save my back and I have one strip crocheted together. I had hoped to have much more done this week since it is vacation week, but life came first this week. I finally went to the doctor - since

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I'd like to thank those of you that left the more than kind comments regarding Jenn's Blanket (you touched my heart!), and I'd especially like to thank Carrie for her willingness to help put the blanket together - I may just take you up on it!I have finished updating the ~ Comforting Jenn ~ Knitters and Squares pages, so if you see an error, or if I missed someone, please let me know and I will

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Twenty years ago today, life, as I never dreamed it could be, began with the birth of my first baby - an adorable little boy we named Matthew. I can remember thinking that I never thought I could love anything or anyone as MUCH as I loved this little boy. He captured my heart and, along with his sisters, holds it still. He was an incredibly fun little boy who had a quick wit and great sense

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~Comforting Jenn~ First, I'd like to thank you all for your gorgeous contributions to Jenn's blanket and there are a few of you that I recently realized I have yet to thank and also post pictures of received squares - I'm so sorry - I will get those up, hopefully tonight, but if not tonight, very soon.I am one of those people that has a terribly hard time asking for help, so please bear with me.

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I have enhanced the stash yet again - I can't resist a bargain, especially when it is something that I have recipients for :) After our snow storm last week, I decided that I needed to get out of the house for a while, so I decided to go to one of our discount stores and poke around for an hour or so and pick up some of the cheapo reading glasses (I now need to have a pair in every room of the

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We have been on that roller coaster ride we call "New England Weather" lately! 70 degrees on Wednesday and 20 degrees today with a fresh pile of snow and ice to dig through!(click for big)Lots of knitting getting done, but I hate posting pictures of a blanket in progress - I've been working on my log cabin while watching movies with the "boy" home from college this week - making good progress and

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Hi everyone, I am still alive. I have been totally flattened by what I can only assume is the flu. High fever, body aches, chills, sweats and a headache that made me wish I were no longer among the living! I managed to drag myself to work on Wednesday because of things that HAD to get done and that did me in for the rest of the week. I can't remember when I missed almost a full week of work and a

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Well, it was school vacation week and although my kids had a great week, mine was not quite so great. I hate sad/depressed/crappy posts, but sometimes life just smacks us in the head, slaps us back to reality and makes us so incredibly grateful for what we have that it's necessary.The saddness stems from the two wakes/funerals that this week consisted of; A former co-worker of mine who left to

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The plight of Julie Amero has recently been brought to my attention by Scout's site. "Julie Amero is the seventh grade substitute teacher in Connecticut who is facing 40 years in prison after pornographic popup ads came up on her computer screen during a class in 2004". This woman's plight is incomprehensible to me. I can't believe something like this is happening to this woman! For 8 years I

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I am alive and well and living in an icy winter wonderland! We had a snow day today which gave me a good excuse to put dinner in the crockpot, do a few loads of wash and hunker down with the girls to watch movies and knit! I couldn't have asked for a better day! My new favorite knit are the Peekaboo Mittens mentioned in my previous post. This is my 4th pair and I have decided to keep them as my

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IT SNOWED! I know, I know.... I'll probably be complaining about it soon, but we have had the most bizzare winter - warm, then freezing cold, then warm and rainy, cold and windy and everything so gray and dead looking - if you know what I mean. Last night it started to snow, big HUGE fluffy flakes that were absolutely gorgeous, sticking to the trees and lighting up the night - unfortunately the

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I missed 5 squares when I updated Jenn's pages today - I have fixed my error - thanks for letting me know :)Hi Eveyone,First I'd like to apologize for my absence from the Blog World. Life has gotten a bit out of hand for me lately and the few times that I had the opportunity to put up a post, I sat in front of the computer, stared at it blankly and ended up walking away. I can't put into words my

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and for those of you that don't celebrate Christmas (along with all of you who do), I wish you and your families a very happy Holiday (whatever that might be). I pray you enjoy family and friends, good food, laughter and happiness!

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I finally did it! I updated the images page for Jenn's Blanket! The squares are just gorgeous, please feel free to head on over and take a look!I thought I'd share one more picture of the two patients from last week - this silly dog slept on top of her for the longest time - the flash on my camera woke him up! They were the cutest pair last weekend!Speaking of last weekend, I took a spur of the

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I would like to ask all of you to send positive thoughts to a VERY, VERY SPECIAL Blogger friend, who is undergoing a serious test tomorrow. Cindy of Two Wooden Sticks and a Ball of Wool and Warming Grace, has been living a nightmare - and hopefully there is a small light in the tunnel for her with this appointment. I have come across very few people with a heart as big as Cindys' - she seems to

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Well, I had every good intention of posting the day after my last post, however, my world doesn't always cooperate with my intentions! lolLast weekend started with a visit from Santa on the big yellow fire truck! I love living in a little town where Santa will personally come to see you, knows where the kids live and stops to "chat"! (all the pictures are clickable for bigness!) After Santa came,

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I have a ton to post about, and more squares to show you, but I will wait on that until tomorrow. I have been contacted by a fellow blogger and asked if I would please put out a plea to American knitters (the few that come by here at least). It seems that the Soaring Eagles Project is about 100 items (for children ages 4-12) short of the amount they need by December 18th. This is from the

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Jenn Update...I came home today and was greeted with packages - SEVEN packages with a total of 14 squares! woooooooooo hooooooooooooooooooo! The squares are absolutely gorgeous, soft and lovely - I put a link to the images of the squares and who they were from over on the left under Jenn's Button. This link is my sincere attempt to make sure that I have the image with the knitter to give to Jenn

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I hope all of my American friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving, ours was. It was a lot of work (more so every year - do you think it could have anything to do with the fact that I'm getting older? hmm.... nah) but it is just wonderful to have family here. My middle daughter connected with a cousin from Virginia and had a wonderful time, they are the same age and spent the day in Boston on Friday

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On this day of Thanksgiving, I am truly thankful for all that I hold dear... my family, friends and all of you. I wish you all love, laughter and joy this Thanksgiving Day and I thank you again for all of your support!

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First I want to thank all of you that signed up to make a square for Jenn's Blanket from the bottom of my heart! Knitters never cease to amaze me and I am truly grateful for your kindness. Some of your emails brought tears to my eyes and I have saved them for a future time when Jenn may want to know who the wonderful people are that made her this gift of love. I believe that I have personally

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In my previous post, I mentioned the possibility of making a comfort blanket for my friend Jenn and a welcome blanket for her expected baby....I'd like to take a moment to tell you a little about what this young woman has gone through. Jenn is a kind, sweet, caring person who lost her parents in a car accident as a teenager, a brother in a motorcycle accident, has conquered throat cancer and last

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A few of you have contacted me about making a comfort blanket for my friend Jenn. I held off on making a decision for a lot of reasons. Most of these have to do with Jenn and how she has been feeling and my respect for her and what she is going through - (things that I won't go into here). I do think that a comfort blanket along with a smaller Welcome Blanket version may be in order now... Jenn

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A huge thank you to those of you that kept Nicole in your thoughts and prayers on Thursday. Her surgery was a complete success and I haven't the words to describe how relieved I am. I feel as though I can finally breathe, as though I have been holding my breath. The surgery lasted 3 hours and went well - she had no side effects from the anesthesia and is healing as expected. I'll spare you all

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So much to tell, so little time. I'll save my exciting knitting purchases for another post. It's 11:30 and I have to get up at 4:30. Some of you may remember me talking about Nic's heart issues and the procedure to correct it. Well we have our pre-op tomorrow at Children's Hospital in Boston and the surgery on Thursday. To say that I'm a wreck is an understatement even though I have all the

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This is my VERY LATE Socktoberfest sock questionnaire post! I hope I'm not too late on this, life just seemed to get the best of me lately. I am looking forward to trying to catch up with all of the Socktoberfest fun ~~ so here goes!When did you start making socks? Did you teach yourself or were you taught by a friend or relative? or in a class? I taught myself how to knit socks. I was

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I am more thankful than words can possibly express. This is the vehicle my oldest and youngest daughter were in on Saturday afternoon when a "driver" coming down the road toward my daughter decided to suddenly take a left. In my daughters own words "Mom, he looked right at me and just hit the gas and turned into me" - I don't know, maybe he thought her car was a mirage?????????????? Oh and did I

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Please pray for my dear friend Jenn who has just lost her husband, 7 year old son and 4 month old baby in a horrible car crash. I just have no words, but I beg you all to pray for her.

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First off, Thank you all SO MUCH for all of your "Blogiversary wishes" they are truly appreciated!We had a crazy busy week last week with Field Hockey games, doctor visits and some stressful, hurtful personal encounters, and getting ready for our 2nd and last camping trip of the year! We had a great time and absolutely perfect New England weather - gorgeous tree color and upper 70's during the

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Today is...TightlyWound~LooselyKnit's ONE YEAR Blog-Anniversary!As I said in my first post, my world is mostly out of control and knitting DOES play a big part in it - I'm grateful for that. I find knitting to be a great stress reliever that produces lovely objects (most of the time! lol) that I can give as gifts to the people that mean the most to me, or that need the "warm hug" of something

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(all pictures are clickable)Well here we are again in October! I have once again joined Lolly's Socktoberfest and made another button.... (feel free to take it, but please save it to your own computer ). I will most likely be concentrating on baby socks this year, as there seems to be an abundance of babies on the way! I'm hoping to get in another pair for me, because out of all of the socks I

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I hope you all haven't forgotten me considering the fact that I've been gone so long..... So MUCH has happened since my last post that I don't know where to start! Catching up has seemed like such a daunting task that I have put it off and put it off so that I am now at a point where I'm totally overwhelmed. I will do my best to give a readers digest version of the craziness that I call life

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The beauty of Summer....The color... A place to relax... Fresh Vegetables to Enjoy... (garden is much bigger, this picture is a month old)A little oasis for butterflies, birds, bees, dragonflies and so pretty to look at... HOWEVER.... this... plus this.... can equal NEAR DISASTER!In the blink of an eye (or maybe 15-30 minutes) my little Beau managed to stretch his run enough to have access to

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Well, we've been back for about 10 days now and this is the first chance I've had to even THINK about posting! We had a wonderful vacation, gorgeous weather except for rain the middle weekend. I did a LOT of reading (9 books), the kids finished up their summer reading for school and started on some "fun" reading of their choosing. My MIL came with us and my cousin came up from Ohio, along with

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The girls have been playing softball in this awful heat and WINNING no less! They are having a great time and the championship games are today. After we finish all the championship games, we will hopefully be on our way to our vacation destination :)"See" you in a couple of weeks - stay safe, cool and happy knitting !

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So much to tell, so little time.....Seems the new "share a long" idea was a bust, there were only TWO responses (thanks you two!). I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't disappointed, however, not everyone has the same level of excitement about "old" patterns.There has been so much happening here at the TightlyWound house - good, not so good, you name it! To start with the not so good, I have, in the

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I came across a post from Jenn on the Mason Dixon KAL site regarding a search for a pattern for knit slippers like the ones her grandmother used to make. I, too, at one time searched and searched for a pattern similar to the slippers my grandmother made. In talking with a variety of crafters, it seems to be common that most grandmothers and great grandmothers did most everything from memory (I

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Well, as you can see, I never made it back the other day to repost! Craziness has been the order of the day - every day - lately, but I have hope for the future ;)**********************************Emily had her "graduation" from middle school this past week (she is marked with the white arrow). This was the first year they did it during the day and without caps and gowns. It is also now known as

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AGAIN a post lost by blogger!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know about you all, but I find it hard rewriting a post that has been completed - not sure why this is happening - any of you using Blogger having issues? I'm up for suggestions on alternative hosts - not sure what I'm going to do as of yet, just keeping options open. I have some work to get done, but will be back with my post, hopefully, later

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just for fun until a real post comes along (from Kimberly's Blog)Please leave a one-word comment that you think best describes me — it can only be one word long. Then copy and paste this in your blog/journal so that I may leave a word about you.

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THIS was possibly the MOST IMPORTANT part of the previous post and Blogger ATE IT. It isn't annoying enough that it changes my font, the font size and randomly decides whether or not to center or justify anything I type, but it is now CUTTING UP MY POSTS! I'm thinking it might be time to rethink my Blogging set up.*********************************************Rant over ~ I will TRY to recreate

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Thank you to all of you for your thoughts, prayers and hugs - I can't tell you how much they are appreciated by all of us. Bloggers are wonderful people! ******************************I am still on that wildly spinning wheel called life with kids, that won't stop or even slow down! There has been so much going on that I really don't know where to start so I will give a brief rundown with a few

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I have had so many things to post about, but I've been pretty sick the last week and now I just don't have the heart. My last and dearest Aunt has passed away and we are missing her terribly already. She was one of those positive forces that could light up a room and make you feel as though you were the only person on the planet. She was a huge part of my life and my children's lives, was with us

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Craziness abounds here at Casa de Softball! I haven't posted because I just didn't think that there would be much anyone would be interested in reading - Mark, Matt and Lyss went on the Father/"Son" fishing trip to Jackman, ME last Thursday-Sunday, leaving the two younger girls and myself here. We had some fun together along with lots of softball an emergency trip to the dentist and a minor case

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I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day/Sunday/Weekend! It was a crazy busy weekend what with the Birthday dinner for Nicole - She requested Chicken Alfredo, Garlic Bread and I also made Pesto and Broccoli, along with a cake and her favorite Cream/Pudding Frosting! We were able to do this because her game was cancelled due to rain - she enjoyed her dinner and, at her request, Matt and Mike (

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HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY Wishing all of my blog "friends" a very happy day filled with love and laughter!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAYToday is the "baby's" birthday. She was a "surprise gift" baby and has been that ever since! She never ceases to surprise me. She is 12 years old and I am struggling to figure out HOW THIS HAPPENED! She was a wonderfully happy baby, drank enough milk that I seriously thought about getting my own cow ;). Patti used to tease that she'd drink herself into a milk induced coma every

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Thanks so much for your kind Anniversary wishes! We had a nice anniversary, probably not as exciting a day as 20 years ago, but very nice anyway! We went out for a nice dinner, a few drinks, some laughs and "chatting" which we very SELDOM get to do anymore. I sometimes worry that when the kids are grown and gone that we will not know each other anymore, that we will wake up one day and realize we

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Twenty years ago today I was married! Eleven months later I had my first baby - time sure flies when you are COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED ;) It has been quite a ride, with ups and downs, and twists and turns and 4 fantastic kids! It is quite amazing to me that twenty years have passed - It somehow doesn't seem possible. It seems like yesterday I was getting ready for my Proms, and here we were getting

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Hi Everyone!Spring is Springing here in good 'ole MA! How do I know this? Wellllllllllllllllllll, let me tell you..... I can't breathe, everything is blurry because my eyes are all red and ITCHY, I sound like someone clipped a clothespin to my nose and I have those LOVELY black allergy circles under my eyes - have I painted you a pretty picture? hmmmmmmmmm? lol Well, I REFUSE to complain (too

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WE'RE BACK from a great visit to my sister's house! We had a wonderful time this week.... but before I begin, let me introduce you to her......This is Patti......the best sister, best friend anyone could ask for! Patti has just now created a blog of her very own - -if you have a free minute, maybe you could pop over to say hi and welcome her to the wonderful world of bloggers!Next, I would like

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I hope all of you had a Happy Easter. We had a nice day, quiet, but dinner was good and everyone seemed to enjoy the day!My youngest two and I are leaving in a little while to go and visit my "sister" for a few days. We are hoping to take our kids to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. I'll try to take lots of pictures.Here's wishing you a happy, healthy and enjoyable week - with hopefully

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To All of You!

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Welcome to my world........ sometimes referred to as "Cathy-Land"...... this is a land where, Easter is NOT in 3 days, giving the Queen of Cathy-Land ~ me ;) ~ some much needed extra time to do the simple things in life, such as shop, bake, clean the house, cook, put together Easter Baskets, color eggs, BUY white eggs if I can even find them now, make birthday cake... etc., etc., etc. Alas, the

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Springtime in New England! gotta love it - and if we can't - tough! lol Here was our gorgeous weather on Wednesday....... I have been home with this sweetie..... - what better loving could anyone ask for than a nice toasty puppy when sick. Em and I are heading off to the Dr. shortly to see if she has ear infections or strep. Poor sweetie has had a terrible fever, sore throat and ear aches.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTHEW I love you!19 years ago today I was blessed with the birth of my first child and only son. I truly thought my heart would burst! Never in my life had I been so happy, and he has brought me more joy in his 19 years than I can put into words.He was due to be born on his Daddy's birthday (the 29th). My last day of work was Friday the 3rd ~ Dr's orders. I had my Dr. appointment

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Well there is something to be said for having the "stomach bug" and being home.... Knitting WILL take your mind off of nauseau for brief increments of time. I actually have a FO! WOOOOO HOOOOOO I had never worked with this yarn before but found it to be great to work with. This yarn also does not repeat its color patterns, which I wasn't sure I'd be able to tolerate as I am one of those anal

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Beware..... rant ahead.....Am I the only person who has noticed that there is a SERIOUS lack of manners in our world today? I was raised to say please/thank you/you're welcome - these are small words, but they carry a HUGE amount of weight with me ~ more so than I even realized until recently. I work in a Catholic Elementary School and I am appalled at the lack of manners the majority of the

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HAPPY SPRING!I, once again, haven't been here much, but it has been quite the week. DH had his wisdom teeth pulled on Tuesday, and was home for the rest of the week. Needless to say, I didn't get much done on my Wednesday at home - I'm not sure why that happens, even though he isn't in my way, I don't manage to get going on anything. We also have been taking care of this guy... my BIL's Golden

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HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY to all of my Irish Friends!I got this MEME at Deb's place - consider yourself tagged if you wish :) I'll be back soon with, hopefully, something interesting to post :)A-Age: 45 (GOOD LORD!)B-Bed size: QueenC-Chore you hate: DustingD-Dessert you love: only one?E-Essential start your day item: CoffeeF-Favorite actor(s): Sean Connery, Keanu Reeves, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth

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Absentee blogger here. I'm in some kind of a black hole that I can't seem to work my way out of. Not necessarily in a bad mood, not good either - more of an ambivalent feeling toward everything in life right at the moment. Wondering if I really have anything to contribute to the blog world or if I should just hang it up ~ I've knit and ripped out, repeatedly - I've been going through the motions,

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What a nice day it was here in New England! It was only about 38 degrees, but the sun was shining and it wasn't windy - it was GORGEOUS - a little hint of things to come! Possibly a March "tease"! Spring maybe?! I can't wait.The balmy weather and the sunshine along with the kick-off of Project Spectrum had me taking stock of my many crafting endeavors. I have, along the way, dabbled in sewing, (

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Hi everyone! I can't believe how many interesting things are happening in "knitland" now - must be the anticipation of Spring?!Jay is having a great "Celebration Challenge" to celebrate his "bloggiversity" - great prizes - great fun - he is one talented guy (knitting, quilting, sewing etc, etc, etc,) - check out his site and all of his fantastic creations!Lolly, of course, has Project Spectrum

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(how lousy is that title?!)How gorgeous is this? I have to say that I didn't think this little medal would mean as much to me as it does - I'm surprised, and I'm surprised at what I have learned about myself.My project was not a difficult project by most standards, the cables were new to me and much easier than I thought they would be. Reworking a pattern like I did was new to me and wasn't

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This Tightly Wound woman can now get as Loosely Knit as she likes ;) ! The fingerless mitts are finished and they match! Life is good today. These will be a gift for my Mom who is seriously ill - I'm hoping they will offer her some warmth and comfort. I'm thrilled they are finished, and under any other circumstances they would be a very quick knit. I love the yarn and will be working with it

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Olympic Knitting? What is that? Knitting? ugh! Once I figured out that cables are a piece of cake and I figured out how to alter my pattern to accomodate the cable, that was a piece of cake. Knitting the first mitt, snowed in in a hotel room in Connecticut, was also a piece of cake! Finding the time to knit the second mitt has proven to be quite a bit more difficult than I had imagined! Now, you

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Long lost blogger returns! I can't believe how fast time has flown by and yet has seemingly stood still - does anyone else ever feel this way? A week ago today I was snowed in on my weekend away with my "sister", and yet it feels more like a month ago! I need a reality check!So......... I left Friday morning at 6:30, stopped at the dentist to make sure there were no infections - there were none.

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Hi all, I've been swatching for the Olympics, over and over and over again! The pattern I had planned to use has been canned and I will now have to come up with my own. So.... I will be teaching myself cables (which I don't think are as hard as I thought) and I will be teaching myself charting cables (I'm optimistic), sizing etc., because I DO EXPECT these to fit me when I'm done. For all the

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What better to way to soothe oneself, than a trip to the LYS? Well...... A trip to the LYS that is having a sale! I have to say that this made me feel better and I am still feeling the affects! (The pictures are clickable thumbnails) Here we have some Symphonie and Lambs Pride for a felted bag that I will begin shortly FOR ME! The Lambs Pride was purchased because I needed one more hank of the

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Sunday already?!!!! HOW did THIS happen? Work was nuts this week, I ended up staying late Thursday and Friday to "wrap" things up - well my wrapping came unglued when the internet connection failed - so needless to say I have a TON of work to do from here today, just in case there is no connection tomorrow. I'm finding that the more I have to do, the more people expect me to do (and not just at

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update January 24, 2006Some "maybe decent news", it may not be the head gasket on my car, it may just be the intake which, if we can have it fixed would buy us some time finding another vehicle, and help on a trade - keeping my fingers crossed. Today I drove DH's truck to work and when I left work to come home, it wouldn't start - it has been towed . Does anyone know how to remove a BLACK CLOUD?

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1137900765276440292006-01-21T22:02:00.000-05:002006-01-21T22:55:13.350-05:00

I would like to thank you all for your kind, sympathetic and thoughtful messages regarding my "cursed month", I can't tell you how much I appreciate it!!!! You "bloggers" are the best!A quick update and then on to knitting news and other "fun" stuff: When I left you on Wednesday "the van" was here at home in my garage and I was heading for the hot shower - well, most of my muscles have returned

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1137596840167154322006-01-18T08:58:00.000-05:002006-01-18T10:21:07.233-05:00

Ok, January is either not my month or I'm cursed!!!!!!! Putting aside the mouth pain for now (because that has NOT gone away and I'm quite sure it will only get worse before it gets better), and we'll also put aside the chronic bad back........... I had a relatively good day at work yesterday, came home, had a nice little chat with the girls about school and how everyone just LOVED their hair and

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1137592505313028782006-01-18T08:41:00.002-05:002006-01-20T23:16:27.916-05:00

1 and 1/2 lbs ground beef, cooked and drained8 1/2 cups water4-5 potatoes cubed1 medium onion chopped1 can Kidney Beans (I use 1/2 can Kidney and 1/2 can Black Beans and freeze the remainder for next time)1, 28 oz can Ground Peeled Tomatoes1 cup Chili Mac or Elbow Macaroni (uncooked)2 Tbsp Chili Powder (add more or less to taste - I have also added Cayenne pepper to spice it up more)1 Tbsp

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1137467875992688472006-01-16T22:17:00.000-05:002006-01-16T23:30:07.150-05:00

Well, I'm back and the weekend wasn't much better than my "week of Mondays", not to mention the fact that it is WICKED COLD!!!!!!! ;) Despite that, the girls and I had a really fun day today. My two younger girls had their hair foiled for the first time ~here they are in all of their foiled beauty! lol and here they are in their finished glory (I've smudged their stylist's face as I didn't tell

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1137187621685682432006-01-13T16:20:00.000-05:002006-01-13T16:33:18.996-05:00

This is the "Monday culmination post" I promise the next post will contain knitting content! ;)This is a week to be wiped off the books, I won't go into everything that happened, it would take too long to read. I did learn a few things, however.When the spring lets go on an electric garage door opener, it sounds like an explosion!The spring doesn't let go after you've come home and have no place

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1136861669699013682006-01-09T21:39:00.000-05:002006-01-09T23:13:54.390-05:00

~~~~anyone want to sing along with me???????Today, Monday, has surely lived up to its reputation! I STILL have no internet or network connection in my new office, which leaves my hands literally tied and is causing me to become very close friends with my CDRW disk! Everything I do has to be saved to the disk and brought to a computer that IS connected to be printed! Web Page updating is out of

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1136647210882395002006-01-07T09:31:00.000-05:002006-01-07T10:32:56.006-05:00

Hi all! I hope you have all had a good week. Feels like an incredibly LONG week, but nevertheless it is over. I have moved into my new office and am adjusting. We've had some very tense moments and some hysterically funny moments. -- People have a hard time realizing that I haven't changed, I have just changed locations. I will never understand the people in this world that thrive on conflict

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1136161674457521292006-01-01T19:27:00.000-05:002006-01-01T19:30:04.806-05:00

17 years ago today I made my 5th or 6th trip to the hospital because of this lovey! Her due date was January 22nd - on December 20th, after 4 different trips to the hospital, my doctor sent me to the hospital to have my C-Section - the baby was over 7lbs and had been trying to join us for weeks. If all went well, the new baby and I would join Matt and DH on the 24th! just in time for Christmas!

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1136045023535133252005-12-31T11:03:00.000-05:002005-12-31T16:25:18.903-05:00

I realized I never posted our Christmas Card this year, so here it is a little late (it is a clickable thumbnail). I finished my Christmas "undecorating" yesterday and we are now all snowflakes and snowmen here! I love it. I have taken a bunch of pictures to share, of our little snowmen - I haven't uploaded them yet. Today DH and I went food shopping for New Years Eve and for New Years Day/

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1135863522832663122005-12-29T08:33:00.000-05:002005-12-29T08:38:42.833-05:00

Hi all,Thank you so much for all of your supportive and sweet comments. I am truly blessed to have met some very nice people through this blog. I'm very sorry I haven't visited/commented on your blogs, I promise to be better soon!I was at work all day yesterday making the "move". The new office is WAY TOO small! Thankfully, I'm not claustrophobic, but I will miss the wide open, bright and

Cathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10816734246586566719noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17354914.post-1135863197472745092005-12-29T08:30:00.000-05:002005-12-29T08:40:22.000-05:00

8, 1/2" slices of bread5 eggs1 1/2 cups milk1/4 cup sugar1/2 tsp vanilla(I added cinnamon)Lightly grease a 13x9 panSlice bread in half and layer in bottom of panBeat all liquid together for 5 minutespour over breadcoverchill for 4 to 24 hours (I chilled overnight)Bake at 425 until eggs are set and bread is lightly browned - approximately 30 minutes

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