The next two weeks around here are just littered with appointments.  Littered, I tell you!  Accountant, car inspection, orthodontist, doctor, dental hygienist (x3), vet (that’s for the dog…), dinner with friends, birthday party, and then yesterday, a reminder that the Winter Concert at school is next Thursday.  This wouldn’t be so bad, but there was the further reminder that “dress attire” was required. 

Alex is the sort of child who defies sizing in any sense of the word.  He needs about a size 6 waist and a size 10 length.  Thank goodness for those elastic waist bands that so many brands now have where you can adjust them to the desired skinniness.  But here’s the thing – I have not had the good fortune to find such waistbands on dress pants.  We’ll just have to see what we can find, as long as the pants are not of the blue denim variety, we should be ok.  We also need to find a dress shirt, tie and shoes that are not sneakers.  Have I mentioned that Alex also has narrow, long feet?  Always an adventure to find sneakers to fit…

I offered to knit a tie in the event we could not find one, but my offer was declined.  Ah, well, one less project to have to complete in a week.

The scarf I am knitting is coming along nicely.  This is especially good since I need to give it away next Thursday.  Plenty of time.  I like to work under pressure, which is good, considering my knitting time is shrinking in light of the aforementioned appointments.  Projects will certainly come along for the ride, but most of my time loss involves driving, and unless I can figure out how to get the kids to work cooperatively with one steering and the other controlling gas, brake and clutch, I will have to lose more time to knitting.  (There may also be something illegal with having young kids driving, although I haven’t checked recently.)

Time’s a wastin’!  Off to the day to day.

Peace & Love,

Liz