I was shopping for holidays gifts when it occurred to me a good idea for my nephew Brett would be a SNOW SLED!! LL. Bean sells a cool looking foam one for $28 that is safe for little kids (hence the foam construction) and I found myself desperately missing snow. I loved snow days as a child, I have so many happy memories in the snow with my neighbors, two sisters. I wish I had some photos to scan.. they are around someplace... probably the garage. I remember one year Laurel lost her tooth in the snow and cried so much because you know, you need that tooth for the tooth fairy. Finding a tooth in the snow, well thats near impossible. I miss the snow so much.

For those of you who arn't from the south, did you know down here people call grocery carts a "buggy", yes thats right a buggy. I always thought of a buggy as something that a horse pulled. My good friend from NC used that term, but seeing as how I rarely went to the grocery store before being home so much, I thought it was isolated to her area, she lives in the way out boonies. Well now when shopping I often here people, or store employee's use the term. I nearly went into shock after my first big shopping experience a few weeks ago. I called the husbeast up "baby you wouldn't believe but they ALL USE THAT WORD!!!" he laughed and was like "Really? Wow!" He was as surprised as me. I suppose we are naive!

I did a little spinning over the holiday weekend. Crappy photos sorry, it's Flawful Fibers. It spins up very well, I really want two bobbins full so I can ply and see how it comes out. I don't think I put in enough twist for a navajo so I'll just have to 2 ply it off the two bobbins.

I also did pretty much all of my Holiday shopping over Monday and Tuesday at the mall, knowing we would actually be going to Virginia for the Holidays I thought Sydney needed some sort of cute dress to look cute in all the photos, I found her something classy and cute. I'm pissed because the shoes cost as much as the dress ($24) and even thinking about taking them back, but they kinda complete the outfit don't they? Baby shoes are dumb, they just fall off...

I have all the presents wrapped and I want to go out and get our tree this weekend so I can put everything under it, the only person left to shop for is my nephew Aiden. For Sydney's first Chanukah I got her an American Itty Bitty doll. Out here they have his gigantic American Girl shop that has a bistro in it. The mall food SUCKS big time so I figured I would give it a shot. I had salmon! With cappers in a creamy sauce! It was dang yummy! The trick is to NEVER go on a Saturday into that store, it's scary.

As for knitting, it's been a bad week for baby girl and me, she's had it a bit rough and when I've had free time I've just spent it starring at the tv, shameless! Oh if you still haven't checked out LIFE that new show, omg you so should! THey are airing an extra episode after Hero's on monday, so if you watch Hero's don't change the channel and check out Life. I really think you will like it. It's just so different.